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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (523933)	1/14/2004 2:16:32 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

The right to be an idiot is well established, as well as the right of the people to defend themselves from the idiots when they form a fifth column against the republic. The constitution has occasionally impeded, but never prevented, that defense. Locking up the Dems would never be more than a minor footnote in the history of this war. As for O'Reilly, he takes absurd positions due to the mid-life crisis he mistakes for "independent thinking". Then he gradually backs off, as his fans let him know he's pissing on the carpet again. A year ago he wanted to send ALL those evil Mexicans back and make them file for permission to immigrate-an ethnic cleansing that Stalin, Mao and Hitler would have stood in awe of. And he refused to consider why the Army couldn't "seal off the border". Now he'll let them stay if they have jobs. And he's backed off the Army and will settle for the National Guard (a 2,000-mile Kent State massacre-occurring daily?) Male menopause is not a strength, but a weakness. His punishment is to be ignored on the whole thing. It's a fate worse than death for him...

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (523933)	1/16/2004 5:09:49 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Subhuman? Those guys invented algebra when your kings couldn't count on their fingers and toes. A point of correction. I certainly agree with the thrust of your overall position. But leaving this aside, I must say this fabled "Islamic brilliance" consists of quite a lot of myth. They did not invent algebra. www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Indeed they did not invent much of anything. They did make some contributions, but almost all of them were extentions of the contributions of other cultures. There are no real "Arabic numerals," for example. "Arabic" numerals are actually Indian. I say this not to discount the historic contributions of Arabs, but to point out that those contributions add to the value of modern muslims no more than the contributions of ancient Greeks add to the value of modern Greeks. It appears there are vast numbers of modern day muslims who are indeed sub-human. If any be amongst them who are human, they are very hard to find. Savagery is mainstream amongst the muslims of today.