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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (234206)	6/25/2007 3:47:33 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"In fact, polls show it's about 20% in the UK like to see some carnage like the bombings. " "like to see" is not like to "do", and of course even with "like to see", a lot depends on how the question is asked. Lots of people in the US like to watch Jack Bauer torture people, but I think the number who would actually volunteer to torture people is probably rather small. Prejudge dictionary.reference.com I think definition number two of the top definition fits your comments, most of the time.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (234206)	6/26/2007 4:20:57 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

""Pre judice" means "before judicial". Often used to describe a decision being made about an individual before that individual person's character, actions and intentions have been revealed." This is more to the point. "American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition prejudice A hostile opinion about some person or class of persons. Prejudice is socially learned and is usually grounded in misconception, misunderstanding, and inflexible generalizations. In particular, African-Americans have been victims of prejudice on a variety of social, economic, and political levels." "Those guys are super turbo charged if their numbers are so small. They are creating carnage around the world. " Carnage? Since 1973 about 9000 have died from terrorist attacks. en.wikipedia.org Gunshot deaths in the the US per year are around 11,000. Now that's carnage. "...catch up with what is actually happening in the here and now and coming down the pike." What has already come down the pike: lies, distortions, loss of freedoms, civilian deaths. I'm sure you could add to the list. What will come down the pike: lies, distortions, loss of more of our freedoms, and more civilian deaths. And I'm sure you can add to that list as well.