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To: bentway who wrote (387951)6/2/2008 5:20:29 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574883
 
when the 'gnats' release a couple of nukes, what will you call that ? gnukes ?



To: bentway who wrote (387951)6/2/2008 7:30:12 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574883
 
"The collateral damage does the gnats work for them."

No kidding. Reminds me of the guy who went duck hunting in his jon boat. He has just maneuvered under a tree, when a snake dropped down into the bottom of the boat. He picked up the shotgun and...

Well, you know. We are similar. Instead of thinking with our big heads and doing the equivalent of shoveling the snake out of the boat with a paddle, we are locked and loaded and blowing the bottoms out of our boats. To make it worse, we keep going out and buying new boats...



To: bentway who wrote (387951)6/2/2008 7:37:48 PM
From: SilentZ  Respond to of 1574883
 
>The gnats may come up with something new, but using our military to attempt to stop it is like trying to swat the gnats with a sledge hammer. The collateral damage does the gnats work for them.

Gnats are probably the wrong metaphor... maybe mosquitoes or black flies.

-Z