[USMA:15272] Re: Maporama

2001-09-16 Thread Han Maenen
Joe wrote in USMA 15269: According to CAN/CSA/Z234.4-89, ISO 8601 requires that when all-numeric dates are used Numbers expressing dates and times shall be written from left to right and from high order to low order, ie, year, month, day, hour, minute, second. The question ISO 8601? What is

[USMA:15274] Re: Attack on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon

2001-09-16 Thread Ma Be
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:38:15 Joseph B. Reid wrote: Ma Be in USMA 15263 mused: Dear folks... I honestly believe that it's too early to draw any definitive conclusions about who may have been behind such atrocity. I guess everyone remembers what happened at Oklahoma too well. At the time

[USMA:15275] RE: Where to next?

2001-09-16 Thread Nat Hager III
Believe it or not, it may have the opposite effect. Despite all the flag waving - and I have one at the front door too - one of the secondary casualties of all this may be unilateralism, the My Way or the Highway mentality. I'm seeing numerous reports that our leaders realize the unilateralist

[USMA:15276] Re: Where to next?

2001-09-16 Thread kilopascal
2001-09-16 That is the voice of reason speaking. That isn't the voice of the people on the street. The average person on the street won't see this article or if they do, they will let its message go in one ear and out the other. Try to get the average ignorant on the street to metricate and

[USMA:15277] Re: Attack on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon

2001-09-16 Thread Stephen Davis
As conspiracy theories go, this is an absolute lulu!! Please forgive me as my country has not borne the brunt of these awful attack as yours has done, but do you not think it is a little inappropriate to muse upon this at this moment in time?? Regards, Steve. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[USMA:15278] RE: Where to next?

2001-09-16 Thread Bill Potts
John Schweisthal wrote: However the one that I have received numerous copies of, was the article by Gordon Sinclair that appears below. I interspersed some comments and sent it back to the persons who sent it. A cousin of mine who is a journalistic photographer told me the article is 30 years

[USMA:15279] Re: Where to next?

2001-09-16 Thread Stephen Davis
I am hugely impressed at your ability to be cynical about your country at this moment in time. Over here at the moment, if anyone dares voice the tiniest criticism of American policy at this particular moment in time,they areattacked in the press as some kind of weak-kneed liberal! Over

[USMA:15280] Re: Where to next?

2001-09-16 Thread kilopascal
2001-09-16 That is what living in a democracy is all about. I've seen and heard "normal" people who don't have a clue as to what is happening outside of there drab personal lives, make some of the most hate filled comments. This is the real scary part. Your comment about criticism of

[USMA:15281] RE: Where to next?

2001-09-16 Thread Joseph B. Reid
Bill Potts wrote in USMA 15278: John Schweisthal wrote: However the one that I have received numerous copies of, was the article by Gordon Sinclair that appears below. I interspersed some comments and sent it back to the persons who sent it. A cousin of mine who is a journalistic

[USMA:15282] Re: Where to next?

2001-09-16 Thread CarletonM
In a message dated 2001-09-16 12:17:57 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Over the past few days I have been inundated with all forms of propaganda, much of it being quickly deleted. However the one that I have received numerous copies of, was the article by Gordon Sinclair that

[USMA:15283] RE: Where to next?

2001-09-16 Thread Bill Potts
That's not a quotation of the Sinclair piece. It's John's comment in response to it (and to those who think it's current). Unfortunately, John didn't format his message in a manner that would make it easy to distinguish his remarks from those of the late and curmudgeonly Gordon Sinclair. Bill

[USMA:15284] Re: Where to next?

2001-09-16 Thread Nat Hager III
But the problem remains, for both leaders and people on the street, is *WHO* do you retaliate against? This is a problem unique in history that we've never encountered before. We can capture bin Laden (who certainly isn't dumb enough to be taken alive), bomb a few bases in Afghanistan, and even

[USMA:15285] RE: Where to next?

2001-09-16 Thread CarletonM
In a message dated 2001-09-16 14:45:53 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I find it incredible that people can read an article which makes reference, among other things, to Vietnam-era draft dodgers and believe it to be a contemporary one. Or, for anyone who knows anything about

[USMA:15286] Fw: Italy-news September 16-01

2001-09-16 Thread kilopascal
ENGLISH http://www.italy-news.net/index_eng.php3 56 ITALIAN WORLD TRADE CENTER EMPLOYEES REPORTED MISSING The crisis center of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that the number of missing Italians who worked in the towers of the World Trade Center went down to 56.