"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
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>
> >Jeroen, the inability to say a single good thing about a democracy that is
> >surrounded by totalitarian dictatorships, in my humble opinion, can only be
> >based upon a dislike for the ethnic group that is most predominant in that
> >democracy. I am sure that you will protest otherwise, but you are truly
> >unable to find a single nice thing to say about Israel, then that strongly
> >raises the specter with me that you are an Anti-Semite.
> >
> >And using the above logic, if you never say good things about America and
> >American government...... then its just possible that you're an
> >Anti-American too.
>
> Following your logic, I am also anti-penguin because on this list I have
> never said any good things about penguins... :-)
Well, I haven't seen you post anything critisizing penguins, so the
analogy isn't quite as good as it might be.
Besides (and this is where Julia totally loses all semblance of
seriousness),
a) Why do you care about a Pittsburg hockey team?
b) It's a good thing you haven't said anything bad about penguins,
because they're sensitive to my needs
c) What did Opus ever do to you?
OK, that's all the silliness on the penguin topic that I can come up
with right now. I can explain any of a), b) or c) that you want
clarification on, although someone else might enjoy beating me to it
(and if so, please feel welcome to do so).
BTW, I'd given some thought to the low-wage worker issue, and if I can
find the time to post something coherent about it this weekend, then I
will. I won't post unless I can be coherent, and between the immediate
sleep dep, having to administer a few tests to someone taking a
correspondence course and someone else coming to see if the TV can be
repaired tomorrow, I don't know how much coherent time I'll have -- but
I'll try.
Julia
who's losing it a little, yes, but at least she's reasonably cheerful
about it today
