Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-10 Thread gullible fool
> That's just an feeling you have because in Boston > no one will let you out of a traffic roundabout once > you've gotten into one, so you have the illusion > of being at the center of things. :-) :-) :-) I just have to force my way out, knowing I have the right of way in a rotary and can us

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-08 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 12/8/05 12:01:35 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You mean, the government, other-than-George-W-Bush, doesn't think that way... So W. considers France an enemy? Was this on Moveon.org or something? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL P

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-08 Thread gullible fool
The Hub is the center of the universe. The great city of Boston. http://www.gethep.net/road/hub.html --- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 12/7/05 4:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-08 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>So (as a software developer) explain this lame French idea: >>http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html >> >> > >Protectionism. > >And about as effective as banning the use of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-08 Thread Peter
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 12/8/05 3:48:36 A.M. Central > Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Good question. It hasn't come up recently because > > > the French don't insist on classifying > countries > > > that don't agree with them as 'enemies.'

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-08 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 12/8/05 3:48:36 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >  Good question. It hasn't come up recently because> >  the French don't insist on classifying countries> >  that don't agree with them as 'enemies.'  :-)>> How un-American.Exactly.  :-) Does

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-07 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 12/7/05 4:51:02 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you and conservatives in general always disliked the French or is that just fashionable now because they wouldn’t join this war? I can only speak for myself. I just find the French too easy

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-07 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation on 12/7/05 4:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/7/05 12:22:13 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now there is a  strategy, If you can't beat them, join them

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-07 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 12/7/05 12:22:13 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now there is a strategy, If you can't beat them, join them! The godfather could have been French when he said " keep your friends close but your enemies closer".That’s what Mah

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-07 Thread Sal Sunshine
It's all those Freedom Fries they've been eating. Sal On Dec 7, 2005, at 10:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that was at a time when the French had some balls. Since the end of Napoleonic times they have been neutered.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-07 Thread Sal Sunshine
How un-American. Sal On Dec 7, 2005, at 11:23 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Good question. It hasn't come up recently because the French don't insist on classifying countries that don't agree with them as 'enemies.'  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-07 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>In a message dated 12/7/05 9:35:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> >> >>>You know what happened to the last uncaring >>>asshole who used that line, don't you? :-) >>> >>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-07 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation on 12/7/05 11:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/7/05 11:27:51 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think  this proves the French can argue well among   > themselves,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-07 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 12/7/05 11:27:51 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think this proves the French can argue well among  > themselves, but could the French stand up to and > defend themselves against an external enemy?Good question. It hasn't come up recently

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-07 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 12/7/05 10:45:16 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It could happen in the US, too, if Americanswere actually willing to sacrifice two weeksof their oh-so-precious salaries to make apoint and stand up for what they believe in. Assuming American

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-07 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 12/7/05 10:45:16 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in my experience. God *help* the French administration thattries to fuck with what the French consider"basic rights."  The last time an adminis-tration tried (in 1999), the French staged a nati

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-07 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 12/7/05 9:35:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You know what happened to the last uncaringasshole who used that line, don't you?  :-)"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."  - George Santayana But that was at a time w