Re: [Goanet] Re: Fists of Freedom - Rosa Parks

2005-10-31 Thread Mario Goveia
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[Goanet] Iraq Constitution backed by 79% of Iraqis

2005-10-30 Thread Mario Goveia
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Re: [Goanet] Re: Fists of Freedom

2005-10-27 Thread Mario Goveia
-Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The United States of America that Mario Goveia lives in must be another country, and not the United States of America that I know from having lived here since 1956. For one of those decades, I taught in East Harlem and also in the Bedford-Stuyvesant

[Goanet] Gates foresees Chinese, Indian competitors

2005-10-27 Thread Mario Goveia
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[Goanet] Economic progress of African-Americans

2005-10-26 Thread Mario Goveia
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Re: [Goanet] Re: Fists of Freedom

2005-10-25 Thread Mario Goveia
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Re: [Goanet] Re: Re: Bush to come to India

2005-10-25 Thread Mario Goveia
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Re: [Goanet] Re: 'Bush to come to India with New Year N-gift'

2005-10-25 Thread Mario Goveia
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Re: [Goanet] Re: Fists of Freedom

2005-10-24 Thread Mario Goveia
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Re: [Goanet] Re: 'Bush to come to India with New Year N-gift'

2005-10-24 Thread Mario Goveia
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Re: [Goanet] 'Bush to come to India with New Year N-gift'

2005-10-20 Thread Mario Goveia
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[Goanet] Re: Goan Attitudes

2005-10-17 Thread Mario Goveia
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Re: [Goanet] Re: Goan Attitudes

2005-10-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Floriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And thirdly, you loud mouths overseas must realise that you cannot go on giving yourselves the credit of being the know-all and more patriotic as far as Goa is concerned. There are others on ground zero who work like white ants, unseen and

Re: [Goanet] Please sign the appeal: IFFI garbage problem

2005-10-09 Thread Mario Goveia
Where are the environmental activists on GX and Goanet when Goa really needs them? --- floriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further to my report on the bull-dozzing/levelling of the mud piles on the NH-17 of 6/Oct, (not published on GOANET) where I cautioned the Chief Officer of the Mapusa

Re: [Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-06 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Lawrence Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Catholic Church has a very specific and very high-minded reason for wanting their priests to be celibate, and this reason has so far superceded the arguments in favor of married priests.Mario G ...and the Church is *never* wrong?

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-06 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have serious doubts about the trickle-down theory. Indeed, there is much in the serious literature to indicate that the gap between the well to do and the poor in the USA has widened ever so detrimentally in recent years. The measure of this kind of

Re: [Goanet] Just to reassure you that these guys hadn't come with any military purpose in mind ; -)

2005-10-06 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And surely the US Navy could lose friends in Goa among its supporters, who might get upset by this statement: Goan. Having been ruled as a Portuguese colony for more than 450 years, Goa has a culture distinctly different from most of

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-06 Thread Mario Goveia
In my opinion, Cornel has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to poverty and segregation in the US, where I have lived for 35 years and am a volunteer in a social service agency that helps people considered poor in this country. Many poor Americans have a better standard of living than

[Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-05 Thread Mario Goveia
Cornel, I will see what I can find. However, the ruins and misery from Karl Marx's ideology are strewn around the world, from the old Soviet Union to China, India and much of Africa and South America. Some, like India, which had a committment to democratic principles learned from the Brits, did

[Goanet] Five Indian Americans in MIT's top 35 innovators list

2005-10-05 Thread Mario Goveia
http://headlines.sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13956596headline=5~Indian~Americans~in~MIT's~top~35~list Indians continue to assert themselves at MIT. Good job! The following excerpt is from the article above. Five Indian Americans have made it to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's

Re: [Goanet] Re: The married priest

2005-10-05 Thread Mario Goveia
Cornel, I think it is you who seems to wear a kashtie that is a little too tight, my friend. What does WW-II have to do with this thread? Did you really expect me to accept without rebuttal or answer your comment, however innocent or naive, that the Catholic Church was being secretive about

Re: [Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-05 Thread Mario Goveia
Valmiki, Since you digressed without meaning to, my opinion is that these pets are considered playthings for their owners. I am not a pet owner any more, and when I had pets I never had them sterilized. We have a famous Canadian vet on Goanet who is probably deeply involved in implementing the

Re: [Goanet] Re: Re: Musings on crossing a hundred.....

2005-10-05 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Radhakrishnan Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Mario Goveia wrote: One wonders why he did not question his own basic assumption, that a small cabal of elites could make better decisions for entire economies than the weighted average decisions of entire populations, and caused untold

[Goanet] RE: Visa Woes

2005-10-04 Thread Mario Goveia
There is something deeper and very troubling going on here. You need to hire an immigration attorney in India to get to the bottom of this sad case. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dear Jose, Thank you so much for your small line on my Visa Woes. Of course, I did tap the right door/s, in

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-04 Thread Mario Goveia
after his death. Cornel - Original Message - From: Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@goanet.org Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred --- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-03 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vidyadhar, I studied Marx and his writings hell of a lot in student and post-student days. Ok, this was many moons ago. However, I never came across the view that Marx said question everything. I am just curious about its source. Is this

Re: [Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-03 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Vivian D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forcing priests to live a celibate life, which I suspect many privately do not comply with, is inhuman. The natural human sexual urges cannot be suppresed forever. The results are quite obvious with all the news stories one hears these days

Re: [Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-03 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My bigger question is to ask why the Catholic Church is seemingly secretive about the matter of married priests? Mario replies: Just because you did not know that married priests from other Christian denominations are allowed to stay married when they

Re: [Goanet] Jesuit Official Rips Expected Ban on Gays

2005-09-30 Thread Mario Goveia
--- George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050930/ap_on_re_us/gay_priests If priests are supposed to be celibate, should it make a difference if they are gay or straight? Regards, George Mario replies: The operative words are supposed to be celibate.

Re: [Goanet] Fr Jose Vaz and Pdr Agnelo

2005-09-30 Thread Mario Goveia
afra dias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No! He cannot shed light on these matters. He is getting free food and shelter in Rome, he does not want to kicked out of there, so he will do any kind of curry favouring (I could have used a harsher word) over there. How many Italians were given the Papal

Re: [Goanet] Firangi Saint?

2005-09-28 Thread Mario Goveia
--- afra dias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well done Lawrence. - the Irish do that, its about time we did the same. Secondly, when there is no decline in religious activity. Thirdly, when there is no income worth the Vatican's acknowledgement. They are not interested in declaring a saint.

[Goanet] Re: Still no native Indian Catholic Saint

2005-09-27 Thread Mario Goveia
George Pinto wrote:Sept. 25, 2005 Today is the 320th anniversary of the founding of India and the modern Third World’s first fully native religious Congregation by Blessed Joseph Vaz and his Oratorian companion priests on September 25th, 1685. The process for his Cause for

Re: [Goanet] Re: Still no native Indian Catholic Saint (Mario Goveia)

2005-09-26 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has this subject come here before? Isn't an East Indian monk from Bassein, Gonzalo, among the 13 matrys of Japan? Mario replies: Eugene, I have no idea. All I was suggesting was that anyone interested in inquiring about or lobbying for a

[Goanet] Re: Still no native Indian Catholic Saint

2005-09-25 Thread Mario Goveia
George Pinto wrote:Sept. 25, 2005 Today is the 320th anniversary of the founding of India and the modern Third World’s first fully native religious Congregation by Blessed Joseph Vaz and his Oratorian companion priests on September 25th, 1685. Blessed Joseph Vaz has the official title of

[Goanet] Re: Still no native Indian Catholic Saint

2005-09-25 Thread Mario Goveia
So what? George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Sept. 25, 2005 Today is the 320th anniversary of the founding of India and the modern Third World’s first fully native religious Congregation by Blessed Joseph Vaz and his Oratorian companion priests on September 25th, 1685. Blessed Joseph Vaz

[Goanet] Islamo-fascists strike in India

2005-09-16 Thread Mario Goveia
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php? newsid=54780headline=Jamaat~threatens~Sania,~security~beefed~up The Islamo-fascists strike in India: Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza will receive extra security after an Islamic group opposed to her on-court dress threatened to stop her from

Re: [Goanet] New Orleans vs Amchi Mumbai

2005-09-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Eddie Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This entire post, including the first line and the punch line has appeared in scores of sites over the past week see http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enlr=newwindow=1safe=offq=12%2C622%2C500+KatrinabtnG=Search Failure to acknowledge

Re: [Goanet] What non-Americans think?

2005-09-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Victor, I could not read the attachment that may have attached to your posting. However if you will bear with me, I would like to respond to what the headline of your post suggest. Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster exacerbated by

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: America's Tsunami

2005-09-06 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: America's Tsunami, By V. M. de Malar They're marching out of New Orleans today, the famous Jazz City of the American South has been totally devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Huge levees have been breached, Mario corrects the record: Only

Re: [Goanet] India, Pakistan Agree to Free Prisoners. Good ...Now....behave yourselve

2005-09-02 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: This is an ironic demand from a person who has never expressed any outrage to the killings of hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslims by Muslim tyrants like Saddambab, Osamabab, Al Zarkawibab, and all the Babs who belong to Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and the Al

Re: [Goanet] RE: India, Pakistan Agree to Free Prisoners. Good ...Now....behave yours 2

2005-09-01 Thread Mario Goveia
--- jose colaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be interesting to read WHAT amcho Mario has written expressing any outrage to the killings of hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslims by Muslim tyrants like Saddambab - esp WHEN he was doing that with weapons given to him by WHOM?

[Goanet] India, Pakistan Agree to Free Prisoners. Good ...Now....behave yourselve

2005-08-31 Thread Mario Goveia
jose colaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: India, Pakistan Agree to Free Prisoners By ASHOK SHARMA, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 58 minutes ago NEW DELHI - India and Pakistan agreed Tuesday to release hundreds of fishermen and other civilians in each other's jails — a goodwill measure that comes

Re: [Goanet] Women's Fronts

2005-08-25 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Anthony M Barreto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great Philosopher Hiraclitus was wrong. Some things never change. Ten years back I had written a piece for Gomantak Times that read 'women fronts for fukot publicity.' Well I still believe in myself. Mario muses: Hiraclitus said, There is

[Goanet] Calling Jaime X. D'Mello

2005-08-25 Thread Mario Goveia
I am trying to reach Jaime X. D'Mello to congratulate him for the simple Konkani Tutorial called Teach Yourself Some Konkani to be found at the URL: http://www.goa-world.com/goa/konkani/ When I emailed him at the yahoo.com address on the URL I found that it bounced back to me with the caption

Re: [Goanet]East Indian - Correct terminology

2005-08-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the USA, in the past we went by Asian Indians in America. We were a unique group as other ethnic groups were called Irish Americans and German Americans etc. We called ourselves the above because the title of American-Indians was taken and we

Re: [Goanet]Bloody foreigners - Semantics

2005-08-11 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I find it surprising that the immigrants in the UK did not raise a cry when the book appeared in print - more so, to stop future insensitive titles and texts from appearing. We condemn practices of a generation ago with harsh words (see

Re: [Goanet]There's no minority in India: Supreme Court

2005-08-11 Thread Mario Goveia
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpagefile_name=story4%2Etxtcounter_img=4 Pioneer News service / New Delhi The Supreme Court has said the practice of notifying religious groups as minority communities should be discouraged as it

Re: [Goanet]Eugene on the London bombings

2005-08-10 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we reap now in the form of London bombings, and previous to that Madrid mayhem, is what American foreign policy has brought about. Mario responds: Eugene, Maybe you did not think that the Shia and the Kurds in Iraq, who were being killed,

Re: [Goanet]re: dinesh and washington

2005-08-10 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt Dinesh D'Souza, if invited as a special guest by the GOA (U.K.), would get a warm reception from the Goans here. This is because by and large, I believe, most Goans here are liberal minded ( in the British sense) and they would not take

[Goanet]Attempts to devalue the Indian American immigrant

2005-08-09 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THE GREAT INDIAN CLASS TEST COMMENTARAO / S.L. RAO The author is chairman, Institute for Social and Economic Change [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elitism or meritocracy? In The Karma of Brown Folk, Vijay Prashad examines the “model minority”

Re: [Goanet]Re: Dinesh D'Sousa

2005-08-09 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Boromor Joseph Dias goanet@goanet.org wrote: Hi, Just for the record, Dinesh was a bandra boy. He was my classmate in St. Stanislaus High School, Bandra. Lived at Peter Dias Road. He was a briliant student in school an excellent human being. I dont know much of him in USA except

Re: [Goanet]East Indian

2005-08-08 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Tony Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eugene et al! The label - East Indian is used in the U.S. and probably in Canada by Asian Indians from the Carribbean Islands-ostensibly as they were brought to work as bonded laborers by the British company - the East Indian Trading Company.I do

Re: [Goanet]Re: (Goanet) Re: EASTINDIAND DRIFT

2005-08-08 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Lawrence Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/08/05, Radhakrishnan Nair wrote: Not exactly, Gabe! WOG (Westernised Oriental Gentleman) was a sobriquet accorded to Western-educated Indian elites like ICS officers during the Raj. Cheers, RKN RESPONSE: Well here it is..:-

Re: [Goanet]Dinesh D'Souza.

2005-08-08 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. If exposing the likes of Dinesh D'Souza is a personal attack, then so be it. If a person journalist exposes himself to the extent of inviting ciriticism, than I don't see anything wrong in it. After all it shows how he progressed. I fail to

Re: [Goanet]re: the dinesh debate

2005-08-07 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the netters suggested that there's always someone on the net to bring another fellow Goan down. If this is a reference to me, let me point out that I had posed a query. I just wanted to know if Dinesh is a Goan, and that's all. As I said, I

Re: [Goanet]Dinesh D'Souza; East Indian....

2005-08-05 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This forum is what it is all about! The fact that he has made millions, is your criteria of a person's 'worth' speaks volumes about yourself. Our Goan Politicians too have made millions; we must not forget to applaud them too! Mario responds: You

Re: [Goanet]Dinesh D'Souza

2005-08-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Vivian D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of being proud of the achievements of one of our fellow Goans (or Indian), in typical crab mentality we want to tear him down, calling him something he is not etc. We may not agree with his political leanings, but given him credit where it

[Goanet]Monsoon oddyssey in Mumbai

2005-08-04 Thread Mario Goveia
This is an amazing true story of the oddyssey of some close friends who were on their way back from Pune to Detroit on July 27, when the worst deluge in Mumbai history descended upon them. This will be even more amazing to those familiar with the terrain between Chembur and Santa Cruz. David is

Re: [Goanet]Dinesh D'Souza; East Indian....

2005-08-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://logosonline.home.igc.org/kelly.htm If Dinesh D'Souza were not East Indian, he would simply have no role to play for the Right: there would be no White House credentials, no appointments as scholar,. Mario responds: The

Re: [Goanet]re: dinesh d'souza

2005-08-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think dinesh's name has appeared on this list earlier in a different context. that he is a conservative and anti-immigrant is well-known. Mario replies: Dinesh D'Souza is a modern political conservative. He is NOT anti-immigrant, being an

Re: [Goanet]Dinesh D'Souza... on Wikipedia

2005-08-03 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dinesh did not excel, please go to the following site to read more:- http://logosonline.home.igc.org/kelly.htm How Dinesh Gets Over: The Unmeritorious Scholarship of Dinesh D'Souza. Mario replies: Gabe Menezes has not mentioned a single specific

[Goanet]The freedom to argue

2005-08-03 Thread Mario Goveia
Argue, you're an Indian! RANJAN YUMNAM TIMES NEWS NETWORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 02, 2005 Amartya Sen on why being argumentative is a virtue If you ever need an economist's endorsement of the view that Indians are vocal with their arguments, bank on Amartya Sen. According to Sen, being

Re: [Goanet]britain and immigrants

2005-08-02 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saw a book titled Bloody Foreigners, published in Britain in 2004 but reissued this year in paperback. I haven't read, but hope it buy it. Did anyone on the goanet read it? This is the type of hysteria that white Britain creates and then the

Re: [Goanet]RE: britain and immigrants

2005-08-01 Thread Mario Goveia
--- halur rasho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly. Sorry , but Goans who display racist attitudes towards indians get no sympathy from me when they encounter rascism abroad. --- rene barreto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mario adds: I don't know about just Goans, but Indians wrote the original

Re: [Goanet]Campaign for Scheduled Caste rights for India's Dalit Christians

2005-07-22 Thread Mario Goveia
Gabriel de Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think, India as a whole ought to do away with the idea of Caste-based benefits, and instead concentrate on the earning capacity of families. Whether this is palatable to the Indian caste- ridden society, is the big question ... Mario adds: I

Re: [Goanet]Re: How about Goanet's TOP TEN CHART ?

2005-07-22 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Dr. Ambert Pimenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Mario, Your response was brilliant. Liked it very much. I would only say this We need poeple like you here, there was never a suggestion contrary to that. Have your say, its a free world , but i would really appreciate you not

Re: [Goanet]Re: How about Goanet's TOP TEN CHART ?

2005-07-21 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Al Quaeda in Europe' evoked 29 posts,'NEWS UPDATE - another Saddam mass grave found in Iraq' got 23 responses. On the subject of repetitiveness, these posts had 'Neville Chamberlain' mentioned 6 or 7 times! This is according to my Gmail 'search

Re: [Goanet]Re: How about Goanet's TOP TEN CHART ?

2005-07-20 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Dr. Ambert Pimenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess your right Mario , we need change and change is the thing for 2005. But need we listen to your rambling and getting involved in every comment made on Goanet? Mario replies: The only change I would like to see on Goanet is a far more

Re: [Goanet]Malaria, mosquitoes... and bed-nets

2005-07-20 Thread Mario Goveia
Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this context, I would like to hear from others who have experience with using bed-nets. We've heard via Goanet that expats in Africa would often resort to bed-nets. Anti-malaria campaigns globally talk not just of bed-nets, but ones soaked

Re: [Goanet]How about Goanet's TOP TEN CHART ? (Check if you have posted atleast 2)

2005-07-19 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Dr. Ambert Pimenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been a goanetter much longer than you and seen this site evolve into a one that almost deviates from what it was orignally concieved for .. i.e Goa. Lets keep to Goenkar business here only ! Mario replies: Thanks for your comments

Re: [Goanet]Re: How about Goanet's TOP TEN CHART ?

2005-07-18 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Felicio Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am ready to vote for the worse-post-of-the-week. Mario replies: You may have already won, Felicio!

Re: [Goanet]How about Goanet's TOP TEN CHART ? (Check if you have posted atleast 2)

2005-07-18 Thread Mario Goveia
This excellent analysis seems to prove my point. Those whom I have single-handedly responded to most of the time, obviously to some more than others, namely, Gabe (84), Cecil (46), Santosh (44), Cornel (29), Mervyn (25), Jose (18) and George (16), have 262 posts between them. This puts some

Re: [Goanet]Nazi principle in Konkani Parishad

2005-07-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sir, Kindly give publicity to the following press release. Dr. Pratap Naik, S.J. Director Thomas stephens Konknni Kendr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Condemnation of Parishad's dangerous objectives Mandd Sobhann wishes to register its

Re: [Goanet]Your article/material on the 'celebration' of death(s) in Goa

2005-07-15 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Cecil, A little while ago I read your article/material on Goanet on the 'celebration', if that is the right word, of death(s) in Goa. I learned a lot from your material. However, the question I have always wondered about is-- why is 'after

[Goanet]Laughter, the best medicine

2005-07-15 Thread Mario Goveia
Top Ten Ways to Recognize an NRI while in India Courtesy: Krishna Prasad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (May not apply towards NRIs from the Gulf) 10. One who requests the autorickshaw driver to drive slowly and clutches the seat-cushion in abject fear. 9. One who just bought a case of Bisleri or

Re: [Goanet]FW: Migration for pleasure

2005-07-14 Thread Mario Goveia
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS To David Futers I totally agree with your thread AFRAID. I am fairly nervous posting this innocuous rambling as I am sure to have inadvertently offended someone   Mario replies: Rebecca, there is nothing wrong in being an economic migrant, or any other kind for

Re: [Goanet]Drivel is in the eye of the beholder

2005-07-14 Thread Mario Goveia
--- George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Vivian for your post. Let us focus on some concrete topics: 1. Educational opportunities for Goans (not just those in Goa). 2. Job opportunities. 3. Environmental issues (there is a nice Wild Goa d-list). 4. Consumer rights (support

Re: [Goanet]Putting each other down...

2005-07-13 Thread Mario Goveia
Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is 'terrorism'? Is it 7/7 in London and 9/11 in New York? Is it the continuing invasion of Iraq. Or is that an invasion at all? Did weapons of mass destruction really exist, or do some of us refuse to see them? Mario replies: Nice try

Re: [Goanet]Agreeing to disagree

2005-07-13 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mario, I have come to the conclusion that, apart from the caste issue, our views about America re the Iraq war and about Palestine/Israel differ very significantly. I don't think we can persuade each other differently and should therefore agree to

Re: [Goanet]How will the left wingers spin this?

2005-07-13 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Seb dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plz excuse the old man Gabe Let me tell u a small story we hear as kids! My aunt used to tell us that grandparents tend to act like kids when they get old. Possibly we are seeing one here:-) Mario replies: Seb, have you made ONE original post on

Re: [Goanet]Why so many....???

2005-07-13 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Seb dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing NEW Mario replies: Seb, for me to answer with something new, the others have to post something new. Facts do not change, so if someone misrepresents facts, the same old facts have to be used in response. Sorry. Use your delete button.

Re: [Goanet]Re: Canada - Terrorist Haven by Stephen Brown

2005-07-13 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Bosco D'Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mario I will not disparage Stephen Brown !! I said so earlier too. Neither should you disparage Haroon Siddiqui just to make your point. If you have a comment on Haroon's writings, make it without resorting to dramatics. Mario replies: Haroon

Re: [Goanet]Re: economic migrant

2005-07-13 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mario, I have not followed the 'economic migrant' debate closely for lack of time. Mario responds: Cornel, thanks for the kind of sane logic you are capable of. Let me start by saying that no migrant is superior to any other migrant, and it is no one's

Re: [Goanet]Afraid

2005-07-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- David Futers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am afraid. Yes Afraid, not of bombs in London but of posting any thing slightly controversial on this forum. Mario replies: Now, now, David. That wasn't a very nice thing to say. After all, our bombs are only filled with hot air.

[Goanet]The true face of Islamo-fascism

2005-07-12 Thread Mario Goveia
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050712/1/3tfgc.html The article above shows the merciless Islamo-fascism the Europeans are faced with, after appeasing radical Muslims for decades. I'd like to see the terrorist sympathisers Mervyn, Fred, Gabe and Cornel trying to blame this incident on George Bush or

Fwd: Re: [Goanet]Everone is an economic migrant, except retirees

2005-07-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many Goans, also migrate, not for economic reasons. Many Doctor's, engineers etc move for better facilities and better to further themselves with more insight and the scope to learn more. Many Goans from the U.K. have moved to Portugal and/or

Re: [Goanet]My experience with your organization

2005-07-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Louise goanet@goanet.org wrote: So far, All the messages I have received appear to be from people venting their aggressions on this site. I am starting to think I made a mistake by venturing here. Please tell me I'm wrong and there are some friendly discussions here. Mario replies:

[Goanet]The shameful bias of the BBC

2005-07-12 Thread Mario Goveia
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/12/nbbc12.xml What did my Israeli friend warn about after the London attacks? Here the left-wing BBC cannot bring itself to call a spade a spade, joining some of our intrepid terrorist sympathisers and appeasers on GX. An excerpt

[Goanet]Wake up call for Bosco

2005-07-12 Thread Mario Goveia
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apcanada_story.asp?category=1101slug=Border%20Canada%20Terror%20Groups Bosco, Click on the link above for a current assessment of the threat from terrorists in Canada. I hope you don't think the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is knocking Canada. I

Re: [Goanet]Why so many....???

2005-07-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Seb dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like goanet is being bombarded by people who have nothing else to do:-) Just for the records...Today i received quite a number of emails(lost the count by now)out of which Mario Goviea had sent...16(-.-) Mario replies: Unlike you, honest

Re: [Goanet]Re: Canada - Terrorist Haven by Stephen Brown

2005-07-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Bosco D'Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you trying to sensationalize now with an article from December 2002 ?? We don't need to disparage Stephen Brown as you did Haroon Siddiquinevertheless .. Mario replies: You can try to disparage Stephen Brown, which would mean

Re: [Goanet]Economic migration, personal experience...

2005-07-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Cecil Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish more overseas Goans would relate their personal experience while, and reasons for, migrating so we can truly understand the process and the underlying motives - rather than just depend on vague generalisations and anonymous statistics.

Re: [Goanet]We don't have to comment on everything, or reply to every single person...

2005-07-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night, while doing moderation duties before going to sleep, I was surprised to find that a single Goanetter had sent in 17 different messages for approval! Please let's take turns in speaking out, even if e-mail is an asynchronous

Re: [Goanet]Economic migrant - find a more sensible insult

2005-07-11 Thread Mario Goveia
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salus, I have cousins who left Africa for a better place. Some settled in Goa (they returned to GOA because of political conditions in Africa); the others migrated to Canada (they went there purely for economic reasons). If not for economic reasons, they

[Goanet]Canada - Terrorist Haven by Stephen Brown

2005-07-11 Thread Mario Goveia
The article below should be compared with other propaganda emanating from some of our Canadian Goanetters who are sympathetic to the Islamo-fascist cause: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5007 An excerpt from the article: But the fact that Canadians had a potential sucide

[Goanet]For a Decade, London Thrived as a Busy Crossroads of Terror

2005-07-11 Thread Mario Goveia
Goanetters need to click on the following link and compare the contents of this New York Times article, generally a left-of-center, anti-war newspaper, with the relentless propaganda being fed to us by certain Goanetters sympathetic to the Islamo-fascists, who blame any and everything for the

Re: [Goanet]Non economic Goan Migrants!

2005-07-11 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This post is not to take a holier than thou stance, just to enlighten, on some misconceptions. Mario replies: Anyone who has read Gabe's posts knows that he has a holier-than-thou attitude to this bogus topic, trying to show that he is somehow superior

Re: [Goanet]economic migrant

2005-07-11 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I shall further illuminate you; the vast majority of Goans who moved from Kenya were not economic migrants. Had it not been for the political change, I believe many would have continued to remain in East Africa. Mario replies: This is another

Re: [Goanet]Re: Hinduism and caste

2005-07-11 Thread Mario Goveia
--- halur rasho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main difficulty in arguing with you was , when push comes to shove, we would be on the same side,I think (or hope). Mario asks: Who is this mythical Halur, who can be quite prescient, and why is he hiding behind an alias?

Re: [Goanet]Re: Al Qaeda in Europe.

2005-07-11 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your certitude is mindboggling. Mario replies: Unboggle your mind. You seemed to be a reasonable guy, open to evidence, quite unlike committed anti-Americans like Gabe and Mervyn, so it is my mind that is boggling. The only certitude I have is based on the

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