Heart Warmer!

[pkt]

daeceg,

It is obvious that you did not read this thread from the top because - not trying to be overly correcting or whatever - this was covered by Morra[PrFC] near the top of the thread already...

That said, thank you for sharing your info.

Tempus fugit, go and fence.

PK

[135711]

pk, what's up? you don't sound like yourself, not after writing that brilliant peice of dialoge you now sit and yell at one of our Board Members! [which reminds me, I have to apologize to a nice older couple that I said a bad word in front of], we shouldn't use bad words on the board. I would like to read more of your stuff, but I'm not sure.

How did you make the avatar?
How did you think of the material you used in the other post?

[pkt]

Originally posted by 135711
pk, what's up? you don't sound like yourself, not after writing that brilliant peice of dialoge you now sit and yell at one of our Board Members! [which reminds me, I have to apologize to a nice older couple that I said a bad word in front of], we shouldn't use bad words on the board. I would like to read more of your stuff, but I'm not sure.

How did you make the avatar?
How did you think of the material you used in the other post?

135711,

Gee, and i thought I was being very gentle with daeceg.

I am not that good to have written that dialogue piece. The writer's name and address is on the end of the piece.
Judi Stevenson
Minerva Research & Communications
631 Mount Belcher
Salt Spring Island, BC, V8K 2J3
(250) 537-5599
I'm just the conduit.

FYI, Salt Spring Island is one of the Gulf Islands in the Georgia Straight. Reputedly the Gulf Islands are full of ex-hippies...

To make your own avatar, you need programmes like PhotoShop.
Just crop and save the foto you wish to use in the 500x500 pixel format that is required. It's pretty straightfoward: If I can figure it out with no Photoshop training, you can too.

I thought the 'Warmonger' dialogue sums up the situation very well indeed.

I've added more info on that thread.

135711, your PM is full. I can't send you the info you wanted.

Unless someone tells me how to make a pps attachment here,
anyone who wishes to see
the University of Milan's PowerPoint presentation on
'Why the US go to war",
I'll need your email address so i can fwd it to you.

Salom,

PK

[pkt]

I stand corrected, I just talked with Judi and she got that 'Warmonger' piece from her friend in Saturna Island - another Gulf island - Her friend said it came out from the States... Judi is trying to track down the author of the peice.

Credit should always be given where credit is due.

All, remember, it is outdated to refer to the US as a super-power:
The correct term NOW is HYPER power.

PK

[daeceg]

Pkt, I love your tagline...

I saw that "hyperpower" reference earlier today...that bothered the heck out of me, too.

BTW, I don't feel yelled at. I should have read through the messages before posting...just forgot my BBS ettiquitte for a second.

Pkt, have you joined the MoveOn organization? It's been really active in the antiwar movement. www.moveon.org

(found out about them at a Joan Baez concert a couple weeks ago)

[Fencing Passion]

Lol i fined it funny,
that everytime i read some of these threads and Ptk is in it always goes 2 war subjects not sayen anything is wrong with that just noticed lol.

[135711]

Well, unless someone else has another story that is similarly upbeat, I'm going into the next folder!

I would love to know how that person is doing, by the way, this happened in 1990 I believe, quite a while ago, so if he was about 20 then, he's 33 now, and let's hope a success.

[pkt]

Fencing Passion
"Lol i fined it funny, that everytime i read some of these threads and Ptk is in it always goes 2 war subjects not sayen anything is wrong with that just noticed lol."

Now that the war has gone ahead, I do understand and appreciate the whys and wherefores of the war.

But since I responded to you in your thread 'PKT read this', I won't bore the others by repeating myself here.

"War is the failure of diplomacy."

As in fencing, I feel the brasses in the US Armed forces underesimated the Iraqis and the troopers on the ground bought into this mentality, it IS dangerous to underestimate one's opponant.

Though I have not personnaly lived through wars, my parents were refugees from the Japanese Imperial Army. My father worked for the US Army's Flying Tigers in Chungking. My uncle, my father's older brother, got shot by the Japanese the day before they surrendered...

Since the war has started, I still believe that we should hold the feet of the POTUS to the fire.

I have the luxury of looking at this war from a distance. I also have the luxury of living what Schiller said, "Having another language is like having another soul."

I see the American point of view, how can we in Canada not? But I do not have to subscribe or agree to it. I see things from the Canadian as wll as an Asian point of view.

Most Americans - this is not American bashing, OK? - do not realise how the rest of the world see their actions.

Well-intended they may be, the RoW feel that the US is a bully, they proselytise too much - this is part of the AMerican heritage, the result of why the Mayflower came to North America. Somuchso that they - the US - give the RoW the impression, rightly or wrongly, that the American system is the best. Everyone else's is no good.

Well, excuse me, I don't agree.

And a lot of Americans don't agree either.

In times of war these American dissenters are treated as traitors. e.g. Michael Moore. He was cheered on by the stars but booed by the audience.

I know the futility of trying to stop the US-bully-inspired war. I don't agree with war. As Winston Churchill said, "Jaw, jaw is better than war, war."

The outcome of war is never certain in spite of what Dubya and his cohorts wish others to beleive. People on all sides wil die, that's for sure. At leat USD73 billion will be spent on this war.

Ask yourself, when millions of Americans do not have basic medical coverage, when the US economy is going down the toilet, is this $73 billion a worthwhile way of spending your hardearned tax dollars?

Sure, the US economy is mighty. That's how Regean did in the Soviets, by outspending them. But remember the lessons of history: Why the mighty Roman empire fell?

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There are good things about war - no, I'm not being facetious:
1. It reduces the population pressure on Mother Earth.
2. It does away with outdated stuff. Stuff like buildings, armaments, people, ad nauseum.
3. $$$ Companies become rich by supplying the war effort. e.g the Kenendys, the armament industries.
4. $$$ It sells newspapers and TV ads. CNN, in Gulf War I and Al-Jazeera now.
5. $$$ People become famous - Peter Arnet got his Pulitzer by covering the Vietnam War.
6. It keep us entertained. It give us something to jaw- jaw about.

I think this is enough of a rant, I'll giv eit a rest.

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Thank you daceg.
I wasn't yelling at you, I know that.

PK

[pkt]

daeceg,

did u know that when they brought out the movie 'The Madness of King George', they had to change to that name because the distributor thought that had they stayed with the original name the American audience might have asked, "Oh, did I miss the first episode of this movie?"

The original name in UK?
"The Madness of King George II"



BTW, not trying to diss either the country, the government or the people; the proper name for that country off the west coast of Europe, of which Queen Elizabeth II is head is United Kingdom. Not Britain. It definitely is NOT GREAT anymore.

I remember times when the major parts of the world atlas was coloured pink...

PK

[daeceg]

Hehehe...considering the cultural and historic awareness of the majority of the population here, I'm not surprised that American audiences would be confused...