posted on January 23, 2003 10:16:41 AM new
Ever notice how people become more and more ignorant? Like Bear using the wrod "your" instead of "you're", as in 'you are'? A perfect example of the dumbing down of Americans. No wonder he votes Republican.
posted on January 23, 2003 03:59:24 PM new
Borillar- What about people who spell "word" as "wrod"? How do they vote? Any dumbing down there or do you have another excuse?
posted on January 23, 2003 04:42:38 PM new
So, because I call a hater of Arabs (excluding Hebrews) an antiSemite you you call ME a racist.
I can only assume
1./ it is an effort to discredit any of my statements regardless of how much logic I try to use.
OR
2./You have a shallow mind, with tunnel Vision.
I have done more homework for you.
SEMITE;
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/s/s0258700.html
A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. A Jew. Bible A descendant of Shem.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/87/S0258700.html
NOUN: 1. A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. 2. A Jew. 3. Bible A descendant of Shem.
Interesting that the following site did not have a reference for Semite, one is redirected to ant-Semite
(from Cambridge Dictionary of American English)
anti-Semitism
noun [U]
hate or strong dislike of Jews, or actions that express hate or dislike of Jews
Nazi anti-Semitism forced him to emigrate to the U.S.A.
This site will direct you to more dictionaries.
http://www.onelook.com/?w=semite&ls=a
posted on January 23, 2003 08:24:21 PM new
I don't want this topic to get railroaded, it is far too important, so I'll start a new topic.
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http://wwwistp.murdoch.edu.au/publications/projects/oilfleay/05surplustoshortage.html
Only the Persian Gulf, and to a much lesser extent the Caspian Sea region, can supply large increments of oil for a given investment, do it mostly onshore and relatively quickly. Export and new capacity will be rapidly concentrated in these politically unstable regions. There is no clear evidence that development on the scale needed has commenced.
The United States is attempting through the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act 1996 to control the political scene as well as future petroleum development there. The Act empowers the US President to impose penalties on companies or financiers participating in petroleum development in Iran and Libya by whatever direct or indirect avenues that come within the reach of US jurisdiction. United Nations sanctions on Iraq also seek to control the petroleum future of Iraq and the Persian Gulf, and to keep Iraqi oil off the market to help keep oil prices up.
