Borillar
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posted on March 27, 2001 04:11:41 PM new
"But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the -- that don't let people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses' the South Koreans."
-- George W. Bush, during a media roundtable (reported by Slate.com)
That is word-for-word as he said it. Now don't you Republican voters FEEL BETTER??
(edited to change "pr" to "or" -- my Word Spellchecker actually passed this up as being correct!)
[ edited by Borillar on Mar 27, 2001 04:13 PM ]
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snowydays
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posted on March 27, 2001 04:27:45 PM new
I find it ironic that you are pointing out a mistake that someone else made when you really should take more care to be sure that your spelling is correct. Collectibles is spelled with an i not an a.
I shudder about the people who don't shudder at all.
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Zazzie
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posted on March 27, 2001 04:30:09 PM new
somebody needs to give him a Babel Fish---or maybe the USA population all need Babel fishes.
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RainyBear
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posted on March 27, 2001 04:33:09 PM new
snowydays - I think either "collectibles" or "collectables" is correct.
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Borillar
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posted on March 27, 2001 04:34:44 PM new
Thank you, snowydays, for that bit of conservative logic! Did you notice that I'm not the President of the United States and that I'm also not the one trying to lead foreign policy?
snowydays: how was your move? Did you finally get a chance to look up that reference to the bible that you couldn't a few days ago?
Zazzie: I wish I could get a decent spell-checker.
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Zazzie
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posted on March 27, 2001 04:40:50 PM new
Babel Fish---from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
''The Babel fish,'' said The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, ''is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds
on brainwave energy not from its carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your
mind by your Babel fish.
''Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
''The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,'says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
''`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
''`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
''`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
''Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God.
''Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloddier
wars than anything else in the history of creation.''
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snowydays
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posted on March 27, 2001 05:45:18 PM new
Haven't moved yet, so have not had the chance to look it up. Ever heard of casting stones?
Since you just as much called me uneducated, I really have no desire to look up anything that you suggest. What I thought was a reasonable discussion turned into insults and a blanket condemnation of all things conservative.
I shudder about the people who don't shudder at all.
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gvny
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posted on March 27, 2001 06:06:04 PM new
Oh I feel WAY better...now that I don't have to deal with four years of the alternative.
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figmente
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posted on March 27, 2001 07:43:50 PM new
Shudder that Douglas Adams' explanations make more sense than those of the president of the USA....
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KatyD
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posted on March 27, 2001 07:56:11 PM new
Well don't blame Borillar that your president has the intelligence of a rock and can't put even three sentences together that make any sense. I can see why he needs to surround himself with daddy's cronies to run the country for him.
Look in the dictionary snowydays. Both "collectables" and "collectibles" are acceptable spellings. Betcha Georgie Porgie couldn't spell either one even if he COULD pronounce the word without mangling it.
KatyD
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gvny
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:01:06 PM new
So he has speech dyslexia...at least he's more honest and honorable than the other 2 Dems we've had to tolerate. It wouldn't be a bad thing to go back to the beliefs of this country's roots. It was a MUCH better world morally speaking.
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gvny
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:04:14 PM new
KatyD...*sigh* such rudeness. Is it really needed?
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KatyD
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:06:43 PM new
He doesn't have "speech dyslexia" as if there were such a thing. He just has a bad case of stupidity.
I hardly think that someone who repeatedly goes back on public promises can be called honorable. Or maybe that's your idea of "morally speaking". blech.
KatyD
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Antiquary
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:09:01 PM new
What in the world are "the beliefs of this country's roots"?
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KatyD
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:09:12 PM new
"rudeness"? What "rudeness"? You think "Georgie Porgie" is rude? Forgive me. I'll go back to using his given name: Dumbya. 
KatyD
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gvny
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:09:20 PM new
Not worth a reply, but here I go. YES, there is such a thing as speech dyslexia, and you'd better take a look at the last boy before you make those accusations. Enough said.
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gvny
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:10:46 PM new
No, I was referring to your rudeness to snowydays.
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KatyD
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:11:25 PM new
"the beliefs of this country's roots"?
I think he meant rutabagas, Antiquary.
KatyD
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gvny
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:13:01 PM new
Antiquary...if you have to ask I can only wonder...Are you a U.S. citizen? Elementary history.
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Antiquary
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:14:11 PM new
Thanks, Katy. I was thinking turnips.
It all makes sense now.
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KatyD
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:14:26 PM new
Care to point out where I was "rude" to snowydays, gvny? Surely suggesting that a quick check of the dictionary can't be considered rude. Just think. She learned something new. I was being helpful, not rude.
KatyD
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KatyD
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:16:38 PM new
Antiquary...if you have to ask I can only wonder...Are you a U.S. citizen? Elementary history.
Oh my. Better quit while you're ahead, gvny
KatyD
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Antiquary
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:17:00 PM new
In other words, gvny, you have no idea what that was specifically supposed to mean.
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Antiquary
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:17:03 PM new
Double post -- for what little good it would do.
[ edited by Antiquary on Mar 27, 2001 08:19 PM ]
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gvny
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:17:13 PM new
Helpful...ummm, yes...that's good. You're right of course. You have fun!
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KatyD
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:18:56 PM new
Turnips will work, Dan. I believe they're in the same family as rutabagas. Same amount of brain cells.
KatyD
[ edited by KatyD on Mar 27, 2001 08:20 PM ]
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gvny
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:21:25 PM new
Would love to stay and debate, but tomorrow comes too soon. Again, have fun. Don't forget to plant those vegetables in your garden.
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Antiquary
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:23:06 PM new
I think rutabagas are a little better rooted though, and then with the pronounciation, they would be preferable.
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KatyD
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:24:37 PM new
They taste better too!
KatyD
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Antiquary
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posted on March 27, 2001 08:27:24 PM new
Definitely more tasty.
Well, I guess I won't get the elementary history lesson which would enable me to pass the citizenship test.
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