"kT" <cosmic@lifeform.org> wrote in message
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Just how dumb are Americans? Words do not adequately describe it, so I
have given it a number. But let's try anyways. Real dumb. Dumber than
*****. Butt fucking dumb. Stupifyingly ignorant. Laughably religious.

Heard any good 'How fucking dumb are Americans?' phrases lately?

boy i don't watch the news anymore I guess

I didn't hear this on the radio or on TV

. Siberian Gas Resources

<<The last major field went on line on December 18

How Long Will Siberia's Gas Last?
By Christian Wüst

Europe depends on Russia for its natural gas, but, as Gazprom begins
production at the last major field, it is unclear how much gas is left
in Siberia. Developed fields are almost exhausted, and tapping new
reserves involves huge technical difficulties...

Demand for energy is growing, both domestically and abroad, and
Russian energy forecasters predict Siberia will satisfy that demand...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,524140,00.html

The Russian energy giant Gazprom expects production volume to increase
until 2030 when, according to its predictions, a peak level of well
over 800 billion cubic meters a year will have been reached. It's been
also emphasized that the country will be able to maintain a very high
level of production for another 30 years after that.

. Ukraine (EU Approach?)

http://groups.google.com/group/HAPLIF-BLOGGING_Deutsch/msg/f3a742698e868997

&
http://bb.focus.de/focus/viewtopic.php?p=1235917#1235917

Sounds good, it should all be relatively simple. NO????

<<

. Philosophy & Giordano Bruno

Stiftung looks interesting...

The book "Manifest ..." (196 pages) by Dr. phil. Michael
Schmidt-Solomon (*1967) arrived yesterday.

I have heard nothing but accolades from you about him. He seems as if s
been a good teacher as well.

I assume based on the Wikipedia entry I saw that he mostly speaks about
religion?

We would need no religion at all, nowadays. He says: life ends
(metaphorically expressed) at the tombstone. His approach is strictly
based on the natural sciences and moreover, in a new way,
philosophically interpreted.

There's a fascinating controversy going on in the Republican slate
now. The campaigners have let forth all their advertising. There was
something of a spat between Huckabee and Romney. Huckabee has shot
way ahead and hasn't raised much money for his campaign. He has only
spent about 3 million. Romney has spent quite a bit more. Romney let
loose a spate of ads attacking Huckabee. Huckabee meantime prepared
an ad that answered Romney in a way that got him even more poll points.

Romney you may remeber is a Mormon. Huckabee a former preacher and
former Arkansas governor (like Clinton). Huckabee is a newly reformed
Christian who has accepted the evangelical word.

THere's a huge controversy in the US about the extent to which
government and religion may mix and the extent to which the
constitution plays a part in regulating the separation of church and
state. As the US is more constantly populated by non Christians, there
are more and more objections to a government sponsored Christmas
holiday and to people saying Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays.

Huckabee confronted Romney saying, can't we just wish each other Merry
Christmas. Romney launched the attack ad.

Huckabee launched his ad wherein he did nothing more than wish people
Merry Xmas. HOWEVER, the next day the controversy erupted. Huckabee
was positioned in front of a bookcase. A tannenbaum on the left. The
camera panned from right to left. But the panning had him merging
with the + in the bookcase. The + was highly illuminated. Making it
suspicious for a Christian subliminal message. After being accused,
he just laughed it off. He said that also, if you play the ad
backward, it will say, Paul is dead. Obviously, that would mean that
Ron Paul's campaign is dead as he is just nearly last. In the
meantime, the clever Huckabee got so much free advertising out of this
stunt it is unbelievable. People are debating all sorts of things
including whether or not he should use Christian symbolism so very
blatantly for politics rather than religion.

In the meantime, Romney fell very far in the polls. Giuliani who made
his own bizarre tasteless weird Christmas campaign ad is all but
forgotten.

Hillary also made an ad where she pretended to give the US the gift of
universal health care. Also as unpleasant as Rudy's message.

The campaign has taken a weird turn. There's a differential poll they
do as well. Apparently even Huckabee couldn't beat Obama today.



. Predictability

The Putin thing was entirely predictable, wasn't it?

Yeah, we had prognosticated it this way, lately...

. Putin

I'm afraid I'm not as impressed with Putin as others. He just was
voted man
of the year by Time.

Possibly to the dismay of the Republicans in the US.

. Gen. Petraeus

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

"Time magazine hasn't announced its pick for 'man of the year' yet,
but we
certainly know ours: Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the multinational
force
in Iraq and architect of the surge strategy that is turning the tide
in the
war. Petraeus formulated a brilliant counterinsurgency plan. He
executed it
with care and diligence. And when much of the country didn't want to
notice
the security gains that the surge had wrought, he took the national
media
spotlight to defend his strategy and his honor. In all this, he was
nothing
less than masterly. When Petraues testified on Capitol Hill in early
September,
much of the media and the Left simply refused to believe that
violence in
Iraq was down... And the day Petraeus's testimony began, MoveOn.org
ran its
infamous 'General Petraeus or General Betray Us?' ad. It said that
'every
independent report on the ground situation in Iraq shows that the surge
strategy has failed'; that Petraeus 'is constantly at war with the
facts';
and that the general 'is cooking the books for the White House.'...
Hillary
Rodham Clinton stopped just short of calling him a liar, saying that to
believe his report required 'a willing suspension of disbelief.' Less
than a month later, however, Petraeus's critics had been effectively
silenced... That the surge has worked is no longer up for debate. On a
trip to Iraq the week after Thanksgiving, even John Murtha stated
flatly,
'I think the surge is working.'... That Petraeus has achieved so much in
such
a short time despite the frustrations of Iraqi politics is a
testament to
his
skill as a strategist and a leader of men. For making victory in Iraq
look
possible again, and for pulling a nation back from the brink of civil
war,
Petraeus deserves the praise and thanks of all Americans. With or
without
a Time cover, he is the man of the year." ---National Review

. Lindau (Bodensee)

Aha, a map of the crocodISLE, the crocodISLE lit up beautifully.

Glad, you enjoyed it. Cute word play :)

<< . Trumpeting & P.D.

I appreciate Quincy Jones; formerly I tried playing some of his pieces
on my jazz trumpet.

Btw, in this context, Henri Mancini's Baby Elephant Walk was one of my
favorites...

A wonderful tune.

<<<>

"(i i wanna)
Let off some steam
(i just wanna)
Let off some steam"
--Nicol Scherzinger, R and B lyricist
who has remade amongst other things "Don't Cha"
one of your other favorite tunes

At first, I thought the Pussycat Dolls would be way out great. "Don't
Cha" almost forgotten; similarly, the meanwhile plunged performers.>>>

mk5000

"I am a very conservative Catholic.. I came into my Pussycat Dolls
audition with a big huge blouse, buttoned all the way to the top, and
my glasses because I couldn't see"--Nicole Scherzinger

On Jan 20, 10:51 am, kT <cos...@lifeform.org> wrote:

Let's Roll :

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

Just how dumb are Americans? Words do not adequately describe it, so I
have given it a number. But let's try anyways. Real dumb. Dumber than
*****. Butt fucking dumb. Stupifyingly ignorant. Laughably religious.

Heard any good 'How fucking dumb are Americans?' phrases lately?

Dollars in the common treasury are like fish in the common sea -
anyone who can will harvest to extinction. That is why socialism is
fundamentally corrupting and can not work.

On Jan 20, 7:51 am, kT <cos...@lifeform.org> wrote:

Let's Roll :

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

Just how dumb are Americans? Words do not adequately describe it, so I
have given it a number. But let's try anyways. Real dumb. Dumber than
*****. Butt fucking dumb. Stupifyingly ignorant. Laughably religious.

Heard any good 'How fucking dumb are Americans?' phrases lately?

You and most others of this anti-think-tank of a Usenet from status
quo hell don't seem to like anything I have to say, but then I'm not
perpetrating those for profit cold-wars and/or phony hot-wars, nor am
I into global warming more than my extremely little share, as I don't
even pollute the local environment because I do not hardly ever go
anywhere or require of others to travel on my behalf.

I'm also not in favor of wasting our best talents, energy resources or
subsequently causing a greater global energy drain or subsequent
pollution on behalf of the sorts of space explorations that simply
does not look in any way as though worth our doing. As of recently,
NASA's MESSENGER is a good example of what we should not be doing.

I favor a strong focus on obtainable goals within the logically
deductive reach of existing or emerging technology, that'll directly
benefit the lower 99.9% of humanity. It's called the Guth trickle-up-
theory.

How about yourself?

On Jan 20, 9:51 am, kT <cos...@lifeform.org> wrote:

Just how dumb are Americans?

Take your nationalism or anti-nationalism somewhere else, nationalist.

This is cyberspace, not America.

We have no borders here

and we

don't cajun

to you newbies coming into our world

and trying to impose your
obsolete nationalist ways on us.

We are the world.

Cyberspace will dominate all and wipe away all the
borders you tacitly endorse.