Ya gotta Love The French

Mike from Ottawa wrote:
>
> Anyone who thinks the solution to the Middle East is to nuke every
> woman, man and child has a problem.

Come up with a better one.

Brian
Edmonton, Alberta

Scott wrote:

> Ping me offline and we'll arrange a swap.
>
> I can send some fine smoked salmon, a smoked Cornish hen, or some tequila in
> exchange for a nice Gouda.
>
> Please, don't even begin to ask me what passes customs, I cant even get dive
> gear cross the border to Canada 1/2 the time.

You should dive a russian Ida 71.
It passed at least the swiss customs as an industrial grade vac.

Matthias

>From: "Grumman-581" grumman581-YYYY-MM@charter.net
>Date: 12/8/2004 11:34 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <5LQtd.3782$Fa2.1843@fe05.lga>
>
>"Scott" wrote ....
>> <cough>
>
>Nawh, "<bleeehkkk>" is more like it... Rather nasty stuff... Rum might have
>mixed with it, but tequila does not...


Ever notice how that shit stays thick when it's warm?

Scary.


Popeye
The only working atomic bomb platforms the
Japanese ever had were delivered via airmail.

>I've heard reports a year ago that AQ had a dirty bomb. Isn't that
>the biggest threat from these guys, and how the hell do you defend
>from it?
>
>It's easy to sneak one into any port and hide it. The potential
>effects would be far worse that the 11th of September.
>
>---
>Mike from Ottawa
>
>

Well, yes and no...

A "dirty bomb"...ie some radioactive stuff being released (most likely by
explosive) is a great TERROR weapon....in that it will scary the living shit
out the ignorant public who happens to be nearby when it is set off. But it
royally sucks if your actually trying to kill anyone.

If one is set off in a crowded area, more people will probably be killed by
the physical blast itself and a good bit more by people trampling others to
death, but the near term deaths due being contaminated by radioactive crap
would most likely be pretty low (and I would even bet darn close to zero). At
best you might get a mild increase in cancer deaths many many years down the
road.

take care

Blll

>From: bllfs6@aol.com (BllFs6)

>>It's easy to sneak one into any port and hide it. The potential
>>effects would be far worse that the 11th of September.
>>
>>---
>>Mike from Ottawa
>>
>>
>
>Well, yes and no...
>
>A "dirty bomb"...ie some radioactive stuff being released (most likely by
>explosive) is a great TERROR weapon....in that it will scary the living shit
>out the ignorant public who happens to be nearby when it is set off. But it
>royally sucks if your actually trying to kill anyone.
>
>If one is set off in a crowded area, more people will probably be killed by
>the physical blast itself and a good bit more by people trampling others to
>death, but the near term deaths due being contaminated by radioactive crap
>would most likely be pretty low (and I would even bet darn close to zero). At
>best you might get a mild increase in cancer deaths many many years down the
>road.

Don't spoil Mike's fantasy of more dead Americans who "deserved it".


Popeye
The only working atomic bomb platforms the
Japanese ever had were delivered via airmail.

"Joe English" <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote in message
news:a1574$41b28397$ce504903$2282@allthenewsgroups .com...
>
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/sto...73.htm&sc=1103
>
> I can only imagine the world outrage if this had happen in the USA!
>

I'm usually concerned about people taking stuff out of my bags, not about
them putting stuff in...

The worst of it is imagine what would have happened if he had to take a
connecting flight somewhere and they found the stuff in the changeover.

"Mike from Ottawa" wrote ...
> I know you love jumping on the French all the time,
> but I wish you'd just give it a rest

Why? Do you have a better use for them? It's not like they're known for
any great culinary accomplishments... I mean, like who ever heard of French
BBQ?

"Joe English" <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote in message
news:72562$41b33e35$ce504903$7184@allthenewsgroups .com...
> Mike from Ottawa wrote:
> > On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:42:14 -0600, Joe English
> > <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote:
> >
> >
>
>>http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/sto...&flok=FF-APO-1
103&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20041204%2F2145585973.htm&sc=1103
> >>
> >>I can only imagine the world outrage if this had happen in the USA!
> >
> >
> > Why outrage? You lads screwed up with Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens)
> > -- sure, you nabbed him, but he'd been in the US twice in the previous
> > several months. Problem was that your Homeland Security had a problem
> > with spelling his name.
> >
> > In this French case, I was surprised that Inspector Clouseau hadn't
> > retired yet.
> >
> > There will always be screw ups. Everywhere.
> >
> > ---
> > Mike from Ottawa
>
> You dropped the context. We aren't talking about Cat Stevens. The
> subject is the french losing their explosives in airplane luggage.
>

Actually, I believe that the context was that, had this been an American
screw up, we'd have been dogged for weeks. Since it's French, they'll write
an article or two and drop it.

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:21:13 -0600, "Grumman-581"
<grumman581-YYYY-MM@charter.net> wrote:

>"Mike from Ottawa" wrote ....
>> Anyone who thinks the solution to the Middle East is to nuke every
>> woman, man and child has a problem.
>
>And you have a more economically effective solution? Nukes are cheap...

Invade Cuba, turn it into a vast concentration camp, load it up with
all the Muslims you can find from around the world, and set them to
work in labour camps.

>Actually, the best revenge would be to come up with a replacement for oil so
>that we could let them go back to being the POOR camel-fuckin' Bedoins that
>they have always been (vs the RICH camel-fuckin' Bedoins that they currently
>are)... Without the money from the oil, they won't be able to finance
>terrorism anymore... Unfortunately, this is not an easy solution... Nuking
>them is a lot easier...

You're drooling...

---
Mike from Ottawa

"Mike from Ottawa" wrote ...
> So how would nuking the Middle East not be murder? You maybe have a
> few thousand nutbars, and to get them you'd kill millions of innocent
> people. Sounds like murder to me.

You misspelled "acceptable collateral damages"... Also, I suspect your ratio
is inverted...