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Skriven 2005-12-16 15:26:00 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
  Kommentar till text 18762 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: WWII Immigration Stan
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 MVDV>>> 20 kids at a birthday party. The fat boy takes half the cake,
 MVDV>>> leaving the other half for the other 19 kids. You need a
 MVDV>>> judge to decide if that is fair?
 >
 >> I'd say those 19 kids are rather stupid to put up with that.

 MVDV>> Well, the fat boy has a gun.

 > You didn't say that.

I didn't mention it because I didn't think the reason those 19 other let the
fat boy get away with it was relevant wrt to the question of fairness.

 > After all, Al Capone (do you know who *he* was?)

Of course, he was the ganster they could not nail for murder, so they nailed
him for tax evasion.

 > once was reputed to have said something like, "You can go
 > farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word
 > alone."

Yes, I can imagine a criminal would say such a thing.

It is of course false. He who rules by gun can never sleep without a trustee
watching his back.

 MVDV>> You are evading the question: do you need a judge to
 MVDV>> decide if that is fair?

 > To the fat kid it's eminently fair.

That says it all. :-(

And you still wonder why so many hate you?

 >> I know you're not using "fat kid" as an American analogy since
 >> you'd have used "muscular, brainy kid" ...

 MVDV>> Oh, but I *did* mean the it. Obesity is a serious problem
 MVDV>> in the USA. "Brainy"? Sorry, the average American does not
 MVDV>> appear to be very bright.

 > Obesity *is* a serious problem here -- mainly because our
 > economy is in such good shape that even the poorest among
 > us can afford too much food.

I too can afford too much food. I am not obese.

I think the problem is that many are too poor to buy GOOD food. Cheap food is
fatter than expensive food.

 > As for the intelligence of the average American, well, it's *average*.

Isn't it so that if someone from Quebec move to the US that the average
intelligence in both the USA and Canada goes up? <ducking and running>

 MVDV>>> Really? Then where are those goods? It has been quit a while since I
 MVDV>>> last saw something with "made in USA" on it.
 >
 >> We've gotten into the habit of marking "made in China" on our

 MVDV>> Ha, good joke!
 >
 > I kinda liked that myself ... heh heh heh ... actually, during
 > the years prior to WWII Japanese products were often rejected
 > in the US.  Then it came out that a lot of accepted products were
 > marked as being manufactured in a Japanese city named "USA".

Yes, I heard that story once. BTW, there is a little village in the province of
Limburg here by the name of "America".

 > The designation "Made in USA" was stamped on them.

Is that true or is it urban legend?

 MVDV>> Elementary my dear Watson. There are no WMD's in Iraq. yet GWB said
 MVDV>> they were there. So it must have been his imagination.

 > What if they *were* there, but were moved when Saddam realized

 > Iraq was about to be invaded?  Have you considered that?  An
 > objective person would at least *consider* that.  I'll bet *you*
 > cannot even *consider* it as the remotest of possibilities!

We have already covered that and I told you I HAD considered it. And rejected
it.

Cheers, Michiel

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