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Skriven 2005-12-17 15:48:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
Ärende: WWII Immigration Stan
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-=> Quoting Michiel Van Der Vlist to Frank Scheidt <=-

 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.

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

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

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

Right on!  (as the old hippy expression went)
 
 > 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."

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

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

Sure, that's why Al ended up in prison -- his bookkeeper did him 
in.

 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.

 MVDV> That says it all. :-(

 MVDV> 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.

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

That applies to *me* also, but my statement still holds ...

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

That's *far* too broad a generalization:  The cheapest food 
usually available is food grown in one's own garden.  That 
*seldom* is fatter than expensive food.
 
 > As for the intelligence of the average American, well, it's *average*.

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

Good!  Now you've antagonized any French Canadians who might be 
reading this ... heh heh heh ... however, to answer your question, 
without antagonizing our French Canadian friends:  No it isn't.

 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".

 MVDV> Yes, I heard that story once. BTW, there is a little village in the
 MVDV> province of Limburg here by the name of "America".
 
"Limburg"?  Is that where Limburg Cheese originated?  If so I 
salute them!  If not, well ... OK ...

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

 MVDV> Is that true or is it urban legend?

Good question.  I've read that as if it were *true*, not merely a 
good story ... I really don't know, but I'm *suspicious*.  It's 
just too good.

... "All men are ignorant, just in different fields" ÄÄ Einstein

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