i'm not the only one who believes we already have entered wwIII.
But who is/are the "we" here?
newt gingrich
Mon Dieu! (sorry!) - you can actually remember him?...
has been outspoken since june or july of 2006 when he publicly said the same. unless a person is a complete ostrich
OK - so what's the difference between a Gingrich and and ostrich? (and please no one answer "head in the sand", since that is not a difference but a similarity)...
they have to take a side. do you want the eu or not?
Who has to "take a side"? And which "side"? And what are the available "sides" in any case? Who are you addressing here? This is not an American issue at all and, likewise, it is not even an immediately pressing issue for UK, Sweden, Denmark or the other 12 more recently joined EU member states that have not adopted the euro as their currency.
it's not like you can suddenly decide next year. the banks actually have decided for us.
The power of the banks is admittedly immense, but it is one that has little respect for any state boundaries, even though such boundaries still exist; there is therefore a potential, if not actual, conflict between the international banking system and the multiplicity of current international governmental infrastructures.
today - for the first time - i get an offer from capital one for a credit card with 5.99% interest for life.
So? - Bad deal. No 0% in sight. But then your country has been going through quite a few credit crunch woes of late, so let's not dwell unduly on this...
do you know what machinations my mind went through.
Susan, if any of us knew that, we might be on the say to understanding some of what, if anything, may lie behind your more obviously obsequious and confused expressions...
i felt capital one SOLD OUT to something or someone. i don't want to be indebted to the eu and would rather starve.
No currency exists in a vacuum independently of any other but, at the same time, no currency is taking all others over either; if the latter were true, it might spell the end for currency speculators, so this just ain't gonna happen. Please do not starve, Susan; it is quite unnecessary...
i'd rather pay debts off slowly and efficiently and do without than give someone else my national right of sovereignty.
Do you perceive that you actually have this specific choice? If so, how did it come about (in less than 100,000 words, please)...
what did our ancestors die for? FREEDOM not sell-out. all i think of is the various sacrifices during world wars of people for the cause, president washington at valley forge, and the early pilgrims when america was born. did you know - like wiht nostradamus - everything comes around in 50, 70, 100, and 500 year cycles. with nostradamus - he talked about the 500. as did clement I - with his idea of the phoenix bird that rises every 500 years. well, if you are counting back to 1492 (close to 500 years ago) you are seeing the birth of a nation. now we are witnessing the DEATH. literally americans are mourning because each of their blessings is being taken away. even the panama canal.
You really should give serious consideration to a substantial reduction in the dosage, you know; OK, don't make any drastic changes thereto other than under strict medical supervision, but do look seriously into this, won't you?...
which, btw - has decided to be widened!
Not to the same extent as what passes for your constantly burgeoning (not to say bludgeoning) imagination!
how good of an idea is that with terrorism. well, we don't own it now - so can we control it?
"We"? Who? You mean the goodly citizens of America? I had thought that this thread was about religion, not Americans and the canals that they may or may not own...
no blessings on jimmy carter for that idea - although i liked some of his others.
Give me Elliott Carter any day!
and what about gibralter for britain.
It's Gibraltar, actually.
now it's not technically really owned by britain is it? and it's massively tunnelled. what for, do you wonder? also, spain is building a highspeed rail link to and under gibralter. i'm not saying people don't need it to work - all i'm saying is that we are increasingly less and less border secure.
If only that really were "all that you are saying"! Spain is doing no such thing. Britain does not "own" Gibraltar (you're right there, for once), but then Gibraltar is just one of the places in Europe that functons as a tax haven not only for the Brits but for other Europeans and non-Europeans - the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are just a few other such examples. New high-speed rail links are gradually being built all over Europe, the main one in Spain being at its other Mediterranean end, linking Perpignan in SW France with Figueres, Gerona and Barcelona in Spanish Catalunya. And so what? Eventually we may have high-speed rail links from Aberdeen to Abidjan, Dublin to Dushanbe, Ipswich to Isfahan and even Ullswater to Ulan Ude - but then, if dear Mr Leary of Ryanair has his way (which is far from unlikely), we will all have cheaper-than-chips air links from just about every village to every other village well before even those things establish themselves. None of that has any more significance for the euro as such, beyond the fairly obvious fact that its power may increase, but then, if that does happen, so will that of the pound and dollar, because the easier it is for more and more people to travel from one country to another, the greater will be the extent of currency speculation and the handsome financial profits derivable therefrom...
supposedly this world order existed in the minds of a few elite for generations and is merely coming about as the logical order. even beethoven's ode to joy is now used as european anthem? how old is that - and what was that originally composed for. napoleon UNTIL HE CROWNED HIMSELF EMPEROR. then, beethoven was thoroughly disgusted in him and scribbled off his name from the dedication. for good reason. beethoven was for freedom. not for tyranny. this ode to joy for europe should be a sponge bob episode.
It is clear that you are confusing Beethoven's third symphony with his ninth; it is the former that was originally dedicated to Napoléon Bonaparte before the composer withdrew that dedication, whereas the Ode to Joy is a setting of a text by Schiller that appears in Beethoven's ninth symphony which has nothing whatsoever to do with Napoléon Bonaparte. Quite what a "sponge bob episode" may or may not be I have less than no idea, but then I take leave to doubt that Beethoven himself would have been any the wiser on this...
I cannot help but be mildly amused by the way in which you divert a thread about religion away from religious matters; I wish that I could also be relieved by it, even if only momentarily, but the confused, vacillatory and occasionally absurd notions that you put forward in place of your usual religious rantings offer no such benefit, at least to me, I am sorry to have to say...
Best,
Alistair