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2003-05-05 Korea

North Korea has 100 N-weapons aimed at US

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Posted by Bent Pyramid 2003-05-05 05:03 am|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's becoming increasingly obvious that these guys are going to have to be euthanized. I wonder if we'll have to wait until after the election?

Posted by Bent Pyramid 2003-05-05 06:06:41|| 2003-05-05 06:06:41|| Front Page Top

#2 I've previously posted on this site that some of the ignorant and naive opinions expressed were frightening. Now, however, having read this site for a little longer it is rather apparent that the collective IQ of the majority of the contributors is sadly lacking and the only danger this site poses it that of splitting the laughing sides of people from all over the world who can check out how, frankly, ridiculous some Americans' opinions evidently are - no insult intended to you folks personally, after all it's not your fault that your country's underfunded education system has, quite evidently, failed you (you have a lower level of literacy in the U.S. than they have in Cuba) and left you without the necessary skills to analyse, with any real degree of rigour, the information presented to you, resulting in the vicious, vitriolic, intolerant, self serving, inward looking, and really rather pathetic and meaningless views which you present.

Posted by Sunnie 2003-05-05 07:51:35|| 2003-05-05 07:51:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like a troll is up early today.
I don't think Sunnie likes us. Well, boo-hoo.

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-05 07:55:45|| 2003-05-05 07:55:45|| Front Page Top

#4 You know what sunnie? Who cares! I'm a post-grad does that count for anything; from a foreign university (French no-less). Basically anyone who doesn't agree with your leftist (BS) position is ignorant. Well, you know what? I think your ignorant and stupid. I can tell you one thing Sunnie I've been around the world and I hate to tell you but Americans are some of the best educated. I know you hate to hear things like that, but it is very true. That is why they kick-ass in everything from business to technology.

Posted by George 2003-05-05 08:13:21|| 2003-05-05 08:13:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Those who canât compose rational arguments typically try to insult their opponent.

Soâ¦ Sunnieâ¦ in your âenlightenedâ opinion, dealing with the murderous regime in North Korea is âridiculous?â I think we all know history will prove otherwise.

Posted by ----------<<<<- 2003-05-05 08:22:45|| 2003-05-05 08:22:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Sunnie,

Which weak and irrelevant country do you come from? Does your country lead the world in medicine? technology? economy? philanthropy? entertainment? military power?

I didn't think so.

Perhaps you could tell us a little more about the "great" country you come from. You can be our humorist for the day.

Posted by Jonesy 2003-05-05 08:23:34|| 2003-05-05 08:23:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Dang someone didn't have their juche this morning.

Posted by Shipman 2003-05-05 08:35:16|| 2003-05-05 08:35:16|| Front Page Top

#8 OK Sonny, I'll bite. How would YOU deal with Nkor? More money? Do you remember what happened the last time the U.S. made a deal with them? What's that saying about doing the same thing, and expecting diffenerent results?
Methinks Sonnys' a Troll, and will not be back to defend it's position.

Posted by Mike N. 2003-05-05 09:05:21|| 2003-05-05 09:05:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Murat in disguise?

Posted by Tom 2003-05-05 09:13:36|| 2003-05-05 09:13:36|| Front Page Top

#10 So where do they suddenly have this capability to strike American cities from? Weren't they just recently testing a missile that could reach Japan? Is this article authored by Chicken Little?

Sunnie--Won't you enlighten us with your amazing insight and suggest what should be done here, rather than spewing vitriol?

Posted by Dar 2003-05-05 09:15:43|| 2003-05-05 09:15:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Wow, this is the first time I've ever attracted a troll. Do I get anything special, like a cigar?

Posted by Bent Pyramid 2003-05-05 09:48:50|| 2003-05-05 09:48:50|| Front Page Top

#12 "- no insult intended to you folks personally, after all it's not your fault that your country's underfunded education system has, quite evidently, failed you "

"In the most recent fiscal year the nation as a whole spent $480 billion on elementary
and secondary education (compared with $360 billion on defense)."

If American education has failed, it isn't because it is "underfunded".

Posted by Pink & Fluffy 2003-05-05 09:59:16|| 2003-05-05 09:59:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Sunnie, for having such a bad education system the us still dominates all aspects. Trade (especially the future of information techs), Technology ..Patents, Military, Socially (every one who knows wants to come to america),Freedoms, Goverment (yea sometimes it seems like a joke - but man it works). Where are you from Sunnie, are your embassies inuadated with requests to come to your country? I think your a just a little ignorant yourself with such condenscending talk. Like I said, where are you from? I see other posts asking the same question, are you embarrassed?

Posted by Dan 2003-05-05 10:45:55|| 2003-05-05 10:45:55|| Front Page Top

#14 ...as far as the article goes, this is just more ridiculous saber rattling by the Nkors. They don't have 100 bombs. Even if they did, are they willing to trade their existence for, say, San Francisco or Seattle? They launch one nuke in our direction and North Korea ceases to exist in about ten minutes. We are rotating nuke boats within quick striking distance of Pyonyang as we speak.

They need to be careful about their provocations. At some point their threats could become grounds for doing more than sanctions.

Posted by Jonesy 2003-05-05 10:53:15|| 2003-05-05 10:53:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Hey ~~Murat~~Sunnie. Go have a chat with Obviousman and see the light. Intolerant my eye.

Posted by KP 2003-05-05 11:08:30|| 2003-05-05 11:08:30|| Front Page Top

#16 Aside from the troll baiting, anyone have a problem with this besides Jonesy and me? Seems like estimates a few weeks ago were that NKor had maybe two nukes and were maybe capable of putting one into Japan.

Posted by Dar 2003-05-05 11:28:34|| 2003-05-05 11:28:34|| Front Page Top

#17 Sunnie's blowing smoke, guys: He/she/it hasn't been around long enough to know that we post insane sounding, stupid stuff from KNCA to highlight NKor stupidity. Sunni's too stupid to realize that pointing out stupidity and deceptiveness isn't a demonstration of stupidity.

Posted by Ptah 2003-05-05 11:41:11|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-05-05 11:41:11|| Front Page Top

#18 I'd be real intertested in who's bankrolling Mr. Chol and his organization. Might it be a Mr. N. Korea?

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-05 11:55:29|| 2003-05-05 11:55:29|| Front Page Top

#19 Bent Pyramid and tu3031 - thank you for providing illustrations to my point.

George - A couple of points: 1) It's certainly clear that many people care, about what is where there are differences. The contributors to this site seem, in the main, to care about the U.S. alone and care about other peoples almost as little as they appear to know about them. 2)Someone who reports having undergone a post-grad' education really should know that the abreviation of "you are" is spelled "you're", not "your". 3) The well educated americans who you've met on your travels are likely to be from the more wealthy end of U.S. society. The fact that 21 - 24% of americans fell into the lowest literacy catagory of the most recent International Adult Literacy Survey just seems to me far to high for the richest country in the world. And, on that note, why is it that you also have nearly 12% of your population living in poverty and why is that figure rising?

----------<<<<- - I don't recall describing my opinion as 'enlightended', or that "dealing with the murderous regime in North Korea is âridiculous?â so please don't make up quotes. I am intrigued by the apparent hypocricy you display in describing the N. Korean regime as a murderous one (which it may well be) - what about your own regime in the states, don't some states still sanction execution for example? As for "think we all know history will prove otherwise" do actually have a functioning crystal ball, or is that an illustration of mindless supposition?

Jonesy - Does it matter what country I'm from? Does it make my opinion any less valid if I'm not from the most militarily powerful country in the world? If so then maybe you should involve yourself in thuggery rather than debate.

Shipman - see my reply to bent pyramid and tu3031.

Mike N - Thank you for Why is it necessary to 'deal' with North Korea any more than it is necessary to 'deal' with France, U.K., Russia, the U.S., China, Pakistan, Israel or, indeed, any other country with nuclear weopens and questionable Human Rights records? It seems to me that N. Korea reactivated it's nuclear weopens programme in response to the threat it percieved from being included in Bush II's 'axis of evil' rant.

Tom - sorry, i don't understand - murat?

Dar - Sorry I don't understand the first secton of your post. As for the second - I would suggest that the U.S. should stop, metaphorically, throwing it's weight around. It destabilises the world, creates fear and makes all of us less secure.

Pink and Fluffy - Good point, however I was thinking, not to the total spend on educatiom, but more to the inequalities within the education system which result in some very very good education for, generally, the more wealthy, and, conversly poorer education for the less powerful.

Dan - I'm from the U.K.. That said, please also read my reply, earlier in this post, to Jonesy.

Jonesy - Your second post seems to try and look beyong the face value of the information presented in the article - nice try 4/10. However you soon decend into bully-boy boasts of military supremacy - it seems unfortunately, that you're already a thug and won't heed my earlier advice to you.

Kp - ??

All the best folks

Sunnie

Posted by Sunnie 2003-05-05 12:10:41|| 2003-05-05 12:10:41|| Front Page Top

#20 North Korea has at least 100 nuclear missiles aimed at the United States...

Oh, bull-puckey. Tell ya what, incinerate a couple of cities and we'll talk. How about SF and Seattle?

Posted by mojo 2003-05-05 12:19:13|| 2003-05-05 12:19:13|| Front Page Top

#21 Wow. Aren't I humbled. Oh well.
Run along now, before you're hit by the tidal wave
which should be starting very soon.

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-05 12:23:10|| 2003-05-05 12:23:10|| Front Page Top

#22 Want us to stop throwing our weight around, eh?
Clinton tried to be everyone's friend.
Look where it got us.

I think what Sunnie really wants is not so much for the US to stop throwing its weight around as to lose weight.

Other countries haven't figured out how to stand tall, so we must kneel.

Posted by Dishman 2003-05-05 12:41:15|| 2003-05-05 12:41:15|| Front Page Top

#23 Ptah--thanks for making that point. Do I believe that NK has 100-300 nukes? No. Do I believe that they have two or three? More than likely. Do I believe that the fact that they CLAIM to have 100-300 nukes AND are threatening to use them on the USA indicates that there is a dangerous pathology in the NK leadership, mandating their removal for the good of the planet? You betcha.

Posted by Bent Pyramid 2003-05-05 12:46:59|| 2003-05-05 12:46:59|| Front Page Top

#24 I'm beginning to believe that the entire nuclear threat by North Korea is a bluff to get the US to feed Kim's starving people. You can't have slaves if they all starve to death.

As for Sunnie, your mother is calling you...

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-05-05 12:53:05|| 2003-05-05 12:53:05|| Front Page Top

#25 Dishman - your point being?

Bent Pyramid - Are you advocating that the N.Korean leadership should be assassinated?

Posted by Sunni 2003-05-05 12:56:22|| 2003-05-05 12:56:22|| Front Page Top

#26 Old Patriot - Grow up. It's a shame you haven't aquired the wisdom which might be demanded of someone of your age.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-05-05 12:58:55|| 2003-05-05 12:58:55|| Front Page Top

#27 Sorry, that wasn't ment to be anonymous.

Posted by Sunni 2003-05-05 13:00:17|| 2003-05-05 13:00:17|| Front Page Top

#28 Sunnie, you declare "Does it matter what country I'm from? Does it make my opinion any less valid".

Yet earlier, you stated "how, frankly, ridiculous some Americans' opinions evidently are - no insult intended to you folks personally, after all it's not your fault that your country's underfunded education system has, quite evidently, failed you...and left you without the necessary skills to analyse, with any real degree of rigour, the information presented to you, resulting in the vicious, vitriolic, intolerant, self serving, inward looking, and really rather pathetic and meaningless views which you present."

So you can maintain a prejudice of Americans but it's irrelevant for the board to know your country of origin. Your hypocrisy reeks of stench.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-05-05 13:05:46|| 2003-05-05 13:05:46|| Front Page Top

#29 Sunshine. You've failed to answer my question to any degree. I absolutely refuse to beleive that you feel we shouldn't deal with them at all. That would be "hostility" toward the NOK's. They've defined it as that, not us. If not dealing with them is an act of hostility towards them, then we are put in a bit of a pickle-surely you can see that. Since we cannot give them what we want, I ask you again. How should the U.S. deal with NK?
As far as the unequal education between the wealthy and the poor, I say this. The socialism required to "fix" this - which you pick on us for - has zero potential in this country because of our love for freedom. We've defeated it. There is no sense in joining it now. And "Bush II's Axis of Evil rant" was a simple statement of fact. And that, in no way, justifies breaking a deal.

Posted by Mike N. 2003-05-05 13:17:31|| 2003-05-05 13:17:31|| Front Page Top

#30 Sunnie, my point is that the incompetence of other nations and people is not our problem.

If you attack your own hamstrings with a hacksaw, don't expect my pity when you find you can't walk... and keep that bloody thing away from me.

Posted by Dishman 2003-05-05 13:19:46|| 2003-05-05 13:19:46|| Front Page Top

#31 Sunnie: If the world view presented here is so terribly skewed, then what is your alternative? Containment? If so, how would you incentivize China to cooperate? Or would you recommend indicting Kim Il Jong before the World Court and then sending a team of diplomats to arrest him? You talk a lot about the US "throwing its weight around." Do you recommend that the US completely withdraw from the world scene? What then is your proposed enforcement mechanism to prevent bad people from exploiting innocent people? Are you a pacifist? If so, how do confront evil? Do you use a Ghandian approach? A primitive Christian approach (i.e. the Christian struggle against Roman power from c. 70 AD to c. 300 AD?)

Posted by 11A5S 2003-05-05 13:23:25|| 2003-05-05 13:23:25|| Front Page Top

#32 anonymous, please enlighten me. Which part of Old Patriats' statement is not "grown up"?

Posted by Mike N. 2003-05-05 13:27:27|| 2003-05-05 13:27:27|| Front Page Top

#33 I would suggest that the U.S. should stop, metaphorically, throwing it's weight around. It destabilises the world, creates fear and makes all of us less secure.

Sunnie--I can't even fathom this statement... It is absurd for a country as powerful as ours to sit on its haunches and let all the two-bit dictators of the world think they can continue to enslave their own people and threaten their neighbors with impunity. That is ridiculous!

With this great power and unchallenged position in the world comes a huge responsibility to mankind. We have the power to make this world a better place, and we would be remiss and undeserving of that power if we did not use it.

Standing by and waiting for Saddam, Kim il Jung, and their ilk to level the playing field is so irresponsible it's criminally negligent!

Is that what you want? To see the dictators and oppressors of the world continue to enslave their own people? As long as you can sit home and have your tea and crumpets, while North Korea starves its own people to devote its resources to nuclear weapons manufacture, does that make things right in the world? When you came to Rantburg and posted your attack this morning, did you bother to think of the Iraqi people under Saddam who had had their tongues cut out for expressing opposing views? Do you think you could get away with saying anything against the government in North Korea?

Would it make you happy to see North Korea be left unchecked to develop a sizable nuclear stockpile so any future conflict between the US and NKor would be "more fair"? Is the US being a bully by attacking Saddam Hussein and liberating the Iraqi people because Saddam didn't yet have the full capability to kill millions? Would it have been better, in your opinion, that we waited 'til he could turn Jerusalem and Kuwait City and Riyadh into radioactive ash? Would it have been better if we waited 'til instead of 150 Coalition casualties we could have been guaranteed to suffer 150,000? 1,500,000? 15,000,000?

Sunnie, if you think we are all "less secure" today because of the United States, you are out of your damn mind. This country is not perfect, and it doesn't do everything perfectly, but the world is a better place for it. The sad thing is that people like you, so privileged to live somewhere where you can speak your mind, choose to be so blind to the fact that the US, by being so strong and "throwing its weight around", ensures that no Communist, Taliban, Nazi, Islamic fundamentalist, or other two-bit piece of crap takes that privilege away from you.

Posted by Dar 2003-05-05 13:43:33|| 2003-05-05 13:43:33|| Front Page Top

#34 Sunnie,

Perhaps you haven't noticed the fact that one feature of this site happens to be what is called "irreverent humor." Maybe that's what you so piously regard as narrow and ignorant discourse. I once attended a rock concert in Europe where the band actually had to stop playing and assure the stiff-assed audience that it was OK to clap, cheer, move around a little. But I digress.
We have problems in this country. You have them in yours too. Sometimes you will hear swaggering, unthinking "patriots" spout off with stupid statements that imply the world is black and white and the US is divinely ordained to save the world. We understand that for what it is. While you are accusing us of narrow-mindedness and stupidity, please stop to consider whether you are buying into the popular conception (in Europe) that Americans are a cretinous mass of obese, gun-wielding psychopaths. Examine whether you are one of the many unthinking Europeans who believes that an American driving drunk is many times worse a transgression than a Frenchman driving drunk.

What, in your mind, passes for "intelligent discourse," I mean, aside from that in which Americans are vilified?

And finally, not to imply that you have certain Europeans' overblown and highly sensitive sense of their own superiority, but you shouldn't criticize spelling or grammatical errors in someone else's post when your own are full of them. Which brings us right around to the beginning, doesn't it?

Posted by Joe 2003-05-05 13:47:46|| 2003-05-05 13:47:46|| Front Page Top

#35 Kim il Jung --> Kim Jong Il. Oops!

Posted by Dar 2003-05-05 13:55:31|| 2003-05-05 13:55:31|| Front Page Top

#36 In his response to George, Sunnie points out "that the abbreviation of you are is spelled [you're, not your]." Actually "you're" is more properly referred to as a contraction. How anybody in a discussion about literacy could come up with the following sentence is beyond me: "It's certainly clear that many people care, about what is where there are differences." What does that mean?
Sunni does not capitalize the proper noun "Americans" either of the two times that he uses it in his first paragraph, mispells category (unless the Brits spell it diffently), but the most comical gaffe is where he describes American illiteracy saying it is "...far to high for the richest...." The adverb meaning excessive is, of course, spelled "too." There are several other mistakes as well, and that is only in the first paragraph. I suspect English is his second language, and that his nom de plume should be "Sunni."

Posted by Richard T 2003-05-05 14:23:35|| 2003-05-05 14:23:35|| Front Page Top

#37 In writing about literacy it goes without saying that I would make a mistake in my previous reply in spelling "differently."

Posted by Richard T 2003-05-05 14:28:55|| 2003-05-05 14:28:55|| Front Page Top

#38 Sunnie reminds me of the pitiful human beings who boost their egos by putting others down. He/she/it is now mounting the Critic's chair without credentials, and like a con-artist, tries to pass him/her/it-self off as some kind of expert. Sunnie, your reluctance to answer reasonable questions shows that your "expertise" is non-existent, since you know, within yourself, that your ego wouldn't stand the ripping apart of your pronouncements and the exposure of yourself as the one deficient in intellect, as well as courage. You certainly won't ever understand Americans if you won't comprehend that we loathe and detest pompous, carping, preachy, conniving, shifty windbags like yourself.

Posted by Ptah 2003-05-05 14:35:21|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-05-05 14:35:21|| Front Page Top

#39 Murat II---The Sequel

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-05-05 14:38:51|| 2003-05-05 14:38:51|| Front Page Top

#40 Lots of bandwith wasted for troll-induced comments about a rerun post; complete deletion before archiving could be an idea, perhaps?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-05-05 15:12:31|| 2003-05-05 15:12:31|| Front Page Top

#41 I've been visiting this site about three months now. I went a month without commenting. I've had the pleasure (honest, strong) to get to know many of the posters through their posts, and through emails exchanged outside this forum. Anyone mistaking Rantburg posters as "ignorant and uninformed" must have just started visiting. I would hardly be surprised to learn that perhaps as many as a dozen of the "regulars" here are eligible for MENSA membership if they wanted to join. There are quite a number with extensive military careers, and many of those were spent in areas where international relations was a daily topic. Quite a few members have advanced degrees, and hold (or held) very important positions in private industry and/or government. I would also wager a considerable sum that most of us have been to at least one foreign country, and I KNOW Fred and I have been to several - many of them the SAME countries... 8^) I think you owe us an appology, Sunnie. I'll be waiting.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-05-05 15:13:50|| 2003-05-05 15:13:50|| Front Page Top

#42 Ptah: Exactly! I find in general that the best way to deal with the likes of Sunnie is to ask them questions that take them way out of their comfort zone. Assuming that Sunnie is an indoctrinated Marxist or Islamist, there are areas that they are just not allowed to enter intellectually without overthrowing their world view and getting into trouble within their cult. Confronted with those questions, they either flee or lapse into duckspeak, making damn fools of themselves. At that point, they are easily laughed off.

Also, I mispelled Gandhian and Kim Jong Il in my earlier post. Mea Culpas all around.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-05-05 15:14:38|| 2003-05-05 15:14:38|| Front Page Top

#43 Sunni. Well, you fixed him. The contraction of "you are" is indeed, "you're".
Now, as to the possessive of "it". It's "its".
Got that?
Not "it's".
I shouldn't be too hard on you for this, as its use is expanding seemingly exponentially, even among those whose first language is English and who count an advanced degree among their less useful expenditures of lifespan.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2003-05-05 15:15:27|| 2003-05-05 15:15:27|| Front Page Top

#44 Sorry, Sunnie, but you haven't spent much time here if you don't know who Murat is. He's a Turk who left Rantburg after the short war threw him into depression, but even then he had a nicer disposition than you do. Now that you have posted again, it is quite clear that you are not Murat in disguise. French is my guess.

Posted by Tom 2003-05-05 15:39:55|| 2003-05-05 15:39:55|| Front Page Top

#45 I say French because I've never met anyone from the U.K. with such arrogance and such a chip on their shoulder. Furthermore, Sunnie seems to have missed some of the finer points of humor on this site, so I'm guessing that Engish is a second language. If not French, U.K. of Middle Eastern origin. Clearly lacking a sense of humor.

Posted by Tom 2003-05-05 15:57:24|| 2003-05-05 15:57:24|| Front Page Top

#46 Sorry Sunni, I'm a chemical engineer so my english skills are not that of a Rhodes Scholar. I wonder what your degree is in? Were you a soft science comm major or poly sci?

Posted by George 2003-05-05 16:19:43|| 2003-05-05 16:19:43|| Front Page Top

#47 Don't blame me, Sunnie (or Sunni?). I tried to warn you.

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-05 16:49:30|| 2003-05-05 16:49:30|| Front Page Top

#48 I dunno that I'd go so far as to guess he's French, Tom. He might just be Frenchified. Not all inhabitants of a country are identical. I mean, I once met an Australian I didn't like. Who'da thunkit?

Oh, and to Sunnie, I'd certainly put American opportunities for higher education or any other endeavor before most other countries in the world. There really aren't any limits here, except for IQ and personal initiative. There are too many people here who started with literally nothing and ended up with much - and there are more than enough people who started out with something and ended up with little or nothing. We rustics think that the chance of the one justifies the risks of the other.

Posted by Fred 2003-05-05 17:02:47|| 2003-05-05 17:02:47|| Front Page Top

#49 Sunnie, If you're not Murat but a different troll I'm sorry.

Posted by KP 2003-05-05 17:27:13|| 2003-05-05 17:27:13|| Front Page Top

#50 Talk about misnamed! Did our Sunnie little Troll forget to take her Midol this morning? Ooohh...wait, she's obviously a hold-over from the sixties.. more likely a hot flash.

Posted by Becky 2003-05-05 17:57:25|| 2003-05-05 17:57:25|| Front Page Top

#51 George,

In the interest of not further rousing Sunnie's ire, I suggest you not end sentences with a preposition -- for example, your sentence which read, "I wonder what your degree is in," would have been better phrased "I wonder what your degree is in, you asshole?"

Please keep this simple rule in mind if you post additional comments, as you wouldn't want to offend Sunnie's highly refined sensibilities.

TIA for your consideration.

Posted by John Phares 2003-05-05 18:03:55|| 2003-05-05 18:03:55|| Front Page Top

#52 Old Patriot:

I have visited Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Guatamala, Belize, Haiti, Grenada, Cuba (undercover), Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Venezuela during my time in service to my country.

I currently hold a,

BSc in Biology
Dr of Divinity (Honorary as they all are)
PhD in Religion

am an ordained minister,

and am,

working on 2nd Bachelors in Military History (American Military University) online

I'm not a MENSA member, but I have my own business (online game publishing and design), have had it suggested to me that I attend both law school or medical school, and have been invited to take the test to qualify to practice before the IRS (for accounting/bookkeeping).

I'm not a genius, but I am a product of the American educational system.

Sunni: You're a fucking moron who doesn't know the first thing about our government, our people, or our way of life. You have zero clue about our educational system despite what you may have read from leftist media outlets. You simply do not have any idea about who or what America is or how Americans work their entire lives to make their lives and the lives of others across the world better. STFU!!!

Posted by FOTSGreg 2003-05-05 19:53:38|| 2003-05-05 19:53:38|| Front Page Top

#53 FOTSGreg - Like the man said, it ain't boastin' if you can do it. Go Here for MY side of the equation.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-05-05 21:11:14|| 2003-05-05 21:11:14|| Front Page Top

#54 Sunni,

We know you're intellectually superior and all, but, by the way:

1. it's a-b-b-r-e-v-a-t-i-o-n, not 'abreviation'
2. it's e-n-l-i-g-h-t-e-n-e-d, not 'enlightended'
3. it's w-e-a-p-o-n-s, not 'weopons'
4. it's p-e-r-c-e-i-v-e-d, not 'percieved'
5. it's s-e-c-t-i-o-n, not 'secton'
6. it's e-d-u-c-t-i-o-n, not 'educatiom'
7. it's c-o-n-v-e-r-s-e-l-y, not 'conversly'
8. it's d-e-s-c-e-n-d, not 'decend'
9. it's h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y, not 'hypocricy'
I'm really surprised you didn't know how to spell #9, since you exemplify it so well.

Posted by charlotte 2003-05-05 23:49:32|| 2003-05-05 23:49:32|| Front Page Top

#55 --why is it that you also have nearly 12% of your population living in poverty and why is that figure rising? --

Sunni also doesn't get out much, because if Sunni did, he/she'd realize that the wonderful welfare state of Sweden would rank 48th or 49th as a state.

And Sunni doesn't know why unemployment is rising? Here, much less in the EU? Which is, in some cases, 1-1/2 times as high? And when Gordon's increases get implemented, maybe Sunni will tell US why unemployment is rising?

Also, Sunni, some of us have a glancing acquaintance w/what is going on in the UK schools. samizdata.net. An informative site.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-05-06 00:09:28|| 2003-05-06 00:09:28|| Front Page Top

#56 Sunnie should also note that the FY 2003 US poverty line was $18,400 for a family of four, an amount higher than the per capita income of 155 of the world's 192 nations - thus that 12% is better off than about 90% of the rest of the world.

Posted by Sofia 2003-05-07 10:02:44|| 2003-05-07 10:02:44|| Front Page Top

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