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there wouldn't be a Cream stout from Adams if it were not for Guinness. Don't mess with the Irish nectar my friend....it is the only stout of note. There are many beers, but then you stop and realize there is only one Guinness....Quote:
Originally Posted by agwiii
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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
You didn't like my poem? :(
Come over to a growing discussion: http://www.motorsportforums.com/foru...d.php?t=113690
I just noticed I am a -4491 in rep points. I guess I was making a point or something. Funny thing is, I had a postitive rep before coming to this thread. Could it be that a certain few cant stand people standing up to their arguments? Maybe so...I enjoy it....I will stand by my words, and respect my opponenents when they use facts and logic, but I guess that respect is not given to me likewise. Interesting....
4491 times someone slagged me....god that doesn't even count the fact I was points to the good a week ago. You guys really need to go get a life....
OMG, Mark! You will be like a cat in a guava grove!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Shouldnt this thread have been called " saddam hussein harangued" ?.......harangued, geddit? ................OK suit your bleedin' selves.
I don't agree with you, Mark, on the relevance of who lived in Israel in biblical times. By that logic, if I am descended from the Cherokee nation, I can just waltz on into some part of Alabama and claim it as my own. Or if I am Icelandic, I can assert a right to live in York, because at one time it was ruled by the Vikings. I think that going back more than a century is counter-productive.
My belief in the right of Jews to live, unmolested, in Palestine is based on recent history. They arrived there when it was British, just as Pakistanis arrived in England during the twentieth century, and when they arrived, like the Pakistanis, they were not bent on stealing land or housing from any of the people already established there. They arrived only in search of a better life, free of persecution, and they came in peace. The Arabs, however, even those who did not live within hundreds of miles, could not stand the thought that Jews would be living in the region. In fact, they could not stand that Jews would be living at all, but at least those in the region, they might be able to get rid of. It is analagous to Pakistanis arriving in England after the Second World War and immediately being attacked with intent to kill by not only the English, but also the French, Germans, Spanish . . . you get the idea. If that had happened, and the Pakistanis in England had reacted by refusing to be intimidated back to Pakistan (as Eki would have the Jews be intimidated) and had stood their ground, I would say "Well done!". So I say "Well done!" to the Jews of Israel, and they have my support.
Well Gannex, I will just say this. The Jews went BACK there if I am to buy your argument because that is where they were pushed from. The dirty little secret is that the Jews have lived all over the Middle East, and many still stayed in Palestine. They had no formal country, they were all part of the Turkish Ottoman empire, and I still stand by if you were going to give the Jew's their own nation, where else would it go?
Your point is made though on the recent history. Regardless of how they got there, the intolerance and manner that opposition to their place in the Middle East says to me there is a problem here that is rooted in intolerance...
It's Friday night, the Saddam thread has gone off topic completely, Mark has gone ballistic on Eki and lost a million reputation points (what the hell are they?), and posters seem most inclined to discuss Guinness! I think the thread has gone to drink. Maybe we should all chill.
Gannex, I think by going ballistic, I made that point indirectly and now Iam going to go have a drink. A Guinness.....
For the rep points, click on the little scales above your post, and when you go to your control panel, on the right side there will be a green or red circle, or if you are really good, lots of green circles, or like me, lots of red ones......
I use to be in the positive for the points, and I am not now, but that is ok for I don't put much stock in it, but someone obviously DID, and it happenend when I was on this thread, debating Middle East silliness with our friends here. Doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to deduce things now does it???
Why do they keep telling us on the news that Mr Husseins half brothers head popped off when they served his suspended sentence ( suspended, geddit?). Its a bit gloating, isnt it?