Re: US elections

2012-09-17 Thread John Mikes
You outsiders cannot really know how out-of-topic this fallacy may be. It is an attempt to use money for dulling the human mind. Really no relationship to the list's aims. JohnM On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Sep 2012, at 22:32, John Clark wrote:

Re: US elections

2012-09-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Sep 2012, at 22:32, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: I know this might be an impossible dream, but could we keep the list clear of parochial US election discussion, as it is clearly off- topic. How could anything be off topic on the

Re: US elections

2012-09-15 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Sep 11, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: I know this might be an impossible dream, but could we keep the list clear of parochial US election discussion, as it is clearly off-topic. How could anything be off topic on the everything list? John K Clark -- You received

Re: US elections

2012-09-14 Thread John Mikes
Russell: wise words with one flaw: the US doesnot CHOOSE, people are 'trapped into' especially now that ANY group can spend ANY sum to influence a choosing. People are susceptible to persuasion - (true or false ones) and the White House is fo sale. I participated over the past 80 years in many

Re: US elections

2012-09-14 Thread Craig Weinberg
I have to say that it's interesting to see how nobody seems to agree on everything here (on the everything list) but I find that everyone that I disagree with most in one area, I seem agree with them most in another. Or others who I disagree with slightly on everything but in unique balance.

US elections

2012-09-11 Thread Russell Standish
I know this might be an impossible dream, but could we keep the list clear of parochial US election discussion, as it is clearly off-topic. Who the US chooses as their president has a significant impact on our country, but there's bugger all I can do to influence that result anyway, so I may as