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  • L Lost User

    Someday I hope to be so pure and perfect that I feel the need to insult foreign presidents, prime ministers or leaders... :rolleyes: "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." - Peter Ustinov

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    Ed Gadziemski
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    Mike Mullikin wrote:

    Someday I hope to be so pure and perfect that I feel the need to insult foreign presidents, prime ministers or leaders...

    You've never insulted Chirac, Schroeder, Putin, Chavez, Arafat .... ?


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    • J Jim A Johnson

      Hey, at least he finally admitted that Bush is an idiot!

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      Stan Shannon
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      Have I ever said otherwise? "You get that which you tolerate"

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      • E Ed Gadziemski

        Mike Mullikin wrote:

        Someday I hope to be so pure and perfect that I feel the need to insult foreign presidents, prime ministers or leaders...

        You've never insulted Chirac, Schroeder, Putin, Chavez, Arafat .... ?


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        Lost User
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        Ed Gadziemski wrote:

        You've never insulted Chirac, Schroeder, Putin, Chavez, Arafat .... ?

        Nope - it's not my place. "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." - Peter Ustinov

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        • S Stephen Hewitt

          Insulting world leaders is a way of life - Nothing wrong with it. Steve

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          Stephen Hewitt wrote:

          Nothing wrong with it.

          Nope - just not my style. :| "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." - Peter Ustinov

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          • E Ed Gadziemski

            Mike Mullikin wrote:

            Someday I hope to be so pure and perfect that I feel the need to insult foreign presidents, prime ministers or leaders...

            You've never insulted Chirac, Schroeder, Putin, Chavez, Arafat .... ?


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            Stan Shannon
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            Ed Gadziemski wrote:

            Chirac, Schroeder, Putin, Chavez, Arafat

            Who? "You get that which you tolerate"

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            • D DRHuff

              So swapping dependency on Middle Easter Oil to Brazilian ethanol gains them exactly what? :confused: I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended. I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended. Dave

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              Diego Moita
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              DRHuff wrote:

              So swapping dependency on Middle Easter Oil to Brazilian ethanol gains them exactly what?

              It is not just about buying our ethanol. I'm proposing what the Bush administration pretendes to propose: free trade. You depend on our ethanol and agriculture and we depend in your services and industrialized comodoties. Mutual dependency, that's how we (both) build peace and wealth. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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                So the only reason the US isn't importing Brazilian ethanol is because Bush is an idiot? It has nothing to do with all those farm state congressmen serving the financial interests of their own districts? I don't think Bush is the only idiot in the house, jackass. "You get that which you tolerate"

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                Stan Shannon wrote:

                So the only reason the US isn't importing Brazilian ethanol is because Bush is an idiot? It has nothing to do with all those farm state congressmen serving the financial interests of their own districts? I don't think Bush is the only idiot in the house

                EXCELENT!:-D

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                , jackass.

                not so good... Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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                • L Lost User

                  Someday I hope to be so pure and perfect that I feel the need to insult foreign presidents, prime ministers or leaders... :rolleyes: "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." - Peter Ustinov

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                  Mike Mullikin wrote:

                  Someday I hope to be so pure and perfect that I feel the need to insult foreign presidents, prime ministers or leaders...

                  It is not an insult, it is a fact. BTW, our president ( Lula ) is not better than yours. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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                  • E Ed Gadziemski

                    Mike Mullikin wrote:

                    Someday I hope to be so pure and perfect that I feel the need to insult foreign presidents, prime ministers or leaders...

                    You've never insulted Chirac, Schroeder, Putin, Chavez, Arafat .... ?


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                    Diego Moita
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                    Ed Gadziemski wrote:

                    You've never insulted Chirac, Schroeder, Putin, Chavez, Arafat .... ?

                    :) Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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                    • D Diego Moita

                      Mike Mullikin wrote:

                      Someday I hope to be so pure and perfect that I feel the need to insult foreign presidents, prime ministers or leaders...

                      It is not an insult, it is a fact. BTW, our president ( Lula ) is not better than yours. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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                      Stan Shannon
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                      Diego Moita wrote:

                      Lula

                      Lula? Sounds like a good name for a circus clown. "You get that which you tolerate"

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                      • D Diego Moita

                        DRHuff wrote:

                        So swapping dependency on Middle Easter Oil to Brazilian ethanol gains them exactly what?

                        It is not just about buying our ethanol. I'm proposing what the Bush administration pretendes to propose: free trade. You depend on our ethanol and agriculture and we depend in your services and industrialized comodoties. Mutual dependency, that's how we (both) build peace and wealth. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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                        Stan Shannon
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                        Diego Moita wrote:

                        I'm proposing what the Bush administration pretendes to propose: free trade. You depend on our ethanol and agriculture and we depend in your services and industrialized comodoties. Mutual dependency, that's how we (both) build peace and wealth.

                        Any politician who might propose that would lose every farm state in the country. That would only leave our new hispanic states, so... hmmmm ... I suppose that might work after all. "You get that which you tolerate"

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                          DRHuff wrote:

                          So swapping dependency on Middle Easter Oil to Brazilian ethanol gains them exactly what?

                          1. Diversification[^] - Diversification reduces both the upside and downside potential and allows for more consistent performance under a wide range of economic conditions. 2. The chance to enlarge the portion of the energy infrastructure not dependent on oil, thereby increasing the incentive for domestic ethanol production? ----------------------------------------------------- Empires Of Steel[^]

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                          DRHuff
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                          Good points. But I still say that Mr. Fusion thing that the Doc had in Back to the Future is THE way to go! :-D I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended. I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended. Dave

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                            Mike Mullikin wrote:

                            Someday I hope to be so pure and perfect that I feel the need to insult foreign presidents, prime ministers or leaders...

                            It is not an insult, it is a fact. BTW, our president ( Lula ) is not better than yours. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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                            Diego Moita wrote:

                            BTW, our president ( Lula ) is not better than yours.

                            Really? How many times have you insulted Lula here in the soapbox. Provide links. "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." - Peter Ustinov

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                              Diego Moita wrote:

                              BTW, our president ( Lula ) is not better than yours.

                              Really? How many times have you insulted Lula here in the soapbox. Provide links. "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." - Peter Ustinov

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                              Mike Mullikin wrote:

                              Really? How many times have you insulted Lula here in the soapbox. Provide links.

                              None. I didn't expect him to be relevant. But if you want: Lula is an incompetent and stupid thief. He can't construct a phrase gramatically correct (in portuguese), doesn't have the slighest idea of what "government policy" means, doesn't care for the blatant thievery and corruption in his government, threw the economy into a stagnation when most other developing economies are booming and can't produce any social policy which can relief the extremy poverty in the country. His foreign policy is a lunatic pretension of relevance by courting bloody dictators of irrelevant countries (Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Siria and a bunch of gangsters in Africa). I can continue, if you want... P.S.: BTW, our previous president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso was actually very good (just for you not to say that I only do whinning). Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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                              • S Stan Shannon

                                Diego Moita wrote:

                                Lula

                                Lula? Sounds like a good name for a circus clown. "You get that which you tolerate"

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                                Stan Shannon wrote:

                                Lula? Sounds like a good name for a circus clown.

                                He is worse than that. Clowns are smarter than him.:mad: I can't understand: our previous president (Fernando Henrique Cardoso) was briliant and very competent. And now we elected this morom. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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                                • S Stephen Hewitt

                                  Insulting world leaders is a way of life - Nothing wrong with it. Steve

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                                  Jeremy Falcon
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                                  Stephen Hewitt wrote:

                                  Insulting world leaders is a way of life - Nothing wrong with it.

                                  Except most people are talking out of their ass because they zero clue what the hell it's like being a president. Jeremy Falcon

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                                  • J Jeremy Falcon

                                    Stephen Hewitt wrote:

                                    Insulting world leaders is a way of life - Nothing wrong with it.

                                    Except most people are talking out of their ass because they zero clue what the hell it's like being a president. Jeremy Falcon

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                                    Stephen Hewitt
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                                    There is no denying that being the President is hard job - No matter what you do someone is going to whine. That said, you don't always have to know what it's like to be the President to disagree with one. Steve

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                                      From the NY Times[^]: "In his State of the Union address in January, Mr. Bush backed financing for "cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, ..." with the goal of making ethanol competitive in six years. But Brazil's path has taken 30 years of effort, required several billion dollars in incentives and involved many missteps. While not always easy, it provides clues to the real challenges facing the United States' ambitions. Brazilian officials and scientists say that, in their country at least, the main barriers to the broader use of ethanol today come from outside. Brazil's ethanol yields nearly eight times as much energy as corn-based options, according to scientific data. Yet heavy import duties on the Brazilian product have limited its entry into the United States and Europe." So, according to what the jackass says, free trade and breaking the american addiction to oil are priorities but according to what he does you can't use the first to solve the second, right? Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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                                      Diego Moita wrote:

                                      So, according to what the jackass says, free trade and breaking the american addiction to oil are priorities but according to what he does you can't use the first to solve the second, right?

                                      How the hell you get that based on your quote is beyond me. Unless you're just pissed we're not buying from Brazil. If we don't buy your corn, go get some butter and pop the shit and watch a movie and quit your damn whining. Suffice it to say, your level of candour used in this post only strengthens the point that coming to the SB for unbiased political discussion is virtually impossible. Jeremy Falcon

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                                      • S Stephen Hewitt

                                        There is no denying that being the President is hard job - No matter what you do someone is going to whine. That said, you don't always have to know what it's like to be the President to disagree with one. Steve

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                                        Stephen Hewitt wrote:

                                        That said, you don't always have to know what it's like to be the President to disagree with one.

                                        But it sure would help before you start flying off the handle with stupid insults like this guy did. Jeremy Falcon

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                                          From the NY Times[^]: "In his State of the Union address in January, Mr. Bush backed financing for "cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, ..." with the goal of making ethanol competitive in six years. But Brazil's path has taken 30 years of effort, required several billion dollars in incentives and involved many missteps. While not always easy, it provides clues to the real challenges facing the United States' ambitions. Brazilian officials and scientists say that, in their country at least, the main barriers to the broader use of ethanol today come from outside. Brazil's ethanol yields nearly eight times as much energy as corn-based options, according to scientific data. Yet heavy import duties on the Brazilian product have limited its entry into the United States and Europe." So, according to what the jackass says, free trade and breaking the american addiction to oil are priorities but according to what he does you can't use the first to solve the second, right? Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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                                          peterchen
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                                          You are still thinking of "free" as in "free beer". But free means "free to sell everything everywhere, and by every resource we don't have". The EU uisn't much vbetter, but at least doesn't act like a poster child.


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