On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 04:17 pm -0600 UTC, Telamon
posted: %MM

In article ,
uncle arnie wrote:

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 03:37 pm -0600 UTC, John S. Dyson
posted: %MM

In article ,
uncle arnie writes:
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 08:47 am -0600 UTC, m II
posted: %MM

This is a bad medium for the finer nuances of irony, sarcasm,
hyperbole,
understatement. I was belabouring the obvious in an attempt to add
credence to the statements preceding the question.

mike

You are right on that point Mike. Nuances? Subtlety? Wazzat?

horoscopes and tried to keep him awake. Steroid-formed
Schwartzenegger lied about seeing Soviet tanks in his town - so says
the Austrian gov't - never any in his town.

Someone is telling lies about what Arnold said -- he didn't say that he
saw the tanks in his home town. Read the transcript.

I don't need a transcript. I watched him say it. The whole thing was on
CPAC. He went further and talked about worries his father would be taken
at
Soviet checkpoints. Equally false. No such checkpoints in the time frame
of his life.

This is similar
to the Austrian misinterpretation of the American usage of the term
'Socialist'. Indeed, the European governments do tend to be
'socialist'
but that is different (in American usage) from being communist.
Frankly, some of the European nations do tend to come closer to
'Communist' than they seem to be comfortable in admitting, but it would
be wrong to make
the blanket assertion that they are 'Communist.' Lots
of these kinds of misinterpretations cause quite a bit of confusion,
but those who are limited in worldliness will tend to blow the
confusion
out of proportion. It is incredible that someone in the European
press (or whomever) would still not know that the Americans use the
term 'socialist' in a different way than the Europeans... Geesh,
similarly, an automobiles 'boot' would be hard for an American to find
-- if he is equally provincial as those who complained about Arnolds
usage of the term 'Socialist.'

Schartzennegger has been in the US long enough to know this and temper or
modify his usage. BTW, radical means liberal in Europe. I find that
Americans are less informed in general about the rest of the world than
the
rest of world is about the US and the rest of the world. And the
National Geographic shows this continuously in their ratings of different
countries'
knowledge of the world. I think Americans believe the rest of the world
doesn't matter as much. Other posts have indicated that knowledge of
American history is deficient.

Well your posts indicate you to be incapable of rational thought or
possess the ability to assess information. Be sure to let us know how it
feels to be a deficient moron.

I think you mean that you have no further points to make and therefore stoop
to attacks on the person of the poster. It's okay, we understand. Sad
though.
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