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[Galactus]

Chrisfan said:

Silly me ... I answered the question, and you asked it again. So I figured there must be more to it, since you asked it again. Guess not. So, I'd say refer back to my original answer ... the outrage is over the oil for food scandal, not Kojo. Kojo is simply the "sexy" part of the story that makes it more exciting for the press to cover. But the press often times does not cover the real outrage in a story.

No, sorry for the confusion. I was just sort of clearifing why I asked in the first place in case anyone else waned to take a shot at it, not really asking again.

[chrisfan]

But the question is based on a false premise ...

[ken]

False how?

[Thorngrub]

Did you all know that the insurance companies take your premiums and invest them on Wall Street--and if they lose money in their investments, they raise your premiums -- ?

You are paying for them to gamble.

If they lose money gambling, they make you give them more money.

Carry on.

[chrisfan]

False because it's based on the notion that people are outraged over the oil for food scandal because Kojo Annan worked for a company involved. The outrage, as I said, is from the scandal itself, not Kojo's involvement.

It would be like asking why people voted for Bill Clinton twice because he was an adulterer. He did not get votes for being an adulterer. He got votes because people liked him as a leader, and liked the policies he believed in. His adultery got lots of attention, but it would be false to say that people voted for him BECAUSE of that.

[chrisfan]

ThoRnyGueRo said:

Did you all know that the insurance companies take your premiums and invest them on Wall Street--and if they lose money in their investments, they raise your premiums -- ?

You are paying for them to gamble.

If they lose money gambling, they make you give them more money.

Carry on.

do you have a better way for them to come up with the money they need to ay out on claims?

[Galactus]

False premise? Either there's differences or there's not, either you know what they are or you don't. There is no premise. This isn't an analogy or a word game. You've already said you don't know and I'm fine with that answer.

[chrisfan]

You have stated that people are outraged over Kojo, right? Yet, you have offered nothing to back that up, right? and you've stated taht the same people who are outraged do not care about Halliburton, right? Well if we don't know who those people are, then how is it NOT a false premise?

[Galactus]

So I'm wrong then? No one's outraged about anything invovling Kojo?

[pissin2]

I'm outraged.

[Thorngrub]

Chrisfan said:

do you have a better way for them to come up with the money they need to ay out on claims?

Sure I do. They can go get a real job.

[pissin2]

Yeah! Fuckin bums!

[pissin2]

So is so awesome. Queen is so badass.

The Associated Press is reporting that QUEEN guitarist Brian May is standing by their decision to play Rome, even as the city mourns Pope John Paul II.

QUEEN and guest vocalist Paul Rodgers played a show in Rome on Monday.

But according to the British Broadcasting Corp., Italian authorities had asked the band to postpone the show out of respect for the pope.

The band played anyway, opening the show with a minute of silence, and Tuesday justified the move to play on his Web site.

"You have to understand that music is our lives — to be asked not to play music on a day of mourning is like being asked not to breathe," May wrote. "I sincerely hope that when I die people will feel they can sing and dance and do everything that comes naturally to them."

May said in his post that he wasn't trying to say he's more "important than anyone else."

"We are all just God's creatures, every one of us; birth and living and death are with us every day," May wrote. "In my view we must all act according to our own consciences and beliefs, so long as they don't hurt anyone else."

May added that if there were laws to not play on specific days in specific countries, that would be a different matter and he would honor them.

The guitarist thanked his fans for showing up and the concert. He said they meant no disrespect to the pope, but they also did not want to disappoint the QUEEN fans who had waited years for them to tour again.

"The thought of disappointing those 9,500 QUEEN fans after 20 years was too much," May wrote. "As you may have heard, we had a minute's silence in respect to the Pope's passing, and I dedicated 'Love of my Life' to those dear to us whom we are missing, to give an opportunity for the people in the audience to explore their own feelings, whatever they might

[chrisfan]

DED said:

So I'm wrong then? No one's outraged about anything invovling Kojo?

There may be ... but that is not what you said initially. Initially, you were talking about the outrage over the oil for food scandal being centered around Kojo. It's not. The outrage over the oil for food scandal is over the oil for food scandal ... of which Kojo is a stide story. So we've got three outraged groups here.

1. Those outraged over the oil for food scandal.
2. Those outraged over Kojo
3. Those outraged over Halliburton.

Now you say that 1 and 2 are one in the same. I disagree. You say that No one in group 1/2 is in group 3. I'm not sure that is true. Herein lies the false premise. Capice?

[pissin2]

in other words DED, shut up and go back to school youngin'