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In Reply to: Re: let's clear up your fog of war. posted by RGA on July 31, 2004 at 16:43:17:
You said---"... haliburton.... best and only way to make a profit is to have a war..."Sorry pal o mine, Halliburton has a sound balance sheet and income statement in times of peace too so war is NOT the only way for them to make a profit. We were last in a "real" war in, uh, 1991 and before that? 1975. Funny how they've survived. Got a nice business that they do very well. We use em all the time down here in Louisiana. They're simply the best in the world at what they do, oil field service (although Schlumberger might argue with that).
You said -- "...they can send the black kids to war becuase hey - their nothing but disposable people."
First, its "they're", not "their". Sorry, couldn't resist, that ones a pet peeve. I can't spell for shite, but I did learn about those nasty contractions. But I digress, Thats a real class warrior statement you make that defies easily verifiable numbers. Check out the ratios of whites to blacks in this war, Desert Storm, Vietnam, WWII, WWI. Whether I support Bush, the war, tax "brakes"' for the rich, is irrelevant, but your inaccuracies beg to be pointed out.
Follow Ups:
Check the percentages of Blacks in Vietnam as opposed to the percentage of blacks in the United States at that time - then check for the MORE relevant number of Blacks sent to the front as opposed to whites - then work it by economic background of percentage of poor whites versus rich whites - and the percentage sent to the front. Being in the military and being at the front isn't the same thing.Halliburton is one example of a larger issue of capitalism run rampant - Capitalism is much closer to Fascism than people care to admit or think about.
By the way
em isn't a word - it is them.
Thats isn't a word - it is That'sAnd Americans should learn to spell cheque(as in a cheque you receive from work) as opposed to I'll check in on you later - and Colour. America's bastardization of the English language is atrocious.
Speaking of those nasty contractions:ones ? one's
Thats ? That'sSorry, I couldn't resist either. ; )
Cetaele (aka Bob)
No problem. Those always give me fits. It's tough sometimes. Wait, correct that, "Its" tough sometimes.I wrote my bro n law the other day,
"They're on the way to their new house located over there by the hill" after getting one of his butchered "Their" E-mails. He never even asked WTF I was talking about.
Guess there's prolly more important things to worry about.
Wait, make that, "there are"
No, make that "theres"
........................."I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
"It's" is the contraction of "It is". "Its" is the possesive (e.g., the cat licked its tail). But you prolly were kidding.
I just went to this complete waste of time, 8 hour, "Plain English Writing" class for work.One of the questions somebody posed was whether there is a contractive "It's" and if so, when to use it. The instructor, not that he's (hes????) the ultimate God of Good Grammar, said, its OK to use "its" for both cases and forget the contraction. I always thought like you did, that you need the apostrophe to make "it" tie to the verb "to be". Maybe "its" all just the part of the overall "dumbing down" of grammar and English as taught in the 21st century. Think I'll go add up a column of numbers and crunch em a bit. That hasn't been changed, yet. Maybe I'll do Halliburton's EPS for FY '03 vs. FY '02.
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