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Backyard Renegade wrote: > Harry Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> NOYB wrote: > >> > I know you keep *hoping* for middle America to get hit, rather than the >> > East Coast, but the fact is it's highly unlikely any of the homeland will >> > get hit...as long as all the fundamentalists are flooding to Iraq to try and >> > shoot at our soldiers. >> > >> > >> >> Indeed, if the terrorists hit again, they should bring it home to Bush >> Country. We already had our hits. > > > Sooooo... What you are saying is that "we" here on the east coast got > more of it on 9-11 and now it's time for the middle Americans to get > it? As if distance from ground zero makes a difference? You are indeed > a stupid f***... Go ahead and make your usual insults back, but you > tell us what you are with your own words. I guess if we use your > guage, Gould and JPS and the rest of the Americans on the west coast > got really nothing at all??? You are a stupid f***. Any American who > would wish an attack on any American should be tied to a pole and > shot. > Scott Ingersoll Apparently neither of you fellow can read or understand what you read. This really strikes my funnybone, because when I post a political remark in this newsgroup, I make a special effort to write down to a level people like you can understand. Let me try again: I do not hope for another terrorist strike on America. I hope we don't have one. Are you with me so far? If there is another terrorist strike, however, it is my hope that the East Coast is NOT struck again. Instead, the terrorists should express their wrath on those parts of the country where support is high for Bush and *his* war on Iraq and Afghanistan. Let the supporters of Bush and his insane war-mongering bear the burden of his horrific presidency. We've had our share of fallout from his perverse "leadership." Got it now? See the word *IF*? Know what IF means? I doubt you own a decent dictionary. I have many. Here is what *IF* means: A. I. Introducing a clause of condition or supposition (the protasis of a conditional sentence). On condition that; given or granted that; in (the) case that; supposing that; on the supposition that. 1. With the conditional clause or protasis in the indicative. The indicative after if implies that the speaker expresses no adverse opinion as to the truth of the statement in the clause; it is consistent with his acceptance of it. (In modern use the indicative is preferred to the subjunctive in cases which lie near the border-line of 1 and 2.) a. Conditional clause in pres. (or pres. perf.) ind.; (a) with principal clause in present (or pres. perf.) indicative. (b) with principal clause in future indic. (or its equivalent). (c) with principal clause in imperative. a900 Martyrol. in O.E. Texts 178 And ¼if monn minne noman nemneð in æ (d) with principal clause of other forms. b. Conditional clause in past (or pluperf.) indic., with principal clause in indic. or imper. c. Conditional clause in future indicative (or its equivalent), with principal clause in indic. or imper. Now arch. (supplied by a). 2. With the conditional clause or protasis in the subjunctive, and the principal clause or apodosis in the indicative or imperative. The subjunctive after if implies that the speaker guards himself from endorsing the truth or realization of the statement; it is consistent with his doubt of it. a. Conditional clause in pres. subj.; (a) with principal clause in imperative. (b) with principal clause in future indic. (or its equivalent). (c) with principal clause in pres. indic. c. Conditional clause in subjunctive with should in present or future sense (‘if it should rain to-day or to-morrow’) with principal clause in imperative, or in future, present, or pres. perf. indicative (‘do not come’, ‘I shall not come’, ‘I am prepared for it’, ‘I have planned something else’). 3. With both protasis and apodosis in the subjunctive. Expressing a mere hypothesis which is admittedly not true or realized, and stating what would be the logical or natural consequence of its truth or realization. a. Conditional clause in pa. subj., with present or future sense (‘if you came’, ‘should come’, ‘were to come’ now or to-morrow). spec. if I were you. 5. if that (north. if at) was formerly in use for the simple ‘if’. Now arch. Well, there's much more, but this should be enough to get the rotifer between your ears rotifering, as it were.
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