Posted on 12/30/2004 7:39:57 AM PST by dob
Swedish Premier Göran Persson announced that the number of missing Swedes in Thailand could number above 1000. Only 50 dead swedes have been indentified so far. Between 1400 and 4500 swedes are still missing. (The conservative estimate is based only on the three largest travel agencies.)
many here were saying that yesterday.
why/ Tundra vs. Tropics. Not to hard to figure out.
BTW - These were mostly families - not johns.
From what I am hearing on news reports, it seems like this was a place for Swedes and their families to go to get away from the Arctic winters that they have. The fact that at least two Swedish children are among the survivors seems to support this view.
A little off topic, but if it is appropriate to call Swedes, "Swedes" (and I believe it is) and Brits "Brits", why is it inappropriate to call Japs "Japs".
probably because of the context - we used that term along with some well-deserved venom during the war, so a negative connotation stuck long after our differences were settled.
My positive spin on it it is that today's Swedes are (generally) naive and gentle people and they find Thailand a warm, sunny, gentle place to have a winter vacation. I impute no bad motives to them.
Daylight hours are very short in Sweden right now.
My thoughts, too. Why so much lutefisk so near Bangkok?
We should assist those, not the rest of the world.
When a farmer is injured and can't get the crop in, his neighbors help.
But if when he is able and doesn't help his neighbors that is remembered, so the next time he needs help, his neighbors will tell him to sod off.
Methinks we should tell these people to sod off, since they don't help us when we need it.
What's the alternative for folks in Northern Europe?
Florida and the Caribbean are also distant.
That is inappropriate thinking at this time. Americans have never been that way and we never will be that way. Thank God.
It's probably both reasons. The people we are seeing publicly are the families. But then there are the others.......
similar story, BBC:
Nordic tourist death toll climbs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4134345.stm
The missing include some 1,500 Swedes, 1,000 Germans, 600 Italians, 464 Norwegians, 219 Danes and 200 Finns.
from a pragmatic perspective, the politicians who already use anti-American BS to get elected have less traction the next ballot time.
The key is, not to send a-holes who later do stuff like this:
An Apology to the Iraqi People (Barf Alert --- American Medic apologies?)
islamonline ^ | 1/12/2004 (old but still being used) | Larry E. Park
Posted on 12/30/2004 5:37:24 AM PST by bedolido
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310858/posts
Because Jesus told us to do unto others as we would have them do unto us (not do unto them as they do unto us).
It used to be called the Golden Rule.
Maybe it is time to adopt the corollary to the golden rule he with the gold rules?
Just a thought.
He took that one from Hillel... 200 years before him!
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