I wasn't going to dignify his assertions with an answer but felt I had to say something! However, daisym I should have left it to you. I congratulate you on your rebuttal of his ridiculous statements.

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Lucky is he (sic) who has been able to understand the causes of things
Virgil

I guess you are a bit surprise. Now you realize how you little now about others and how much others now about you. Do you know why? because others are not arrogant as you are. No more hiding behind famous Anglo bluffing ( as you call it presentation ), now the whole world is watching you. Also don’t forget we can speak your POME language and you can not ours for example Spanish.

Yo estudiaba el espanol mientras yo asisti al colegio. Yo puedo comprenderte cuando hablas en espanol.

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"I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock."
-Howard Stern

"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."
-George Carlin

Iaca, you have amply demonstrated that you know very little about Australia, you also make a lot of assumptions about posters on this board which may be quite false. There are many Australians who speak other languages, although Spanish is not common. but I ask you ...

Apakah Anda berbahasa Indonesia? you might find it more useful where I live, for example. Mandarin would also be useful ... and I have found the little Arabic and Farsi I have to be extremely useful. Arabic in particular is widely spoken as either a first or second language by many of the people who are granted humanitarian visas in this country.

You have also increased the likelihood of people believing that Castro's Cuba doesn't educate people, but brainwash them with propaganda.

If you are indeed Cuban, you are doing a great disservice to your country, and pleading with others to remain calm in the face of your small minded insults is the height of hypocrisy. You deliberately provoke the responses you get.

It is interesting that on this thread I am finding myself sharing the views of some of the Americans whom I have NEVER been able to find common ground before.... I almost suspected that you may be some right wing nationalist American 'plant' trying to paint Cuba in the worst possible light ... but I doubt that there are many people who frequent these forums who are so blatantly dishonest as that.

henceforth you will be on ignore for me, because your posts are a total waste of bandwidth.

I have always told myself that the one thing which often distinguishes Aussies is our propensity for looking OUT to the world. We live on the largest island continent on earth, most of us are far from our land of birth, or the land our parents or grandparents were born in. I know people from nearly every land, probably the only one I don't know is an eskimo!

If you are Cuban, then you have led me to question many of my assumptions about the world and I don't thank you for that. If Cuba is a socialist country then it has to be inclusive of other viewpoints and it has to be prepared to seek the truth. You have displayed none of these characteristics. As I said before...You have become what you hate!

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Lucky is he (sic) who has been able to understand the causes of things
Virgil

Interesting. What do you believe makes inheriting wealth appropriate but inheriting influence or power reprehensible? Btw, money IS potential influence...

Simple math.

If half the people of any given country are uneducated idiots, that means that there are some 25-45 million uneducated idiots in UK, France or Germany.

But that also means there are some 150 million of them in the USA.

Ergo, by size and mass, the US uneducated idiots are far more noticable than another particular blob of uneducated idiots.

I'll bet China and India have even more uneducated idiots - just that they don't have internet connections yet.

It sounds like you believe "innocent until proven guilty" is an American invention and is not used anywhere else in the world. It was actually imported to the USA from England and is an old idea in Europe. All the old democracies in Europe have followed this principle for ages.

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President Josiah Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry: Maybe they don't and they can't add.

The White House can surely do that, but I am cetain it will not hold in court. Where is the rebellion or the invasion?

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President Josiah Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry: Maybe they don't and they can't add.

The recent threads by the creator of this thread in this section have been merged as there are all more or less about the same topic.

And what topic would that be?

Just a question....

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"Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety."

Macbeth 3:1

I dont get it, were you born and raised in Cuba or in the U.S? Did your daddy get accused and sent to prison in the U.S, or in Cuba?

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It all comes down to this on election day: Are you a racist, or do you look down on spastics?

Iaca is clearly 'factually challenged' about many things including his roots, nation of origin, etc etc etc..

OFF TOPIC - Didn't we used to have an asshat award here at USPOLITICS? I have a nominee!!!!

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I think at this point there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in spending and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat . . . I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of the money."
-- Barney Frank, October 20, 2008

You know, Iaca your so full of your own amazingness that you don't even bother to read what the people in this forum are trying to tell you. However, I will give it one more try.

I do know of a song which has a chorus which starts off

El pueblo unida...

Does that ring a bell with you? So much for your smearing of Australians.

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Lucky is he (sic) who has been able to understand the causes of things
Virgil

In all fairness to Iaca, for those who are confused about his origins. If you read his first post in this thread he is talking about a young woman he met from the US and is telling HER story. I think this has made him very angry and might explain why he is so objectionable. On the other hand, he needs to be told that injustice affects us all, no matter where we live.

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Lucky is he (sic) who has been able to understand the causes of things
Virgil