"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message 
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> in article EbJsd.415648$Pl.224350@pd7tw1no, Steph at 
> steph@vancouver.island
> wrote on 12/6/04 4:20 AM:
>
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>> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
>> news:BDD92168.2DAC0%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
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>>> If you are so "professional," why the bigotry towards the States?
>>
>> No bigotry, just dislike and pity.
>
> Your dislike is obvious. The hatred is intense.
>
> Pity? I don't buy that. Pity requires a level compassion and 
> understanding,
> which I don't see in you.
>
> Self-pity? I would accept that you feel self-pity.
>

Ernie,
you can't win an argument by making stuff up. At least not after the age of 
8