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Mountain Man
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 30, 2005 - 05:47pm PT
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"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for
peace. So, here's one plan.":
1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their
affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo,
Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys', we will
never "interfere" again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with
Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don't want
us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking
through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave.
We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be
gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are.
They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days
unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be
allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide
here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more
cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If
they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise.
This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require
a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will
have to cope for a while.
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for
their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go
somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling
up the storage sites would be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will
not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain,
cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them are stolen
or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if
anything.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need
the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a
good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can
call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is
ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want
a piece of me?' "
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Aug 30, 2005 - 05:49pm PT
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I think I'll check snopes. I've seen that before, and I don't think Robin Williams said it.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Aug 30, 2005 - 05:52pm PT
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From Snopes.com
Robin Williams' Peace Plan
Claim: Comedian Robin Williams came up with a plan for how the U.S. should handle foreign affairs.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2003]
A GREAT PLAN
Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan . . . what we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)
[snip out the plan]
Variations: Early versions of this list included an eleventh entry:
11) And lastly bring back the manufacturing from our country, curtail the cheap imports from all over the world and put the middle class back to work in our country.
Origins: We don't know who is responsible for the piece quoted above, but it definitely wasn't acto/comedian Robin Williams (of Mork & Mindy television fame). This item's debut appears to have been a 20 March 2003 posting to the USENET newsgroup alt.motorcycles.harley, and from there it was rapidly disseminated via e-mail and blogs, credited to either "author unknown" or no one at all. The Robin Williams attribution wasn't tacked on until several weeks later, apparently because along the way the eleventh entry was dropped and a genuine Robin Williams quote appended in its place:
"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'" — Robin Williams.
The 'Robin Williams' attribution for the final item was interpreted as applying to the list as a whole, so now the entire piece circulates as 'the Robin Williams plan.'
Last updated: 17 July 2005
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Gene
climber
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Aug 30, 2005 - 06:00pm PT
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Fact checking. The heart and soul of Supertopo.com.
Yeah.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Aug 30, 2005 - 06:01pm PT
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Well, you know the rules, right? Whoever can post or link more crap culled from email or the net wins?
Sheesh.
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dirtbag
climber
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Aug 30, 2005 - 06:12pm PT
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We shouldn't be surprised he bought this. The rare occasions when MM emerges from his cave, he's too busy watching Faux News, listening to Rush, or mindlessly gobbling up whatever else the malicious liars on the right tell him.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Aug 30, 2005 - 06:14pm PT
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It's got some dead givaways in it. Sure, its funny, but it's WAY to coherent to actually be Robin Williams.
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Forest
Trad climber
Tucson, AZ
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Aug 30, 2005 - 06:16pm PT
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7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for
their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go
somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling
up the storage sites would be enough.)
This one made me laugh so hard...
Yeah, 'cuz we're surely the *only* country interested in oil. We don't need to worry one or two billion+ person nations competing with us for resources, do we?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Aug 30, 2005 - 11:08pm PT
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Right on the money Forest.
China alone would be happy to pick up our slack and not compete for the oil we buy.
I LOL when I hear people on the news claim its all a price conspiracy.
Poor Robin.
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Blight
Social climber
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Aug 31, 2005 - 07:40am PT
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"We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany"
You do know that Germany's peaceful and unified, right MM? And that they're doing YOU a favour by allowing your troops to stay?
The war's over. It really is.
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DavisGunkie
Trad climber
Davis, CA
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Aug 31, 2005 - 12:14pm PT
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It's got some dead givaways in it. Sure, its funny, but it's WAY to coherent to actually be Robin Williams.
yea and its also not nearly sweaty enough
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