>>>>>Go read Message #1509468 and ask yourself if maybe you want to retract that :)
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>>>>Makes my point in a way.
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>>>Just curious, because though we tend to differ about some things we always manage amicable humor as well : did you see what I posted to our friend from Kazakhstan as abusive in any way? I certainly didn't mean it that way. He seemed to come away from Mike's message with the impression that Obama had not in fact been born in the US and I was trying to clarify it all for him using English sentence structures which I thought were clearer for a non-native speaker. ( and in fact President Nursultan Nazarbayev had been relelected for another 5 year term with over 95% percent of the vote on April 11 of this year. )
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>>>Mike's reaction certainly didn't bother me, but I felt said more about Mike than about me.
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>>>But if you saw it differently I would be interested to know.
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>>I thought it was a little smarta*** but no biggie. Mikes reaction was very much about Mike. Incidentally made me look up Khazakstan, that could be a very rich country one day. A lot of untapped natural resources.
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>Not related in anyway, but I'm still confused on how a person was given the same name as a character in a video game -- :o) Regardless, it's nice to see new members online...

Why you ol' googler, you. The stimulated me to check out kzchat.com the kazakhstan online community. I see that when transliterated from Cyrillic the language is remarkably like Turkish. ( not a surprise, actually, but interesting. )