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From: Michael A. Terrell on 6 Oct 2006 00:39 Kurt Ullman wrote: > > Or "If its tourist season why can't I shoot 'em?" Bumpersticker I want to put a sign at the Florida state border that says, "Leave your wallets, and go home!" ;-) -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
From: John Larkin on 6 Oct 2006 00:56 On 06 Oct 2006 03:11:24 GMT, "Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic(a)aon.at> wrote: >Eeyore wrote: > >> America's only got a couple of hundred years of history. >> >> It makes them dizzy thinking much further back. I just re-read "A Distant Mirror", about Europe in the 14th century. And Carolly Ericson's "Bloody Mary" and "Mistress Anne." And Defoe and Boccaccio, about the plague. And Mackay's "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds." And Fraser's excellent book about the Gunpowder Plot. A history of Ireland is next on the list. Lots of fiction, too: Trollope, Scott, Austen, O'Brian, Forester, Forster, Eliot, Sand, Dickens, Hugo, Shakespeare, Balzac, the whole gang. No signs of dizziness so far. Do you like history? >> >> Graham > > >Yes, but I like many of them. > > >You just have a Book (The Book), being nearly thousand years old, not >to mention the older history. > >But as everywhere, you can find bad and good. > > >How the U.S.A. managed that 50:50 voting spectacle is out of my >imagination. > The nature of our fixed-term popular elections discourages coalitions and tends to kill small political parties, so we wind up with two. And they automatically servo towards the center. And the American public is smart enough that we prefer to not keep any one party in power for too long. So things naturally trend towards a very close split between the parties. The balance *is* remarkable. There are many bad things about having two fairly antagonistic parties, but they do keep one another honest. And partially paralyzing government is a good thing, too, which Americans do instinctively. John
From: Homer J Simpson on 6 Oct 2006 01:02 "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message news:tfhbi29cplhgpsm87rtvtddpq3sggh8cpm(a)4ax.com... > People CAN record a phone call. Not in an all party state like CA. All parties must be notified and agree to the recording. Passing on a non compliant recording is a federal offence.
From: Homer J Simpson on 6 Oct 2006 01:19 "Kurt Ullman" <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:kurtullman-D04EA7.23242505102006(a)customer-201-125-217-207.uninet.net.mx... >> 25% of world production? > > So you are really assuming our use is going to go to nothing? The US still produces quite a lot of oil. Add in Canada, Mexico and the Gulf and you're close to what you need IF you had halfway fuel efficient cars.
From: Robert Latest on 6 Oct 2006 03:18
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:58:29 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in Msg. <gchai2ligb29uejo28rjrpi78fkdonglhp(a)4ax.com> > But I consider trerrorism to be attacking non-combattant populations > for political/emotional/morale reasons, which both sides did in WWII > and I don't think the US is doing deliberately at present. At present, no. Deliberately, no. It is in fact difficult to make out what the US are doing at present, and why they insist on doing it. That's what causes a great deal of the alienation the US are experiencing at the moment. The uproar about slippery email exchanges between a politican and teenagers isn't helping the US to get into a situation where they can be taken serious, either. In any normal country the guy would simply be kicked out of office, tars and feathers and all and be done with it. > The Cold War certainly helped hold western Europe together, and > supressed the latent anti-Americanism until the Soviet empire > collapsed and the Europeans felt they didn't need us any more. I really don't know where you see all that anti-Americansim. The dominant sentiment among Europeans (including myself) is a huge disappointment with what America has grown into recently. For much of the world, especially Europe, America used to be the very definition of freedom - not the least because it saved Western Europe not so much from Hitler as from Soviet domination. Now we have to witness how that great country is being run down by a bunch of religious goons and their industry buddies. The feeling is more like grief, not hate. robert |