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From: Eeyore on 3 Nov 2006 15:00 unsettled wrote: > Why was Churchill trotted out to take the reins of > government *only* after UK was in serious trouble? Would you care to elaborate on your understanding of his role in British Gov't during that time frame ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 3 Nov 2006 15:04 unsettled wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>>Have you already forgotten the reason for the Arab Embargo ? > >> > >>Yes. I don't remember all the details. > > > > > > It was because of western backing of Israel. Sound familiar ? Truth is that > > Israel is the number one messmaker in the region. > > Now I know for sure you're a displaced camel jockey. And I know for sure that you haven't the tiniest clue about history. " The 1973 oil crisis first began on October 17, 1973 when the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), consisting of the Arab members of OPEC plus Egypt and Syria, announced as a result of the ongoing Yom Kippur War, that they would no longer ship petroleum to nations that had supported Israel in its conflict with Syria and Egypt. This included the United States and its allies in Western Europe. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Oil_Embargo It's no secret what happened. Graham
From: Eeyore on 3 Nov 2006 15:09 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > T Wake wrote: > >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > >> > >> There are *some* areas where there are different goods / services but > >> there is certainly no shortage of selection. > > > > Cheese ! God knows how many hundreds you can get here. The Americans > > certainly don't have the same wealth of choice. Wine probably too - and BEER > ! We're > > well off for all of these. > > If you've not been to the US in a while, you might be surprised at the > choices of beer and wine we now have. In my opinion, California whites and > many reds have it *all* over France, Italy and Germany. The only things > that are rarer than hen's teeth here are a good dry Riesling, and a > Chardonnay that doesn't make you check your tongue for splinters. And as > for beer, there are literally hundreds of domestic microbrews that are > distributed all over the country now. It's not quite like Britain, where I > understand every town of any consequence has its own brew, but certainly > there are a lot, and many, many towns of more than 20,000 people do have > brewpubs, if not microbrewers that bottle and distribute. Many of them are > excellent. Even in the little hick backwater I lived in recently, we could > get some damn fine bitters, pale ales, brown ales and the like. Import > selection is quite impressive as well, particularly from England and > Belgium. I knew things were going well when I found Old Peculier in a beer > shop in a tiny little town of about 500 people in the middle of nowhere. > And they turned it over often enough that it was still reasonably fresh. > American tastes seem largely aligned with British beer tastes--which in my > opinion are far, far better than the largely flavorless swill the Germans > make. I'm no great fan of French wine especially, not least because they keep the best stuff for themselves. Do you see much of Italian, Spanish, Chilean, Australian or South African wines there ? My favourte beer right now is the genuine imported Holsten Pils btw. It's certainly not flavourless by any standards ! Budweiser is however the blandest most flavourless beer I've ever had the misfortune to sample. Graham
From: lucasea on 3 Nov 2006 15:22 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:454B9F39.6046427(a)hotmail.com... > > > lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message >> > >> > It is amazing how "low class mass production public education" >> > comes blasting through in your arguments. >> >> If you apply that moniker to MIT, then I'm fine with it, you can think >> whatever you want. >> >> > You're still following those lemmings. >> >> And what lemmings would those be that you're imagining? > > http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.htm > > I expect 'unsettled' would be doing the pushing. Yes, I'm well aware of the proverbial lemming behavior. I'm just trying to find out who he imagines that I'm following, and why. It is clear that this is just a tactic to distract from his lack of understanding of the issues, but I'd still like to see what his strawman looks like. Eric Lucas
From: T Wake on 3 Nov 2006 15:28
"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:454B962A.4DD0FD81(a)hotmail.com... > > > T Wake wrote: > >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> >> > Oh, I've heard of people going to Califoria (from Asia) and >> > Boston and NYC from Europe to buy stuff. I had not realized >> > that these shoppers had discovered that Mall. >> >> Wow. I am really, honestly, amazed by this. >> >> I can not speak for all people. I can not speak for all Europeans. I >> can't >> even speak for all Brits. However, most people I know would not fly to >> the >> US simply to shop. When they do go to the US on holiday (for example, I >> have >> relatives in New York and often go to Florida on holiday) they will shop >> for >> things. >> >> When people I know go to [Insert European Destination Here] on Holiday, >> they >> will often shop for things as well. >> >> Isn't it strange. >> >> Also, we actually do have shopping malls here in Europe. >> >> What a wonderful world we live in. > > I believe there may even be shopping malls in China now too ! > > I wonder if BAH and unsettled still think the Chinese all go round still > in Mao > style suits ? It certainly wouldn't surprise me if they did. |