"Madman across the Water".

This is the title of an old LP album by Elton John, which suddenly sprung to
mind. When I read some of the recent postings here, I think of this
particular album title. But, who is really the madman? Is it Rumsfeld? Or is
it GWB himself? Or should it really be madmen, in plural? Again, whoever the
shoe fits. For your information: "The water", or more often "The pond", is a
local nickname or pet name here for the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and
America. And BTW, Rod Stewart had a smash hit with his album called
"Atlantic Crossing" some years ago now, maybe you still remember the hit
song "I am Sailing"? Anyway, for us here, the madmen are definitely not on
our side of the Atlantic, but they surely seem indeed increasingly plentiful
"over there", on your side, that is. Wonder what went so wrong.

in article , Inger Skramstad Jørstad at
wrote on 11/15/03 6:52 PM:

This is the title of an old LP album by Elton John, which suddenly sprung to
mind. When I read some of the recent postings here, I think of this
particular album title. But, who is really the madman? Is it Rumsfeld? Or is
it GWB himself? Or should it really be madmen, in plural? Again, whoever the
shoe fits. For your information: "The water", or more often "The pond", is a
local nickname or pet name here for the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and
America. And BTW, Rod Stewart had a smash hit with his album called
"Atlantic Crossing" some years ago now, maybe you still remember the hit
song "I am Sailing"? Anyway, for us here, the madmen are definitely not on
our side of the Atlantic, but they surely seem indeed increasingly plentiful
"over there", on your side, that is. Wonder what went so wrong.


The madmen are the regulars of rsa, who commit felonies over a stupid
newsgroup

Since your side of the of the water gave the world Hitler and Nazism,
Stalin, Milosevic, Mladic and their butchering minions, Ceausescu,
Saddam Hussein and countless murderous, butchers who called themselves
"King This", or "Queen That", I wouldn't be pointing fingers to this
side of the Atlantic when madness is discussed.

Inger Skramstad Jørstad wrote:

This is the title of an old LP album by Elton John, which suddenly sprung to
mind. When I read some of the recent postings here, I think of this
particular album title. But, who is really the madman? Is it Rumsfeld? Or is
it GWB himself? Or should it really be madmen, in plural? Again, whoever the
shoe fits. For your information: "The water", or more often "The pond", is a
local nickname or pet name here for the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and
America. And BTW, Rod Stewart had a smash hit with his album called
"Atlantic Crossing" some years ago now, maybe you still remember the hit
song "I am Sailing"? Anyway, for us here, the madmen are definitely not on
our side of the Atlantic, but they surely seem indeed increasingly plentiful
"over there", on your side, that is. Wonder what went so wrong.

"Brian Sniatkowski" skrev i melding
...
Since your side of the of the water gave the world Hitler and Nazism,
Stalin, Milosevic, Mladic and their butchering minions, Ceausescu,
Saddam Hussein and countless murderous, butchers who called themselves
"King This", or "Queen That", I wouldn't be pointing fingers to this
side of the Atlantic when madness is discussed.
Saddam Hussein!!!!????

"Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote in message
...
"Brian Sniatkowski" skrev i melding
...
Since your side of the of the water gave the world Hitler and Nazism,
Stalin, Milosevic, Mladic and their butchering minions, Ceausescu,
Saddam Hussein and countless murderous, butchers who called themselves
"King This", or "Queen That", I wouldn't be pointing fingers to this
side of the Atlantic when madness is discussed.

Saddam Hussein!!!!????

He's a lot more "your side of the pond" than ours. And since you brought it
up.............

Saddam Hussein!!!!????


Last time I looked he wasn't on this side of the ocean...unless he's
hiding in Arizona.

"Brian Sniatkowski" wrote in message
...
Saddam Hussein!!!!????


Last time I looked he wasn't on this side of the ocean...unless he's
hiding in Arizona.



If he was in Arizona, I still doubt you'd be able to find him.

"Brian Sniatkowski" skrev i melding
...
Saddam Hussein!!!!????
Last time I looked he wasn't on this side of the ocean...unless he's
hiding in Arizona.

Saddam Hussein could be anywhere for all we know, possibly even in Arizona,
or Texas, or skiing in Vail or Whistler. Look behind you................!!

"Brian Sniatkowski" wrote in message
...
Since your side of the of the water gave the world Hitler and Nazism,
Stalin, Milosevic, Mladic and their butchering minions, Ceausescu,
Saddam Hussein and countless murderous, butchers who called themselves
"King This", or "Queen That", I wouldn't be pointing fingers to this
side of the Atlantic when madness is discussed.

Considering American history is mostly borne from Europe in any case, I'd
have to say that any lunatics on the far side of the Atlantic have a lot to
do with us Eurpoeans... speaking as a Brit, probably us more than most! LOL!

Let's face it, nothing in the Universe can treat us human beings worse than
we treat each other. Brian here pointed out many nutters from recent
European history... and one from the Arab world!?!... and I can think of
plenty more. Neville Chamberlain {"I have in my hand a piece of paper that
guarantees peace in our time"... nutter, or what??}), Mussolini, Nero... the
list could go on! And I'm sure we could all think of a few American nutters
if we wanted to... my US history isn't too brilliant so I'll defer that to
someone else.

I think a famous quote (can't remember who said it, though) sums it up:
"Kill a few people, they'll call you a murderer. Kill a few million and
they'll call you a statesman!" Let's hope GWB doesn't want to be known as a
statesman, eh?

"Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote in message ...
This is the title of an old LP album by Elton John, which suddenly sprung to
mind. ... "The water", or more often "The pond", is a
local nickname or pet name here for the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and
America. ... the madmen are definitely not on
our side of the Atlantic

I don't know if anyone has pointed this out (due to my aversion to
wading through vitriol), but I'm fairly confident that the "Madman
Across the Water" to which the album title refers is Elton John
himself. See, he was aware of this thing called "perspective:" when
he's in the US, he's the guy from across the water.

To expand the metaphor a tiny bit, you (Inger, that is), might want to
consider that you have a habit of make extremely confident judgments
about subjects based on a considerably more limited perspective than
is available to others.