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OK, people, still like Bush now?
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:08:31 +0100, "InMyTree"
wrote: but you didn't come until it suited you.. No ****, Sherlock !!! Why the hell would we do something that is going to cost us thousands upon thousands of american lives if it is not in our national interest? -Astro |
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pigo wrote:
snip However, in skiing terms, France is IMHO a superpower, From La Grave to Mt.Blanc, Alpine Guides training are still set by French Standards, the Creme de la Creme are not recognize unless they spend some time at Chamonix. There are so many words use in skiing that are French, from "piste" to "couloir" etc. etc. I suggest one should start using other words to substitute the french version, such as "freedom chutes" instead of couloirs, "freedom runs" instead of "piste" and "liberty skiing" rather than "randonee". I think there should be a debate about what North American Country is the Skiing superpower, my vote at this moment is Canada has an edge over the U.S, but then again, I haven't skied around Valdez yet, so i don't have all the facts.. Ted And what N. American Country has kept Europe free so that when you want to ski Mt. Blanc it's not part of Germany or , more recently the USSR or, even more recently a fundamentalist Muslim nation? The U.S did not win the Second World War all on its own, it was an Allied effort. The U.S played an incredible major part, but it took Yanks, Brits, Free French, Canadians, Poles and countless other nationalities to liberate France and defeat Germany. The victories, like the Falaise Gap, were an Allied effort, some of the defeats like Arnhem were an Allied effort. The U.S helped supply 70-75% of the material to win the war in Europe, but it took a joint effort to produce quality goods. For example, P-51 Mustang was powered by a Packard Merlin Engine, which was a Rolls Royce design engine. "Liberty Ships" were a British Design boat. There are countless other examples of joint effort, like the Atomic bomb, 10cm Radar,Ultra intelligence that combine the best of many countries to make feasible. It wasn't one nation that won the war, much like how the Soviets poo-poo US and British Aid to them after their "Great Patriotic War". They couldn't won without the U.S and vice versa. Ditto with the Cold War, it was NATO, not just the US that was a deterent to Soviet Influence and Aggression in Europe. It is all not black and white or that simplistic. In the scheme of things, France defeated Fundamentalist Muslim nations all on its own, when Charles Martel defeated the Muslim Hordes at Tours in 792, They went back to Spain, and spread civilization and alegbra while the Dark Ages were still in Europe. When you drink your coffee in the morning, it was those Fundamental Muslim hordes that concocted the magic elixir. They also brought gunpowder to the Europeans from China, gave them the Latine Sail and most likely the compass as well. Beside all the silly season arguing, France is still a skiing superpower, with Switzerland,Austria and Italy not too far behind. Ted |
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"Dave Stallard" wrote in message ... Sven Golly wrote: Dave Stallard wrote in : Here's what Pat Buchanan says about that: Why would anyone quote Pat Buchanan as an authority on anything other irrelevancy? Authority or not, he's certainly someone that no one could call left wing. Nor right wing. He's some sort of mutant. |
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"marika" wrote in message om... "pigo" wrote in message ... Was there, really, anyone out there that didn't expect the "war" to be the easy part and last about a month (turned out to be even shorter) and the "peace" to take about 5 years and cost the majority of the casualties? To me that seems to be such a matter of common sense that it's not worth mentioning until someone disputes the obvious. my father basically said verbatim, on Saturday, what you said in this article. hilary said that she wants to be a Senator to be a Senator, that she is not interested in the White House. She is lying and will make something up to explain the lie in 4 years. Kennedy? A GORE? A Nixon? A Mondale? A Ford? Eisenhower? Bush? Reagan? Carter? .... They had much political experience behind them qualifying them for the job. She has NONE. ZERO. ZILCH. NADA. Four yrs. in the Seante hardly qualifies you. And whhen Bush got in, his laughably lame 5 yrs as a governor were more than what she'll have in 4. My Republican friends were telling me a few years ago that Hillary was really running the White House. |
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In article , marika5000
@my-deja.com says... "pigo" wrote in message ... Was there, really, anyone out there that didn't expect the "war" to be the easy part and last about a month (turned out to be even shorter) and the "peace" to take about 5 years and cost the majority of the casualties? To me that seems to be such a matter of common sense that it's not worth mentioning until someone disputes the obvious. my father basically said verbatim, on Saturday, what you said in this article. hilary said that she wants to be a Senator to be a Senator, that she is not interested in the White House. She is lying and will make something up to explain the lie in 4 years. I hope this isn't a "Democrats tell lies but Republicans don't" comment. They're all liars, and no party has a monopoly on lying. It's just that Dems notice Republican lies, and vice-versa. They lie to us because that's what we want. When it comes to politics, few voters like to be told the truth. Rick |
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In message . net, Java
Man writes They lie to us because that's what we want. When it comes to politics, few voters like to be told the truth. Not just in politics. People all over the place WANT to believe that the men who have the power are using it honestly and intelligently for the good of us all. Pick up some of those books people read on commuter trains and work out why people find them so comforting - is Harry Potter's head teacher a useless figurehead? Is the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork living it up at the public expense while ignoring the state of the city? Is Inspector Morse an apathetic incompetent lager-swilling oaf? Some of the posters here have a death grip on the belief that they're ruled by Galahads, in spite of all evidence to the contrary. -- Sue ] |
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"Richard Henry" wrote in message news:1xv%a.2083$QT5.1612@fed1read02...
My Republican friends were telling me a few years ago that Hillary was really running the White House. She did do a great job with the gardens I get a kick out of seing what has been done so far. We should have done a "before and after", but didn't think of it. she hit it with roundup and you can see it is beginning to droop - not dead yet though. she made a rustic arbor to attach the roses to so they wouldn't attack the bushes when they got there! Did you know about the birdbath? it was behind the lilac. A regular secret garden. she also bought about 30000 dollars worth of flowers that would come up every year and put them in place of the empty spots where the weeds were pulled out, bright yellow brown eyed susans, tall holly hocks, and some purple asters, and blue boneset and some little pink soapwort. They should blossom after the day lillys are gone. They are more expensive than annual flowers, but what good would annuals be next year if the bushes werecoming? she wanted them to be able to enjoy them. Even if you they let them go wild it should be pretty. the seeds have sprouted. mk5000 "so, are we getting a DVD, or what?"--leeno |
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