Air France? Ptui!

Calif Bill wrote:

But that was Asia, and the west really did not care about that area.
Except
for France having control of rubber in Indo-china.


What about the US patrols along the Yangtze as portrayed in the book and
movie, The Sand Pebbles?

Tchiowa wrote:

wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
...

(snip)

Aka "too stupid to learn more than one language" - and that one poorly, in
many cases! As to "linguistically homogeneous", where do you live? (In
some parts of the country Spanish is more frequently spoken than English.)

Not a matter of stupidity- most people have trouble learning other languages
as an adult.


Very true.

I also think it appropriate to point out that the Euros accomplishment
in speaking several languages comes from the same source as their boast
of doing a lot of international travelling. The root of that is not "a
wide world view" but rather a history of hatred and violence that kept
the continent split up into dozens of little countries that for a long
time had zero interaction with each other beyond the occasional trip to
murder a few people that looked funny to them.

Europe is chopped up into little countries because of hatred and
bigotry. They should be ashamed of it rather than boast of it.

LOL! (What a novel view of world history - original, to say
the least, but accurate?)

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:52:56 GMT, Phoenix
wrote:

In article ,
says...

"Tchiowa" kirjoitti
glegroups.com...


Interesting. Nothing proven against anyone except the one Congressman
but you are ready to convict.

Oddly the same can be said for Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

There is only a couple of things on your postings which do bother the
subscribers of rte:

1. you faggot crosspost them all over the usenet - yes,
alt.gossip.celebrities too
2. they have nothing to do with travelling in Europe (which is the scope in
one of the crossposted groups)

Perhaps you just get lost

3. He lies like a dog.

4. He doesn't realise he's in my killfile.
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mrtravel wrote:
Tchiowa wrote:
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

Geoff Miller wrote:


EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) writes:



Whereas I'm ashamed to acknowledge you as a fellow-countryman!



Likewise, you can be sure. I take it, then, that you didn't vote
for Bush?

Damned right! The man should be impeached, and if he hadn't
stacked Congress and the Supreme Court with his cronies, he
would be!


???? It's impossible for a President to stack Congress. The people
select Congress. And please tell me what percentage of the Justices of
the Supreme Court W selected.


22.2

Does that meet the poster's definition of "stacking the court"?

O wrote:
In article .com,
Tchiowa wrote:

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:


Actually, given the draft, the "ones who went to war" were a
cross section of the entire male population between eighteen
and forty! They included both college professors and
rednecks - along with every class in between. Unless there
were more rednecks among the population than seems
reasonable, they were only part of the whole, so no special
virtue attaches to them.

A very high percentage of the population at that time, possible most,
would be considered "rednecks".

You seem to be a chauvinist in your way also. You
should get an education before making so many wrong statements.

Shall we compare college degrees?

And it was
the leaders of the US that kept us out of another European war for a
while.
They believed that it was both bad for business and maybe there were some
Chamberlains among them. And it was Democrats in power at the time.

Really? I thought Herbert Hoover was a Republican. FDR may
have delayed until he knew the nation was behind him (unlike
the Shrub), but he certainly was no Isolationist!


????

Hoover was President from 1929-1932. Roosevelt became President in
1933. Hitler invaded Poland starting the fighting that became WWII in
1939, 6 years later.

Some people might say that the fighting in WWII began in 1931, when
Japan invaded Manchuria.

The poster's statement was about going into the European war.

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
Sancho Panza wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
...


And it was the leaders of the US that kept us out of another European
war for a while. They believed that it was both bad for business and
maybe there were some Chamberlains among them. And it was Democrats in
power at the time.

Really? I thought Herbert Hoover was a Republican. FDR may have delayed
until he knew the nation was behind him (unlike the Shrub), but he
certainly was no Isolationist!


What years do you think Hoover was president?

I KNOW what years he was president, it's the poster to whom
I was replying who seems unsure. Certainly FDR was no
Isolationist, as his post implies, so I assumed he had his
presidents confused.

Too late to try to bluff now. The poster said that the Democrats kept
us out of the European war and you said it was Hoover. Simply
nonsensical. And FDR absolutely was an isolationist until Japan
attacked Pearl Harbor.

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
Tchiowa wrote:

wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
...

(snip)

Aka "too stupid to learn more than one language" - and that one poorly, in
many cases! As to "linguistically homogeneous", where do you live? (In
some parts of the country Spanish is more frequently spoken than English.)

Not a matter of stupidity- most people have trouble learning other languages
as an adult.


Very true.

I also think it appropriate to point out that the Euros accomplishment
in speaking several languages comes from the same source as their boast
of doing a lot of international travelling. The root of that is not "a
wide world view" but rather a history of hatred and violence that kept
the continent split up into dozens of little countries that for a long
time had zero interaction with each other beyond the occasional trip to
murder a few people that looked funny to them.

Europe is chopped up into little countries because of hatred and
bigotry. They should be ashamed of it rather than boast of it.

LOL! (What a novel view of world history - original, to say
the least, but accurate?)

Perhaps you have a better explanation why Europe is a bunch of small
countries? And I assume that you're prepared to deny that the entire
history of Europe has been one war against each other after another?

Dave Frightens Me wrote:
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:52:56 GMT, Phoenix
wrote:

In article ,
says...

"Tchiowa" kirjoitti
glegroups.com...


Interesting. Nothing proven against anyone except the one Congressman
but you are ready to convict.

Oddly the same can be said for Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

You mean the Bin Laden who openly acknowledged in several videotapes
that he was behind 9/11? Sounds proven to me. Or are you referring to
the Saddam Hussein that used WMDs against his own people and invaded
Kuwait?

geenie wrote:
The worst is the british. We took that airline British Airway when we
travelled from Oklahoma to Rome. We went from Dallas to London on British
Airway and connected in that horrible place called Heath Row or something
like that. They speek something that sounds like english but isn't
exactly. Some words you can understand, it sounds almost like english. I
asked a stewardess on the flight over to London if she spoke english and
she gave me a real nasty look. The same thing happened in the London
airport. They made us feel real bad. I think it was discrimination
because we are from the south. We were so happy when we got to Italy.
Nobody spoke english but at least they didn't get nasty about it!



They speak English in Oklahoma and in Texas? If so then I have just
experienced an epiphany ;-)

Ken, Canada

Tchiowa wrote:

mrtravel wrote:


22.2


Does that meet the poster's definition of "stacking the court"?


It doesn't meet my definiton.
Now, if had said the Republican party had done it, that would be
different, since I think only 2 Supremes are Demo appointments