How do I avoid looking and acting American while traveling in Europe?

"FreeIreland" wrote in message
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More U.S. teens aged 15-19 die of gunshot wounds than of all natural
causes combined, and firearms are involved in 65% of all suicides
among persons under the age of 25.

Accidental Deaths: Motor vehicle accidents are the number one cause of death
among teens. Almost 50 percent of these are alcohol-related
Kann, L., Collins, J., Collins Pateman, B., Leavy Small, M., Ross, J., and
Kolbe, L. (1995). The School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS):
Rationale for a Nationwide Status Report on School Health Programs, Journal
of School Health, 65 (Number 8), 291-294.
Your stats can be refuted one by one.

In article ,
Féachadóir Féach@d.óir wrote:

Scríobh Lazar :
In article ,
(FreeIreland) wrote:

For example in the last 70 years American agriculture industry has
become a virtual subsidiary of the federal government. New Deal
programs have propped up farmers through price supports, crop
subsidies, and even payment for leaving land fallow. So called
European socialists are only following trends set by Americans set
decades ago. How very socialist.

From 1940 to 2004, U.S. employment in agriculture fell from 20% to 5%.

Employment in agriculture is falling throughout the developed world.

As well as in manufacturing, I think - certainly in the U.S.

Despite that, every industrial society* subsidises its farmers and
farm corporations.


[*With the exception of NZ]

Interesting.

--
Lazar

"westprog" wrote in
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"Stuart Grey" wrote in message
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What are you talking about? Can't go to shops? ?

Yes, there are people enslaved by their families, by their husbands,
by gangs, by criminals - sometimes under the threat of violence,
sometimes not. They have rights under the constitution which they are
unable to exercise. They are less free than I am, even with my
political restrictions.

J/

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http://homepage.eircom.net/~albedo1/...eon_award.html





How is it man is born free, yet we find him everywhere in chains?



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Saint Séimí mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December '99

"Séimí mac Liam" wrote in message
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"westprog" wrote in
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"Stuart Grey" wrote in message
27.77...

What are you talking about? Can't go to shops? ?

Yes, there are people enslaved by their families, by their husbands,
by gangs, by criminals - sometimes under the threat of violence,
sometimes not. They have rights under the constitution which they are
unable to exercise. They are less free than I am, even with my
political restrictions.


How is it man is born free, yet we find him everywhere in chains?

Because when one man sees another man, he sees someone who can be a danger
to him free, and an asset enslaved.

J/

SOTW: "The Whore's Hustle And The Hustler's Whore" - P.J. Harvey

http://homepage.eircom.net/~albedo1/...eon_award.html

Miguel Cruz wrote:

Gunner wrote:
"No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a
110-pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is
that evil?

I am willing to entertain your proposal that guns only be made
available to women weighing 110 pounds or less.

miguel

hey, keep it easy,

citation above above is from a Science Fiction Book Series from L.Neil
Smith started in 1980, good reading, holds his plot through, but the
implicant assumptions of a "rational" (the ones who carry weapons and
use them thoughtfully) homo sapiens is naturally not compliant with
real life. Complete series = 6 books. (read them)

Anyway, good science fiction

lg Tom

--
Nobody is perfect
not even in failing

In article ,
(BlackWater) wrote:

The second cost-cutting measure
would be to try and minimize 'risks' in the population.
They'd start with certain unpopular risks - smoking,
drinking, 'fast food' - but, not saving enough, they'd
soon move to real lifestyle micro-management.

Why has none of this happened in the European countries which have had
socialised medicine for decades? (And where smoking and drinking are, if
anything, generally much /less/ restricted than in the US.)

In article . 77,
(Stuart Grey) wrote:

Do you pay taxes to support that bitch, or not?

The Queen in fact makes a net positive contribution (more than UKP 100m
annually IIRC) to the state's funds by surrendering income from the Crown
Estates in return for her expenditure in an official capacity being
funded. Her private expenditure comes from her private wealth.

In article . 77,
(Stuart Grey) wrote:

You appear to have said a contradiction, that is, the right to
strike is a better indication of non slavery than keeping arms,
and that the right to strike isn't an indication of slavery.

There doesn't appear to be any inherent contradiction in those two
statements.

Being plastic is a better indication of not being a dollar bill than being
wet.

Being plastic is not an indication of being a dollar bill.

In article , Strabo
wrote:

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:27:14 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

I work out regularly with a martial arts known as Jodo. Short staff
fighting. Oddly enough..this works very well with a pool cue.
So in my hands..is a pool cue a weapon, or a tool?


A broom or mop handle is also about the same length as a jo. I cut one
off for a jo class. I prefer a bo, though 8-)

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument
is that reason doesn't count. Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.airstreamcomm.net/~erilarlo

In article et,
(Tim Kroesen) wrote:

You're free to bugger yourselves all the day long; don't legislate that
I must conform. Feel therefore free to accept the repercussions like
increased risk of disease and non-reproduction. I accept the risks I
might shoot myself or another accidentally and accept the repercussions.
We *abate* these risks with *education*; how about you? The
repercussions of buggery will kill many times more than guns will yet
again this year...

Assuming this is an allusion to sexually-transmitted AIDS, surely the
difference is that the infected party implicitly consents to take the risk
that their partner may infect them (sex without consent, of course, is
illegal in the countries we're talking about). But is the person
accidentally shot by another giving any meaningful consent to taking that
risk, if they have no practical way to avoid it?