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Canadian flag on the backback myth
Mike Taylor wrote: I doubt if he's actually based in Canada. "He" can post from ANYWHERE. It is so easy that even this mentally challenged person can do it. Just sample a few of his posts on Google Groups and check the random headers over the past 6 months. Your observation just confirms what this troll does - and others too, especially those who hide behind fake names and e-mail addresses. This says a LOT about such knuckleheads. |
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David Smith wrote:
The British were impressing seaman to man their ships for the fight against Napolean, and the sailors impressed were mostly British, most with phoney certificates saying they were American. Consider them the same as American draft dodgers who fled to Canada to avoid the draft. The British stopped impressing sailors and ended their embargo of European ports after defeating Napoleon. The fact remains that the US aimed to invade and occupy Canada but failed, so they lost. In his revisionism of history to suit his personal needs Bogart seems to miss your obvious point. Be prepared for another pail of invective that will also miss it's mark. He should actually cease and desist. Maybe he should go and apply for one of the US top-dog jobs - like CIA "head spy" and get a "different" education. His past comments show he is both ignorant of US Universities (or at least my own Alma Mater) and how they educate people. |
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Canadian flag on the backback myth
"Whoever" had
writtennews I have spent a lot of time travelling in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country. Americans seem to me the best liked tourists there. Not just because of their money, but because of the way they interact with the locals. If there is one important gift that Americans have over white Canadians, and Europeans, is that Americans can "keep it real". That is worth a lot more than fake gestures. I am not sure whom you refer to as "White" Canadians but I am starting to see your points. Perhap I and others misunderstand the American's loud and direct way of speaking. As far as local rip offs, I think it can be seen on both sides of the fence. -- __________________________________________________ ________ "I'm not into name calling. That's best left to the Morons and Idiots" |
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Barney wrote:
"Whoever" had writtennews I have spent a lot of time travelling in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country. I am not sure whom you refer to as "White" Canadians but I am starting to see your points. Perhap I and others misunderstand the American's loud and direct way of speaking. As far as local rip offs, I think it can be seen on both sides of the fence. In 1971 after travelling through Viet nam etc (yes I was travelling on my own and not funded by any nation's treasury) I landed in Jakarta. Travelling by train I wound up in Tjepu. While wandering around that "city" I watched several locals playing some game (gambling) with a coloured block and a box, both on a mat. They encouraged me to join. i said to myself: what an opportunity to get ripped off. let me spend a couple of dollars in the local currency and watch what happens. The block was rolled and placed under the box with another twist. I picked the colour i thought would give me a "win". sure enough I won. The locals got real excited and encouraged me with symbols to put my watch into the pot. I just put in some more money - and won again. Then they got real excited encouraging me to put in my watch etc and my pack . Hummm. i just bid my money. the block was rolled again ,but there was a commotion and i looiked at them. Out of the corner of my eye the block's position was changed. I obviously bid "wrong" and lost it all.. No matter. I had an education. the locals understood that i reached my limit and I no longer played. After watching a bit longer I left. I stopped in a local stall and a couple of the players followed me. I bought them some of the same refreshment i ordered for myself. Lots of smiles all around. They won a couple of dollars off me - quite a bonanza for them. An inexpensive education for me - a white "mark". I just hoped later that they spent the money on their families instead of just gambling it away. It was peanuts as compared to what I see spent daily in casinos and in Las Vegas. "Sin City" exists everywhere that humanity exists, in my opinion. |
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Xomicron wrote:
Almost as bad as trying to read that chicken scratch they call a language. There, there. Don't start into a linguistics thread. |
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Xomicron wrote:
Terrorists don't give a **** if you're Canadian. They're probably chuckling at your false sense of security. Not what I said. They sure don't give a damn about US citizenship and US property - that is for sure, as events since 9/11 have shown. |
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devil extrapolated from data available...
.. US companies sold stuff such as roller bearings and oil to Nazi Germany *throughout the war.* Ford, Standard Oil, and of course the Bush family were the main culprits. I suspect that reading anything but claptrap might revise your opinion of who did what "throughout the war"..... General Motors and Ford did have German subsidiaries prior to WWII, (GM's larger). Neither company profited from the wartime production of those factories, and both companies ended up writing off much of the asset value. Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of several "Statndard Oils) along with almost every other oil company ceased direct sales to germany in Sep, 1939, although SONJ did have some assets in Rumania expropriated, IIRC. Of course, until the Summer of 1941, the Soviet Union was Germany's largest supplier of POL. By US standards, then and today, the Bush family remain only modestly wealthy, barely players in the oil business, although the President's grandfather, a long time senator from Connecticutt was favorably regarded and the recipient of substantial political contribution from "Big Oil". You do remember that "Brown & Root", now a construction subsidiary of the infamous Halliburton, was once a major contributor/supporter of LBJ? That Halliburton, that great villain, is one of the two companies in the world, the other owned mostly by a single French family, which provide the sort of services to the "Oil Bidness" that it does, and that its ability to bid on all those contracts in Iraq have more to do with its existing infrastructure in almost every Gulf Port than with any coonnection to the Vice President? No, but then factual knowledge has always ranked extremely low in your style of advocacy.... But then there were those friendly neutrals, folks like Bofors in Sweden and Oerlikon in Switzerland who did receive production payments/royalties from both sides. TMO |
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Xomicron wrote in message ...
So where's all that oil from Iraq? It takes time to ship it over, and the fact the insurgents are setting the oil fields ablaze from time to time doesn't help. Iraq holds at least 115 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/iraq.html |
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sneakysneak wrote:
Xomicron wrote in message ... So where's all that oil from Iraq? It takes time to ship it over, and the fact the insurgents are setting the oil fields ablaze from time to time doesn't help. Iraq holds at least 115 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/iraq.html Plus they don't have enough refining capacity in the US so it really doesn't matter how much crude they/we get. |
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Canadian flag on the backback myth
Xomicron wrote in message ...
Ken Pisichko wrote in : Bogart wrote: Throwing in comments about Vietnam doesn't answer the questions and doesn't divert the subject away from Ken Pisichko's inability to respond. But I'm sure he appreciate your feeble attempts to save his embarrassment. Look you revisionistic stupid asshole, I have more to do than just hang around reading your demented ideas of how your country is winning the war by killing lots of innocent civilians (shades of My Lai) and then suggesting to the readership that such actions speak of some moral high ground. What bull****! By the way, my dog needed a walk. I am sure he left your dispicable likeness in the forest where we walked. That is only my opinion, but I know you are still infesting this particular ng with your revisionistic babble. So be it. You can do that. After all, you live in the "Land of the Free", and keep giving the rest of the world utter crap about YOUR moral high ground. Not! Wonder if you will still be able to do that during the next freak power outage in the USA brought on by your ill-maintained power grid. Then most likely, your country will blame Canada or some terrorist groups for your troubles of your own creatinn - just like your country did last time (last summer. Can you remember that far back??) Shove your revisionistic crap someplace else -preferrably in some nice forest in your state. You must be Canadian. Driven mad by your country's lack of accomplishment. Are you an American? Let's, for the sake of argument, accept your premise with regaurds to Canadians as they pertain to your short sighted view of them. If American ingenuity is so grand then what is *your* contribution to it? Stephen C |
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