>of course, most govts that have a great idea are invaded by the u.s. & >crushed for the next 50 years ;-) >kylie
Hey, you need to update! We are now on the Hundred Year Plan. Our
Repugnican candidate, John McCentury is talking a hundred years in
Iraq. Got Oil!
Foo, we yanks, gonna grab it all. All for us and none for others.
Fuck me, hurry and put us out of our misery and save yerselves.
Charlie
"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age
of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."
Adam Smith
Posted by 0tterbot on April 10, 2008, 9:28 pm
<Charlie> wrote in message
>>of course, most govts that have a great idea are invaded by the u.s. & >>crushed for the next 50 years ;-) >>kylie >> > Hey, you need to update! We are now on the Hundred Year Plan. Our > Repugnican candidate, John McCentury is talking a hundred years in > Iraq.
truly?! my goodness.
Got Oil!
(er, won't all the oil be gone by then?)
> Foo, we yanks, gonna grab it all. All for us and none for others. > Fuck me, hurry and put us out of our misery and save yerselves. > Charlie
well, not to rain on your parade, but self-hating americans are nearly as
tedious as the other kind! <g!> i know, it hurts to realise that nothing
about yourselves is unique or particularly interesting in either a good or a
bad sense, but you'll manage :-)
have you seen our spiffy new prime minister creating necessary, yet polite
and pleasant, runctions in china? what a one he is!! i don't know that the
general public actually _likes_ him or not, but my word, there is a great
deal to be admired. sometimes he makes my jaw drop right off my head. you
want to find yourselves someone more like that. (obama?)
kylie
Posted by FarmI on April 11, 2008, 2:40 am
> have you seen our spiffy new prime minister creating necessary, yet polite > and pleasant, runctions in china? what a one he is!! i don't know that > the general public actually _likes_ him or not, but my word, there is a > great deal to be admired. sometimes he makes my jaw drop right off my > head. you want to find yourselves someone more like that. (obama?)
There's something about Obama that I feel is a bit plastic. Dunno what it
is but I just haven't warmed to him.
Posted by Charlie on April 29, 2008, 12:27 pm
wrote:
>:-)) It does tend to come as a surprise to many Americans that they aren't >universally loved, but I do think that Charlie might be an exception to that >grouping as he seems to have made an effort to look beyond his borders.
You are right, and thanks for the pat on the back too, but it was a bit
of a surprise when I woke, decades ago, to the fact that we are not
what we would like to think we are. I've spent the better part of my
life working against this ethoegocentricity, along with trying to
figure my own self out.......whee, I'm tired sometimes. And I piss off
a lot of my family and others. ;-)
>It's not so difficult to understand such a mind set if you think of us >having 300 million people on our continent - imagine trying to keep up with >current affairs within the nation in that circumstance, let alone trying to >know what is going on in the rest of the world. Add to that being the most >powerful nation on earth and it must be a bit of a heady mix.
Heady mix? I can think of a better description, but not too
polite....headfuck comes to mind. But you are correct, keeping abreast
of things is difficult...oftimes, the good folk in the center of the
country, where I live, are sometimes ten years behind trends on the
coasts, both good and bad trends.
>I've always thought that we were extraordinarily lucky to be where we are >and what we are. We're a piddling little, unimportant nation stuck at what >other nations see as being the bottom of the world, but that works to our >benefit. We take in news and media from all sorts of nations and because we >all feel that we are isolated, we travel, and for our size, we travel a lot.
I consider you all fortunate, for the interesting country in which you
live, your lower population, and your relative isolation from the rest
of us stupid bastards. ;-)
Care
Charlie
Posted by Billy on May 2, 2008, 1:53 pm
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> a book called > "Silencing Dissent". The chapter in that about what they did to the Public > Service is tame because only the top of the iceberg gets a mention. I know > they did a lot more. Intimidation, threats, bullying and punishment - you > name it, they did it and not just in one area of influence.
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>kylie