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by **Ronald Stoeh** » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 06:38:27

> >> > 4) America is not the greatest country on Earth.

> >> What is, then?

> >It's qualitative and relative. I have yet to see a reason why somebody
> >would call a geo-political land "better" then another.

> because it is...

Nonsense, or do you really believe there are NO negative sides to
the US, politically, socially or ethically? I lived in the States
for 3 years, and I experienced them. OTOH, I know ALL the negative
sides of my home country, too.

Everytime I hear someone say: My country is the BEST, I just take
it as "wishful thinking"...and definitly not a knowledge based on
facts and own experience.

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by **rik anthra** » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 11:05:26

but i bet you didnt hold the cb up to your ear to use it! <g>

> I think the people that crash while using a cell phone just have an
> inability to do more than one thing at a time. People have been talking
for
> decades while driving. Truck drivers most of all using CB radios. I
don't
> know what the statistics are of accidents for commercial drivers, but I
know
> in the 7 years I spent doing it I drove more miles that I would have in
> almost 40 years of normal driving and never once had an accident.

> >>>The same study that showed the use of a cell phone while driving makes
> you 4
> >>>times more likely to crash also claims that using a hands free device
did
> >>>NOT reduce that number.

> >>I think it's the act of talking to someone that's not in the same car,
it
> >>just takes you away. I remember the first time I used a cell phone
while
> >>driving, it was a short call but afterward, I didn't recall at all what
> >>happened
> >>in the 5 blocks I was driving while on the phone. No recollection of
the
> >>street
> >>lights or other cars and pedestrians, I never made another call while
> driving
> >>again, it's just too dangerous.

> >Whoa...I guess that experience *would* scare me. But when I drove a
> company
> >vehicle with a hands-free system, it didn't bother me. It was sort of
like
> I
> >was talking to someone in the car with me. It wasn't a distraction at
all.

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you
> >with experience...
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by **Razorbac** » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:14:03

On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 22:38:27 +0100, Ronald Stoehr

>> >> > 4) America is not the greatest country on Earth.

>> >> What is, then?

>> >It's qualitative and relative. I have yet to see a reason why somebody
>> >would call a geo-political land "better" then another.

>> because it is...

>Nonsense, or do you really believe there are NO negative sides to
>the US, politically, socially or ethically? I lived in the States
>for 3 years, and I experienced them. OTOH, I know ALL the negative
>sides of my home country, too.

>Everytime I hear someone say: My country is the BEST, I just take
>it as "wishful thinking"...and definitly not a knowledge based on
>facts and own experience.

Not nonsense.. it's true.. the US of A is the greatest country on the
planet. No one said "a country without faults" or "a country without
more faults than some others."

It is THE GREATEST. Simple. Let's move on. :)

RB

by **Graeme Nas** » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:13:48

No it isn't. Simple. This could go on :-)

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by **rik anthra** » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 22:35:29

Euro-court outlaws criticism of EU
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
THE European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European Union can
lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and of leading
figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European
precedents on civil liberties.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=004500667862225&rtmo=VkkxFu1x&atmo=r...
&pg=/et/01/3/7/weuc07.html

Sounds like a wonderful place to not be.

by **Zonk** » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 23:00:19

If you mean reading the Telegraph on issues involving the EU (and expecting
truth/coherent reporting), then yes, you are indeed correct.

Z.

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by **Thom j** » Fri, 09 Mar 2001 08:08:34

"O" Graeme your sooo silly... hahahaha.. Watch out guyz this is my GPL
mentor & even tho' I don't agree with the "American thang," he's usually
a "level-headed" bloak{sp?} <G>
Cheers Thom_j.

by **Michael Youn** » Fri, 09 Mar 2001 11:20:01

What's wrong with you? Don't you read the news? We shoot our own children
here.

The reason there seem to be so many under-par american drivers is simple.
There are so many americans, and every one is too stupid to keep the bad
news about their IQ's to themselves. Unlike the chinks, ewes, and ozzies,
who seem to have too much self respect to appraise themselves publicly.

Mike.

by **Razorbac** » Fri, 09 Mar 2001 12:10:19

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:13:48 +0000, Graeme Nash

>>It is THE GREATEST. Simple. Let's move on. :)

>No it isn't. Simple. This could go on :-)

No.. its simple.

RB

by **tony.whitle** » Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:46:21

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:13:48 +0000, Graeme Nash

> >>It is THE GREATEST. Simple. Let's move on. :)

> >No it isn't. Simple. This could go on :-)

> No.. its simple.

> RB

No.. it's simple :-)

by **Kevin Gavit** » Sat, 10 Mar 2001 04:30:02

> >Once you spend a week in Iceland you go "Wow! This place freaking
> rocks!!!! Why isn't
> > everyone here?"

> I thought it was "this place is nothing but freaking rocks!!!!"

But at least the rocks blow up once in a while to keep things interesting.
Especially for the sheep standing on them at the time.

KFG

by **Kevin Gavit** » Sat, 10 Mar 2001 04:33:38

On the other hand England no longer has lions and 1000 lb. carnivorous
bears roaming around peoples back yards.

There are huge areas of the US that still actually do, in esentially urban
settings. Believe it or not.

KFG

by **Kevin Gavit** » Sat, 10 Mar 2001 04:35:59

> > > 4) America is not the greatest country on Earth.

> > What is, then?

> It's qualitative and relative. I have yet to see a reason why somebody
> would call a geo-political land "better" then another.

> --
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> -- People think it must be fun to be a genius, but they don't realise how
> hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

I have always stated the the term " freedom" is entirely relative to just
what it is you wish to be free to do.

If you wish to smoke a joint with a ***, male or female, Holland is
certainly a freer and better place than the US.

KFG

by **rik anthra** » Sat, 10 Mar 2001 08:08:10

I think the fact that our freedoms are a basic foundation of our
constitution, guaranteed by the bill of rights, and embedded in all law is
just a little more important than "smoking joints with ***s".

by **Phaso** » Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:24:35

> > > 4) America is not the greatest country on Earth.

> > What is, then?

Easy. Canada.

-Phasor

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