rec.autos.simulators

Chelsea Vs Villa.
Nearly as good as Chelsea Vs Aldershot Town eh Graeme <G>

MS

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Roger

Chelsea vs Who? :-)

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Cheers!
Graeme Nash

David

Slot

TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
America: The Good Neighbor.

Widespread but only partial news coverage was given
recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from
Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television
commentator. What follows is the full text of his
trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional
Record:

"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
Americans as the most generous and possibly the least
appreciated people on all the earth.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and
Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the
Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
forgave other billions in debts. None of these
countries is today paying even the interest on its
remaining debts to the United States.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it
was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward
was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of
Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit
distant cities, it is the United States that hurries
in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were
flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall
Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars
into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those
countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering
Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries
that is gloating over the erosion of the United States
dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country
in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo
Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so,
why don't they fly them? Why do all the international
lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no
other land on earth even consider putting a man or
woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technology,
and you get radios. You talk about German technology,
and you get automobiles. You talk about American
technology, and you find men on the moon -not once,
but several times - and safely home again.

You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs
right in the store window for everybody to look at .
Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded.
They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless
they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American
dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the
railways of France, Germany and India were breaking
down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt
them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New
York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old
caboose. Both are still broke.

I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to
the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me
even one time when someone else raced to the Americans
in trouble? I don't think
there was outside help even during the San Francisco
earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm
one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get
kicked around. They will come out of this thing with
their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled
to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating
over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one
of those."

Stand proud, America!

MS

By that time, more dangerous cutlery, like knives, forks and pizza-cutters
would have been banned though

Over where exactly? I have lived in England all my life, thank you. I also
happen to be a gun owner. I have NEVER even thought about using my guns for
anything other than paper target and vermin shooting. Some idiot who should
never have had an FAC went mad at Dunblane and so now all gun owners are
branded as loonies, and legally held pistols have been taken away. I call
*that* a quirky law.  What pisses me of most is the fact that while I can no
longer have my beautiful Walther P88 because of the anti-gun lobby, there
are still plenty of illegally held firearms in the UK, and it's these which
are used in the vast majority of gun-related crimes over here.
Now, I believe this is rec.autos.simulators...

The problem is just one of mentalities. In Britain, most people can't
understand why an ordinary person should have a handgun; in America,
most people can't understand why they shouldn't. Never the twain shall
meet, I fear.
--
David.
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
really."
(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

The problem in the UK is that the people who can't understand *why* someone
should own a gun think that it is therefore OK to deny guns to all those who
*do* want them.

That makes enough sense most people will not understand.  Well thank God
most people in the UK like autoracing.

Dave