Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]animal wrote in part: >Now at 0400 still cant sleep even though i ingested some legal narcotic >substances. > Are you sure that it was legal? > >Why? >I,d like to share my feelings even though i know fully well that they have >not much bearing on the dismanteling of an m3 yes i did that as well tonight >and got it back together what engineering marvellous. >Why do world events keep me awake? >10 years ago things were easy .Our old aly(spelling seems off)Iraq who had >to defend the free west against the fundamentalistic Iran had gone sour and >invaded Kuwait.Oops that apart from the oil reserves was not nice and we had >to get them out of there. >Yeah that was better then flying a couple of hundred tourists to some exotic >destination to be bored.Now we felt a bit of use again deploying the immense >power at our fingertips to do something worthwhile for a change. >And in the meantime there were the kurds to watch over and the turks gee >must have carried a zillion gas masks in those days and some other stuff of >course. >But now?I,ve seen on CNN palestinian boys ,protected in vain by their >fathers , killed with American bullets .I,ve seen fledling nations being >bulldozed into oblivion. >I know of so many lands , so many tales. >I know my countries strength and also it,s >guilt >It was said during the period where the dutch and the english ruled the >waves, >that one could smell a dutch ship west bound before it was seen above the >horizon because of it,s cargo you see imported peoples from Africa. >Main reason for that was the at that time big discovery of dry ships(like in >not leaking) which enabled the dutch to import spices from far away places >and unfortunately transport African captives to the west.Your word drug is a >derivative of the word droog in dutch meaning dry.We had some more skeletons >of course (still think it silly however that we traded new york(amsterdam) >for surinam)and after centuries of debate and defeats decided that we were a >bad people indeed. > >Now ,even though our collective conscentiousness detests colonialism we >together with great britain still find ourselves helping the USA.Well at >least a quarter of the usa is related to us somehow so what can you do they >are family! >But there is worse to come .I feel belittled .wasn,t my family proud once >were we not David,s father once? >Are we not part of this nice institution the UN which we support financially >, >unlike the USA which never has really. >Didn,t we learn of our sins and help to make a better world? >Wimps ?we are number 10 on any scale and one on one we,ll beat americans >nearly asleep.Hell they even have to buy our ships to have half a chance >against us. >Sorry for the testosteron. >If the USA chooses to go it alone the rest of the world has no option other >then to rearm. >We do not want the People of the united states of america to decide for us. >Think we are powerless? >Simon(about ready for bed phew finally) > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html