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Skriven 2005-02-18 18:55:05 av Howie Coombe
     Kommentar till en text av Thurston Ackerman
Ärende: MY OBSERVATIONS.
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Dear Thurston, in regards to this message to Me.

 > ->snipped<-

 > HC> No?, At least not in New Zealand?, No?, Getting Back on topic, What
 
 >  I was pleased with the measured and astute delivery;


Aha.

 > with no signs of the stumbleing and bungleing speach often displayed on TV  
> and news rebroadcasts during the campaign (lending credulousness to my      
> earlier opinion that such obvious faux pas were emulated to suggest to the  
> "common man" voter that he was one of them and could be trusted more than   
> the rather stiff North Easterner,


Interesting, i thought from my considerable distance that he made less mistakes
during his re election then he did during his elction, which indicated to me
that he just had better minders.

 > "flip-flopper" Democratic candidate 8-(.


I will concede however that he and his camp did play the "flip-flopper" card
rather well, of course he did have an entire News Empires Help.

 > I have heard enough of these orations to conclude that our "founding        
> fathers" did a rather good job of provideing US with a form of government   
> that manages to do more good than harm,


Are you sure you are not being blinded by patriotism with this statement?.

 > despite much of what may be said otherwise (e.g. the stew is cooked well    
> without being burned, as some wise soul once remarked 8-).


This sounds like Well Spoken Patriotism to me, and Well Spoken Patriotism is
not always Wise.

 > _>some more snipping, about our misbehaveing car battery,etc..<-

 > HC> > whilst rechargeing it.

 > HC> So have you done that yet?, how long did it take?, What are your

 >  Its a Oldsmobile (no longer made by GM because its "my father's car" that  
> no longer appeals to the younger buyers 8-) made in a good Union factory 11 
> long years ago.


OK, so you are Pro Union, finally i am seeing the Liberal i was under the
impression i was talking to.

 > My diagnosis pointed to the electronic theft addon draining excessive       
> current for unknown reason.


And of course you are qualified to make that diagnosis.

 > I have disabled it until more favorable weather returns and I am not too    
> occuppied with my tomato gardening and/or other suitable excuses to put off 
> further trouble shooting.


So should i be hoping for more favorable weather or less?.

 > HC> So are you not a fan of Alcohol Consumption Over Indulgence or is it

 >  A glass of fine Rhine is my limit at the late afternoon waiting for our    
> evening repast now (especially since there hasn't been any NHL (National    
> Hockey League (that actually includes several Canadian teams of course 8-)  
> hockey games this year;


Fair enough.

 > because the owners didn't want to lose another 36 million $$$$


Actually iheard there is going to be a hockey game breaking out during that
fight any minute now?, is that so?.

 > HC> Have you seen a Telivision Documentry from France in English called 

 > Fortunately I missed that (and shall hopefully continue to do so !-)


OK, How So, Why so, What about "The Corperation" or "Out Foxed"?.

 > HC> Australia and New Zealand have been socially and sportingly

 >  Sounds kinda like we and Canada (after we got over The War of 1812) Not    
> meantioned in most history books:


Please elucidate?.

 > after the American Revolution about 40% of the Colonists couldn't really    
> live without the Crown and left;


I Hope that happens in Australia after we become a Republic, We could use a 40%
reduction.

 > with many resettleing in Canada (making it much easier for we genealogists  
> a good deal of our time researching many early familys hereabout)


So Why Not go all the way back to England?.

 > HC> > It was an airy-fairy story produced by Machette Premire in 1997

 > HC> Whith no Political Style or Substance?,

 >  None detected.


Which means like genealogy it is off topic here?, anyway ttfn.

 > BTW I wonder if you may have any Scotish heritage? I also    > wonder if you
may have seen a BBC-PBS TV series, "Monarch of the Glen" ? I   > find the
brogue more than a bit difficult at times, but the tale is a        >
fair-dinkum soap-opera I can enjoy most ot the time. Ciao, Ack. --- þ SLMR   >
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