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Skriven 2005-11-29 00:08:00 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
     Kommentar till en text av FRANK SCHEIDT
Ärende: Re: Copyright
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Frank,
 
> WD> Huh? I don't get it ... so it might pose a problem for example to
> WD> praise the accomplishments of Thurgood Marshall?
 
> Simply *praising* Thurgood Marshall without also strongly
> criticizing him would be a mistake.
 
So there is a problem after all with freedom of speech in the US?
 
> Furthermore, for the last three years of his career, or
> so, he was deaf and almost blind.
 
I think that cannot be completely correct. It is an undisputable fact though
that he stayed in office until there would be a Democrat in the White House.
 
The 12 years of Republicans with Reagan and Bush "The Elder" proved too much.
 
> Fortunately his replacement,
> Justice Clarence Thomas has done a *splendid* job.
 
Nicknamed "The Silent Justice" because he never asks questions and just sits
there. What a difference with Roberts, imo "that" will be a good justice.
 
I'm a bit sorry that when Sandra Day O'Conner will be replaced there will be
only one more woman there.
 
> WD> So the telephone, the lightbulb, photography, ... are _not_ European
> WD> inventions? You need to explain me...
 
> The telephone was invented by an American ...
 
The telephone has been invented by an Italian by the name of Antonio Meucci.
The data at hand are undisputable and by act of the US House of
Representatives, House Resolution 269 of June 11 2002, Meucci was recognised as
such.
 
There's only one country in the world not recognising Meucci and that's Canada.
:) ... Bell was a Canadian BTW, not an American ... :)
 
> ... as was the electric light, though maybe not the glass *bulb* itself.
 
Hmmmm ... is there electric light possible without a bulb or a glass enclosure?
 
> WD> Let me see, what else comes from Europe ...
> WD>
> WD> ... the jet-engine and jet-airplane, bicycles, horses,
 
> Whoa there!  (no pun intended) Europeans "invented" the horse?
> Was that the result of genetic engineering?
 
I think my words read "what else comes from Europe" ... horses came from
Europe!
 
> WD> brick houses,
> Ancient stuff ... doesn't count ...
 
Oh yes, it does ... the house were my family lived until 1975 was built in
1492, the year that Columbus sailed for the Americas. Brick houses definitely
are our thing.
 
> WD> electricity,
 
> Huh? Europeans invented *electricity*?
 
Why not? You guys have a former Vice-President claiming he invented the
internet.
 
> WD> the evolution theory, astronomy, the Kama Sutra,
 
> I thought the Kama Sutra was written by an Asiatic Indian.
 
Gosh, if it involves sex with minors you guys seem to be well informed, but
poor ol' Menno Blom was a bad guy? ... :) ... :-D
 
> We *are* grateful that Europeans also prosecuted the nuclear
> physicists whom we welcomed here in the land of *freedom*!
 
How do you feel about the war criminals who were provided with a safe-haven in
the US?
 
> WD> radiation therapy, the Nobel Prizes,
 
> That was as a result of Alfred Nobel's guilty conscience for
> "inventing" war-time explosives.
 
Actually, he only discovered a method to handle nitro-glycerine in a stable
manner during mining operations.
 
> You do that!  Americans have invented a disproportionately large
> number of *important* modern inventions which I'll not bother
> listing since I'm sure you know about them already.
 
What Americans can be credited with in many cases is taking something and
significantly improving it.
 
> BTW, I have never denied Europeans *have* contributed to
> civilization -- though that's mainly in the past.  My parents
> were immigrants from Europe, for example, both *fine* people who
> had three fine children born here.
 
I do not doubt that, Frank.
 
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