Text 5877, 66 rader
Skriven 2004-12-06 19:42:07 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
   Kommentar till text 5725 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
Ärende: Re: Breaking News!
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Hey, John.

 BF>>>> Everyhing here is possible I guess and we don't get any closer to
 BF>>>> the solution so we just leave it, eh?

 FS>>> Good idea.  And in the unlikely event I ever read about it in a
 FS>>> U.S. paper I'll mention it.

 BF>> OK.

 FS>>>> ... Cat:  Walking ego with fur.

 BF>>>> American: Walking ego with gun.     :-)

 FS>>> That's *your* opinion ... [sigh] ...

 BF>> Why do you take it all so personally?
 BF>> Didn't you see the smiley?

 JH> Big damn deal!  We take it personally because it IS personal.  One of
 JH> our most sacred rights is the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution, which
 JH> guarantees us the right to keep and bear arms.  There are many in this
 JH> country who want to strip that right from us, and it is a *very*
 JH> serious battle fought constantly in the courts and on the editorial
 JH> pages of newspapers and magazines, not to mention the various state
 JH> legislatures and the Congress.  It is deadly serious business.

 JH> You Europeans, for the most part, have never had the right, so you have
 JH> no idea what it means, and how important it really is to the prevention
 JH> of tyranny and oppression.

 FS>>> BTW, I'll give you a little
 FS>>> information which might be new to you.  New or old, take my word
 FS>>> for it, it's *true*:  We often read European news accounts of
 FS>>> various Americans, currently mostly George W. Bush, as being a
 FS>>> "cowboy". This is always meant as an insult but it gives us
 FS>>> considerable amusement since in the U.S. "cowboy" is an honored
 FS>>> "title".  It means a man who stands up against the odds when he's
 FS>>> right and won't back down.  It means a given person is an honorable
 FS>>> one.  That's why we always get a kick out of the way Europeans use
 FS>>> that name.  It's the same as if I "accused" *you* of being an
 FS>>> intelligent, honorable man ... how much of an insult is that? ...
 FS>>> heh heh heh ... that George W. Bush -- he's certainly a "cowboy"!

 BF>> Didn't know that.
 BF>> When we say cowboy we think about John Wayne, triggerhappy,
 BF>> knowing-it-all, walking around shoting and killing with his Sheriff:s
 BF>> badge and I guess that's what the rest of the world think about USA
 BF>> today.

 JH> John Wayne was never trigger happy.  John Wayne is not only a beloved
 JH> American movie star, but he was and still is considered an American
 JH> patriot who stood up for America in everything he did in life, and
 JH> stood FOR America in the eyes of the world.  I wish we had another
 JH> dozen just like him.

Right.  Even in his movies, John Wayne never shot anyone who wouldn't have 
prefered to be dead if he were thinking clearly.  John Wayne was always on 
the side of right and always opposed anyone who tried to bully someone.

Even if he started out a little rough, by the end of the movie he had it 
figured out. <g>


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