a very nice peice from canada

[R23]

dont want to seem to be harping on the same subject, but please read this, its incredible, garrett you too!!!

TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
> >
> >This, from a Canadian newspaper no less, 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 France 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 technocracy, and you get radios. You talk
> >about German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
> >You talk about American technocracy, 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!

[Solarwolf]

Wow, excellent peice R23.... thanks for posting that.

[[AK]Abaddon]

Just a side note ... that piece dates from a radio address in 1973. Still very good. Mr. Sinclair died in 1984.

[AK]Abaddon

[R23]

was sent to me by email today, just the saying meant alot to me havnt heard it before, ironic, seems a great many people have all these great feelings inside, sad that it does take a national tradgedy to act on feelings.


*just dont want anyone to think i wrote this*

[[AK]Abaddon]

Yeah, it is a great piece. I didn't mean to diminish it ... it's just making the rounds on email right now. It was written in reaction to the bashing of America about the Vietnam War, but it is still quite true.

There's also a fake prophecy by Nostradamus making the rounds about "two twin brothers" falling. It is, in toto ... false. Someone just made it up and attributed it to Nostradamus.
Disregard it if you receive it in email. I've gotten three copies of Sinclair's speech and at least four copies of the Nostradamus "prophecy"

But like you said, it is a shame that it takes a national disaster to bring our country together. We shine in adversity. So often, we focus on trivial things and forget what's important.

[AK]Abaddon

[[AK]Bribo]

The nicest thing our Arab friends could do for us right now is to increase oil production and drop the price on a barrel of crude. The major thing that has attributed to the economic slow-down over the past year has been the price of oil which greases the wheels of capitalism world wide.

They ought to put their money where their mouth is do the right thing.