Catholics & Catholicism

Question:

You really are never poor if you still can laugh.

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste." – NAACP Television Campaign. George K.

Response:

In short, we love you amerikkka.  Beat us, slap us around, spit in our faces and, eventually, dance on our graves.  We just love you so damn much.  Why feed the children when you can kill them?  Peaces is so damn cheap, it’s war that’s expensive.  Keep the war machine rolling amerikkka.  What would all those poor contractors do without their fat government cheques?  And don’t tlisten to those kooks who would like to see government money used to investigate clean energy initiatives.  Those commies don’t understand the importance of an oil driven economy.  Besides, there’s lots of oil left. You take as much as you want, we’ll be ahppy with the left overs.

You really are never poor if you still can laugh.

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Loved this when it was new some ten to twenty years ago (which is why there is no mention of 9-11, for example) A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then, any Canadians still feel much the same about us ? If so, it would sure be nice to see an update , the below, is getting old enough to make us wonder if things have changed

<original thank you to the US snipped We love the amerikkkans up here, especially since deals like NAFTA resulted in the US getting a free pass to all of our natural resources, except for the ones that they have to pay us for, like our soft wood lumber and our beef (which is safer by far than anything south of the border…).  But hey, we got HBO and faulty missle defence system shooting dangerous bombs over our head at missles from other greatful countries the US had "helped" so much over the years.  I’m sure there are literally hundreds of countries lining up to thank amerikkka for 50 years of economic and political manipulation. Let’s not forget all the millitary coups they supported.  Thanks amerikkka for supporting the removal of one tyrant and replacing him with a more amerikkan friendly murderer.  I’m sure the Palistinians are extremely pleased about the financial and millitary aid that the US sends to Israel to help ensure they will never be anything more than hunted refugees in their own country.  I bet the good people of Iraq are also really pleased.  Thanks amerikkka for murdering thousands of our civillians, plunging us into civil war and abandoning the Geneva Convention.  This is what democracy tastes like amerikkkan style I guess.  But fuck those bastards overseas if they can’t take a joke eh?  They’re free now, and freedom feels sooooooo good. Let’s not forget all your friends in Europe.  Don’t worry about the quality of the world’s air amerikkka, we’ll pick up the slack for you.  We love you. Keep pumping out emmissions and call it a clean skys initiative.  That’s yankee enginuity for you.  And thanks for being a productive part of the UN. For respecting the decisions of the WTO on any trade disputed with your neighbor.  For subsidizing your farmers to help keep them competitive (it’s OK to keep dumping your cheap government funded crops and produce on us, don’t worry about testing your beef properly either, it’s so tasty, we don’t even care about BSE). Thanks for the war on drugs too amerikkka, where would we be without you as a moral role model?  It dosen’t matter that you supported the war mongering opium lords, sorry, I meant to say "The Northern Alliance" in Afganistan. So what if the people you support ship opium to pakistan where it’s manufactured into heroin for the US market?  Makes sense to all of us.  We don’t care that the CIA shipped plane load after plane load of herion out of vietnam.  Keep fighting the good fight amerikkka.  Those dirty columbian peasants deserve everything they get.  And we know you really want to stomp out those commie pot smokin’ liberal hippies.  They smoke pot because they hate freedom.  Makes sure to stomp those jerks with cancer and AIDS as hard as you can too, they’re all just gettin’ high.  It’s got nothing to do with medicine or civil liberties amerikkka.  Why can’t they just drink a good wholesome beer like Budweiser.  Ummmm…. starchy, just the way I like it. In short, we love you amerikkka.  Beat us, slap us around, spit in our faces and, eventually, dance on our graves.  We just love you so damn much.  Why feed the children when you can kill them?  Peaces is so damn cheap, it’s war that’s expensive.  Keep the war machine rolling amerikkka.  What would all those poor contractors do without their fat government cheques?  And don’t tlisten to those kooks who would like to see government money used to investigate clean energy initiatives.  Those commies don’t understand the importance of an oil driven economy.  Besides, there’s lots of oil left. You take as much as you want, we’ll be ahppy with the left overs. Thanks for being a good role model.  It’s way more important to keep one seriously brain damaged woman alive than it is to not shoot the wives and children of a bunch of third world rag heads.  And keep fighting against the murder that is abortion amerikkka.  The only thing women deserve the right to choose is what kind of shoes to wear (as long as you say they’re OK big guy…).  And forget stem cell research and theraputic human cloning.  DOn’t those freaky liberals know that it’s an afront to god almighty himself?  But your reward’s in heaven amerikkka. Oh ya, I just about forgot.  Thanks for censoring the media.  I don’t want to have to go through the trouble of thinking on my own amerikkka.  You do the thinking for both of us from now on.  Thanks for unbridled consumerism and finally showing us the way to manufacture good properly.  Why pay more? Let the loosers over seas and the spics do it for pennies on the dollar. They must be beating down your door every day to thank you for letting amerikkkan companies opperate without the tyrany of labour laws or respect for the environment. So fly the flag high and proud amerikkka.  Rally round the new constitution (a.k.a. the "patriot" act) and hail to the cheif.  We’re all watching you amerikkka, and listening too.  Don’t let us down now.  We’ve got tears in our eyes from prayin’ so hard from the bible you lent us.  We’ve got a song of praise on our lips.  God bless the USA.

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Loved this when it was new some ten to twenty years ago (which is why there is no mention of 9-11, for example) A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then, any Canadians still feel much the same about us ? If so, it would sure be nice to see an update , the below, is getting old enough to make us wonder if things have changed

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I am sure this has appeared on the group before.  I never saw it, but I have seen this letter make the rounds on the net.  If it never appeared here, this would be the only place.  At any rate, this is a quote from a Canadian TV Commentator named Gordon Sinclair who sums up the role America finds itself playing in the world quite nicely.  He also sums up the opinions of America’s critics pretty well.  His commentary follows: "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!

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… whatever … The USA the only country in the world to nuke a civilian population … TWICE!!!! "I am not a crook!" – Richard "Tricky Dicky" Nixon God save us from America! MUSIC CENSORSHIP IN THE USA – 1950 till the present …. 1952 The Weavers are blacklisted due to the leftist political beliefs and associations of several members. 1953 … Six counties in South Carolina pass legislation outlawing jukebox operation anytime when within hearing distance of a church. 1954 Stephen Foster songs are edited for radio to remove words such as "massa" and "darky." … For radio airplay the perceived drug reference "I get no kick from cocaine," is changed to "I get perfume from Spain." in Cole Porter’s classic "I Get A Kick Out of You." … 1955 Former radio deejay Pat Boone begins a career by releasing "sanitized" versions of black R&B hits. Boone’s versions of these songs often contain edited lyrics: such as substituting "drinkin’ Coca Cola" for "drinkin’ wine" in T-Bone Walker’s "Stormy Monday" and "Pretty little Susie is the girl for me" instead of "Boys, don’t you know what she do to me" in Little Richard’s "Tutti Fruitti." … CBS television network cancels Alan Freed’s Rock ‘n Roll Dance Party after a camera shows Frankie Lymon (leader of the doo wop group Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers) dancing with a white girl. Officials in San Diego and Florida police warn Elvis Presley that if he moves at all during his local performances, he will be arrested on obscenity charges. 1956 ABC Radio Network bans Billie Holiday’s rendition of Cole Porter’s "Love for Sale" from all of its stations because of its prostitution theme. Stations continue to play instrumental versions of the song. …. The Parks Department in San Antonio, Texas, removes all rock and roll records from jukeboxes located at city swimming pools, terming it "jumpy, hot stuff" that is unsuitable for teens. … 1957 Producers of the Ed Sullivan Show instruct cameramen to show Elvis Presley only from the waist up on his third and final appearance on the program on January 7th. Fearing the effects of the "hedonistic, tribal rhythms" of rock and roll music, in March Chicago’s Cardinal Stritch bans popular music from all Catholic-run schools. … 1958 The Mutual Broadcasting System drops all rock and roll records from its network music programs, calling it "distorted, monotonous, noisy music." … 1962 New York Bishop Burke forbids Catholic school students from dancing to "The Twist." Burke considers R&B music, and its associated dances, to be lewd and un-Christian. 1963 The FBI begins collecting data on folk singers Phil Ochs. Ochs is one of several popular musicians to be tracked by the FBI during their careers (Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie). Bob Dylan refuses to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show in February after producers tell him he cannot sing "Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues." Dylan is never invited to perform on the show again. … 1965 … Cleveland Mayor Ralph Locher bans all rock concerts in the city following a Rolling Stones performance. The Barry McGuire song "Eve of Destruction" is pulled from retail stores and radio stations across the country after some groups complain that it is nihilistic and could promote suicidal feelings amongst teens. … 1966 … A statement by John Lennon in March, comparing the popularity of the Beatles to that of Jesus Christ, results in wide-spread Beatles record burnings and protests. Lennon’s comments regarding what he perceives as a decrease in Christianity’s popularity with teens are taken out of context. He says, "We’re more popular than Jesus now." … In June, Capitol Records recalls all copies of the Beatles’ Yesterday And Today album following complaints over the album’s gory cover art. The "butcher" cover depicts the four Beatles wearing white smocks and covered with decapitated baby dolls and raw meat. Police attempt to shut down a James Brown concert, alleging the singer’s dancing is obscene. … 1967 The Rolling Stones agree to alter the lyrics to "Let’s Spend The Night Together" for an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in January. Producers request that singer Mick Jagger alter the title phrase to "Let’s spend some time together." … Producers of the Ed Sullivan Show request that Jim Morrison change the lyrics to "Light My Fire" for The Doors’ September appearance on the program. Morrison initially agrees to alter the lyric "Girl we couldn’t get much higher" to a more innocuous phrase. During the live performance, Morrison sings the original lyric. The band is not invited back on the program. 1968 An El Paso, Texas, radio station bans all songs performed by Bob Dylan because they cannot understand the folk singer’s lyrics. The station continues to play recordings of Dylan songs performed by other artists with clearer diction. The Doors’ single "Unknown Soldier" is banned from airplay at many radio stations because of its anti-war theme. Sponsors go into an uproar and threaten to pull support after a television program shows interracial "touching." During the taping of a duet between Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte, Clark lays her hand on Belafonte’s arm (Clark is white and Belafonte is black). … After being invited by the Smothers Brothers to perform his anti-Vietnam anthem "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" on their TV show, Pete Seeger is edited out of the program by the censors at CBS television. 1969 In January, New York police seize 30,000 copies of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Two Virgins album. … In September, the local Roman Catholic Diocese runs a two-page ad spread in the Seattle Post Intelligencer calling for the criminal prosecution of rock musicians and for bans against "rock festivals and their drug-sex-rock-squalor culture." … In July, one-half of the country’s Top 40 stations refuse to play "The Ballad of John and Yoko" because they feel that the lyrics are blasphemous. The song’s lyrics contain references to Christ and crucifixion. … 1970 … A group known as the Movement to Restore Democracy calls for the banning of rock music to end the spread of Socialism in America. … Claiming that he fears the song "Ohio" will incite further violence on college campuses following the killing of four students at Kent State University, Governor James Rhodes attempts to order Ohio radio stations to ban the song. … Country Joe McDonald is fined $500 for uttering an obscenity during a concert performance of his song "I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die Rag." Janis Joplin is fined $200 for violating local profanity and obscenity laws for her performance after a concert in Tampa, Florida. 1971 Several radio stations alter the John Lennon song "Working Class Hero" without the consent of Lennon or his record label. Radio stations across the U.S. ban Bob Dylan’s single "George Jackson" over concerns about the song’s political theme and the word "shit" in its lyrics. …. In April, the Illinois Crime Commission publishes a list of popular rock songs that contain drug references, including Peter, Paul and Mary’s "Puff The Magic Dragon" and the Beatles’ "Yellow Submarine." Chrysalis Records changes the lyrics to Jethro Tull’s "Locomotive Breath" without the band’s knowledge or consent. Label executives fear radio stations will not play the original, which contains the lyric "got him by the balls." … 1972 In January, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee issues a report on John Lennon and Yoko Ono, advocating the termination of Lennon’s visa to live in the U.S. The report calls the couple "strong advocates of the program to ‘dump Nixon’." … John Lennon’s song "Woman is the Nigger of the World" is banned by radio stations across the country. Radio stations across the country ban John Denver’s hit song "Rocky Mountain High," fearing that the song’s "high" refers to drugs. … 1975 Radio stations across the country refuse to play Loretta Lynn’s "The Pill" because of its references to birth control. … 1977 The Reverend Jesse Jackson calls for bans against disco music, insisting the music promotes promiscuity and drug use. … 1980 Fearing association with its theme, Mercury Records refuses to release Frank Zappa’s single "I Don’t Wanna Get Drafted." … In October, Youth Minister Art Diaz organizes a group of local teenagers who conduct a record burning at the First Assembly Church of God in Des Moines, Iowa, including albums by the Beatles, Ravi Shankar, Peter Frampton, and the soundtrack to the movie Grease. A similar burning takes place a few months later in Keoku, Iowa, where a church group burns the work of The Carpenters, John Denver, and Perry Como. … 1982 Ozzy Osbourne is forbidden from performing in San Antonio, Texas, after he is arrested for urinating on the Alamo. Osbourne’s various legal troubles also prevent him from playing in several other cities, including Boston, Baton Rouge, Corpus Christi, Las Vegas, and Philadelphia and Scranton, Pennsylvania. California assemblyman Phil Wyman introduces a bill to outlaw the practice of including subliminal messages in rock records. … 1983 Roger Wilcher, a Baptist youth minister in Emporia, Virginia, petitions the city council to remove MTV from the local cable system. Voice of America programmer Frank Scott issues a directive to staff that they are not permitted to play music which might offend any portion of their audience. 1984 …. Dade Christian School in Miami, Florida, forbids students from attending a local concert by the Jackson Brothers, because they fear it will lead the youth to use drugs, drink, behave irresponsibly, and participate in lewd dancing. Any student who attends the concert is guaranteed fifteen demerits. Critics call for boycotts of Bruce … read more »

Response:

Gordon Sinclair died in 1984. This speech was broadcast on June 5, 1973 during his radio program. And it was about the decline of the US dollar. — – zaphod "Count the heads, baby."

Doesn’t change the sentiment that he expressed about America’s character as a nation, and it hasn’t changed in the last twenty years….only the absurdity level of its critics have. Chuck Stamford – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I am sure this has appeared on the group before.  I never saw it, but I have seen this letter make the rounds on the net.  If it never appeared here, this would be the only place.  At any rate, this is a quote from a Canadian TV Commentator named Gordon Sinclair who sums up the role America finds itself playing in the world quite nicely.  He also sums up the opinions of America’s critics pretty well.  His commentary follows: "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!

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Must have just taken a shower… America sees a Saudi is their main adversary, Therefore they demonise an Iraqi America sees Saudis drive planes into their homeland, killing thousands, Therefore they invade Iraq America is the world’s biggest polluter Therefore they try to sell oil advice to Iraq after failing to steal the oil in sufficient number I am sure this has appeared on the group before.  I never saw it, but I have seen this letter make the rounds on the net.  If it never appeared here, this would be the only place.  At any rate, this is a quote from a Canadian TV Commentator named Gordon Sinclair who sums up the role America finds itself playing in the world quite nicely.  He also sums up the opinions of America’s critics pretty well.  His commentary follows: "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!

A truly amazing sentiment from Canada!  My hats off to Ron Boutwell for supplying this little ray of sunshine from Gordon Sinclair out of the gloomy land of anti-American rhetoric run amok. I would like to correct one thing though.  Sinclair asked, "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 know if "raced" would be the appropriate word, but the French did blockade the port at Yorktown in 1781, thus cutting off Cornwallis’ last means of retreat from his last strong point in America, and probably shortened the war for American independence by several days or weeks. Didn’t affect the outcome by any means, but it was a nice gesture that actually cost the French something to make.  Oh, and let’s not forget that lovely statue!  Darn nice decoration that…and well made too.  But that’s the only time I can think of when some nation actually helped America when it was in trouble. Oh, and Norwood Holden can go suck an egg. Chuck Stamford

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Gordon Sinclair died in 1984. This speech was broadcast on June 5, 1973 during his radio program. And it was about the decline of the US dollar. — – zaphod "Count the heads, baby." – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I am sure this has appeared on the group before.  I never saw it, but I have seen this letter make the rounds on the net.  If it never appeared here, this would be the only place.  At any rate, this is a quote from a Canadian TV Commentator named Gordon Sinclair who sums up the role America finds itself playing in the world quite nicely.  He also sums up the opinions of America’s critics pretty well.  His commentary follows: "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!

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I am sure this has appeared on the group before.  I never saw it, but I have seen this letter make the rounds on the net.  If it never appeared here, this would be the only place.  At any rate, this is a quote from a Canadian TV Commentator named Gordon Sinclair who sums up the role America finds itself playing in the world quite nicely.  He also sums up the opinions of America’s critics pretty well.  His commentary follows: "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!

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America sees a Saudi is their main adversary, Therefore they demonise an Iraqi America sees Saudis drive planes into their homeland, killing thousands, Therefore they invade Iraq America is the world’s biggest polluter Therefore they try to sell oil advice to Iraq after failing to steal the oil in sufficient number

And the BBC has all the truth? Hehe.. Take care www.freemasonry911.com

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Must have just taken a shower…

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – America sees a Saudi is their main adversary, Therefore they demonise an Iraqi America sees Saudis drive planes into their homeland, killing thousands, Therefore they invade Iraq America is the world’s biggest polluter Therefore they try to sell oil advice to Iraq after failing to steal the oil in sufficient number I am sure this has appeared on the group before.  I never saw it, but I have seen this letter make the rounds on the net.  If it never appeared here, this would be the only place.  At any rate, this is a quote from a Canadian TV Commentator named Gordon Sinclair who sums up the role America finds itself playing in the world quite nicely.  He also sums up the opinions of America’s critics pretty well.  His commentary follows: "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!

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America sees a Saudi is their main adversary, Therefore they demonise an Iraqi America sees Saudis drive planes into their homeland, killing thousands, Therefore they invade Iraq America is the world’s biggest polluter Therefore they try to sell oil advice to Iraq after failing to steal the oil in sufficient number – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am sure this has appeared on the group before.  I never saw it, but I have seen this letter make the rounds on the net.  If it never appeared here, this would be the only place.  At any rate, this is a quote from a Canadian TV Commentator named Gordon Sinclair who sums up the role America finds itself playing in the world quite nicely.  He also sums up the opinions of America’s critics pretty well.  His commentary follows: "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!

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