Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
[snip]
> European Capitalists were never above making laws to their advantage Chris.
> America learned from its treatment of both Germany and Japan after WW II.
>
> Remember the US at the end of the cold war acted differently. It sent
> Russia some local businessmen but little money. It seems that we learned
> to act like the Europeans at the end of their empires. "Cut 'em lose" and
> the "devil take 'em as long as they don't flood the world with arms"
> oops! didn't do very well on that account did we.
I have said this before.
We may yet reap our ROI in the form of such dividends
as treatment-resistent tuberculosis, even if none of their
weapons get sold to unfriendly agents or spontaqneously combust.
> Should we say that the Europeans knew how to "conquer" a country in 1630 and
> 1864 when they flooded America with their (not my words but a European
> poet's) "wretched refuse of thier teeming shores."
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It is my understanding that my maternal grandfather
was shipped "over here" from Poland because he was
"incorrigible". This was ca. 1900. The decision was
probably correct as far as the persons "over there"
were concerned. His family was apparently middle class.
My maternal grandmother came here voluntarily -- she was
from lower level (non-Kulak) peasant stock.
Oh, yes, I also "know someone" "in the arts" who has the "means"...
to live in London and not in The States. He has voted with
his feet, which I wouldn't have any problem with if he
went St. Francis of Assisi style (i.e., leaving all
the trappings of the flesh behind).
> Perhaps we should all just go shopping and buy
> something instead of doing all of this talking that makes us all
> uncomfortable. Brad could join us and then we could go to "brunch."
I don't do "brunch" -- it usually consists of heart attack
triggers. But good conversation makes time fly even without
tending to the voice of the belly (presuming one generally
have enough to eat...).
As for "going shopping", I'd love to -- I just can't find things
worth buying very easily. When I go to the food store, however,
I can satisfy my shopping urge fairly safely by
buying toilet paper (which I do not expect to be
obsoleted soon...) and Fancy Feast Savory Salmon Feast
cat food. The cats know what they like when they
find it, and they have *ZERO* interest in anything
different. The cats know, at least behaviorally ("functionally"),
that variety is not the spice of life. They are good
unitarians, who:
Prove all things, and hold fast that which is good.
They are honorable American products: Maine Coon cats!
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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