hmmm.... You have a good point there Mightier. hehe... but I'm not going to get into that right now! :)
I'm thinking that no one ever reads my posts, I don't blame them, in fact I FEEL for them. hehehe... I'm repetitive, childish, and boring to the extreme as far as I've been able to percieve. But I guess that doesn't really matter at all. :D I'm in a very good mood, if anyone cares to know. I didn't do my usual acts that I do to avoic bordom. YES! :)
So yeah... My friends over here are out partying tonight, and I'm stuck here at home on the computer. Oh well, at least I won't have a big hangover like they will in the morning. Always look on the bright side they say, WELL SCREW THAT. hihi... Next weekend I will have fun going along with all of them. I intend to stay sober, that way when everyone is passed out on the floor, I can... (insert whatever). LOL... I am waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy to hyper right now. I think I will go for a walk. how fun, a walk under the cloudy midnight sky! haha...
I miss pizza, american pizza that is. Over here it's not even half as greasy and they actually make it from scratch. They have a lot more choices then we do, some really odd ones... like banana and so forth, the childrens pizza is the size of a normal medium back home, and it's 40:- at this one plase I went to. That is $4 american money. The big boys pizza is 80:- ($8). The McDonalds and Burger King here make their food so it looks like the commercials on tv, only it's not plastic! Tastes great, though I miss the soggy bun, limp salad, totally mangled hamburgers we have at home. :)
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 broken.
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!"
hehehe... that is all for me. Now for that cloudy night stroll. hej då - Tarwyn
September 14, 2001
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