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Re: OT but must read!

#103850
From: Arthur Dent
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:27
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I wasted 10 seconds of my life waiting on OE d/l messages from the forum and 
all I get is this guff.  Then there is the 30 seconds wasted responding.

"McGrandpa" <McGran...@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "Thomas" <tho...@lycos.nl> wrote in message 
> news:3o8ju7F4oaplU1@individual.net...
>> mcv wrote:
>>> I know I shouldn't respond to trolls, but there are two factual errors
>>> I'd like to point out:
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>
>> Actually, Aeroflot uses Boeing 767's |:-)
>>
>>> Never heard of Airbus? I think it's the primary competitor of Boeing,
>>> and it's currently building a new passenger jet that's bigger than the
>>> 747. Their other planes are also used by many airlines all over the
>>> world. I'm afraid I've never heard of the Lockheed Tri-Star, though.
>>> I thought Lockheed made mostly military planes.
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> America is quite able to deal with many disasters on their own.
>>> Katrina
>>> is an exceptionally big one, ofcourse, and foreign aid is now coming
>>> in
>>> from all over the world. Including from countries like Venezuela and
>>> Cuba, in fact.
>>
>> The funny thing is that America actually refused any help the first days 
>> after Katrina...
>>
>> -- 
>> Thomas
> No, not Americans in general... some of our damned beurocraps did that. 
> And we The People ain't particularly happy about that.  Nor about our own 
> military NOT being given the order to mobilize help to La., Ms., and Al. 
> affected areas.   We're wondering how many of the 10,000+ dead wouldn't be 
> if our elected officials hadn't had their thumbs up their butts.
> McG.
> 
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