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Yeah... I've been having trouble with that ever since I met a Kurd... He kept jumping back & forth across the Turkey-Iraq border just to confuse me! So... What makes a terrorist a freedom-fighter? If it's not the Wistful-Poetry, then what is it? Surely it's not the Potato-Eating... It CAN'T be The Bushmills - The Prods make that! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Maxwell smart needed Agent 99 to keep him straight. Bond also has female help & fun with them at the same time as yet another example of British Superiority. So with that stipulation out of the way, what about the dude/dudes from the Impossible Mission Force? Weren't the IMF a bunch of intelligent Americans who AVOIDED the use of guns

Unless of course it's those "Lovable-Rogues", The IRA! Maybe what Muslim terrorists are lacking is a bit of wistful poetry to mix in with their bombings. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,651633,00.html http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/754/op36.htm http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/Sunday_Times/IRA_robbery12-2-01.htm http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/comment.cfm?id=270532005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1563119.stm & so on... Google it ! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

WHAT have I told Y'All about doing some BASIC RESEARCH!!! The vastly increased demand for Paradise-Virgins will inevitably have an effect on quality. Of course... If you're happy to settle for Two-Tooth FAT-ima and her monobrowed friends then that's up to you! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Not really... Napoleon Solo workes for The UN! He also had Ilya Kuryakin (a Russian played by an Englishman) along to "curb his excessive Americanism". It shows in the little things, like Solo's use of a Walther P-38 Kurz. So we're looking for an American, working for an American Intelligence agency, without a partner. It really HAS to be Maxwell Smart in "Get Smart".

Dishonest Cops are news... Just like Honest Politicians are news... Well, an Honest Politician will be news... One day... If the news people ever find one! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

No he isn't. Let's be honest... America's equivalent to James Bond; Maxwell Smart, was never afraid of guns. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

OK... Now that there's a "Gay" skydiving boogie / day to go along with "Chicks-Rock", "Pops", "Pofs", etc... What specialised Boogie would you attend & why? Just to set the tone, I wanna be at The REDNECK Boogie. Pickup trucks... Weight-vests full of beer & jerky... Round canopies (the only "squares" allowed are ones made out of bedsheets)... Out-Landings are fair game as "Skeet"... Imported Cars (especially French ones) raining out of the back of skyvans... Mike. PS: I'm guessing that someone's gonna post the sort of boogie that'll keep this in SC. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

.... you live in a house built by British standards. Some decent thermal insulation.... According to a site by a Finnish power company, ... 20,000KWH per year. Hi Erik, If you're talking to residents of Auchenblae, perhaps you should begin by explaining about "E-Lec-Tri-Si-Tee"... Start by saying; "In The Civilised World..." They already have Cavity-Insulation... It's called a "Wooly-Hat". Quality of house construction is directly linked to availability of alcohol! Aussies have their Barbie-Fires to keep them warm... Their "Beer" to keep them cool... AND... Their status as partially reformed convicts to keep them from complaining about their housing!, Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Personally, I think that Americans are far too quick to denigrate Carter. For example; Carter inherited the USDoD at it's nadir both in terms of morale and funding. It was Carter who authorised the first major increases in Defence Spending and the rebuilding of the American Military into its present omnipotent form, which the American People commonly credit to Reagan. Then again, quite a lot about American Presidents seems to slip under the notice of American Voters... Like the fact that Reagan was a Nuclear Abolitionist! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

For example The "Orange County Nazi Gangs" Etc... Incidentally, the "excessive" Anti-Nazi laws enacted in Germany & Austria spring DIRECTLY out of the Four-Power-Rule of these countries by (chiefly) America. Perhaps Roosevelt & Truman's administration actually recognised that different cultures had different legal needs and didn't try to make other countries into "Little-America". Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Yet IFE make NO mention of this sudden leap from pure research to manufacturing in THEIR website? In fact, IFE clearly state that their research into solar panels is based on silicon panels, rather than the ones made out of South-African-Snake-Oil! No offence guys, but if the named major investor turns out to be what amounts to an academic research group, then I get suspicious. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Hate to pour cold water on this... IFE Solar Systems is NEITHER German, nor a manufacturing company! It's a Scandanavian Research Group! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Sprachlos? Du? Unwahrscheinlich! Mike. PS: Check out my new sig line links. If you stare at them long enough you realise the "Empty-Ones" are to blame! Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Armes unglückliches Kind. Tiefste Sympathien. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Incidentally... I don't know if you have ever read any of Irving's stuff. I assume you haven't been exposed to his rubbish as Europeans have (incidentally, this is the "independent historian" who validated The Hitler Diaries). But... As a result of his entering Germany as part of the British Military Government at the end of WWII he did have access to excellent first-hand sources. I had to read a couple of his books as sources... Personally, I think he deserves the 3 years in jail just for the suffering I endured due to the politicised $hit he wove into the historical fact! Mike. Edited to add: Make no mistake. Irving is a discredited historian. He was found by a British Court to be a Biased, Neo-Faschist Wanker. OK - not the EXACT findings but that about sums it up. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

... And... Ladies & Gentlemen... I give you Osama Bin Laden... Live at The Twin-Towers! Acceptable? Within the US Constitution? Or would the crowds be justified in tearing his First Amendment rights limb from limb along with the rest of him? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Bill puts it very eloquently - in any culture there is a stage where "free-speech" degenerates into abuse. In the case of Germany & Austria any denial or justification for Nazism clearly falls into the category of abuse. Would The US tolerate a white supremacist making a public speech on killing blacks at the place Martin Luther King was assassinated? Interestingly, between his arrest & the trial, David Irving has recanted the Holocaust-Denial he has maintained for some 30 years! He cites "new research" (PLEASE! Have gas chambers suddenly been discovered at Auschwitz in the last 2 months?) Austria has free speech! Look at what Hubsi Kramer does in Braunnau! If that isn't confronting the worst of your past, then what is? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I'm gonna resurrect my ole proposal for a physical "International Court" on St.Helena (where Napoleon was exiled). That way Osama could be given a fair trial and then released to go home! For those of you who missed the original proposal... The courts choices are: 1. Flown Home

Yeah. Under Austrian Law (and the law of several other countries including, I think, Canada), "Holocaust-Denial" is a complete crime. While this may seem an infringement on free speech, it's commonly viewed as the first step of anti-semitic racism and glorification of Nazism... Particularly in those countries which suffered Nazism and it's consequences most. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Let's see... Jeb Bush? Condie Rice? Hilary Clinton? some Kennedy? What HAVE you reduced yourselves to? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Personally I'm appalled at the sentence & think it should be increased on appeal. Nazism lasted just over 12 years, and if these camps were so pleasant, then surely Irving, as a historian should hav eno problem living as a Jew or dissident in the regime the Nazis devised! Yeah... Ithink it's a shame that this cowardly, anti-semitic, racist can't be jailed in a suitable place as a sort of living-history exhibit! For years this utter shit has denied the holocaust... Then, between his arrest & his trial, he suddenly realises that the holocaust DID in fact take place!!! I sincerely hope that his volte-face was responsible for at least 2 years of his sentence. Then again, I believe that 12 years, 2 months in a purpose-built replica of Bergen-Belsen should be the mandatory sentence for these bastards... Let's see what they think of their beloved NSDAP then! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Yeah... the world would probably be in deep $hit if there was some idiot who talks to God on a regular basis with his finger on the nuclear button... OH $HIT!!! Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Yeah, the choices were somewhat limited, but from that you'd expect that if the people couldn't vote for a candidate they wanted, then they'd vote for the candidate nearest to what they wanted. From there it's interesting that the more "right-wing" candidate won. I believe that the Iranians, like most people, are attitude-mirrors. When the perceived US threat to Iran was lessened, we saw a relaxation in the regime & moves towards (dare I say it) reform, and a more secular government. Now that the perceived threat level has increased, we see a resurgence of "Bunker-Mentality" in Iran with a distinct hardening of attitudes towards The West. Any time now I'm expecting the term; "Great Satan" to come back into fashion! As for America responding to the threat of Muslims with nukes goes... What about Pakistan & (allegedly) Saudi Arabia? Or is it OK for those Muslims to have nukes, but not Iran? At the moment, there are only 2 scenarios which would reduce Mid-East tension. The most likely one is that Iran acquires nuclear weapons (discussed to death elsewhere). The less likely one is that The Coalition admits that it has achieved the aims of it's invasion of Iraq (liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein's regime) and withdraws its forces from Iraqi territory. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

~~~ There ya go... Fixed it for you! Have they elected "The Guy" because he was the candidate most likely to preserve Iranian sovereignty against America? ONLY since 2001? How about US actions towards Iran since 1953? You're absolutely right of course. Indeed it could be reasonably argued that between America & Britain, Iran has been the subject of Western control & interference since it's inception during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson! Within the terms of this thread, I was thinking more of the immediate threat to Iranian sovereignty and their quest for a proven & workable solution to that threat. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.