Uh folks,

This is about soaring, right?

The glider wasn't invented in the U.S.A. -- I think the towplane might
have been, depending on which revisionist historian you believe...

I'm taking a guess here that (some of) the Brits are trying to **** on
our parade because two hundred thirty years ago, the sorely mistreated
colonials declared independence from England (yeah, I guess we should
give them credit for not doing an Abu Grahaeb back then).

A happy 4th of July to those who are liberal, conservative (or neither)
and enjoy the right to dissent -- either based on truth, folley, rumor
or misinformation -- but nonetheless, allowed to dissent without fear
of losing life, limb, family or property. The entire world should be
so fortunate, and fortunate to be as generous a nation, privately if
not publicly.

Happy Birthday, U.S.A.! Perhaps not a perfect system, but far better
than most.

Happy thermals to all -- even those that despise us, mock us and are
jealous of us, because we are generous, with a long history of
generosity that is shamefully and convienently ignored. And it sounds
as if the exception is taken to be rule, and one bad apple is used to
justify wasting the efforts of those which are very good.

....which reminds me of my soaring...couldn't thermal worth a damn last
flight, so should I sell the glider? Nah, it was born around the
fourth of July in Elmira, New York, albeit much less than 230 years
ago.

Happy Independence Day to U.S. Soaring Pilots!

-Pete

Shawn wrote:
Brian Glick wrote:
that is what all you LIBERALS say..

No actually, we don't. Clean out your ears.