4th July Independence Day Message to the US

Derek Copeland wrote:
One of the problems is that it is quite difficult to
get anything published in the mainstream US media that
doesn't support the 'America is wonderful' theme. I
have tried!

Oh bull****. The Denver Post, a very mainstream paper, is often
critical of the direction the US is going, as is National Public Radio,
PBS, CNN and even The Discovery Channel, to wit:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence...k=fsmain_feat4

Derek, in general I agree with you, but jingoism is definitely on the
wane in the US.


Anyway don't worry Shawn, as shall be going back to
kicking the PW-5 and supporting Club Class gliding
shortly.

Yes!

Shawn

From what I have read US troops are to busy shooting innocents, bashing
prisoners, raping the natives, looting, jailing innocents, playing satanic
music while shooting, blowing up the town to even have the time to find or
look for Osama Bin Laden

Hardly a positive thing or anything to celebrate.

that is what all you LIBERALS say..
"Mal" wrote in message
...
From what I have read US troops are to busy shooting innocents, bashing
prisoners, raping the natives, looting, jailing innocents, playing satanic
music while shooting, blowing up the town to even have the time to find or
look for Osama Bin Laden

Hardly a positive thing or anything to celebrate.

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

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

Shawn

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.

jealous of us, because we are generous, with a long history of
generosity that is shamefully and convienently ignored.

Compared to most developed countries in Europe, our "generosity" is far less
on a per capita basis. Most countries, at this point, would prefer we took
our generosity and UN veto capability and stuffed it in a very dark place.

Jim Vincent wrote:
jealous of us, because we are generous, with a long history of
generosity that is shamefully and convienently ignored.

Compared to most developed countries in Europe, our "generosity" is far less
on a per capita basis. Most countries, at this point, would prefer we took
our generosity and UN veto capability and stuffed it in a very dark place.

Derek,

You are a moron.....and every other idiot (who is afraid of its own
shadow) is as well. Go away, leave the stupid politics, of which you
have no understanding whatsoever, to others. And don't try to bash the
PW-5....PW-5 is smarter than you.

And Mal....I am disappointed, I thought that you were a smart
individual.

This site is about soaring, be constructive or get lost. We don't need
people like you in aviation.

Jacek