Hello Joe. Good to be back. Make mine an Anchor Steam brewski.
And, would you please, pretty please, get me one of those Montecristoes you have under the bar?
First, a news report regarding Greenpeace:::::::::
http://www.greenpeace.org/news/details?item_id=173556
Stopping the war machine in Spain
Fri 14 March 2003 SPAIN/Rota
It could be just days before the US goes to war in Iraq and still supplies for the war machine are on route. The Rainbow Warrior is outside the US and Spanish military port of Rota in the south of Spain this morning trying to stop the US military cargo ship Cape Horn from leaving port for the Gulf. Already two activists have been arrested, but the Rainbow Warrior is anchored in front of the port entrance preventing the war machine from leaving.
Before we even finished our coffee this morning we were surrounded by police boats and a helicopter was on the scene. At around 8:30 we heard radio transmission that the Cape Horn, a massive military cargo ship headed for the Gulf was preparing to leave. It wasn't long after that we saw military tug boats heading into the port to help maneuver the large vessel out of the port.
But within half an hour we had four inflatable boats in the water with activists, the Rainbow Warrior had started engines and we were raising the anchor. By this time there were another three military ships around us. To our surprise and delight they started to head out to sea, where did they think we were going?
Along with the inflatables we headed towards the entrance of the port, a narrow passage we can block and prevent the war machine from leaving.
The small police boats and helicopter quickly caught up with our activists while the military ships were already too far out to stop us. We are going to stop this military cargo from supplying this illegal and immoral war against Iraq.
By 9:30 the Rainbow Warrior was in position in front of the port entrance and we dropped our anchor.
Already two activists, an American man and Spanish woman, have been arrested as they attempted to chain themselves to buoys on the gate to the port. The police have also seized one of our inflatables but the boat crew were able to avoid arrest.
We are going to stay and stop this military cargo ship. The Spanish government is supporting a war on Iraq both politically at the UN and on the ground here in Rota, but the Spanish people are against this war. We are here stopping this shipment on behalf of the 90 percent of Spanish people who oppose the war with or without a UN resolution.
You can take action and show your opposition to the war by writing to the members of the UN Security Council and ask them to say no to war.
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One of my friends is on the Cape Horn, and here is what I sent him on receiving the news about Greenpeace::::::::::
Really!
And I thought Greenpeace had "peace" in its name.
Merchant marine and military ships support our troops.
Thus, I am surprised they are targeting you.
How much do they hate America and its military?
Every time I hear about Greenpeace I cringe.
But it would not be appropriate to wish them harm.
Althought one might think it, it would be wrong.
So let me make it clear.
They may be putzes and all that.
And they may join Iraq in their anti-American stance.
Really, radical liberal, pro-Communist, anti-American.
Don't give them the satisfaction of hating them.
Some day, they may see the light.
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This is an example of my magnificent encryption technique.
I suggest you check the first letter of each sentence in my post to my friend.
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And, now a little joke:
CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG ?
Two Arabs boarded a flight out of London. One took a window seat and the other sat next to him in the middle seat.
Just before takeoff, an American sat down in the aisle seat.
After takeoff, the American kicked his shoes off, wiggled his toes and was settling in when the Arab in the window seat said, "I need to get up and get a beer."
"Don't get up," said the American, "I'm in the aisle seat. I'll get it for you."
As soon as he left, one of the Arabs picked up the American's shoe and spat in it.
When he returned with the beer, the other Arab said, "That looks good, I'd really like one, too."
Again, the American obligingly went to fetch it. While he was gone the other Arab picked up his other shoe and spat in it.
When the American returned, they all sat back and enjoyed the flight.
As the plane was landing, the American slipped his feet into his shoes and knew immediately what had happened.
"Why does it have to be this way?" he asked.
"How long must this go on? This fighting between our nations? This hatred? This animosity? This spitting in shoes and pissing in beers?"
Have a great weekend!
Puff, Puff and Puff......
Hey hey, barkeep, long time no drink... Throw me the cheapest sh!t you got.
I am in a frog-stompin' mood.
"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes."
---Mark Twain
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me."
--- General George S. Patton
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion."
--Norman Schwartzkopf
"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it."
---- Marge Simpson
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
---Jacques Chirac, President of France
"As far as France is concerned, you're right."
---Rush Limbaugh,
"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee."
--- Regis Philbin
"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know."
--- P.J O'Rourke (1989)
"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it."
---John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona
"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He is French, people."
--Conan O'Brien
"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France!"
---Jay Leno
"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag."
--David Letterman
How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb?
One. He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him.
Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France.
