I know it is an old pic on the net, but it still gives me the giggles everytime I see it.
Posted on 04/16/2004 6:37:21 PM PDT by Mo1
Well, my grandchildren are not having to speak German, Japanese...or Korean, for that matter. And I thank you for your service in keeping them free.
......Westy.....
I know it is an old pic on the net, but it still gives me the giggles everytime I see it.
Westy, the cold war is over, too, we won.
.....Westy....
President Bush doesn't plead with them. We finally have the right man on the job.
No, he just buys Kim off with food....
.....Westy.....
Thank you for a responding!
Welcome.
I live near a few who think the same way.
They wouldn't ever think that there are people out there that would hate them -besides Republicans.
They see America as being an evil juggernaut, and those we fight against HAVE to be the 'good guys' in their eyes.
It's unthinkable to them that there are people who'd rape their wives and children in front of them before killing them all regardless of how sympathetic they are to the perpetrator's 'cause'.
Such thoughts are 'blasphemy' to the Liberal wanker's minds.
On June 25, 1950, the North Koreans, with the tacit approval of the Soviet Union, unleashed a carefully planned attack southward across the 38th parallel. The United Nations Security Council met in emergency session and passed a resolution calling for the assistance of all UN members in halting the North Korean invasion. (The Soviet delegate, who was absent from the Security Council in protest against the UN's failure to admit the People's Republic of China, was not present to veto the council's decision.) On June 27, U.S. president Harry S. Truman, without asking Congress to declare war, ordered United States forces to come to the assistance of South Korea as part of the UN "police action."
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I didn't realize that your war was also doomed without the Declaration of War...if Congress hasn't the will to declare a war, it has never gone all that well for us.
The thing is SO9 Alberta has 95% of it's oil wells capped. The Province is rolling in money. They have a HUGE surplus, WHY don't they get these wells going?? I know it's expensive to start up but eventually it must pay for itself.!! I have to admit, I don't understand the oil industry as a whole but just seems like common sense to me. I cannot understand why the Western World Governments allowed us all to become Arab hostages!!
I saved some of the URLs of my pics at HP, and they still work.
Most wells everywhere are capped. It is because they will produce so little oil each that they could never make enough money to pay for the pumps and pipelines to hook them up.
So9
.....Westy.....
Never did get repaid for that till I got discharged and years later got a letter from The General Accounting Office wanting it back....
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I'm guessing that by then you had peeked behind the curtain, and either tossed the letter, or told the GAO to pound sand.
When will people realize that governments are NOT their friend?
Curt LeMay was still CG of SAC at the time and even though he was a hard a$$ he never let others give his troops a hard time...
So I fired off a letter to him...Don't really know if he ever read it, but shortly afterwards got another letter from the GAO apoligizing for bothering me....
.....Westy.....
Well, he finally got back to me on this subject today...
Dear Mrs. Graham:
Thank you for contacting me to voice your concerns regarding the Law of the Sea treaty. I appreciate the time you have taken to share your views with me, and I welcome the opportunity to respond.
As you probably know, the U.N. Convention on the Law of
the Sea creates a legal regime governing activities on, over, and under the world's oceans. It establishes a 12-mile territorial zone along the coast of each nation, but protects freedoms of the high seas by providing for innocent passage through the territorial sea.
The Convention also provides that each coastal State may claim a 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), in which it has "sovereign rights" over the exploration, conservation,
management, and exploitation of the natural resources.
Proponents, including the U.S. Navy, assert that the
Convention advances U.S. national security by preserving the rights of navigation and overflight across the world's oceans, on which our military relies to protect U.S. interests around the world.
Additionally, the treaty allows member states to petition the right to lay claim to resources on their continental shelves beyond 200 miles based on geodetic charting. Russia, as a member of the convention, has already taken steps to claim portions of the Arctic shelf. Because the U.S. is not a signatory, it does not have this
right, and could lose important access to the Arctic shelf beyond the U.S. EEZ, important for development of the oil and gas resources.
I am aware of concerns that accession by the United States
to any international regime could have serious ramifications on our sovereignty and our ability to protect our national interests. Normally I would give decisive weight to any reasonable concerns that a treaty might infringe on American sovereignty. But, as Chairman of the Seapower Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, I cannot ignore the Navy's strong opinion that the rights it would gain under the Treaty are necessary to its mission of
projecting American power and protecting American interests
around the world.
There is little chance the Treaty will come to a vote in the Senate this year, and amendments may soon be adopted by other signatories that materially change the status of this issue. Under the circumstances, I will wait until closer to the vote to make a decision. It is quite possible that new provisions, which are likely to be anti-American, will cause the administration to reconsider its decision to submit the Treaty to the Senate.
Again, thank you for contacting me. I will keep your
concerns in mind. If you would like to continue this discussion, please don't hesitate to call or write.
Thank you for your email. To contact me on this or any other subject, please go to http://talent.senate.gov/contact/index.html
Sincerely,
Senator Jim Talent
Oh Westy, I had to laugh when I read this. I am thinking that this is what we share in common on this board...that we don't take sh*t from anyone. We may respond to it aggressively or gently...but we do respond.
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