From: "Gary Britt" 

I wasn't trying to fire up anything, just stating the obvious.  As for your
spin, well it was good for a laugh.

Gary

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote
in message news:4116099d{at}w3.nls.net...
> I think you're from the stock of lazy cowards who at the first sight of
hard
> times jumped on a ship and ran away. Better to run away than to fight for
> your freedom. Now how's that for a stupid spin, eh?
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (you really are not even very good at firing up the conversation, because
> you go so far off the board)
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:41158e1d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Yes but we are from the European stock that was willing to risk
everything
> > including their lives to get a chance at making a better more free life
> for
> > their children and descendants.  The current Europeans are from the
stock
> > that said, he it gets wet on a boat ride and we might catch our death.
> > Better to stay here and keep plowing the master's fields than take a
> chance
> > on being free and successful.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> > news:41156155$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > Dying for your beliefs makes you a dead believer - what good is
that?
> > >
> > > The idea is to fight for one's beliefs at all costs -- it's a slightly
> > > different concept.
> > >
> > > But anyway, what good is living if you have to give up all that's
> > important
> > > to you?  I would fight and if necessary die for what I believe in
> without
> > a
> > > second thought.
> > >
> > > It looks like we have a real and tangible difference in attitude
between
> > the
> > > U.S. and Europe -- we're (the U.S.) are far more like the Arabs than
we
> > are
> > > you.  (Not saying that's bad btw, just very curious, since a good
> portion
> > in
> > > the U.S. are of European stock.)
> > >
> > > - Bob Comer
> > >
> > >
> > > "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message
> > > news:411555e3{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > "Mark"  wrote in message
> > news:411537d1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > >> "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message
> > > >> news:4115330c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > >> > Pretty interesting stuff.  I guess we
Americans don't have to
start
> > > >> quaking
> > > >> > in our boots any time soon about Adam's
vaunted EU juggernaught.
> > > >> LMAO!!!!
> > > >>
> > > >> This statistic is very surprising to me:
"Fewer than a fifth of
> > > >> Britons say they would be willing to die for their
> > > >> beliefs, compared with 71 per cent of Americans."
> > > >
> > > > I'm not British, but I have a possible explanation as
for myself at
> > least:
> > > > Beliefs schmeliefs, I mean, what the hell, I'll
"believe" anything
to
> > stay
> > > > alive. Hello, I'll believe something else tomorrow,
after whatever
> > > > threatens
> > > > me is gone. I think it's just too vague of an idea to die for
> "beliefs",
> > > > and
> > > > I also think that the 71 percent of Americans who say
they'd die for
> > their
> > > > beliefs have not really thought about what it means.
> > > >
> > > > Dying for your beliefs makes you a dead believer - what good is
that?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Antti Kurenniemi
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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