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G'day back to you Steve.,

  If you lived near New Albany... I'd have you look up a friend
of mine, and ..and...well you would have some time laughing
over what goes on between here, there and a few more spots
on the globe...

 -=> Quoting Steve Asher to Peter Coggon <=-

 SA> Mulling over PETER COGGON to STEVE ASHER 25 Apr 2009

 SA> Thank you, I would be interested in his reply.

  Well you are in luck, as David's reply is at the bottom, and he
likes long postings, and it is in depth, as his job required it.

 SA> OK ... he might play the ball & not the man

  Not sure.   He'll have to clear that one up, but I will send
him my program which is Qmodem and Blue Wave for the offline
reading.
 
 SA> It is (or was) an advertising campaign, and a number of US cities
 SA> have "Why Islam?" adverts promoting islam as a
"religion of peace".
 SA> It puts the bus company in a quandary - do they censor such things,
 SA> or allow them as free speech, and in the case of the British buses
 SA> there were objections from some drivers over being assigned to drive
 SA> buses which contradicted their faith.

Never seen the "Why Islam?" but I have heard it is the fasting growing.
OOOPS  I said that before....

 SA> Some interesting claims made about Islam are that everyone is born
 SA> muslim ("pure"), but are led astray by their Christian / Jewish /
 SA> Atheist parents, and "revert" to Islam, rather than
"convert" to it.
 SA> This is a fairly common claim. (Search on  revert islam  to find
 SA> relevant sites,  if interested)

Oh ok ... never realized it that way.

 SA> Obviously this is not a biblically based claim, and the
"numbers game"
 SA> of converts / reverts to Islam bears out the prophecy of the great
 SA> falling away (apostasy) that precedes the revealing of the man of 
 SA> lawlessness (Antichrist) described in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12.
 
 SA> Britain is accommodating its muslim minority, while repressing its
 SA> (professing) Christian majority - banning "Saint George" parades,
 SA> renaming Christmas as Winterval, serving halal food to all children
 SA> in some schools, not having "piggy banks" in bank branches because
 SA> it "offends" the minority, and so on.

What is the big beef about having a piggy bank?   I have one...
 
 SA> It may literally come to "Merry Christmas, and off with your head"
 SA> as the conspiracy against God and his only begotten Son comes to
 SA> its climax.
   >
 SA> Cheers, Steve..

Interesting ....  reminds me of my teen towtruck days to make some
extra loot...I used to say;  " Merry Christmas ...80 bucks!"
ooh mmmm...my past...ok here is David's reply;

Re: Fidonet?
From:  David Taylor 
Sent: April 27, 2009 4:40:55 AM 
To: Peter Coggon   

Hi Peter,
 
Hope you've had a nice weekend.
 
Thanks for the link to the article on "broken Britain". 
 
Yes, that's petty much how it is.
 
The rot set in with Blair - one new law for every day he was in office. 
Our electoral system is a mess and just induces apathy.  
IE: At the last General election, 52% of voters didn't even bother to 
vote. Of those that did, here's how they voted, and what we actually 
got in the government:
 
How we voted       What we got in MPs in parliament 
 
Labour          35%       55.7%
Conservative    32.3%     30.7%
Liberal         22%        9.6%
Others          10.5%      4.6%
 
So out of every 100 voters, only 48 bothered to vote. Of those that 
did vote, 35% - 17, voted for Blair's part. So we ended up with 
Tony Blair (apologist for, and supporter of US war crimes and torture) 
when 93% of the  electorate didn't vote for him.
 
He became so unpopular that his own party booted him out, and put 
Gordon Brown in his place without an election. Brown was too scared 

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