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View Poll Results: Is it right how the US stomps on poor countries?
Yes.The US is doing a good job.Power to them.
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47.30%
No!The US is evil and should be stopped.Somebody do something
Originally posted by burnpile Every Canadian has designs for 10 cheap weapons that can destroy armies??
lmao at that
i dont like Bush at all, il say that before i even start. As for what the Americans are doing, i dont really know enough about it. Obviously getting rid of Saddam Hussein was a great thing, but i dont know enough about the politics behind the scenes. Infact, very few of us do.
I love how much abuse Canadians seem to throw at the US though, iv noticed that here quite a bit as well as on a few other boards iv read in the past.
ah well, as long as things dont escalate further iv no major issues with the US, but then millions of people will disagree with that
Except for the weapon part..... I'm an inventor and thats what I do for fun.
Two examples are : I designed a gun that can shoot 10 feet that does not use gun powder and costs about twenty bucks to make.I also designed a gun that shoots a wire charge with ahigh amperage of electricity and shoots up to one hundred feet.
I also invented others but those are strictly confidential.
Originally posted by WindowsBurner Except for the weapon part..... I'm an inventor and thats what I do for fun.
Two examples are : I designed a gun that can shoot 10 feet that does not use gun powder and costs about twenty bucks to make.
Is it by chance called a 'slingshot'
Quote:
I also designed a gun that shoots a wire charge with ahigh amperage of electricity and shoots up to one hundred feet.
We call those Tasers.
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I also invented others but those are strictly confidential.
Let me guess....you fill a wire basket with tennis balls and this tire spins and launches them.....
Originally posted by WindowsBurner I also designed a gun that shoots a wire charge with ahigh amperage of electricity and shoots up to one hundred feet.
Thanks.... weapons arent the only thing i invented though... i'll get around to opening a web site..then you can read the plans.
I invented a windmill and coal and oil drill
Anyway good luck to your proffesion
and good luck to you burnpile
simply modify it and substitute compressed air for the nitrogen charge and you can extend the range well past 50m . There are kits available to do just this, though it's more than likely not a legal activity.
Well it's time to give some of you a little lesson in Common Sense.......I got this in an Email, Please read and think about what it is really saying........THX.
This is from a Canadian newspaper.
AMERICA : THE GOOD NEIGHBOR
Widespread, but only partial news coverage was given recently
to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon
Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator.
What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed
in the Congressional record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans
as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people
on all the Earth. Germany, Japan, and to a lesser extent, Britain and
Italy were lifted out of the debris of War by the Americans who pour-
ed in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of
these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining
debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans
who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled
on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When the earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that
hurries
in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by
tornadoes. Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into
discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing
about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one
of
those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States
dollar
build its own airplane.
Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing
Jumbo
Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC-10? If so, why don't
they
fly
them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American
Planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on
the moon? You talk about the Japanese technocracy, and you get radios.
You
talk about the German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
You talk about the American technocracy, and you find men on the moon.
Not
once, but several times and safely home again. You talk about
scandals,
and
the Americans put theirs in the store window for everybody to look at.
Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on
our
streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are
getting
American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down
through
age, it was Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania and the
New
York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are
still
broke.
I can name you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help other
people
in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to
the
Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during
the
San
Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I am one Canadian who is damned
tired
of
hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with
their
flag
high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the
lands
that
are gloating over their present troubles.
I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand Proud America!
This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the
United
States.
It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the
world
would real-
ize it. We seemed to be blamed for everything and don't get a "Thank
You"
for
the
things we do. I would hope that each of you would send this to as many
people
as you can and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their
friends
until
this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single
American
that has
read this, I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
Makes you proud to live here doesn't it??
THANKS,
ANTHONY VELEZIS
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
(204) -6639
It is sad, we are at a point in history in which the world could be brought together to try an deal with it's problems and we are not. I can remember growing up as a child in fear of the Soviets and Communists. Now that's all but gone. The Berlin wall is down, Eastern Europe is free, the US is trading with China.
I live about 50 miles East of New York City. The sadness I felt on September 11,2001 cannot be explained. I lost people that we close to me. My initial reaction was we are the biggest, baddest country in the world lets just lay waste to whom ever did this. Then reason sets in. I often do work in Europe. The emails of sympathy that I received after that day made me feel more at ease. I can't explain it, but it mellowed my emotions. Then the support that the US go in a coalition for going after the Tali-ban in Afghanistan maid me think "The world might become a smaller friendlier place." But then George Bush came out with his Axes of Evil speech. Made up false reports, LIED to the world and insisted on invaded Iraq with or without a coalition.
The US murdered tens thousand of Innocent people.
Now don't get me wrong I think Saddam was/is a horrible man, but that does not give the US the right to invade a country to get him out of power.
It is sad. We could have done so much more without bombs.
One more thing Saddam had no WMD and had nothing to do with 9/11. Now the US must rebuild Iraq, we made are bed now we must sleep in it. Hopefully at some point we will have more support in the rebuilding.
IT WAS WRONG TO INVADE IRAQ, THE US HAD NO RIGHT.
Many Americans think it was wrong. Unfortunately they don't yell as loud as the others.
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