How can a cheap American buy a HOUSE in the 1st. World ?

When i was a kid Rugby was the game of choice in Newfoundland as well but was displaced by hockey over the years and totally lost due to the introduction of baseball by American servicemen on the three big U.S. base built on the island. Soccer is now slowely becoming a big sport in Canada-- don't think the Canadians know much about or ever played rugby. Native indians did play a very similar sport and i have an inkling thats where rugby-soccer-football originated from.---Geo.

 

Rugby is a local sport..high school and university with leagues in the cities.

I played rugby for 3 months and decided the extended elbow,broken nose, 3 broken fingers,sore knee,and cracked bone in my foot while playing in freezing weather wasn't worth the abuse .

Viking,great plane stuff....I have a bunch of stuff.

Just go look on ebay Germany,stuff is more$$ nowadays but until recently stuff was dirt cheap.

 

/I like inefficient government on the whole, even though it drives me up the wall sometimes./ Quote Troy.

I agree with Troy. A good politician should be slow and careful. A good politician should think everything through carefully and consider all aspects before acting. It's much more important for a politician to do right than to do it fast. The political process should be slow to allow the mostly disinterrested citizens to understand what's going and not be overrun by political activists.

The characteristics I think a politician should have are characteristics I hate in people around me. Drives you up the wall as Troy writes.

The USA admire doers and decisive people. Acting fast is more important than ensuring that all consequences have been considered. Entrepreneurs are admired.

You will elect likeable people for public offices, but as I see it not the people that make good lawmakers and that are good for running the public sector.

Erik

 

In a post i said that each event has positive aspects of human behavior, even war.
The positive aspect of the war is the enormous technological development in time of peace there.
As an example I quoted the jet.

We ended with Pelé and beautiful Vicking heirloom.

Fascinating .... Mr. Spock might say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFods1KSWsQ

 

You can not define how should be a politician.
A politician is what it is.
If the personality of a politician is suited to the mission that history has given to him, then it becomes a statesman who will change history.

Machiavelli described superlatively and some perfect examples this consideration.

It's also important for a politician the choice of the people around him.
Machiavelli once again helps us classify the 3 options the mind of a politician who chooses his people.
about the brain of a politician who chooses his ministers, he tells us

Principe, cap. 22
"De his quos a secretis principes haben"

……. E perché sono di tre generazione cervelli, l'uno intende da sé, l'altro discerne quello che altri intende, el terzo non intende né sé né altri, quel primo è eccellentissimo, el secondo eccellente, el terzo inutile.

Translation
......there are 3 types of brain.
one that understands by himself, The second is able to understand what other brains understands by themself, third understands nothing.
first is superb.
second is excellent.
third is useless.

 

West-Van-Han-- just clicked in where the name originated-- getting slow in my old age--So you guys played Rugby great --Rough is not the word --between that --boxing and hockey my old body is bent and twisted. Ya I like the old aircraft -- My Uncle was a tail gunner in a Lank, I grew up on a USAF SAC base, Ex-RCAF worked at De Havilland for a stint, and got 7hrs. single engine solo so it was kind of in the bones so to say. Had to give up the flying tooooo expensive. All that time I never lost my love for boats and puttered at them thru out.
Gian I'm gonna- make a lamp out of that cylinder jug , the design a little artsy-fartsy with the circular base rotary engine shaped. Neat old collectiable, it was found in the basement of an old house here in Halifax during a renovation job. Don't think it was used much as the cylinder wall has no piston ring wear ridge. The owners thought it was a motorcycle part --how the devil it got there is a million dollar question. Halifax being a big military town one can expect to find anything.
I assume everyone has heard of the Canadian Avro Arrow -- 20 years ahead of it's time and 20 years ahead of what the taxpayers of this country could afford. The word is two were shipped to the U.S. where some reverse engineering took place - and the ????? fighter was the result. The jewell of course was the Iroquois engine design of which every jet fighter today uses some form or other. 1400mph in the late 1950's was nothing to sneeze about.

 

News from Concordia.
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Miss Bongiorno, the greatest Italian lawyer, who did carry out the Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito (as well as other processes virtually impossible) will represent victims of Concordia.
I predict some problems for Schettino and Costa Crociere.

 

News from Concordia

The columnist for the German weekly Der Spiegel Jan Fleischauer shoots to zero on Italy. According to the journalist Schettino is just the tip of the iceberg, the iceberg of Italianity, ie a set of cunning, incompetence, ignorance, misconduct, parasitism, Mafia, victimization, bullying and machismo, and so on.

Jan Fleischhauer, a columnist for Spiegel Online wrote: "Hand on heart, but be surprised that the captain was an Italian? You can imagine what kind of maneuvers and then the abandonment of the vessel are decided by a German captain or British? We know from general types of seaside holidays, good boys with big gestures, able to speak with your fingers and hands, in principle incapable of hurting people, but we should keep them away from heavy machinery and sensitive, as shown.

 

Oh a new thread drift--Concordia--Please please post anything but not more on Concordia There are presently two very active threads on this--Gian might be interesting for the other posters on those threads to also post this info. ---AHhh what the heck -- time for me to vacate this thread anyhow and get more work done on the motorhome. It's been a slice as a matter of fact it's been a loaf (of subjects) --- Cheers All --Geo.

 

Some simple people enjoy lumping everybody together. Life is simpler that way. I suppose Mario Andretti is incompetent too, in this columnists view, simply because he is of italian heritage. His editor should know better!

 

Viking, ho sbagliato TD per errore!

 

Something's wrong in Italy. They've stopped breeding, almost. Not replacing themselves.

 

We also learned about ballistics from the lowly potato.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_gun

 

I think the Avro Arrow developed into the F-102:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_F-102_Delta_Dagger

 

Der Spiegel should refrain from such ethnic slurs. It hurts their credibility and diminishes their lustre.