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PhoneMistress
07-31-2008, 07:07 PM
I have been following Dr. Steve for years and was surprised to find four (4) mini stories about the impressions of foreign doctors/scientists. Don't know if it is true, but it made me smile.

There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying 'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?'

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'

You could have heard a pin drop.

Grouppe Kurosawa (http://grouppekurosawa.com/blog/)



The rest of the stories are on the latest post and here (http://www.reconnections.net/pin_drop.htm).

disrupter
08-01-2008, 07:59 AM
but if that is just a shallow attempt at PR facade for all the horrible things, including war crimes Bush has committed it really stains the sentiment.

it ain't about Humanity,

it is about Public Relations,

For an outlaw, unconstitutional barbarian regime.

It is the anonymous gifts that say the most.

Bush & the neocons are all heartless show.
A facade to cover up crimes not only against the rest of the globe, but against the American people as well.

Your story can only make you feel glee if you have already lost your soul to the devil.

PhoneMistress
08-01-2008, 10:31 AM
Eight years of whatever can not erase decades of genuine goodwill. And I think that's the point.

disrupter
08-01-2008, 11:15 AM
i don't know,
it can be lost pretty damn quick.

It isn't like we have a history of sainthooded America,
we have a very checkered history.

And it is getting worse, not better.

The Gitmo Gulag trials have been turned into political show trials.
Bush made the war crime, torture, a policy of the US government & military.
He has enriched his criminal 'have more' friends at the expense of average Americans by looting the treasury & robbing America's innocent children.

Beware of strangers bearing gifts.

sharp hooks & metal strings.

Too bad he couldn't be bothered to send in US military when New Orleans drown. Too busy laughing & eating birthday cake with McCain in Arizona to bother.

Now instead of re-settling the residents of New Orleans it has been turned into one more fraudulent money pipeline to well-connected to government criminals at the expense of dispossessed New Orleanians.

Do you realize how far off course we are?

I am not sure we even have a nation left anymore.
Cessation is sounding much more viable in light of Washington corruption.

SeedyROM
08-01-2008, 06:09 PM
Ahhhh the French good wine from angry passive whimps. Good comeback from the American!

asroc
08-01-2008, 08:12 PM
Urban legend, didn't happen.

Why do people spread crap like this around?

disrupter
08-04-2008, 10:53 PM
America - a legend in its own mind.

The America i would like is one that isn't out of its mind.