OT....Regarding the wisdom of the French....
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He said they have no resolve or fortitude.
That picture is a good example.
GREAT PIC!!!!!!!!!!!
Almost makes me want to buy one of your overpriced coins!
No, why?
Heck...I'll even bid on it!
Wouldn't be suprised to see it on the cover of the "Times" lol...
of a gene pool left, hence retards are in control of the country. Give them 200 years to recuperate
and they will be ready for the 21st century.
1966-1971
That would be too funny!
Adrian:
You could auction one of "OUR" platinum proofs. You know, the one with that stautue's head on the obverse. You could "pose" the coin just above "the" tower, like a full moon lookin' down on it! You could also say that the coin will be discontinued because of the "french face" and that many are gettin' de-faced, leadin' to scarcity!
Don
OMG......Perfect.....Just perfect...You know you would be a True American Hero......I bet you get a medal fron GB himself!
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ago. The Dixie Chick was a spectator. No lie.
A little background if you ain't ejicated enuff to git tha joke.
Whatever you think of the official French policy, resorting to calling the French people names doesn't reflect well on America.
Would you want to be judged by the actions of Bush? If yes, how about Clinton?
(BTW, there's an Open Forum for this kind of thing, and you don't even have to put "OT" in your title.)
Heeh! Heeh! Heeh!
(I dunno, first thing that came to mind.)
but you got to admit, its been a couple hundred years since they were any good in a war.
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
How many countries are there, 170 ish ??
I love Ike dollars and all other dollar series !!!
I also love Major Circulation Strike Type Sets, clad Washingtons ('65 to '98) and key date coins !!!!!
If ignorance is bliss, shouldn't we have more happy people ??
Tbig
But we don't. So our leaders have to make educated guesses based upon likely scenarios.
History often repeats itself. Those who don't learn from history suffer the consequences.
We could rid Iraq of their dictator and kill a few others in the process....probably fewer than Saddam would kill on his own in the next decade.
Or we could wait around until he does what he essentially has threatened to do, which is what he seemingly did to his own people.
We're a superpower. We should act like one. It's a good thing we're the superpower and not someone....oh....like....France!
But yes, the fact that we are not supported by the rest of the world worries me. And the fact that a lot of oil is in Iraq....and not in North Korea...and the fact that boys are likely to want to not make the same mistakes as their Dads......
Not to late to pack your bags and become a human shield in Iraq.
(Supercoin in Iraq listening to the Dixie Chicks while an American tank is coming at him).
UMMMMM....LIKE HEY STOP!!!!! LIKE I WAS ONLY JOKING...HEY QUIT IT!!!! DONT RUN ME OVE.....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Squish is not a friendly sound.
What does France want?
Could be wrong here but when was the last time we asked permission from the French, Russians, Germans and the Chinese to defend ourselves.....
Oh.......NEVER.....
And the last time they asked us for permission? Hmmmmmmmmmm...this could be a tough one...
Anyone have an answer?
"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these
drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by
prostitutes."
---Mark Twain
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a
French one behind me."
--- General George S. Patton
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting
without your accordion."
--Norman Schwartzkopf
"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something
about it."
---- Marge Simpson
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
---Jacques Chirac, President of France
"As far as France is concerned, you're right."
---Rush Limbaugh,
"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is
sitting in Paris sipping coffee."
--- Regis Philbin
"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any
better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit
outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more
stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I
don't know."
--- P.J O'Rourke (1989)
"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the
1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the
face for it."
---John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona
"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he
hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He is French, people."
--Conan O'Brien
"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get
Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans
out of France!"
---Jay Leno
"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came
marching into Paris under a German flag."
--David Letterman
How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb? One.
He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him.
Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France
[Edited to note: Unlike the sweeping generalization of "retarded" applied to the French populace earlier, this one is directed at an individual who has displayed ample evidence of deserving the description.]
Somehow I once felt that this whole thing was somehow tied to the great war on terrorism formented by Islamic fundamentalist forces. Sadaam is about as far from an Islamic fundamentalist as you can get. We take him out and put in our own puppet. At some point we'll pull our troops out and rest assured that, whomever the puppets are, they'll be a lot easier for the Islamic fundamentalist forces to overthrow than Sadaam is. They have threatened and continue to threaten every government from Uzbeckistan to Chechnia and south into Africa.
Supposedly we're saving the world from Sadaam's 'weapons of mass destruction.' Ooh I'm scared of his weapons of mass destruction! The fact that Pakistan and India both have nuclear weapons pointed at each other and each have their fingers on the triggers doesn't seem to give anyone pause for concern but we're going after those empty shell casings in Iraq.
It's insanity pure insanity.
Please send my condolences to your friends in Germany and France on another defeat.
I'm sure you will get used to wearing e turban and the shin splints from marching to Saddams cadence will surely go away after a bit.
I wish you and your brotherern well.
Super- Traitor is more like it.
"whomever the puppets are, they'll be a lot easier for the Islamic fundamentalist forces to overthrow than Sadaam is"
Well, we'll just have to take out the Islamic Fundamentalists if they threaten us, just like we took out Al Quaida in Afghanistan.
And, most importantly, the Islamic Fundamentalists that replace Sadaam won't have weapons of mass destruction for quite a while.
(As an aside,....."abuell"..... isn't a Buell an motorcycle related entity? Customizes Harleys or something??)
adrian
The French are wussy's!
Good. Anthrax is not a good thing and neither is smallpox or any of the other little microbes Sadaam was frothing.
Ditto.
The French could still make an important contribution to the war effort if they send their top military advisers to Iraq and instruct them in the fine art of surrender.
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But then, I'm not retarded, maybe that would help.
Not very entertaining or creative trolling. Toast off.
Abel Buell, early American medalist and diesinker, created the dies for many of the Connecticut coppers and the Fugio coppers. Developed the process of sinking dies by means of a complex hub, a process that would not be duplicated by the US mint until the 1830's with the introduction of steam power.
Kinda funny really.....A member of my family (including me) has served in every conflict since WW1 to defend your right to complain about my country.
March 17, 2003 -- REMEMBER Saddam Hussein?
Yes, the man the Iraqis call "The Vampire" (al-Saffah). Six months ago, he
was the arch-villain of the global stage. How was he transformed into a
damsel in distress with veto-wielding knights rushing to the rescue?
A diabolical use, or misuse, of language beyond what even Orwell and
Koestler imagined.
*
Legally speaking, Saddam's regime is in a state of war with the United
Nations, and has been since Aug. 2, 1990. (He did sign a ceasefire, which he
has violated, but that does not end the state of war.)
Yet all we hear now is about the "Bush-Blair war against Iraq." Though not a
shot has been fired, the phrase is not qualified as "possible," "projected"
or "probable."
For the don't-touch-Saddam lobby, that war is already on, and is being waged
not against the tyrant but against Iraqi "women and children."
*
The new Newspeak has also transformed Hans Blix's mission from
"verification" into "inspection."
"Let the inspectors do their work" is the slogan for the don't-touch-Saddam
lobby. But when it comes to deciding what is it that the Blix team is
supposed to do, there is no clear answer.
At times, the Swede is presented as a detective looking for a "smoking gun."
At other times, he is looked upon as a lawyer interpreting the hermetic
pronouncements of Amer al-Saadi (the Iraqi general in charge of making Blix
dance to Saddam's tune).
And at still other times, Blix is cast in the role of judge and jury and
pressed to decide matters that the Security Council members lack the courage
to decide. Blix, of course, is not playing the game: He will never say "yes"
or " no" to the crucial question of whether or not Saddam will disarm.
*
Language also hides the true intentions of the players in this game.
Bush and Blair know that the only way to disarm Iraq is to change its
regime, gain control of its military codes and thus find the full picture of
its death machine. They know that no nation was ever disarmed unless it was
[first] defeated and occupied or through mutual accords with other nations.
The Iraqi case, therefore, is unique: expecting a nation to disarm against
its will but without an occupation. It never happened in history and never
will. Yet Blair and Bush continue to say that Saddam will be disarmed "one
way or another," as if there were a thousand ways to achieve that goal.
At the opposite side of the debate, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder
insist that Iraq is already disarming, and needs more time. Neither,
however, is prepared to say how much time is needed. Like bargain hunters in
an Oriental bazaar, both haggle about months but secretly hope that Saddam
will be in his palace long after George W has left the White House.
In the 1990s it took South Africa 30 months to dismantle its weapons of mass
destruction, including an advanced nuclear program. Ukraine did it in 22
months; Kazakhstan, in 18.
Saddam Hussein has had more than 140 months.
*
The new Newspeak also uses the word "diplomacy" to mean anything and
nothing. Chirac and Schroeder have a long list of what the United States and
Britain should or should not do. But they have put no concrete demand to
Saddam Hussein.
Not surprisingly, the tyrant sees no reason why he should change his so-far
successful policy of cheat-and-retreat. Having first come when Richard Nixon
was in the White House, Saddam has a different understanding of time than
Western politicians biting their nails about the next election.
*
Few people wish to notice one tiny fact: Saddam has never formally accepted
any of the Security Council resolutions, including the latest, 1441. In
every case, he had one of his junior officials send a letter to the U.N.
secretary-general saying that Iraq would "cope with" (in the Arabic version,
"confront") the resolution. Every time - including when Secretary-General
Kofi Annan signed his "historic" accord in Baghdad in 1998 - the United
Nations was taken in because it wanted to be taken in.
Over the past 12 years, Saddam has also made a number of declarations,
including one to relinquish his claim on Kuwait and to commit his regime to
peaceful coexistence with neighbors. But none of those declarations were
submitted to the formal process needed to give them legal status.
The latest example of Saddam's declaratory tricks came last month, when he
announced that individual Iraqi citizens and private companies were banned
from acquiring or developing weapons of mass destruction.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin immediately hailed the
declaration as a victory for French diplomacy. What he did not wish to
notice was that the so-called ban concerned only individuals and private
firms in a country where no individual could own a donkey cart without state
authorization, and where most private companies are owned by Saddam's clan.
In any case, Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are acquired and developed
by state-owned companies, not in the local pizza parlor.
Even then, Saddam's declaration has not been submitted to the various organs
of the executive and the legislative to become law.
*
Another linguistic trick of the don't-touch-Saddam lobby is to talk of "the
few remaining problems." Iraq's long list of obligations under the various
U.N. resolutions, and the ceasefire accords of 1991, is reduced to a single
issue: eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
That, in turn, is further reduced to the 29 questions that Blix has
addressed to the Iraqis. (One could think of 10 times as many that need to
be answered. If Blix wants any, he can email this reporter.)
We are then told that these questions should be transformed into
"benchmarks" so that "precise tasks" can be set for Saddam to perform in
fixed periods. The trick is to trigger another exercise in hermeneutics.
*
For 12 years we have been fighting over the meaning of the various
resolutions, and the threat of "serious consequences" that most contain. We
could fight another 12 years over what each "benchmark" means and whether or
not Saddam has performed any of his "precise tasks."
The Security Council is often dismissed as a "debating society." It is not
even that. We all remember debating societies from our school days. There,
the debate would be about a proposition, with those speaking for or against
knowing what they were talking about.
Here is one proposition that could be debated with clarity: Iraq cannot be
disarmed without regime change.
Amir Taheri, Iranian author and journalist, is based in Europe.
For some odd reason I have a feeling you know the words to the Canadian National Anthem....
Care to humm a few bars?????
Nice link - thanks. For an excellent, though non-numismatic, biography see: Wroth, Lawrence, Abel Buell of Connecticut (Wesleyan University Press, 1958).
The biography was originally published in a limoted edition of 102 copies by the Acorn Club of Connecticut in 1926.
Nearly 227 years of freedom, liberty, democracy, and the right to pursue happiness. Can any other countries currently on the face of this planet claim a longer-running form of government? We must be doing something right. Coming from another country 28 years ago, and now a naturalized US citizen, I truly understand and cherish the freedom in this country. There are forces of evil all over trying to destroy this great nation. We must stand up to them.
Thank you to all who have fought and died or are still living, and those who are about to lay down their lives, to defend freedom and liberty. You have my deepest and most sincere grattitude.
Never forget 9-11.