Stop whining, America!

How can it be British territory and not part of the United Kingdom?

If you don't even know such basics of your best friend, then no wonder
that you have no clue when it comes to understand your ennemies.

Sorry, I didn't realize that you British ran things as stupidly as we
Americans. I guess I thought better of you.

I'm almost afraid to ask WHY these places would want to be British territory
but NOT part of the United Kingdom? Tradition, I presume?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 2005-08-29, Jay Honeck wrote:
How can it be British territory and not part of the United Kingdom?

If you don't even know such basics of your best friend, then no wonder
that you have no clue when it comes to understand your ennemies.

Sorry, I didn't realize that you British ran things as stupidly as we
Americans. I guess I thought better of you.

Stefan's not British!

I'm almost afraid to ask WHY these places would want to be British territory
but NOT part of the United Kingdom? Tradition, I presume?

If you're self-governing, would *you* want to give this up and impose
direct rule from London? Once a territory is self-governing, they rarely
want to give up that privilege. There's a small group of people who want
complete independence of the Isle of Man as a sovereign nation too.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

How long have you thought that Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands
are part of the US?

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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How can it be British territory and not part of the United Kingdom?

If you don't even know such basics of your best friend, then no
wonder that you have no clue when it comes to understand your
ennemies.

Sorry, I didn't realize that you British ran things as stupidly as we
Americans. I guess I thought better of you.

I'm almost afraid to ask WHY these places would want to be British
territory but NOT part of the United Kingdom? Tradition, I presume?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 2005-08-29, Jay Honeck wrote:
I'm almost afraid to ask WHY these places would want to be British territory
but NOT part of the United Kingdom? Tradition, I presume?

Dylan Smith wrote:
If you're self-governing, would *you* want to give this up and impose
direct rule from London? Once a territory is self-governing, they rarely
want to give up that privilege. There's a small group of people who want
complete independence of the Isle of Man as a sovereign nation too.

Jay, think Puerto Rico.
Territory, best of two worlds.
Gets US funding without being able to vote.
Some US laws apply, some don't.
No federal income tax, but high "state" income tax.

Jay Honeck wrote:


I'm almost afraid to ask WHY these places would want to be British territory
but NOT part of the United Kingdom? Tradition, I presume?

Ask Puerto Rico why it likes being a US terroritory but not a United
State and you might have your answer


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On 2005-08-29, Martin Hotze wrote:
tradition, for sure.

Especially when you consider places like the Isle of Man have had an
independent parliament for about four times longer than the US has
existed!

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
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"Stubby" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:
"JohnH" wrote in message But we fought Iraq for
cheap oil!!!

So why don't we have it? Hint: we purchase oil on the world market
like
everybody else. OPEC sets the price.

Bravo for pointing this out...

If our actions in the Middle East are only about "cheap oil", why didn't
we
completely take over Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq after the first Gulf
War
... declare ourselves the "owners" of the Middle East and just take it all
without buying any?


Before the war was started what I was hearing was that it was about the oil.
Not in the sense of cheap oil for the consumer, but to make life better for
the oil companies. Obviously, that theory was wrong since oil is basically
free now, and the oil companies are filing for bankruptcy.

("Dylan Smith" wrote)
[snip]
If you're self-governing, would *you* want to give this up and impose
direct rule from London? Once a territory is self-governing, they rarely
want to give up that privilege. There's a small group of people who want
complete independence of the Isle of Man as a sovereign nation too.


Yeah, Texas gets that itch every once in a while. g

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/annexation/

http://www.bchm.org/wrr/war/p3bcw.html

Hard to be just another state when you started out as a nation - The
Republic of Texas.


Montblack

Paul,
How was the MN state fair this year?
Aviation activity there???

"john smith" wrote in message
.. .
Paul,
How was the MN state fair this year?
Aviation activity there???

That's aviation 'on-a-stick'...