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In article ,
Don W wrote:
Other than trying to stir up a political
discussion about the merits or demerits of a
particular country... How does this relate to
cruising in boats??

Doesn't.

Seems to me we are better off without the
political discussions as everyone pretty much has
their mind made up on that subject and aren't
interested in discussion.

Not me. I'm a liberal. g

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Capt. JG @@
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26 from another Canuck

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On Apr 24, 7:25 pm, "Ceri Thomas" wrote:
That only shows how much one knows about US politics and political
history. Not if one is patriotic as not one patriotic question was asked.
I passed with 26 and I live in Canada and was born and educated in the UK
but I'm by no means a patriotic Yank.
The whole world just finds it funny how you guys down there just go on and
on about how grand your not so grand nation is. One century you guys will
step out of the bubble and look in on yourselves for the first time and see
what you guys really are as a whole, or is it a hole?

meeooowww!! how bitter!!
we're not grand, we are GRRRRREAT! [as tony the tiger says]
that is; great, big, kick-your-canuckian-a*s great.

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Gogarty wrote:
In article ,
says...

BTW, had a wonderful visit at Dover Castle
yesterday and the weather cooperated by providing
blue skies and sun. The view of Dover harbor, the
white chalk cliffs and the breakwater was
fantastic. There is a marina there that seemed to
have a lot of cruising boats. I'd like to see the
castle from the sea someday.

Don W.


There ya go! Sea and boats. I would like to do one of those canal boat
cruises one day, the narrow boats. I well recall a winter's day when I was
travelling across England through the Midlands and off in the distance was a
canal; with dozens of narrow boats, most of them wisping smoke from their
chimneys. So very homey and one reason we have a solid-fuel heater on our
boat. My daughter and her family lived many years on a canal barge in
Holland but now they just live in a house in Ipswich. Not nearly as much
fun, nor as roomy. Granddad and grandmother have to stay in a B&B or hotel.


We were in Ipswich on Monday to take pictures of
the duplex my wife's family lived in when she was
little. She was born in the hospital at what was
then the 75th Tactical at RAF Ben****ers just down
the road. We had a nice visit in Ipswich also.
There is a wide river which cuts from the English
channel all the way into town, with many marinas
and sailboats along it.

The tide along the English channel must be
dramatic, as at low tide there are many boats at
their moorings sitting in the mud. The river
Thames is actually a tidal flow which reverses
course depending on whether the tide is coming in
or going out.

Don W.

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Goooogarty..

I left one thing out .. the first elected president and only "elected"
president to be impeached.. Bill Clinton.

Johnson was a VP.. not elected president.

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"Gogarty" wrote in message
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In article q9FXh.1321$YI1.1290@trndny04, says...


The process of impeachment, that is a vote in Congress to "impeach" and a
trial in the Senate only took place once in our
history. Bill Clinton.

The only president to "be impeached".

Bzzzzztttt! Wrong! Andrew Johnson (succeeded Lincoln) was impeached but
not
convicted.