On Mon, 12 May 2008 11:26:06 +1000, Herodotus
wrote:

On Mon, 12 May 2008 07:32:26 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:46:56 +0000, Larry wrote:

Herodotus wrote in
:

Sorry to burn your ears but I always wanted to cruise the eastern
coast of the US.

cheers and thanks
Peter


Wow...I didn't know about these paper restrictions. What ****es me off,
being on the receiving end of anything bad, is that there is NO GUNBOATS
AT THE HARBOR ENTRANCE! We're never challenged in any way coming in from
sea on sailboats....even if we show no flag. Noone seems to care. You
could sail right up to the City Marina dock, right past the Coast Guard
Base Charleston, with a stolen Russian suitcase nuclear weapon and noone
would say anything to you unless you wanted to rent a slip or you set the
damned thing off. I think you, or anyone in any boat, ought to be
challenged at the SEAWARD end of the jetties! There's NOTHING THERE!
Noone calls you to even see if you speak English (or Spanish, now that
half our population are illegal Mexicans). I've tried to get noticed by
making calls in Farsi and Arabic on Channel 16 and got no response, at
all!....(c; You'd think at LEAST someone would say SOMETHING when you
called for Googoosh (a famous Iranian Pop singer that makes Iranian men's
blood boil) on CHANNEL 16 in FARSI! Nothing, nada....


Hot Damn, Man! You really mean you want them Gumment men to sit out
there on the end of the jetty with a shotgun......... In the hot sun,
the pouring rain, the (well what passes for in S.C.) freezing cold.

Lord God Man, didn't your pappy teach you nothing? The Gumment men got
to have the white shirt, the air conditioner, the comfy chair 'n the
big desk.

How you expect the Homeland Security to make things secure if they got
to sit around and guard tings. And, the budget so small that they
can't afford to sub-contract the work.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct Address is bpaige125atgmaildotcom)
With their mentality of watching the top of a container whilst trying
to fill it with water and not seeing the gaping hole at the bottom, I
wonder why some enthusiastic Bushian bureauocrat doen't come up with
the really bright idea of posting signs on all the fairway buoys -
"Terrorists are not allowed to enter this port without first
contacting DHS"

No more money in this year's budget, but they are going to built the
funds into next year's budget. Further more, it is probably a federal
crime to pass such posted buoys if you are a terrorist.

Along that line, a chap from Wyoming told me (but I can't verify this)
that when Wyoming accepted federal money for the state highway
department one of the criteria was to change every highway sign in the
state to meet US government standards -- and there went the first
year's budget...



Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct Address is bpaige125atgmaildotcom)

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

Along that line, a chap from Wyoming told me (but I can't verify this)
that when Wyoming accepted federal money for the state highway
department one of the criteria was to change every highway sign in the
state to meet US government standards -- and there went the first
year's budget...

I didn't think there were enough Spanish speakers in Wyoming to justify
this.

Cheers
Marty

On Mon, 12 May 2008 11:43:09 -0400, Martin Baxter
wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

Along that line, a chap from Wyoming told me (but I can't verify this)
that when Wyoming accepted federal money for the state highway
department one of the criteria was to change every highway sign in the
state to meet US government standards -- and there went the first
year's budget...

I didn't think there were enough Spanish speakers in Wyoming to justify

And they can't learn the twenty five or so English words found on the
signs?
Neither can the either of the French speakers in Vancouver.

Casady

Richard Casady a écrit :


And they can't learn the twenty five or so English words found on the
signs?
Neither can the either of the French speakers in Vancouver.


They might possibly be puzzled by the last sentence...


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