----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Blohm" <barjanin@eagle.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles List" <mil-veh@skylee.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] US politics & military vehicles..WAS: [MV] Don't Vote for
algore
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cougarjack@aol.com <Cougarjack@aol.com>
> To: Military Vehicles List <mil-veh@skylee.com>
> Date: June 27, 2000 1:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] US politics & military vehicles..WAS: [MV] Don't Vote
for
> algore
>
> >Well, here we part company. I won't regulate what I say or think about
> military vehicle ownership or the politics of it, because there are
> foreigners on this list. because without the US, there would be no
> Internet, no list, and probably no personal computers.
> >
> Didn't feel like a foreigner to this list until today.
>
Me neither.
>I felt this was one big happy (unhappy) family.
>
Albeit that vehicle types tend to be rather mono-national and limited.
>As per the internet etc. Alexander Graham Bell
> was a Canadian. He invented a little item called the telephone. Where
would
> the internet been without that. A little help from your northern friends.
>
Not to forget Fleming (UK) who invented the thermionic valve and Alan Turing
(UK) who used these in the first digital, instruction set operated computer
at Bletchley Park. (Collossus).
> Anyway no offence taken and I agree with Jack that there is a little place
> here for politics.
>
Concur.
> Because we are your neighbours we are interested in what
> is happening in your country and particularly what is relevant to the MV
> hobby.
>
However, after Canada the likely interest is about zero.
>You have no right to complain after if you didn't show up at the polls.
>
Very true.
I am trying to piece together anything about the M-C CS9 LAC now believed to
be extinct, should anyone have any information or even a sighting of a
fragmented part I'd welcome the information.
Richard
Southampton - England
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