whazzup?

[Tiarnan O'Corrain]

> From: Paddy O' [mailto:paddyoh55 at yahoo.com]
> So many p-listers - for some odd reason, all
> Europeans(?!) - attacking me, onlist and offlist. On
> the other hand: ALL Americans getting it. Immediately.
> Naturally.
> 
> It was just a basic *de facto* thing I was after: 

Mebbe we can't get it because we can't understand why
'thing' of all dings should take 'de facto' as
an adjective... ding an sich, without the Latin
encrustation is, after all, the very thing.

> USA based on fear. Inner and outer. Healthy or not. 

Nonsense, in my experience. The US may be fearful at
the moment, but founded on fear?

> And I think it's a good thing, too. Something that
> distinguishes us from the naive Western Europeans.

Oh yes... we have been living too long in our 
socialistical, communistical (a word I heard, honest,
from a Naderite in Chicago) paradises. No war here...

Tiarnan