[Spridgets] Spridgets Digest, Vol 181, Issue 2

JMFangio oldsaabguy at comcast.net
Wed Jun 24 09:18:26 MDT 2026 

Elizabeth the witch predates me, what is the story there?

Lester



> On Jun 23, 2026, at 8:55 AM, nory1--- via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Gosh, I miss those guys!
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> Cc: "Spridgets" <spridgets at autox.team.net>, <wilkmanracing at aol.com>, "Weslake1330" <weslake1330 at gmail.com> 
> Sent: June 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM EDT 
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Spridgets Digest, Vol 181, Issue 2
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> Do not FORGET MONTANA BOB!
> LOL!
> Chuck 
> Recently trying to figure out what's older.....dirt or me?
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> On Monday, June 22, 2026 at 03:34:49 PM EDT, Ron Soave via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> When we’d go off topic in the past, it was Frank Zappa, cats, Elizabeth the Witch, nothing divisive. 
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> Ron Soave
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> On Jun 22, 2026, at 12:35 AM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Delete key works fine.  But this kind of nonsense does not belong here.
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> On Jun 21, 2026, at 5:55 PM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Delete key not working?
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> On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 at 20:31, Jim Ryan via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net <mailto:spridgets at autox.team.net>> wrote:
> Well, it's supposed to be.  This kind of stuff is really not welcome here.
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> Jim Ryan
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> On Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 3:16 PM wilkmanracing--- via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net <mailto:spridgets at autox.team.net>> wrote:
> Silly me. I thought this was a Sprite forum. 
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> Bill
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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. No LBC - Budapest, NATO (OTAN) Europe, the EU, Islamic
>       immigration and healthcare (Weslake1330)
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> Subject: [Spridgets] No LBC - Budapest, NATO (OTAN) Europe, the EU,
>     Islamic immigration and healthcare
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> Hi list, some of you are don?t like it when I post stuff like this but
> never challenge any of the points I make or even privately debate them with
> me.  Some of you find them interesting and some have deleted this e-mail
> already.  Well, I read a lot of stuff on YouTube and regardless of any
> opinion or political allegiances it does seem to me that not everyone
> understands the basic of some issues and that leads to misunderstandings.
> Sure, the list should be to discuss LBC stuff but I think the archive will
> confirm other stuff, sometimes contentious (public drafting on the highway
> and not in LBCs) topics get discussed.
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> Firstly, part of the reason countries are helping Ukraine in their fight
> against Russian aggression and attacks, lie with The Budapest Memorandum on
> Security signed in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994.  The summary is
> that Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons as part of a defence deal.  The
> other obvious reason is that when one country attacks another and seeks to
> completely invade it there is choice other countries have to make in
> whether to sit back and do nothing or find a way to help. Thirdly you have
> to consider a domino effect scenario where Russia defeats Ukraine and then
> goes onto rebuild the USSR.  Maybe that sounds like a problem for the
> Europeans and I guess it is, or at least first.  But if the dominos carry
> on falling then you once again have a USSR that threatens the USA.
>  
> NATO is the North Atlantic (not North American) Treaty Organisation (the
> French call it OTAN for French grammatical reasons I don?t understand).
> It?s not a club of buddies to bully anyone but a club of buddies to defend
> each other against a big bully.  It?s not a European idea or club and
> Canada is a member.  Despite the rhetoric you might read or hear, NATO
> isn?t a way for everyone apart from the USA to get defence on the cheap.
> Not everyone in the club might agree that everyone is paying enough.
> However, the member paying the most doesn?t say it will pay less but argues
> others should pay more.  Why is that?  Well, you might have to do your own
> research on that.
>  
> Europe isn?t a country it?s a geographic region.  The EU is not the same
> thing as Europe because the EU is a kind of club.  Strangely enough the EU
> has been viewed by some members and one ex-member as a club where not all
> the members pay in enough money or get equal benefits out of it.  The
> republic of Ireland is not in NATO but is in Europe and is in the EU.  The
> United Kingdom (Great Britain, sort of) is in NATO and is in Europe but is
> not in the EU (it left some years ago).
>  
> Is Europe being taken over by Islamic (Moslem) immigrants?  Well, I don?t
> think so.  I could make a joke and say that in England at least, the Hindus
> and Sikhs would never allow that to happen. You also have to understand
> there are actually 2 major and one lesser Islamic group ? not sure if this
> is quite the same thing as Catholics and Protestants but it?s how I like to
> think of it.  Over the years I?ve worked alongside Moslems and they were
> great people and not extremists.
>  
> I read a lot that the reason Europeans have free healthcare is because they
> rely on the US, as part of NATO, to protect them rather than pay for their
> own protection.  In the UK free healthcare came into being after WW2 and
> existed all the way through the Cold War at a time when the UK spent a lot
> more on defence than it does now.  However, it?s not quite as encompassing
> as it used to be.  For example, when I was a child, medical prescriptions
> were free but for decades since there has been a fee to pay.  Similarly,
> all dental care was free when I was a child but now while it is still
> subsidised there is 3 tier system of fees and it can still be very
> expensive.  I think at least one country in Europe has free healthcare.  A
> question to consider then is if the US spent less money on NATO and defense
> generally would it be enough for free healthcare?
>  
> I think that?s all the stuff I believe I can help others with their
> understanding of and I?m confident that listers are generally smarter than
> everyone else but may have friends with lesser rides and knowledge
> generally!  Also, while I have political opinions, I am not a member of any
> political party and haven?t always voted for the same political party.  I
> have enlisted military service but not combat experience.  Recently I even
> applied for and have been granted a HM Forces Veteran ID card and maybe
> when I get my 3rd one it will actually correctly record the initials for my
> Christian/Fore names. . . .
>  
> I?d like to finish with a quote from Henry Ford: ?Any man who thinks he can
> be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better
> take a closer look at the American Indian?.  However, it seems to be bunk
> and that he never said that but did say a bunch of other stuff.  So, how
> about a quote from the bible? Matthew Ch19 v30 (NIV) But many who are first
> will be last, and many who are last will be first.
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> Daniel
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