<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">There was a list member in Texas who had a Midget and considered herself a witch, a good witch but a witch nonetheless.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 24, 2026, at 6:54 PM, JMFangio via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Elizabeth the witch predates me, what is the story there?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lester</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 23, 2026, at 8:55 AM, nory1--- via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" class="">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Gosh, I miss those guys!<br class="">-------------------- <br class=""><br class="">From: "AOL Mail Update (Terms & Policy) via Spridgets" <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" class="">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> <br class="">Reply-To: "AOL Mail Update (Terms & Policy)" <<a href="mailto:crusaderchuck55@aol.com" class="">crusaderchuck55@aol.com</a>> <br class="">To: "Rick Fisk" <<a href="mailto:refisk@chartermi.net" class="">refisk@chartermi.net</a>>, "Ron Soave" <<a href="mailto:soavero@yahoo.com" class="">soavero@yahoo.com</a>> <br class="">Cc: "Spridgets" <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" class="">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>>, <<a href="mailto:wilkmanracing@aol.com" class="">wilkmanracing@aol.com</a>>, "Weslake1330" <<a href="mailto:weslake1330@gmail.com" class="">weslake1330@gmail.com</a>> <br class="">Sent: June 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM EDT <br class="">Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Spridgets Digest, Vol 181, Issue 2 </div>
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<div class="">Do not FORGET MONTANA BOB!</div>
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<div class="">Recently trying to figure out what's older.....dirt or me?</div>
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<div class="">On Monday, June 22, 2026 at 03:34:49 PM EDT, Ron Soave via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" class="">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">When we’d go off topic in the past, it was Frank Zappa, cats, Elizabeth the Witch, nothing divisive.
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<blockquote class="">On Jun 21, 2026, at 5:55 PM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" class="">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>
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<div class="ydp991a1fcdyiv9221938414gmail_attr">On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 at 20:31, Jim Ryan via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class=""> 1. No LBC - Budapest, NATO (OTAN) Europe, the EU, Islamic</div>
<div class=""> immigration and healthcare (Weslake1330)</div>
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<div class="">From: Weslake1330 <<a href="mailto:weslake1330@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="">weslake1330@gmail.com</a>></div>
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<div class="">Subject: [Spridgets] No LBC - Budapest, NATO (OTAN) Europe, the EU,</div>
<div class=""> Islamic immigration and healthcare</div>
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<div class="">Hi list, some of you are don?t like it when I post stuff like this but</div>
<div class="">never challenge any of the points I make or even privately debate them with</div>
<div class="">me. Some of you find them interesting and some have deleted this e-mail</div>
<div class="">already. Well, I read a lot of stuff on YouTube and regardless of any</div>
<div class="">opinion or political allegiances it does seem to me that not everyone</div>
<div class="">understands the basic of some issues and that leads to misunderstandings.</div>
<div class="">Sure, the list should be to discuss LBC stuff but I think the archive will</div>
<div class="">confirm other stuff, sometimes contentious (public drafting on the highway</div>
<div class="">and not in LBCs) topics get discussed.</div>
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<div class="">Firstly, part of the reason countries are helping Ukraine in their fight</div>
<div class="">against Russian aggression and attacks, lie with The Budapest Memorandum on</div>
<div class="">Security signed in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994. The summary is</div>
<div class="">that Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons as part of a defence deal. The</div>
<div class="">other obvious reason is that when one country attacks another and seeks to</div>
<div class="">completely invade it there is choice other countries have to make in</div>
<div class="">whether to sit back and do nothing or find a way to help. Thirdly you have</div>
<div class="">to consider a domino effect scenario where Russia defeats Ukraine and then</div>
<div class="">goes onto rebuild the USSR. Maybe that sounds like a problem for the</div>
<div class="">Europeans and I guess it is, or at least first. But if the dominos carry</div>
<div class="">on falling then you once again have a USSR that threatens the USA.</div>
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<div class="">NATO is the North Atlantic (not North American) Treaty Organisation (the</div>
<div class="">French call it OTAN for French grammatical reasons I don?t understand).</div>
<div class="">It?s not a club of buddies to bully anyone but a club of buddies to defend</div>
<div class="">each other against a big bully. It?s not a European idea or club and</div>
<div class="">Canada is a member. Despite the rhetoric you might read or hear, NATO</div>
<div class="">isn?t a way for everyone apart from the USA to get defence on the cheap.</div>
<div class="">Not everyone in the club might agree that everyone is paying enough.</div>
<div class="">However, the member paying the most doesn?t say it will pay less but argues</div>
<div class="">others should pay more. Why is that? Well, you might have to do your own</div>
<div class="">research on that.</div>
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<div class="">Europe isn?t a country it?s a geographic region. The EU is not the same</div>
<div class="">thing as Europe because the EU is a kind of club. Strangely enough the EU</div>
<div class="">has been viewed by some members and one ex-member as a club where not all</div>
<div class="">the members pay in enough money or get equal benefits out of it. The</div>
<div class="">republic of Ireland is not in NATO but is in Europe and is in the EU. The</div>
<div class="">United Kingdom (Great Britain, sort of) is in NATO and is in Europe but is</div>
<div class="">not in the EU (it left some years ago).</div>
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<div class="">Is Europe being taken over by Islamic (Moslem) immigrants? Well, I don?t</div>
<div class="">think so. I could make a joke and say that in England at least, the Hindus</div>
<div class="">and Sikhs would never allow that to happen. You also have to understand</div>
<div class="">there are actually 2 major and one lesser Islamic group ? not sure if this</div>
<div class="">is quite the same thing as Catholics and Protestants but it?s how I like to</div>
<div class="">think of it. Over the years I?ve worked alongside Moslems and they were</div>
<div class="">great people and not extremists.</div>
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<div class="">I read a lot that the reason Europeans have free healthcare is because they</div>
<div class="">rely on the US, as part of NATO, to protect them rather than pay for their</div>
<div class="">own protection. In the UK free healthcare came into being after WW2 and</div>
<div class="">existed all the way through the Cold War at a time when the UK spent a lot</div>
<div class="">more on defence than it does now. However, it?s not quite as encompassing</div>
<div class="">as it used to be. For example, when I was a child, medical prescriptions</div>
<div class="">were free but for decades since there has been a fee to pay. Similarly,</div>
<div class="">all dental care was free when I was a child but now while it is still</div>
<div class="">subsidised there is 3 tier system of fees and it can still be very</div>
<div class="">expensive. I think at least one country in Europe has free healthcare. A</div>
<div class="">question to consider then is if the US spent less money on NATO and defense</div>
<div class="">generally would it be enough for free healthcare?</div>
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<div class="">I think that?s all the stuff I believe I can help others with their</div>
<div class="">understanding of and I?m confident that listers are generally smarter than</div>
<div class="">everyone else but may have friends with lesser rides and knowledge</div>
<div class="">generally! Also, while I have political opinions, I am not a member of any</div>
<div class="">political party and haven?t always voted for the same political party. I</div>
<div class="">have enlisted military service but not combat experience. Recently I even</div>
<div class="">applied for and have been granted a HM Forces Veteran ID card and maybe</div>
<div class="">when I get my 3rd one it will actually correctly record the initials for my</div>
<div class="">Christian/Fore names. . . .</div>
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<div class="">I?d like to finish with a quote from Henry Ford: ?Any man who thinks he can</div>
<div class="">be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better</div>
<div class="">take a closer look at the American Indian?. However, it seems to be bunk</div>
<div class="">and that he never said that but did say a bunch of other stuff. So, how</div>
<div class="">about a quote from the bible? Matthew Ch19 v30 (NIV) But many who are first</div>
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