<div dir="ltr">She was from the Pennines mountain area of England, where witches were known to have resided centuries ago. She had married a Texan, and moved to the US. My wife and I met her during the Texas Healey Roundup many years ago, and maintained a friendship until she returned to England. That was about 10 years ago. She recently has passed. <br><br>Brad</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM JMFangio via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Elizabeth the witch predates me, what is the story there?<div><br></div><div>Lester</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 23, 2026, at 8:55 AM, nory1--- via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div>Gosh, I miss those guys!<br>-------------------- <br><br>From: "AOL Mail Update (Terms & Policy) via Spridgets" <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> <br>Reply-To: "AOL Mail Update (Terms & Policy)" <<a href="mailto:crusaderchuck55@aol.com" target="_blank">crusaderchuck55@aol.com</a>> <br>To: "Rick Fisk" <<a href="mailto:refisk@chartermi.net" target="_blank">refisk@chartermi.net</a>>, "Ron Soave" <<a href="mailto:soavero@yahoo.com" target="_blank">soavero@yahoo.com</a>> <br>Cc: "Spridgets" <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>>, <<a href="mailto:wilkmanracing@aol.com" target="_blank">wilkmanracing@aol.com</a>>, "Weslake1330" <<a href="mailto:weslake1330@gmail.com" target="_blank">weslake1330@gmail.com</a>> <br>Sent: June 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM EDT <br>Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Spridgets Digest, Vol 181, Issue 2 </div>
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<div>Do not FORGET MONTANA BOB!</div>
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<div>Recently trying to figure out what's older.....dirt or me?</div>
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<div>On Monday, June 22, 2026 at 03:34:49 PM EDT, Ron Soave via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote>On Jun 22, 2026, at 12:35 AM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote>
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<div>Delete key works fine. But this kind of nonsense does not belong here.</div>
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<div>On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 at 20:31, Jim Ryan via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" rel="noopener" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>Well, it's supposed to be. This kind of stuff is really not welcome here.</div>
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<div>On Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 3:16 PM wilkmanracing--- via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" rel="noopener" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div> 1. No LBC - Budapest, NATO (OTAN) Europe, the EU, Islamic</div>
<div> immigration and healthcare (Weslake1330)</div>
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<div>From: Weslake1330 <<a href="mailto:weslake1330@gmail.com" rel="noopener" target="_blank">weslake1330@gmail.com</a>></div>
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<div>Subject: [Spridgets] No LBC - Budapest, NATO (OTAN) Europe, the EU,</div>
<div> Islamic immigration and healthcare</div>
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<div>Hi list, some of you are don?t like it when I post stuff like this but</div>
<div>never challenge any of the points I make or even privately debate them with</div>
<div>me. Some of you find them interesting and some have deleted this e-mail</div>
<div>already. Well, I read a lot of stuff on YouTube and regardless of any</div>
<div>opinion or political allegiances it does seem to me that not everyone</div>
<div>understands the basic of some issues and that leads to misunderstandings.</div>
<div>Sure, the list should be to discuss LBC stuff but I think the archive will</div>
<div>confirm other stuff, sometimes contentious (public drafting on the highway</div>
<div>and not in LBCs) topics get discussed.</div>
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<div>Firstly, part of the reason countries are helping Ukraine in their fight</div>
<div>against Russian aggression and attacks, lie with The Budapest Memorandum on</div>
<div>Security signed in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994. The summary is</div>
<div>that Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons as part of a defence deal. The</div>
<div>other obvious reason is that when one country attacks another and seeks to</div>
<div>completely invade it there is choice other countries have to make in</div>
<div>whether to sit back and do nothing or find a way to help. Thirdly you have</div>
<div>to consider a domino effect scenario where Russia defeats Ukraine and then</div>
<div>goes onto rebuild the USSR. Maybe that sounds like a problem for the</div>
<div>Europeans and I guess it is, or at least first. But if the dominos carry</div>
<div>on falling then you once again have a USSR that threatens the USA.</div>
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<div>NATO is the North Atlantic (not North American) Treaty Organisation (the</div>
<div>French call it OTAN for French grammatical reasons I don?t understand).</div>
<div>It?s not a club of buddies to bully anyone but a club of buddies to defend</div>
<div>each other against a big bully. It?s not a European idea or club and</div>
<div>Canada is a member. Despite the rhetoric you might read or hear, NATO</div>
<div>isn?t a way for everyone apart from the USA to get defence on the cheap.</div>
<div>Not everyone in the club might agree that everyone is paying enough.</div>
<div>However, the member paying the most doesn?t say it will pay less but argues</div>
<div>others should pay more. Why is that? Well, you might have to do your own</div>
<div>research on that.</div>
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<div>Europe isn?t a country it?s a geographic region. The EU is not the same</div>
<div>thing as Europe because the EU is a kind of club. Strangely enough the EU</div>
<div>has been viewed by some members and one ex-member as a club where not all</div>
<div>the members pay in enough money or get equal benefits out of it. The</div>
<div>republic of Ireland is not in NATO but is in Europe and is in the EU. The</div>
<div>United Kingdom (Great Britain, sort of) is in NATO and is in Europe but is</div>
<div>not in the EU (it left some years ago).</div>
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<div>Is Europe being taken over by Islamic (Moslem) immigrants? Well, I don?t</div>
<div>think so. I could make a joke and say that in England at least, the Hindus</div>
<div>and Sikhs would never allow that to happen. You also have to understand</div>
<div>there are actually 2 major and one lesser Islamic group ? not sure if this</div>
<div>is quite the same thing as Catholics and Protestants but it?s how I like to</div>
<div>think of it. Over the years I?ve worked alongside Moslems and they were</div>
<div>great people and not extremists.</div>
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<div>I read a lot that the reason Europeans have free healthcare is because they</div>
<div>rely on the US, as part of NATO, to protect them rather than pay for their</div>
<div>own protection. In the UK free healthcare came into being after WW2 and</div>
<div>existed all the way through the Cold War at a time when the UK spent a lot</div>
<div>more on defence than it does now. However, it?s not quite as encompassing</div>
<div>as it used to be. For example, when I was a child, medical prescriptions</div>
<div>were free but for decades since there has been a fee to pay. Similarly,</div>
<div>all dental care was free when I was a child but now while it is still</div>
<div>subsidised there is 3 tier system of fees and it can still be very</div>
<div>expensive. I think at least one country in Europe has free healthcare. A</div>
<div>question to consider then is if the US spent less money on NATO and defense</div>
<div>generally would it be enough for free healthcare?</div>
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<div>I think that?s all the stuff I believe I can help others with their</div>
<div>understanding of and I?m confident that listers are generally smarter than</div>
<div>everyone else but may have friends with lesser rides and knowledge</div>
<div>generally! Also, while I have political opinions, I am not a member of any</div>
<div>political party and haven?t always voted for the same political party. I</div>
<div>have enlisted military service but not combat experience. Recently I even</div>
<div>applied for and have been granted a HM Forces Veteran ID card and maybe</div>
<div>when I get my 3rd one it will actually correctly record the initials for my</div>
<div>Christian/Fore names. . . .</div>
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<div>I?d like to finish with a quote from Henry Ford: ?Any man who thinks he can</div>
<div>be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better</div>
<div>take a closer look at the American Indian?. However, it seems to be bunk</div>
<div>and that he never said that but did say a bunch of other stuff. So, how</div>
<div>about a quote from the bible? Matthew Ch19 v30 (NIV) But many who are first</div>
<div>will be last, and many who are last will be first.</div>
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<div>Daniel</div>
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