Re: Strategic Reserve.

["John Garrison" <corrjng@rbnet.com>]

Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> wrote in message
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> "Roger L. Traviss" <rogertra@islandnet.com> writes:
> > Henning Makholm wrote:
>
> > No, Canada is part of North America.  North America is the
> > continent, "America" is a country.
>
> America is that part of the world which lies west of the Atlantic
> Ocean and east of the Pacific ditto.
>
> --
> Henning Makholm                              "Lucy giver mig en smule af
sin
>                                  vandration. Hun siger, piger ikke bliver
så
>                           tørstige som drenge. Jeg har tit selv tænkt
dette,
>                   men det burde være noget søfolk blev bedre orienteret
om."


That seems like a nice poem if only I spoke the Nordic tongue that goes with
it. But America......some of us in the south are still bitten by what it is
supposed to mean. We call it the U.S. because it's a name not an
implication. OK I'm old fashioned, but Lincoln created his own precedent;
there was none in the constitution, and we were justified in our secession,
even if poorly equipped to make it work too. A good book to read is "Iron
Confederacies" which is about Southern Railroads in the Civil War and
reconstruction; and the carpetbagging yankees, who ironically funded their
rise from postwar ashes.