For all Yanks on the list.

[Nick Thompson]

> I think you missed _my_ point.
> The people here are heavily armed, myself included, and I'm not afraid
> to die.

Quick, some humor, lets flatten it with mindless threats.

> The other thing I find most amusing about this venture into 'off
> topic-ness' is the fact that it was started by a Brit.  You see, us
> Yanks don't _need_ to have a useless figurehead of a President to
> govern ourselves and we feel quite comfortable without one.

Yeah, right.  That's why every news outlet in the US is wetting themselves
over the "Story of the millenium".

> The Brits on the other hand, not only have the moderately useless Tony Blair,
> but they also have the absolutely and completely useless 'royal
> family'. Can somebody tell me just one way that Prince Charles
> justifies the oxygen that he breathes?

Simple, he attracts amerikkkan tourists to $pend their money in London.  The
Royals generate more foreign currency income than it costs to maintain them.
As long as the suckers are prepared to get on a Boeing or Airbus product for
6 to 9 hours to look at some old buildings, the brits will keep the royals
around.

And really, who cares about who rules which imnperialist empire.  This is
degenerating into a grade school argument.