"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
news:BDD7A867.2D96E%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...

> I realize that you have issues with America, both as an Brit and as a
> resident of Canada, but those issues seem to be due more to jealously than
> anything else.

: )
There's that old cliche again.
You do realise that the above is part of the classic sterotype Europeans
have of USAins?
Fat, loud, ignorant, arogant and convinced that the world is jealous of the
USA.
Jealous of what exactly?
That eveyone loves you?
A W-S