Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Idea Of The Day -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nemer who wrote (45894)	4/13/2004 4:39:40 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Nemer, Ever heard of Cliff Murchison? He told the story a lot better. Suze is the most brilliant retread ever. The rubber industry is proud. So is Trojan.

To: Nemer who wrote (45894)	4/13/2004 10:01:10 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Went to Scotland for Easter weekend and had a brilliant time there. I finally understood the history of the Celtic nations, and their hatred for England. Scotland and England are two different nations, in fact for the first few hundred years of co-existence they merely shared the same monarch and that was about it. Nevertheless in 1707 England coerced Scotland, through economic blackmail (most Scottish imports went to England) and promises (the tarriffs Scottish merchants had to trade with the English colonies would be lifted) to enact the "Act of Union". Therefore the Scottish parlimentarians voted to abolish their own parliment in ordered to be ruled by Westminster and consequently forfeit their national rights. However the Scots thrived within the Union despite their initial foreboding as evidenced with the the city of Glasgow, where the Scots took to rioting against their politicians for their decision, becoming an industrial powerhouse and the second city of the Empire, after London. Scots have been Prime Ministers, prospered within the United Kingdom and though inveighing against English imperialism served as it's most ablest adminstrators. But that didn't stop my tour guides to exclaim, with obvious relish, that at Robert the Bruce's victory "English bodies flooded the river and it was said that you could cross bank to bank without getting wet". However now the union is so complete, that despite devolution and virulent Scottish nationalism, Scotland, with her precipitiously declining population, remains evermore dependent on English investment and tourism. Scotland, for its genteel sophistication and highland fierceness, seems to be trapped in the spiritual decline of post-Christian Europe. The nation, like the continent, has yet to grapple with the question of whether it has a sustainable future and if in fifty years there will be a recognisable Scotland, worthy of her past. A nation burdened by a glorious history, when its light shone across the world, what place does she in a world where her population of five million must now contend with the Asiatic billions burgeoning from their wearied continent? It is said that civilisations are in their various cyclical phase whence their growth is eclipsed by others and thus mature, eventually declining and bequeathing the human race, with their dying gasp, the glory of their past. Perhaps it is the case for I saw the castles dotting the Scottish landscape, from Edinburgh to Dundee, depending on gawking tourists to maintain their majesty for another generation. Considering that I was one of them I can only shut up and recommend readers to take a trip up north and see the bonnie bonnie land that sired poet and pirate. Zachary Latif 22:38