What I don't understand is why the US support Al qaeda in Libya and Syria. Yet are obviously at war with them in other countries. It seems they're more bothered with the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan than the actual people who committed the 9/11 atrocities

Meanwhile, in the propaganda war against Assad, we are meant to buy into this little ditty, Assad has secretly been funding AQ:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10585391/Syrias-Assad-accused-of-boosting-Al-Qaeda-with-secret-oil-deals.html

You couldn't make it up! Well you could!

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Tim Horton's is terrible. And if you denigrate America, you have to include Canada, to all Canadians chagrin. It's another America, just with longer lines for the doctor (but the doctors cheap, which is a plus).

Thanks, Sammy. A compliment indeed! I have been writing a novel for decades. In fact, I have been writing it for so long that I started it on a sit-up-and-beg Remington type-writer and it is set in 1965 - still that lets in Alvis TD21 Drophead Coupes and MPW Silver Cloud III four door Continentals as well as an exchanges of fire involving a Navy Colt revolver and a decent shotgun. However, it does includes my ideas for setting the world to rights as well as some of my pop-philosophy Har Har Har - and I'll let you know when I push it out into the world. It might be through Trethosa Parc Publishing or somewhere mainstream - the trouble with mainstream publishing for my books is that the material just isn't populist enough. London suburbanites don't want even to think of going to live in the sun, anymore than they care when the great hatter Lincoln Bennett closed his doors, or why Flying Spurs were only ever Bentleys and not the RR equivalent. A Brazilian friend who lives on a mountain across town once said that she enjoyed one of my books but thought that I'd sell better if I wrote something stupid! She was quite serious and, undoubtedly, right.

So far as coffee goes - I remember that awful freeze-dried stuff that was everywhere in the England of my youth.

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