Yeah, lots of issues, weren't there. Saw a film from the BBC, or somewhere, named "Poldark"; fellow had served in America in the 1700s, gone back to England, showed some of the politics and society at that time. Pretty realistic, based on the life of the tin miners in Cornwall during that time. Kind of like life for the miners, gold and coal, here in B.C. up until the 1950s. And the Chinese here weren't even people.
And it still happens. Pat -----Original Message----- From: John W Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2008/06/06 16:16 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [social] Hillary finally quits On Jun 6, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Pat McBride wrote: > Why > in the world the colonists got so choked over a Tea Tax is beyond > me; after > all, It wasn't about the tax; it was about being half the size of Europe and still treated as a pocket borough. (For the first year of the war, the US flag had a Union Jack for a canton; we really didn't want to break away, but Lord North kept offering us our last demand but one.) The C of E wasn't much better. All of British America counted, for ecclesiastical purposes, as a neighborhood in the City. Maybe that made sense in the nonconformist colonies, but in the crown colonies, it made American Anglicans feel as though they were nonconformists, too. -- John W Kennedy "The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything...." -- Emile Cammaerts, "The Laughing Prophet" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.0.0/1487 - Release Date: 08/06/06 08:01 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
