From lmacy at mac.com  Tue Mar  4 07:46:27 2025
From: lmacy at mac.com (Larry Macy)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 09:46:27 -0500
Subject: [Spridgets] Past present and future- no LBC
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Nory, 100% agree. 

Larry

> On Feb 24, 2025, at 4:14?PM, nory1--- via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> Many of us in the US did not vote for this administration, and are terrified by what it is doing to our country and the rest of the world :(
> 
> Nory
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> From: "Weslake1330 via Spridgets" 
> To: "Spridgets"
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday February 24 2025 3:54:49PM
> Subject: [Spridgets] Past present and future- no LBC
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> I was born in the early 1960s in a rural part of the country and it seems within walking distance of one of many nuclear missile stations here in England.  It was too soon for ICBMs so America had our friendly assistance in siting short range nuclear missiles in our country and within striking range of the USSR - THOR (lots on YouTube and the internet about THOR).
> 
> I was at school for the moon landings and only decades later visited the place where Neil Armstrong's famous words  were first heard.  That place was not the USA but a British crown territory where the signal was received and then sent onto the USA.  The place was Ascension Island (at least one good fiction book was based on the island...).
> 
> I was an enlisted serviceman in the RAF where I saw one of the last b&w photos of a Russian bear that had been live intercepted by a fighter from my squadron.  About the same time I saw a piece of rubbish concrete that arrived in the mail for a member of the squadron - it was a piece of the Berlin wall.
> 
> The world order changed, the cold war ended and the world seemed a safer place and maybe for a while it was.  Terrorist attacks continued around the world and in various countries and still do.  So I guess this is the present.
> 
> The future seems less safe and so I wanted to write this e-mail.  My understanding is that lots of honest (not corrupt) and good countries are a friend of the USA.  Also the good countries (think of NATO members as a starting point) have the same common enemies as the USA does: Iran, North Korea, China (Peoples Republic of China) and Russia.  However I guess Iran and North Korea actually hate the USA and would like to nuke it and maybe one day they will try to, but not bother with England/the UK or Europe or maybe just not have enough missiles to try to do so.
> 
> The Ukraine has been invaded in part by Russia and the only reason they haven't been totally taken over is because they fought back and had help and support from the USA and Europe.  The Ukraine might be on their last legs but in a different way so is Russia and they have both paid a hefty price to date.
> 
> If you think back to my childhood where Europe was a willing buffer to help keep the USSR at bay who targeted missiles (now ICBMs and sub delivered) at the USA and Europe - it was a policy that worked.
> 
> So what I don't understand is why the USA would now be so friendly to Russia.  Call the Ukraine a European problem and you might be right.  However, why be wholly on Russia's side who are propped up by North Korea who have undoubtedly gained money and most likely warfare expertise (nuclear and missile technology)?  Once Russia have what they want and so does North Korea, is the world a more dangerous place and is the USA less safe from rogue states than ever before?
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Daniel
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From charlie at charles-hall.com  Wed Mar 26 10:25:22 2025
From: charlie at charles-hall.com (Charles Hall III)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:25:22 +0000
Subject: [Spridgets] Duane "Ottie" Otness Bug-eye for sale
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Subject: Duane "Ottie" Otness Bug-eye for sale

Rita Varner Otness has reached out, via Gary Kropf and requested that
I advise you all that Ottie's Buy-eye, spare parts and trailer are for
sale.  Please see the attached information sent by Rita.  If
interested or you have any questions, please reach out directly to
Rita at "ritaraevo at gmail.com".

Best regards,
Tom
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