justenjoyuk wrote:

Rick,
didn't get the meaning of your comment, really. What is disappointing? The fact that i don't talk about politics or that you think i'm British, infact i'm not.

Justin,

Yes, I was a little disappointed that your blog wasn't political.  I like to see some views from other parts of the world and it would have been interesting to see something from Oman.

Your being or not being British had nothing to do with it, although I do consider England the only natural enemy the U.S. ever had.  I believe all others have come about directly or indirectly from our association with England.  I only assumed you might be British because of the end of your name.  I thought the "uk" might have been indicating you were from the United Kingom.

justenjoyuk wrote:

Hi,

just installed FC and need all the flag in the world!!! In exchange i will visit you back and leave you the Oman flag.

Here is my blog, http://oman-collective-intelligence.blogspot.com/

Thank you all!

I have to admit, I was a little disappointed with your blog.  From the title I thought I might see some political views from Oman although I've guessed from the uk in your name you're British.

Anyway, please don't visit my blogs just to leave a flag.  I think I have some information, particularly in my earlier posts, that should be of interest to all mankind.  It explains much of what is going on in the world today.  If you want to look over what I have there, please visit, otherwise don't bother.

Rick

I think it was an Orwell character who said, "He who controls the past controls the future.  He who controls the present controls the past."  It sounds like you've a lot to keep you busy, but if you still have an interest in history, http://yamaguchy.netfirms.com has a great collection of old history in ebooks, many on the history of money and banking.

ISP is just short for Internet Service Provider.  The people who provide the link to the internet.

That was not intended to belittle synthetic language.  It's just that I've had no use for languages other than English for 40 years.  As far as synthetic history is concerned, in a sense all fiction writing is a form of synthetic history although not so well developed as something like Tolkien's work.  Then again, it's possible Tolkien didn't write fiction.  Maybe an alternate plain was opened to him.  Maybe "Middle Earth" existed in a middle "Big Bang" universe.  From what I'm told, eternity is a pretty long time.  Who's to say there haven't been many contractions and explosions of what we know as the universe.  It's fun to speculate at leisure, but I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it.

It's interesting that you live in two countries.  What takes you between them?  Business?  Government?

Balut Power wrote:

PhreedomPhan wrote:

Balut, neat photos.  Are they from your travels?

Yes thats right. I had a 6 months trip starting with the trassiberian railway from Moscow to Beijing.

This was back in the early 90`s and I had a bad camera so many pictures was with bad quality.

That's great!  I worked for Pan Am back in the 60's [Man!  Am I that old?].  Flew around the world for $128.40.  Had to go through the Orient in a hurry because I'd written my own ticket that was only supposed to be good for 30 days.  I wanted to be in Europe where I knew my way around a little better if the manager black-listed my ticket.  I spent 11 months bicycling and hitch-hiking through Europe with about 3-4 months working for the Army Post Exchange in Stuttgart.  I also flew to the capitals of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland courtesy of a low cost inter-liner tour with SAS.  Can't beat traveling.

llandewi wrote:

That is a dead set interesting blog, visited from Australia.

Thanks!  I didn't understand blogging when I set it up.  I wanted to get out as much of the information I'd had for many years and put too much in the early posts.  Those earlies have most of the good info.  I usually recommend that anyone interested copy it to their own files.

That's is a fantastic website you have.  I think I saw myself blinking from Philadelphia on the globe.  I'm actually in Bristol Twp, Bucks County but my ISP broadcasts from Phila.