On Apr 14, 6:59 pm, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
b wrote:

On 14 abr, 07:12, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
b wrote:

On 13 abr, 18:25, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
b wrote:

On 13 abr, 08:10, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Names like Eeyore, Homer J Simpson, Bill Sloman top the list, but
there are dozens of others. Do a little digging and you'll see what I
mean.

why would anyone want to criticize the US?

Jealousy, or ignorance, is my guess. Either that, or they just love
telling lies.

what lies etc. have you encountered? I'm intrigued. Can't say I've
noticed a great deal on this NG, perhaps you could point me in the
direction of the relevant threads.

A lot of it is on news:alt.binaries.schematics which isn't archived.
Look for the names I mentioned in the Google groups archives, in the
sci.electronics and alt.electronics groups. For instance, Bill Sloman
made a claim that the US kept changing their food safety standards so
his relatives couldn't export beef to the US.

They didn't change the food safety standards. Rather, they insisted
that the slaughterhouses in Australia conformed - in every detail - to
the regulations applying to slaughterhouses in the U.S. This meant
that the Australians had to build special slaughter houses for the
beef they wanted to export to the U.S.A. and they had to be inspected,
and approved by U.S. inspectors before the exports could go ahead.

The inspections were very thorough - to the point of being quite
unreasonably thorough - and it proved strangely difficult for anybody
in Australia to build an acceptable slaughter house. Anything that did
pass would fail a subsequent reinspection and have to be torn down and
rebuilt.

This is usually described as "a non-tariff barrier to trade", though
the word "cheating" is often used as well.

The relative involved was one of the daughters of my father-in-law's
third wife. My father-in-law was not the father of the daughter
involved, so the relationship was pretty remote. I originally got to
hear of the scam from the farmers kids that I went to school with in
Tasmania in the 1950's - it ran for many years.

Others rant about nuclear
power, the vehicles we drive, health care,

U.S. health care is remarkably poor for such a rich country. Child
mortality is about the same as Cuba's, and significanty worse that
France, Germany, the U.K., the Netherlands or Sweden. Afro-Americans,
Red Indians and the Inuit do a lot worse than WASPs.

food safety

Check out "The Omnivore's Dilemma" for a US-written take on US food
safety

and any other garbage you can come up with.

None of mine are garbage. Mike Terrell just doesn't like being
reminded that the U.S.A. hasn't yet solved every social problem, and
- in some areas - could learn something from other countries.

The electoral system is about due for an update ....

It would be easier for you to take a look
at the archives with the names I gave, than for me to post pages of
links. Add US or United States to your search to help filter out other
posts.

And you'd avoid the distortions introduced by Mike Terrell's
brainwashed perceptions.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen