#20, RE: The Bad Bank Caper
Posted by Cower on Jan-13-10 at 03:48 AM
In response to message #17
>(As an aside, I saw a segment on the news once in which a grave-faced >British academic asserted that the reason the United States cannot >join the EU - as if at some point we had tried and been rebuffed - was >that we still indulge in the barbaric pastime of capital punishment. >Funnily enough, I had always assumed that the main source of US >ineligibility for EU membership had to do with not being in >Europe, but that goes to show you what I know about these >things.) Actually, there is nothing that limits membership to countries in europe. The name is just because it started with a bunch of european countries.
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