From: Kurt Ullman on
In article <2o6bi2ttekkan84qullno6ils8pnnmgdf1(a)4ax.com>,
John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:

> I was born in Panama and raised in the Canal Zone, and there were
> tugs on my heartstrings when Carter gave that toy "back" to Panama.

"Of course the Canal is ours. We stole it fair and square"
SI Hiakawa, Senator from California during the return
debates.
From: JoeBloe on
On 05 Oct 2006 10:25:35 GMT, "Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic(a)aon.at>
Gave us:

>Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>
>> The jury is still out on that one. Its a hung jury. I hanged them
>> myself. ;-)
>
>
>Hang 'em lower. :-)
>

Whack a mole!

Or in his case... Whack yer pole!
From: Homer J Simpson on

"T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message
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>>> I see terrorist attack doesn't make the top twenty then :-) That war on
>>> tobacco really needs to get started soon.
>>
>> WHAT!! How dare you! Why, some of our finest congress things are
>> supported by the good folks that make cigarettes.
>
> :-) Fair point. Let us declare war on the things which kill less people
> then
>
> Who is up for the war on fruit flies?

They banned the hell out of lawn darts - for sure.









From: lucasea on

"T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Homer J Simpson" <nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:oNfVg.51683$E67.16735(a)clgrps13...
>>
>> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message
>> news:OMydnTZT299zHLjYnZ2dnUVZ8tSdnZ2d(a)pipex.net...
>>
>>>> Before Hitler - no holocaust.
>>>>
>>>> After Hitler - no holocaust.
>>>
>>> Wow. Before [Insert anyone who lived between 1930 - 1945] no holocaust.
>>> After [same person] no holocaust.
>>
>> So you see no connection between Hitler and the holocaust.
>
> I see a connection but the same connection can be said about many people.
> Your example was meant to imply that Hitler was the sole driving force for
> the Holocaust. This is not the case.

Sure, there were other forces. Yes, there was plenty of anti-Jewish
sentiment in Germany around then. The economy was still in the toilet from
the Great Depression, but it's not clear to me that the average German
blamed the Jews--even if so, I suspect not anywhere near the way Hitler did.
However, don't you think it really required a charming (in a Germanic sort
of way) misanthropic psychopath with a *serious* chip on his shoulder about
the Jews, to whip everybody into a "the Jews caused *all* of your problems"
frenzy so they could put aside their personal revulsion at eventually
killing millions of their fellow human beings? I guess there could have
been another person that combined that level of insanity, misanthropy,
megalomania, cunning, opportunity and charm, but I'd be really surprised.

Eric Lucas


From: Daniel Mandic on
Homer J Simpson wrote:

> But who wrote Mein Kampf?


A typing machine. And a telephone beside it, not connected to the line,
of course.


Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic