Ray, why on Earth does ElM rate such a vituperative diatribe? I've been far more provocative and get only a joke about my taxes/taxis typo. I've used the A word, the R word, other words, threatened war on China and Islamic Jihad and nothing! Mary slipped on a banana skin while trying to whack me with a wet bus ticket, which was some consolation, but it's not like a full-on Ray Duray onslaught. I've tried to raise panic about quarter of the world dying from H5N1 [converted to H12N8 or something], I've made comet impact rantings, greenhouse effect scoffings, Peak Oil provocations, "women as fully fledged humans" teasing, this, that, and the other.
Sadly, no foam-flecked attack from you.
Mq
PS: But wait, there's more. I see he got a bonus attack: <Where in the world did you come up with such a silly, cockamamie notion? Have you been reading too much Tom Clancy?
Empires fall because they go rotten in an economic and financial sense. Not because they are overtaken militarily. I'm shocked at your incapacity to learn the lessons of history. >
I'm pleased to see there is somebody else on Earth who doesn't think that Ronald Raygun finished off the Evil Empire. Gorby finished it off by not being prepared to conduct another round of mass murder. When the mob saw that, they kicked over the traces. Nobody was prepared to take on the job of another bloody suppression [especially as that could risk their own hides]. |
