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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (55275)	8/25/2002 7:33:06 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't know what those things are, Karen... They're seaweed, which is a staple in my diet. Even elephant tusks. I retract my vote.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (55275)	8/25/2002 7:37:55 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

oh spew that was too funny

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (55275)	8/25/2002 8:05:52 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

J.C., a few days ago I saw a really good post on the "moderation". It would require some editing as part of a book...but the idea was quite powerful and worthy. Nicely done...

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (55275)	8/25/2002 8:50:33 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

I stole this from another thread, and I'd do it again. i hope YOUR administration won't do such things. Probably better if you just ignore the region completely. You could even erase it from the maps. After all "America" means NORTH America. <<< We can learn a good deal by attention to the range of choices. Keeping just to Latin America, consider the efforts to eliminate the Allende regime in Chile. There were two parallel operations. Track II, the hard line, aimed at a military coup. This was concealed from Ambassador Edward Korry, a Kennedy liberal, whose task was to implement Track I, the soft line; in Korry's words, to "do all within our power to condemn Chile and the Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty, a policy designed for a long time to come to accelerate the hard features of a Communist society in Chile." The soft line was an extension of the long-term CIA effort to control Chilean democracy. One indication of its level is that in the 1964 election, the CIA spent twice as much per Chilean voter to block Allende as the total spent per voter by both parties in the U.S. elections of the same year. >>> The soft line failed, so we went with the hard line in 1973. zmag.org