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To: JHP who wrote (227396)	3/12/2003 9:21:52 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 436258

John, The Rolling Stones have 4 songs banned from their China performances. apnews1.iwon.com Brown Sugar will now be called "Mauve Equal Brand." Honky Tonk Woman will be replaced with "Starbuck's Barrista." Let's Spend the Night Together will be called "Let's Spit on Taiwan, Heather." Beast of Burden will be "Hero Worker Carries His Country's Future." <g>

To: JHP who wrote (227396)	3/12/2003 6:37:14 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 436258

Waiting for War—In White House Blame game could start soon By Howard Fineman, MSNBC, March 12, 2003 <<...In fact, the U.S. has been humiliated, diplomatically and strategically. And just whose fault is that? The latest slap came the other day from Turkey’s soon-to-be-installed prime minister. Some 60,000 American soldiers are bobbing around on ships in the Eastern Mediterranean, denied permission to enter Turkey on their way to a northern front. Bush called the other day to see if there was a chance that the Turkish parliament would change its collective mind. Not only did Recap Tayyip Erdogan say “no,” he went further. He said that the U.S. couldn’t even use air bases for launching sorties into Iraq. That was a huge step backward: The U.S. had long assumed the right to use those airbases; indeed, we’ve been using them for years. Did Powell or Rice warn the president that he’d be rebuffed—at least—by Erdogan?...>> msnbc.com

To: JHP who wrote (227396)	3/12/2003 8:25:06 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Kerry IS part English and Irish, you bozo. The Forbes side of his family are both. They migrated from Ireland to england then helped feed the starving during the Irish famine. Kerry is green enough and has never said he was anything other than what he is.

To: JHP who wrote (227396)	3/13/2003 1:07:32 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

You changed The Globe article on Kerry, you sneaky b**tard. I've been chatting with the writer Lehigh of the Globe and he showed me his real article which is actually complimentary to Kerry. Shame on you. He's pissed off right-wingers are posting his article and changing it to try and make Kerry look bad. Really low of you. Let's keep the debate straight.

To: JHP who wrote (227396)	3/13/2003 1:12:47 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

This is the real article on Kerry you didn't post: It is SUPPORTIVE of Kerry and this heritage nonsense. Scott Lehigh, Boston Globe: As stories go, the Case of the Half-Hinted but Hollow Hibernian Heritage fell well short of being damning. (This means I don't think the story is a big deal.) Some 1982 campaign T-shirts that appropriated a slogan from an Irish political campaign, plus two slender, and plausibly explained, statements in a career that spans three decades do not an Irish political masquerade make. (This means I don't think Kerry can rightly be accused of trying to pass himself off as Irish. And that I find the evidence the story produced pretty thin.) Nor do I think Kerry can be properly taken to task, as some commentators have done, for failing to correct reporters when they have erroneously described him as Irish.(This means it's not Kerry's fault that reporters have, at one time or another, incorrectly called him Irish.) That's a sin of omission, not commission: He's being accused not of gilding the shamrock but of not working actively to degild it. (This is a way of restating the point that it's not Kerry's responsibility to correct every erroneous report about him.) Perhaps that's an example of Kerry playing things a tad too cute. But it's hardly a window into a major character flaw. (This means the whole flapdoodle shouldn't be seen as a Kerry character flaw.) Nor was it as though Kerry's roots were a complete mystery. Certainly his correct, non-Irish pedigree has been mentioned locally over the years, though usually in, ahem, other publications. * Dont change articles 180 dehgress again, thank you.