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To: Sully- who wrote (51624)	7/21/2004 11:52:31 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Shame on you. That kind of thing is not tolerated on this thread. I am asking everyone here to please put you on ignore. "That's where we differ abstract. I deal in reality, you know, the one that actually happens, not the one where you go back & revise history to fit your ideological POV?"

To: Sully- who wrote (51624)	7/21/2004 7:36:22 PM
From: abstract	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

You don't deal in reality; you deal in innuendo. And it remains true that you and I cannot have a dialogue because you have banned me from your thread because I disagree with your bully tactics and my willingness to confront your posturing. You and your ilk are cowards, fabricating and prevaricating, selectively dissecting, responding solely to what you think you can get away with and ignoring the balance. Too bad you have to hide behind your own "bully pulpit."

To: Sully- who wrote (51624)	7/21/2004 7:42:14 PM
From: abstract	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Bush League Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times carried a follow-up to Bush's remarks on Cuba last Friday. Bush had charged that Fidel Castro was brazenly promoting sex tourism to Cuba. "The dictator welcomes sex tourism. Here's how he bragged about the industry," Bush said. "This is his quote: 'Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world.'" So what is Bush's source for this? Turns out that the quote was cribbed from an undergraduate paper that had been posted to the web after it won a prize in 2001. But, as many of us know all too well about all too many Undergraduate papers, the quote was not footnoted in the original and the student writer is unable to produce a source for it. That's bad enough already, but it turns out that in the context of the paper itself, the unsourced quote has nothing to do with comments on any sex "tourism" or "industry" anywhere. The student makes it clear in his paper that the quote is a bit of bragging about Cuba's advances in literacy, and at best the "quote" is a paraphrase of a remark Castro made back in 1992 that had nothing to do with the cleanliness of anybody. The student's defense would probably not hold up in a Freshman English course. He now says: "I don't know why I don't have a footnote for that. . . That was before I was in law school and understood that you have to footnote everything." One wonders what Bush's defense would be?