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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (66497)	7/22/2005 11:49:06 AM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Gib Re:"rising" Public distaste for the program of the left is rising here, and has been for a long time as the power of the left peaked in the 1960's and it has been pretty much downhill since then. And really Gib, your labels are insulting and not true either. Take "xenophobia". My wife is a Filipina and looks very "Asian". I could pass for GWB's somewhat bigger country cousin. In the town where we live the big event here is the rodeo and half the guys wear cowboy hats and look alot like me. But she has been here in the US for a very long time and we have been all over the place and NEVER ONCE in all these years has anybody ever dared to be anything less that perfectly polite to her and to treat here just as they would treat one of their own. NEVER ONE SINGLE TIME. We ran a business and she kept the books. We have been in rough places here with "rough" guys I know and to formal affairs with the town illuminatti. In church and with the school and everywhere else I have been in all these many years, everybody treats her and my mixed race children with respect. Outside the US, even in your supposedly "civilized" places it has been an altogether differnt story, especially in her own country. I really don't have time to list all the insults and stuff we have had to put up with. One time in Asia in a Muslim place we were being trailed and cat called by a bunch of street toughs, at least till I stopped at a street vendor and bought a straight razor. LOL And lots of times the upper classes there are nearly as bad. Comapred to Asia, Mexicans are very much nicer, though. But we Americans have allowed way too many outisders to come here, especially those from far away third world places. And it has cost us alot. It is quite possible that maybe 200,000 Americans here die needlessly every year from contagious diseases brought here from those places. Along with flu, West Nile and the rest we now have nearly 10,000 cases a year of LEPROSY here now and a vast number of TB cases when years ago before the recent flood there were none. And there are hundreds of exotic fatal afflictions like Kawasaki's disease that is now killing our children. Now we are beginning to get some of these problems under control. And you say anti-intellectualism and I guess you get that idea from lefties who try to pretend that interior of the country is populated by a bunch of uneducated oafs. Nothing could be further from the truth. The interior of the country is where the deep fertile soil of American civilization is the very best. My family is typical, we have an over 200 year tradition of higher education. I have books that have been in the family library here since the middle 1700's. As you very well know the leftie ideas all sprung from the uneducated European underclasses mostly as a result of the serial and stupid murderous wars they have tended to have there. Slagle

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (66497)	7/23/2005 4:11:04 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Gib, I have not yet seen any mention of Enoch Powell's 'rivers of blood' thoughts on immigration into Britain. It's true that it is not exactly a river, but there is more than a spot or two of blood and quite some disruption to ye olde British way of life. I wonder if Japan will succumb to the foolish idea that more people is good and lots more is better, in which case Bangladesh should be rating quite highly, yet isn't. Quality, not quantity is what matters. Luxembourg is small, pleasant and wealthy. I wonder when conflicting cultures will be recognized as the source of the problem and Enoch Powell's writings will be revisited with hindsight. I remember in 1974 how the British queue and manners were dissolving. Queues would form for a bus, then the bus would arrive and the crowd, led by immigrants, would break and run to be first on [or, not left off]. The City Line with a very high ratio of city gents with lethal umbrellas retained the queuing system until 1986 at least, when I joined the queues. Perhaps it still does. Rivers of blood. Enoch Powell. Google would have the goods. Mqurice