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To: Link Lady who wrote (16739)	10/12/1998 11:43:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18056

U.S. Attempts "Social Work with B-52s" in the Former Yugoslavia stratfor.com << The United States is acting as an imperial power without having an imperial appetite. This is the worst of all possible worlds. On the one side, it throws its weight around globally. On the other side, since it has no appetite for empire, it is neither predictable nor persistent. It shows up in various places for no apparent reason, gets tired and goes home. Without appetite for empire, the United States is treating imperialism as a hobby. This is dangerous. Appetites focus the mind and make people thoughtful and cautious, which at this point in its history, the United States simply isn't. If the United States wants to build an empire, then call it that and do it. If it doesn't want to build an empire, then it should stay home and let others go about their business. But social work with B-52s is not going to solve the problem or do much more than confuse everyone as to what the United States really wants. >>

To: Link Lady who wrote (16739)	10/13/1998 6:03:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18056

Euro Chuckle - Changes to the English Language (From today's joke-of-the-day e-mail - submitted by Ken Smiths) The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English". In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly,this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favor of the 'k'. This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replased with the 'f'. This will make words like 'fotograf' 20% shorter! In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double leters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' wiz 'v'. During ze fifz year ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and similar changes vud of kurs be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After ze fifz yer ve vil hav a rali sensibl ritn styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evriun vil find it ezi tu undrstand ech ozer. Zen Z Drem Vil Finali Kum Tru!! SI's spell checker almost had a fit! < g > John joke-of-the-day.com