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- From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: Orientals . . .
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.022703.15734@igor.tamri.com>
- Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
- References: <1993Jan19.210718.6344@igor.tamri.com> <1ji6otINNffl@CATHY.NA.CS.YALE.EDU> <ATAYLOR.93Jan20215359@gauss.nmsu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 02:27:03 GMT
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- In article <ATAYLOR.93Jan20215359@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
- writes:
- ><Well, maybe you have a point. Whatever one may think of the merits of
- ><government mind control, there is one thing which is unequivocally true: it
- ><works.
- >
- > Only superficially. The Soviets spilled literally oceans
- > of blood and of ink to create the "New Soviet Man", a
- > creature that would live the Communist ideal.
- >
- > After 70 years, the result seems to be a sullen mass of
- > workers and peasants, a handful of technical "brain workers"
- > and scientists, a glaze of criminal "aristocrats": in short,
- > a society remarkably similar to that under the Czars.
-
- Or like Oakland, CA.
-
- > It peeves me that Don cannot seem to notice that the same
- > folks who like this mind control jazz also want to take his
- > guns away....could there be a connection, there?
-
- Sure I see a connection. I also see a conection between a lot of the
- people who oppose gay rights bills and the fundamentalist christians.
- I see a connection between people on the anti-PC bandwagon and people
- with a racist agenda. I see a connection between Kuwait's status as
- an oil-producing state and Bush's willingness to help it out.
-
- You can't help but notice these things...
-
-
- >< "Pessimism, n. A philosophy forced on the convictions of the observer by
- >< the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope
- >< and his unsightly smile." - Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_
- >
- > Hmmm? How could Bierce have ever met a Clinton supporter?
-
- Hey, Reagan/Bush had their chance to fuck things up in this country; now
- it's the other side's turn...
-
- don
-
- Peeve: Politics. About as pleasant as taking a dump and just as palatable.
-