On Dec 16, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2008, at 7:06 AM, Milo Velimirovic wrote: > >> On Dec 15, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Chris Gehlker wrote: >> >>> >>> On Dec 15, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Charles Bennett wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Dec 15, 2008, at 11:14 AM, LuKreme wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 14-Dec-2008, at 15:03, Kevin Callahan wrote: >>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmt2_wyDKJI >>>>> >>>>> Shame he missed. Had he not, it would have been one of my top-10 >>>>> videos of all time. >>>> >>>> >>>> I suppose that the difference between now and the past is that, had >>>> this been Saddam, he would have ended up tortured and in an >>>> unmarked >>>> grave. >>> >>> Saddam would have tortured some reporter for throwing his shoes at >>> Bush? >>> >>> Do you honestly think if the reporter had thrown a shoe at Ali >>> Khamenei he would fare better than if he had thrown a shoe at Saddam >>> during his reign? >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7783608.stm >> Thousands of Iraqis have demanded the release of a local TV reporter >> who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush at a Baghdad news >> conference. > > Classes of Iraqis who were better off under Saddam > 1) Women > 2) Sunnis > 3) Reporters who throw shoes at Bush > > -- > A young idea is a beautiful and a fragile thing. Attack people, not > ideas. >
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7785338.stm Shoe thrower 'beaten in custody' -- Milo Velimirović La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W -- "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
