Re: Americana

2003-12-17 Thread Mike Ballard
On top of it all, he didn't even capture him. He really doesn't do much at all. That's our Shrub. Regards and thanks for all those very well informed posts on the question of Estimating Surplus, Mike B) --- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NYT reported today: Mr. Bush's

Re: Americana

2003-12-17 Thread k hanly
: Americana The NYT reported today: Mr. Bush's approval rating jumped to 58 percent after Mr. Hussein was captured, from 52 percent, and the number of Americans who disapproved of his performance fell to 33 percent, from 40 percent. This is moronic melodrama. What does the capture

Re: Americana

2003-12-17 Thread joanna bujes
- Original Message - From: Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:41 PM Subject: Americana The NYT reported today: Mr. Bush's approval rating jumped to 58 percent after Mr. Hussein was captured, from 52 percent, and the number of Americans who

Americana

2003-12-16 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
The NYT reported today: Mr. Bush's approval rating jumped to 58 percent after Mr. Hussein was captured, from 52 percent, and the number of Americans who disapproved of his performance fell to 33 percent, from 40 percent. This is moronic melodrama. What does the capture of Hussein have to do with

Americana: invent an enemy to win swinging voters, or, the politics of negativity

2003-11-27 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Ernst Bloch wrote: In capitalist society health is the capability to earn, among the Greeks it was the capability to enjoy, and in the Middle Ages the capability to believe. (The principle of hope, p. 465). Today I was reading in The Post that according to Senator Joseph I. Lieberman Democrats

Pax Americana

2003-02-26 Thread k hanly
Should be Pox Americana!! Cheers, Ken Hanly The president's real goal in Iraq Bookman is the deputy editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal- Constitution By JAY BOOKMAN The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between

RE: Pax Americana

2003-02-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35105] Pax Americana it should be mentioned that Pax Americana is nothing new. Back during the Cold War, we had PA. The US was the global cop within its sphere of influence while it guarded the frontiers of that sphere against the barbarian hordes -- oops, I mean the USSR