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Post #124,139 by gdaustin 11/4/03 5:18:57 PM Reply	Remember... In most wars, the losers die and the winners write the history books. At least historically. Now, as for our latest "wars", I guess the loser gets to write history, too. Maybe that's why people long for the past, there was just one version of history, from the guys who won (and killed the losers).
Post #124,147 by rcareaga 11/4/03 5:36:33 PM Reply	yes, but ...in the past the victors typically acknowledged--nay, trumpeted--the feats of arms by which the foe was brought low. When I was growing up nobody minced words about it: "Hell yes, we nuked the Nips," we would growl. "Wanna make something of it?" How modest and reticent as a people we have become when the Smithsonian seems content to leave the impression that the Empire of Japan threw in the obi after a series of demoralizing kitchen fires in Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Does their Apollo exhibit still mention the moon, I wonder? cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #124,178 by Ashton 11/4/03 8:51:12 PM Reply	"A-tomic Pow - Ow-er er- - A-tomic Pow-er-er.. it was Given by the Mighty Hand of .. Ga-aw-^AWWD'\ufffd . . ." ..is the start one comparable little ditty, and one deemed sufficiently Pious to be allowed-to-be (OK Encouraged to be) sung in 'assembly'. The adults leading the tykes. Yep - the adults leading the tykes. Which I guess is.. how -Bad money drives out the Good -idiot sloga Well, all that stuff. Guess it's all as fresh as Socrates corrupting the young'uns with subversive intros to thought, and other scary stuff. Well, we're Here now: SOMA will make it All Go Away. \ufffd \ufffd Squibb, Merck, Dow, M$ and GM-(Halliburton; izzat next?) Welcome back from the quiet country. Neurons all recharged? Negative ions - that'll do it. Speaking of ionizing radiation -- (Mine's depleted - I've lived long enough for the half-life of Tritium to have a practical consequence! Need a new ion source!!)

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