posted on October 4, 2002 05:56:26 PM new
With a pre-war population of just a little over 20 million and the vast oil reserves, it shouldn't be long after the liberation, until the average Iraqi's greatest concern is which suburb has the best schools and whether the Baptist or Presbyterian religion is most compatible with their lifestyles.
posted on October 4, 2002 09:28:10 PM new
"With a pre-war population of just a little over 20 million and the vast oil reserves, it shouldn't be long after the liberation, until the average Iraqi's greatest concern is which suburb has the best schools and whether the Baptist or Presbyterian religion is most compatible with their lifestyles."
LOL! Game, Set, and Match to you, Antiquary! And I'll meetcha at the civil exams... ( - Whaddaya mean you don't want to drive a schoolbus in Kabul???)
posted on October 4, 2002 10:43:01 PM new
As tempting as that job prospect is, Pat, I'm rather selfishly enjoying my retirement too much. The new Afghanistan has intriguing vacation possibilities though.
...while admiring the fields of waving poppies. In attracking tourists I would expect that scenery enhancements would have to be basic to the package deals.
posted on October 4, 2002 11:32:32 PM new
Well, if ya want to get technical... bring your parasol, be prepared to use your 9-iron as a defensive weapon, and watch the road, Rollo, watch the road!*
* Fifty non-redeemable points if you know offhand what that's from
posted on October 5, 2002 12:26:24 AM new
Well, you're to be awarded the fifty bonus points because you have tinnitus! So do I. (A wretched way for God to send locusts, don't you think?)
In a movie entitled "Six of a Kind", W.C. Fields and Allison Skipworth play two of the leading roles. They're married. They're hip. She and He come into some money and set out upon the Los Angeles highways in second-hand cars to rid the streets of "roadhogs". Allison Skipworth is priceless sitting alongside W. C. Fields acting as navigator: "ROLLO!" she shouts. "BEAVAH!!" And Rollo heads into a new lane and plows into a high-priced "roadhog" with his second-hand clunker. They repeat this performance just enough times to give everyone an idea of where "bumper cars" originated and also to remind us that we're all King of the Road.
Edited to add: Heck, it might be a movie called, "If I Had A Million" -- heh, either one is worth renting...
posted on October 5, 2002 01:52:25 PM new
Damn, I missed the serenading but I think I recognize the echoes of the voice.
Though I can't accept the empathy points, you deserve 50 for the locust analogy. Maybe just the ravages of a misspent youth. Nothing comes to mind that would have merited a curse upon my ear. There were likely a few with rhyming substitutions though. Lol. Actually, we should consider ourselves blessed; so many today hear voices while those in public life speak in tongues. Wasn't one of Hamlet's responses to Polonius' tedious sermonizing, "Buzz. Buzz. Buzz"?
I remember the car sequence, though not with your clarity of detail, from "If I Had a Million" ... I think. I should watch those again, and Chaplain too. Suffering withdrawal a couple of days ago, I was feverishly rummaging a remote bookcase and discovered an unread copy of Letters from Cicely. A bit nostalgic but mainly wonderfully funny. Poignantly funny I suppose one could say. Which invokes the age old question of whether or not contemporary humor is dimmer or perhaps it's only my own insight. Someone I knew used to interject that maybe I had changed. I always considered it sardonic projection, but perhaps not.
The day here is both blue and golden and I'm going to fall into it before it's gone. So, I'm out.
posted on October 14, 2002 09:16:17 PM new
I think it is extremely cynical to assume that this war with Iraq is about oil. At anytime Sadam could cooperate with the world and assure us that he is not creating weapons of global destruction. He has not chosen to do so in the past which was a violation of his agreement with the United Nations. If he openly allowed weapon inspectors into his country and cooperarated fully he would not put himself in the position of war. He plays a cat and mouse game with inspectors at this point. The ball is clearly in his court. His cooperation would be the key to insure peace. HE does not cooperate. He wanted the oil in Kuwait, he was the proven invader. He started a war. Oil is essential to the survival all all industrial nations. He has the ability to compete in the Global economy in a legitmate and professional fashion but he chosen not to do so. It is extremely immature to assume that our elected leaders are incompetant and are so shallow and vapid that they are not working to ensure the personal safety of Americans as well as our economy and the economy of other nations with whom we trade. I believe that Bush is making the right moves and I support him 100 percent. I help elect him in the past and will surely do so in the future.
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