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Mississippi, Louisiana and Katrina response

Dear C.:

     Yup. Kinda like that, and thanks for adding to my arsenel of useful analogies.

posted by Rarmcwa on September 17, 2006 at 7:55 AM | link to this | reply

BTW.......

I like your refreshing approach to writing about issues...........

posted by Corbin_Dallas on September 16, 2006 at 7:21 PM | link to this | reply

Rarmcwa

Kind of like a comparison between the way Louisiana and Mississippi handled the Katrina issue?

posted by Corbin_Dallas on September 16, 2006 at 7:17 PM | link to this | reply

Rarmcwa, the triumph of the concrete over the abstract!

I'll take 3 meals a day over vague abstract improvements in society any day.  Thanks for the thoughts. 

posted by Blanche. on September 16, 2006 at 2:08 PM | link to this | reply

Cuban triumphs under Castro

    Laughing extremely loudly and in nine languages! 

    OK you guys, one more Communism joke, and I'm outta here. The Cubans say, "Under Castro, Cuba has had three great successes; race relations, sports and public health ... and three great failures; breakfast, lunch and dinner."

    Rock on, Campers!

 

posted by Rarmcwa on September 16, 2006 at 2:02 PM | link to this | reply

LOL, that and five-year plan. There's another Russian joke that goes

something like:  a supervisor walks into a potato processing plant in Russia and asks about that years crop and  commends the workers on the fine job they're doing in processing potatoes, but says something like, "I'm sorry we wont' be able to pay you this year". The worker answers, "That's okay there are no potatoes, either. 

posted by Blanche. on September 16, 2006 at 11:25 AM | link to this | reply

Rarmca

The Russians had a saying during the commie period.  "They pretend to pay us so we pretend to work."

posted by LeRoyCoyote on September 16, 2006 at 11:21 AM | link to this | reply

Rarmcwa, I guess that's one example of the carrot and the stick.

I agree that the Russian people got the short end of the stick.  I wondered if Y2K was a piece of money-making, fear-inducing propaganda because nothing much happened.  But it sounds like you've done some homework.  You Libertarian you. 

posted by Blanche. on September 16, 2006 at 9:15 AM | link to this | reply