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John Costello  
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 More options Oct 15 1991, 8:41 am
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From: c...@lclark.edu (John Costello)
Date: 15 Oct 91 00:04:10 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 14 1991 8:04 pm
Subject: Re: Culture,usa ??

In article <1991Oct14.204919*ci...@solan.unit.no> ci...@solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf) writes:
>Nobody's even mentioned chocolate chip cookies yet.  *snf*

Thanks, Cindy.  You made me think of several other things, especially since
you post to alt.fan.dan-quayle so much, which brings me to.....

J. Danforth Quayle!
Has there been a source of such political humour from any other country,
at least in this century?

And, along that thread, who could have passed up Jim Hensen's Muppets?
(It is rumoured on alt.fan.dan-quayle that Dan is actually an escaped
muppet which Jim never perfected.)  The Muppets have brought humor, warmth
and gentle teaching to millions of youths and adults (including me!).

>....
>And if you have to be nasty to another country, do you have to bring out the
>same old cliches?

No, we should think of new ones!  :-)

>-Cindy Kandolf
> ci...@solan.unit.no
> Trondheim, Norway
> (transplanted Pennsylvanian)

Cos
(escapee from Idaho)

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Bob Cano  
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 More options Oct 15 1991, 12:41 pm
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From: rc...@bmerh618.BNR.CA (Bob Cano)
Date: 15 Oct 91 12:10:18 GMT
Local: Tues, Oct 15 1991 8:10 am
Subject: Re: Culture,usa ??

In article <1991Oct15.000410.9...@lclark.edu>, c...@lclark.edu (John

Costello) writes:

|>
|> J. Danforth Quayle!
|> Has there been a source of such political humour from any other country,
|> at least in this century?
|>
How about Canada's Bill Vander Zalm, a laugh a minute, except if you
lived in BC and had to put up with him.

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Victor Eijkhout  
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 More options Oct 15 1991, 8:06 pm
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From: eijkh...@sp2.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Date: 15 Oct 91 17:11:41 GMT
Local: Tues, Oct 15 1991 1:11 pm
Subject: Re: Culture,usa ??

c...@lclark.edu (John Costello) writes:
>J. Danforth Quayle!
>Has there been a source of such political humour from any other country,
>at least in this century?

One of the most silly episodes of Dutch parliamentary history
was the rise and fall of Boer Koekoek (Farmer Cuckoo).
He was the leader of the farmer's party, which gained a
glorious one seat in the (150 seat) parliament.

The guy was an idiot (with rather ultra-right wing sympathies, but
fortunately not the intelligence to do something with them), and
his performances were always a source of amusement. What he said
was never relevant and always silly. I remember one time where
the chairman of the session cut off his more than usual irrelevant ramblings,
and Farmer Cuckoo walked back from the microphone, complaining
`Ooh, I never get to say anything here'.

Victor.


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Harri Haanp{{  
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 More options Oct 18 1991, 7:43 am
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From: f406...@saha.hut.fi (Harri Haanp{{)
Date: 17 Oct 91 14:47:41 GMT
Local: Thurs, Oct 17 1991 10:47 am
Subject: Re: Culture,usa ??
In article <1991Oct15.000410.9...@lclark.edu> c...@lclark.edu (John Costello) writes:

   J. Danforth Quayle!
   Has there been a source of such political humour from any other country,
   at least in this century?

In Finland we used to tell jokes about Ahti Karjalainen and his bad English.
Then again, when 5 million Finns tell jokes about him and 200 million
Americans tell jokes about Quayle.. and Ahti Karjalainen wasn't actually
the _source_ of the humor.

Is it true that the _other_ political party in the US of A (the one Bush and
Quayle do _not_ represent) has been thinking of selecting Bush to be their
candidate too in the next presidential elections, but with another (_anyone_
else than Quayle) vice-presidential candidate? Since Bush is going to win
anyway unless he screws up REAL BAD?

Harri


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Discussion subject changed to "Molly Ivins impression of DQ - From Letterman Show" by Greg Nudd
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 More options Oct 18 1991, 8:54 am
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From: meav...@ut-emx.uucp (Greg Nudd)
Date: 17 Oct 91 16:05:54 GMT
Local: Thurs, Oct 17 1991 12:05 pm
Subject: Molly Ivins impression of DQ - From Letterman Show
For those of you who may have missed the Letterman show last night,
I will paraphrase Molly Ivins opinion of our esteemed VP:

"The press has been accused of attacking Dan Qyayle unfairly. Well
I travelled with him in '88 and I found him dumber than advertised.

If you put that man's brain in a bumblebee - the bee would fly backwards."


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Discussion subject changed to "Culture,usa ??" by Drevik, Steve
Drevik, Steve  
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 More options Oct 18 1991, 9:09 am
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From: dre...@utkvx3.utk.edu (Drevik, Steve)
Date: 17 Oct 91 17:25:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Culture,usa ??

In article <F40661B.91Oct17154...@saha.hut.fi>, f406...@saha.hut.fi (Harri Haanp{{) writes...>
>Is it true that the _other_ political party in the US of A (the one Bush and
>Quayle do _not_ represent) has been thinking of selecting Bush to be their
>candidate too in the next presidential elections, but with another (_anyone_
>else than Quayle) vice-presidential candidate? Since Bush is going to win
>anyway unless he screws up REAL BAD?

>Harri

No, sorry to say.  Those comments represent a sarcastic joke by Republicans
(Bush's party), poking fun by saying that this is the only way the Democrats
(the other party) could hope to win an election.

And Bush has, by the way, screwed up real bad...domestically at least.  He
kept denying that a recession was taking place, refusing to take necessary
steps until they were absolutely necessary.  You see, if people are convinced
the economy is bad, even if it isn't, the economy will become bad.  Bush
also believes the converse to be true: that if people believe the
economy is good, even if it is bad, the economy will get better.  That might
work for a very short, shallow recession.  But with the huge deficit
we have, I can't see how any resonable person would say this past recession
would have been shallow or short.

It all depends how much the media plays up the economic problems.  Bush
will wrap himself in the flag and his victories overseas, while the
democrats will note how we have 1-2 million more Americans out of work
than before he took office.  It's really hard to say what will happen
in a country whose voter turnout can swing between 10% and 40%... if
people mobilize a vote, it can swing things.
-s


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saunders  
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 More options Oct 18 1991, 9:37 am
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From: saund...@luther.che.wisc.edu
Date: 17 Oct 91 18:45:47 GMT
Local: Thurs, Oct 17 1991 2:45 pm
Subject: Re: Culture,usa ??

Not much Quayle talk in this response.  I suggest all the people who are
flaming Bush or the Republican Party to start alt.gbush.sucks or
alt.fuckoff.republicans.  If the point of this newsgroup is Quayle jokes
and sarcasm, let's please stay away from serious political talk (which
obviously could never be linked with Dan Quayle).
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Dennis Rivard  
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 More options Oct 18 1991, 5:42 pm
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From: riv...@claude.ma30.bull.com (Dennis Rivard)
Date: 17 Oct 91 23:14:31 GMT
Local: Thurs, Oct 17 1991 7:14 pm
Subject: Re: Culture,usa ??

In article <F40661B.91Oct17154...@saha.hut.fi> f406...@saha.hut.fi (Harri Haanp{{) writes:
>In article <1991Oct15.000410.9...@lclark.edu> c...@lclark.edu (John Costello) writes:
>Is it true that the _other_ political party in the US of A (the one Bush and
>Quayle do _not_ represent) has been thinking of selecting Bush to be their

Which other political party do you mean? There are hundreds.... oh,
you mean the Democrats...... ;-)

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Lynne D. Powell  
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 More options Oct 19 1991, 2:18 am
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From: lp...@andrew.cmu.edu (Lynne D. Powell)
Date: 18 Oct 91 06:09:23 GMT
Local: Fri, Oct 18 1991 2:09 am
Subject: Re: Culture,usa ??

Flame on:

Hey there.  I thought to myself, "self, why is this topic on
alt.tv.muppets?"  Then I thought, "I'll bet that this topic had to do
with muppets in some vague way and now it has totally changed"  Please
people, edit the sbject line.  It doesn't take too much effort.  Thanks.

Flame off

-Lynne

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Discussion subject changed to "Culture,usa -we're talking yogurt, right?" by Walter Alden Tackett
Walter Alden Tackett  
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 More options Oct 19 1991, 2:18 am
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From: tack...@ipld01.hac.com (Walter Alden Tackett)
Date: 18 Oct 91 01:25:20 GMT
Local: Thurs, Oct 17 1991 9:25 pm
Subject: Culture,usa -we're talking yogurt, right?
In article <17OCT199113255...@utkvx3.utk.edu> dre...@utkvx3.utk.edu (Drevik, Steve) writes:

<stuff about democrats running bush w/o dan as their candidate>
>No, sorry to say.  Those comments represent a sarcastic joke by Republicans
>(Bush's party), poking fun by saying that this is the only way the Democrats
>(the other party) could hope to win an election.

And like many of the best jokes, largely true.  In america, we have the freedom
of choosing between fascism and impotence, and seem to prefer fascism.

>And Bush has, by the way, screwed up real bad...domestically at least.  He

...he likes to call himself the "environmental president."  i submit that his
choice of running mate makes him the "humor president."

> ...denying that a recession was taking place...
> ...the economy is bad...
>... I can't see how any resonable person would say this past recession
>would have been shallow or short.

Although i agree with most of your points, i'm not sure that you are making a
good case that the recession is *over*, as king George would have us believe
and as you seem to imply.  On the other hand, my viewpoint may be biased since
i'm in california, which has been hit hard by the loss of the Communist Threat
(as well as by the evil spectre of home audio taping ;-) .

>It all depends how much the media plays up the economic problems.  

... I doubt they would or will.  We suffer from a collective jingoistic denial
that this Great Land of Ours could be subject to any form of weakness. To admit
economic failure on the part of our government as well as private-sector
mismanagement and unjustified greed on the part of our workforce is as
unAmerican as hondas, peace treaties, and clean air.

>Bush will wrap himself in the flag...

I think Bush signed a law against wrapping oneself in the flag, if memory
serves.
>....and his victories overseas, while the

You give me $500 million a day to spend using highly skilled troops and  
advanced equipment against a bunch of ignorant fourth-world peasants manning
cast-iron russian surplus and I'll give you a stunning example of gunboat
diplomacy just like Bush did.
>democrats will note how we have 1-2 million more Americans out of work...
e.g., Dukakis :-)
>than before he took office.  It's really hard to say what will happen
>in a country whose voter turnout can swing between 10% and 40%... if
>people mobilize a vote, it can swing things.

Well, i certainly hope so, but i tend to think that there is something wrong
with us as a people, and that George Bush/ Dan Quayle are merely symptoms of
that sickness.  I tend to think that we are a nation in decline, much like
the UK, with the loss of our empire.  Perhaps a new Depression, or some
equivalent "economic Pearl Harbor" can shock us into recovery, but whatever
it is, it's not going to be pretty.
>-s

-wt

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With naturally curly hair...  
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 More options Oct 19 1991, 2:18 am
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From: l...@wpi.WPI.EDU (With naturally curly hair...)
Date: 18 Oct 91 05:20:20 GMT
Local: Fri, Oct 18 1991 1:20 am
Subject: Re: Culture,usa -we're talking yogurt, right?
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You can stop posting this boring stuff to alt.tv.muppets now...

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James Davis Nicoll  
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 More options Oct 19 1991, 6:41 am
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From: jdnic...@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
Date: 18 Oct 91 18:08:03 GMT
Local: Fri, Oct 18 1991 2:08 pm
Subject: Re: Culture,usa -we're talking yogurt, right?
In article <19...@hacgate.UUCP> tack...@ipld01.hac.com (Walter Alden Tackett) writes:

>In article <17OCT199113255...@utkvx3.utk.edu> dre...@utkvx3.utk.edu (Drevik, Steve) writes:
><stuff about democrats running bush w/o dan as their candidate>
>>No, sorry to say.  Those comments represent a sarcastic joke by Republicans
>>(Bush's party), poking fun by saying that this is the only way the Democrats
>>(the other party) could hope to win an election.
>And like many of the best jokes, largely true.  In america, we have the freedom
>of choosing between fascism and impotence, and seem to prefer fascism.

        Not that I admire Bush, but you're using 'fascist' in such a way
as to render it useless for anything other than another word for 'bad'.

>>And Bush has, by the way, screwed up real bad...domestically at least.  He
>...he likes to call himself the "environmental president."  i submit that his
>choice of running mate makes him the "humor president."

        It's an old tradition to have a running mate who appears so terrible
(Agnew) or incompetant (Taft) that possible assassins are deterred from wacking
the president.

        No, I have no idea how Taft got elected President. Sunspots, maybe.
Anyway, he wasn't as bad as Exorcist II.

        Lots of stuff deleted

>Well, i certainly hope so, but i tend to think that there is something wrong
>with us as a people, and that George Bush/ Dan Quayle are merely symptoms of
>that sickness.  I tend to think that we are a nation in decline, much like
>the UK, with the loss of our empire.  Perhaps a new Depression, or some
>equivalent "economic Pearl Harbor" can shock us into recovery, but whatever
>it is, it's not going to be pretty.

        You folks down south *do* realise that the US produced something like
60% of the World Product in the 40s? Given how poorly industrialised many
nations were in the 40s, and how many have since industrialised, isn't
it reasonable to expect the US's *relative* economic position to have declined?

                                                                James Nicoll


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Discussion subject changed to "The Economy Disaster" by Drevik, Steve
Drevik, Steve  
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 More options Oct 19 1991, 7:25 am
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From: dre...@utkvx3.utk.edu (Drevik, Steve)
Date: 18 Oct 91 12:28:00 GMT
Subject: The Economy Disaster
In article <19...@hacgate.UUCP>, tack...@ipld01.hac.com (Walter Alden Tackett) writes...

Sorry, the LAST thing I wanted to imply is that the recession is over!

>>It all depends how much the media plays up the economic problems.  
>.... I doubt they would or will.  We suffer from a collective jingoistic denial
>that this Great Land of Ours could be subject to any form of weakness. To admit
>economic failure on the part of our government as well as private-sector
>mismanagement and unjustified greed on the part of our workforce is as
>unAmerican as hondas, peace treaties, and clean air.

Agreed.
>>Bush will wrap himself in the flag...
>I think Bush signed a law against wrapping oneself in the flag, if memory
>serves.

Not that I recall.  The flag-burning amendment died.  Anybody else remember?

>>....and his victories overseas, while the
>You give me $500 million a day to spend using highly skilled troops and  
>advanced equipment against a bunch of ignorant fourth-world peasants manning
>cast-iron russian surplus and I'll give you a stunning example of gunboat
>diplomacy just like Bush did.

Their equipment was not all that bad.  It was not top-of-the-line, but
we have the give the Iraqis proper credit for poorly employing what little
they had.  Had a decent strategist been in charge, the US would have lost
several thousand lives.  We were quite lucky, thanks to the GU.

>>democrats will note how we have 1-2 million more Americans out of work...
>e.g., Dukakis :-)

Nahh, only about 20,000 in MA.

>>than before he took office.  It's really hard to say what will happen
>>in a country whose voter turnout can swing between 10% and 40%... if
>>people mobilize a vote, it can swing things.
>Well, i certainly hope so, but i tend to think that there is something wrong
>with us as a people, and that George Bush/ Dan Quayle are merely symptoms of
>that sickness.  I tend to think that we are a nation in decline, much like
>the UK, with the loss of our empire.  Perhaps a new Depression, or some
>equivalent "economic Pearl Harbor" can shock us into recovery, but whatever
>it is, it's not going to be pretty.

I agree.  I hope whatever cataclysm it is , it comes (to us George's
words from the war), "sooner rather than later."
-s

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Discussion subject changed to "Culture,usa ??" by Eric Smith
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 More options Oct 20 1991, 6:40 am
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From: er...@sco.COM (Eric Smith)
Date: 19 Oct 91 22:05:54 GMT
Local: Sat, Oct 19 1991 6:05 pm
Subject: Re: Culture,usa ??

dre...@utkvx3.utk.edu (Drevik, Steve) writes:
>It all depends how much the media plays up the economic problems.  Bush
>will wrap himself in the flag and his victories overseas, while the
>democrats will note how we have 1-2 million more Americans out of work
>than before he took office.  It's really hard to say what will happen
>in a country whose voter turnout can swing between 10% and 40%... if
>people mobilize a vote, it can swing things.

Personally I hope Bush wins in '92. I fully expect that in the following
four years, no matter who is President, the economy will suffer a serious
collapse due to the economic policies of the Reagan/Bush administrations.
The strains of inequitable tax burden, supporting a voracious military
establishment, horrendous national debt, bailouts of S&Ls plus more and
more banks, and nonending recession cannot be overcome without major
changes to the economic policies of the country. Both parties are too
fossilized to attempt it before a disaster strikes, but at least if a
Republican is in office when it happens they won't be able to blame the
Democrats for it. Of the two, the Democrats are at least better equipped
to bring us out of it if they are given a clear mandate in 1996.

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Discussion subject changed to "Two parties? (Re: Culture,usa ??)" by Scott Horne
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 More options Oct 20 1991, 7:19 am
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From: horne-sc...@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
Date: 20 Oct 91 10:48:16 GMT
Local: Sun, Oct 20 1991 6:48 am
Subject: Two parties? (Re: Culture,usa ??)
(I'm dropping `alt.tv.muppets' from the distribution of this article and
encourage others to do the same.)

In article <14...@scolex.sco.COM>, er...@sco.COM (Eric Smith) writes:

<
<Both parties are too
<fossilized to attempt it before a disaster strikes....

Both parties?  Someone wisely pointed out that we have only one party--
with two right wings.

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 More options Oct 21 1991, 8:31 am
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From: c...@lclark.edu (John Costello)
Date: 21 Oct 91 03:26:48 GMT
Local: Sun, Oct 20 1991 11:26 pm
Subject: Re: Two parties? (Re: Culture,usa ??)

In article <1991Oct20.104816.23...@cs.yale.edu> horne-sc...@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
>(I'm dropping `alt.tv.muppets' from the distribution of this article and
>encourage others to do the same.)

>In article <14...@scolex.sco.COM>, er...@sco.COM (Eric Smith) writes:
><
><Both parties are too
><fossilized to attempt it before a disaster strikes....

>Both parties?  Someone wisely pointed out that we have only one party--
>with two right wings.

Someone related a quote by one of the Presidential candidates (I believe
he's a Demo, although I'm not sure), which is similar to Scott's comment:

"The Democrats just want to be Republicans, and the Republicans are *pure*
evil!"

Got quite a kick out of that one.

>                                    --Scott

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From: mvanh...@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Marc VanHeyningen)
Date: 21 Oct 91 05:01:08 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 21 1991 1:01 am
Subject: Re: Two parties? (Re: Culture,usa ??)

In article <1991Oct21.032648....@lclark.edu> c...@lclark.edu (John Costello) writes:
>Someone related a quote by one of the Presidential candidates (I believe
>he's a Demo, although I'm not sure), which is similar to Scott's comment:
>"The Democrats just want to be Republicans, and the Republicans are *pure*
>evil!"
>Got quite a kick out of that one.
>(Slipping into my asbestos, elephant-proof jammies......)
>Cos

I somehow find it unlikely that a Democrat would say such a thing;
indeed, I find it unlikely that anyone serious considering running for
office would say such a thing.  I seem vaguely to recall having heard
that the statement was made by Frank Zappa, though I don't have a source
or anything.

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From: c...@lclark.edu (John Costello)
Date: 21 Oct 91 06:25:05 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 21 1991 2:25 am
Subject: Re: Two parties? (Re: Culture,usa ??)
In article <1991Oct21.050108.12...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> mvanh...@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Marc VanHeyningen) writes:

Yeh, I guess I put too much faith in my sources.  As I said, I think it was
a Demo, but it could have been some unknown, Mid-West Independent.  Then again,
the person who told me could have a brain made of swiss chees (*cheap* swiss
cheese, as several of his ex.'s would attest to :-) and may have misquoted.

Gosh.  Guess I pulled a Dan Quayle!  :-)

>ObJoke:  A Real Dan Quayle Fan Club
>Marc VanHeyningen  | mvanh...@indiana.edu    | Life is like a sewer.
>Computer Science   | BITNET: mvanheyn@iubacs | What you get out of it
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Cos

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From: lei...@cc.helsinki.fi (Teemu Leisti)
Date: 21 Oct 91 12:49:24 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 21 1991 8:49 am
Subject: Re: Two parties?
In article <1991Oct20.104816.23...@cs.yale.edu>, horne-sc...@cs.yale.edu

 (Scott Horne) writes:
> Both parties?  Someone wisely pointed out that we have only one party--
> with two right wings.

An American friend of mine wrote that in America, conservatives are
called 'liberals' and reactionaries are called 'conservatives'.  The
opinion of another American friend of mine is that the Democrats are
totally useless since they are trying so hard to prove to the electorate
that they are just as conservative as the Republicans.

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From: fs_fu...@rcsw43.rcvie.at (Kurt Fuchs)
Date: 21 Oct 91 10:11:37 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 21 1991 6:11 am
Subject: Re: Culture,usa -we're talking yogurt, right?

James Nicoll wrote:
>   Not that I admire Bush, but you're using 'fascist' in such a way
> as to render it useless for anything other than another word for
> 'bad'.

Unless one makes a complete treatise about 'fascist - fascism' it has
to be used as another word for 'bad' (its even worse).

You didn't tell your opinion about it, James.

Kurt

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From: er...@sco.COM (Eric Smith)
Date: 21 Oct 91 21:33:11 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 21 1991 5:33 pm
Subject: Re: Two parties? (Re: Culture,usa ??)

horne-sc...@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
>(I'm dropping `alt.tv.muppets' from the distribution of this article and
>encourage others to do the same.)

Thanks; I hadn't noticed that a muppets group was in the distribution (?!).
I've been getting hate mail from muppets fans, if you can believe such a
thing.

>In article <14...@scolex.sco.COM>, er...@sco.COM (Eric Smith) writes:
><
><Both parties are too
><fossilized to attempt it before a disaster strikes....
>Both parties?  Someone wisely pointed out that we have only one party--
>with two right wings.

Yes, how clever of our politicians. At the same time that they can sneer
at other countries for their one-party systems, they can offer U.S.
voters the illusion of choice that really isn't one.

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From: er...@sco.COM (Eric Smith)
Date: 21 Oct 91 22:10:33 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 21 1991 6:10 pm
Subject: Re: Culture,usa -we're talking yogurt, right?

(I've removed alt.tv.muppets from the distribution list for this article.
I've learned my lesson; getting flamed by muppet fans is no fun. Although
since Bush and Quayle really ARE muppets, I think it's totally appropriate
anyway).

jdnic...@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:

>    It's an old tradition to have a running mate who appears so terrible
>(Agnew) or incompetant (Taft) that possible assassins are deterred from wacking
>the president.
>    No, I have no idea how Taft got elected President. Sunspots, maybe.
>Anyway, he wasn't as bad as Exorcist II.

Say what? Taft was never the Veep, nor anyone's running mate. He got elected
President because he was Teddy Roosevelt's hand-picked successor. Then he
followed such an independent course after election that Teddy returned and
ran against him four years later (remember the Bull Moose Party, one of the
great names in American political history?), thereby splitting the Republican
vote and allowing Wilson to be elected.

Say, maybe THAT'S how the Democrats could win an elction in 2000.  :-)

>    You folks down south *do* realise that the US produced something like
>60% of the World Product in the 40s? Given how poorly industrialised many
>nations were in the 40s, and how many have since industrialised, isn't
>it reasonable to expect the US's *relative* economic position to have declined?

Really, it's unfair to choose the '40s as an example, since the U.S. was
just about the only major industrialized country that didn't have its
large cities bombed out and its economic infrastructure totally disrupted
by world war.

The fact is that for a period after World War II, the U.S. was pre-eminent
in the world, politically, industrially and militarily (given the Atomic
Bomb). Since that time the U.S. has been on a long course of believing
that it has a right to that position, without having to do any of the
hard work or make any of the hard decisions. This trend reached its peak
under Reagan, who assured the voters that they can have anything they
want, and if there's no money to pay for it then we can just borrow it.
The economic extravagances of the '80s will not be paid for for many years,
if ever, and will guarantee the gradual decline of the U.S. into a second-
rate economic power, *unless* hard choices are made to commit to new
economic strategies involving the redistribution of wealth. But that's
extremely unlikely to happen because the idea that the riches of the
world belong to the U.S. by right is too ingrained in the segments of
the society that would have to vote for such new economic policies. As a
result, expect to see lots more actions like Operation Desert Storm
whenever the economic resources of the U.S. are threatened by countries
that can be easily militarily defeated. It's called the New World Order ...

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From: lw24...@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (peter lavallee)
Date: 21 Oct 91 23:19:34 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 21 1991 7:19 pm
Subject: Re: Culture,usa -we're talking yogurt, right?

What's wrong with you people?  There are more appropriate newsgroups
for political diatribes.  Where's the Quayle humor/bashing/admiration?

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From: horne-sc...@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
Date: 22 Oct 91 01:03:26 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 21 1991 9:03 pm
Subject: Re: Two parties? (Re: Culture,usa ??)
In article <14...@scolex.sco.COM>, er...@sco.COM (Eric Smith) writes:
<horne-sc...@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:

<
<>(I'm dropping `alt.tv.muppets' from the distribution of this article and
<>encourage others to do the same.)
<
<Thanks; I hadn't noticed that a muppets group was in the distribution (?!).

Some fool put it there to stir up flames.  As my kindergarten teacher used to
say:

        Attention, attention, attention I crave:
        And if I don't get it, I'll misbehave!

<I've been getting hate mail from muppets fans, if you can believe such a
<thing.

Anyone who'd call himself a Muppets fan can be safely ignored.  :-)

<>Someone wisely pointed out that we have only one party--
<>with two right wings.
<
<Yes, how clever of our politicians. At the same time that they can sneer
<at other countries for their one-party systems, they can offer U.S.
<voters the illusion of choice that really isn't one.

Educators call it controlling the options.  It's a good way to get what one
wants while leaving others with the satisfaction that they made the decision.

                                        --Scott

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From: horne-sc...@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
Date: 22 Oct 91 01:06:56 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 21 1991 9:06 pm
Subject: Re: Culture,usa -we're talking yogurt, right?
In article <14...@scolex.sco.COM>, er...@sco.COM (Eric Smith) writes:

<
<Say what? Taft was never the Veep, nor anyone's running mate. He got elected
<President because he was Teddy Roosevelt's hand-picked successor. Then he
<followed such an independent course after election that Teddy returned and
<ran against him four years later (remember the Bull Moose Party, one of the
<great names in American political history?), thereby splitting the Republican
<vote and allowing Wilson to be elected.
<
<Say, maybe THAT'S how the Democrats could win an elction in 2000.  :-)

Good idea.  We need to create an offshoot of the Democratic Party.
`Bull Moose' has a nice ring to it, but it's already taken.  How about
`Bull Donkey'?  Or just `Jackass'?

                                        --Scott

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