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Mugabe party mocks starving nation
The Sunday Times ^
| February 25, 2007
| Jan Raath and RW Johnson
Posted on 02/25/2007 3:03:13 AM PST by MadIvan
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Some people deserve to be shot in the head.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/25/2007 3:03:14 AM PST
by
MadIvan
To: Clive; Mrs Ivan; odds; DCPatriot; Texican; Watery Tart; Deetes; Barset; fanfan; LadyofShalott; ...
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posted on
02/25/2007 3:03:36 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: MadIvan
said Wermter. I cannot make out the psychology of that man. He is quite simply utterly stark raving gibbering quivering mad as a hatter.
To paraphrase Mencken, the people of Zim voted for what they wanted. Now they're getting it good and hard.
L
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posted on
02/25/2007 3:18:02 AM PST
by
Lurker
(Europeans killed 6 million Jews. As a reward they got 40 million Moslems. Karma's a bitch.)
To: MadIvan
Mugabe condemns Homosexuality. At last the fruits are eating something.
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posted on
02/25/2007 4:33:39 AM PST
by
sgtbono2002
(I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
To: sgtbono2002
Make that at least the fruits are eating something.
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posted on
02/25/2007 4:34:25 AM PST
by
sgtbono2002
(I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
To: MadIvan
"Mugabe mingled with the 20,000 guests in the Mboka football stadium in the city of Gweru and used a lengthy speech to condemn homosexuality." Oh Oh, he condemned homo's. No THAT just might ruffle some feathers in the UN enough to bring action.
To: MadIvan
Wasn't Zimbabwe once a country known as Rhodesia and wasn't it once a properous country that could feed its own people?
Oh, yeah......"apartheid".
I keep forgetting.
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posted on
02/25/2007 5:09:31 AM PST
by
Thumper1960
(Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
To: Thumper1960
Yes, that post-colonialism thing really worked out, didn't it? :)
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/25/2007 5:13:27 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: MadIvan
Whatever the White man does is evil.
Remember that.
/ sarc
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posted on
02/25/2007 5:18:19 AM PST
by
Thumper1960
(Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
To: MadIvan
slowly
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
02/25/2007 5:24:18 AM PST
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: Thumper1960
Rhodesia was the breadbasket of Africa... Zimbabwe is now just another basketcase in Africa.
Socialism it its finest.
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posted on
02/25/2007 5:57:56 AM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather.)
To: Thumper1960
Rhodesia was the breadbasket of Africa... Zimbabwe is now just another basketcase in Africa.
Socialism at its finest.
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posted on
02/25/2007 5:58:23 AM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather.)
To: MadIvan
africa wins again...
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posted on
02/25/2007 6:06:25 AM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: MadIvan
So, after Mugabe is dead, I see this in my crystal ball:
A power struggle occurs among Mugabe's followers & is won by the most vicious, but photogenic of the bunch.
He goes to the UN, where he promises fair, democratic elections, just as soon as the country is stable, & he needs UN money to do it.
The UN & many countries send money & food, but the elections never come & the people continue to starve & be oppressed.
And the cycle continues........
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posted on
02/25/2007 6:42:40 AM PST
by
Mister Da
(The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
To: MadIvan
And what's amazing is that there is no organized, armed revolutionary organization in Zimbabwe fighting to overthrow Mugabe.
Considering that African revolutionary groups sprout up like weeds everywhere else in Africa.
Maybe that speaks of a deep-seated cultural predilection for suffering?
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posted on
02/25/2007 7:55:42 AM PST
by
gogogodzilla
(Republicans only win if they are conservative.)
To: gogogodzilla
It's hard to fight if you're starving to death.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/25/2007 7:56:54 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: MadIvan
That never stopped any of the other African revolutionary groups. I'm sure there are plenty of two-bit, wanna-be dictators that would love to butcher Mugabe... and then rule in his place.
And that there are plenty of countries (or corporations) out there that'd be willing to fund this, for some future 'favors'.
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posted on
02/25/2007 8:01:34 AM PST
by
gogogodzilla
(Republicans only win if they are conservative.)
To: gogogodzilla
Part of the problem, I think, is that the opposition also never got their act together. It's a shame.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/25/2007 8:03:42 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: MadIvan
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
by Edgar Allan Poe (1842)
THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.
But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without was the "Red Death..."
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
To: Vince Ferrer
I re-read that not too long ago - very, very good.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/25/2007 8:41:27 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
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