[Cincinatus' Wife]

His new offensive seems to be widening the rift between allies and enemies of his government, riding roughshod over negotiations on early elections and raising fears that the country's tense standoff will explode into class warfare.

You're right. He's pushing this to the edge to take control. The army needs to desert. Nothing he can offer them is worth their loyalty. Freedom is very fragile.

[f.Christian]

PULLING THE PLUG (( firehat ))

"The United Nations is a rectal threshold through which ill-mannered guests egress, but never go home."

"Any guest that treats you as discourteously in your own home --

deserves to get . . . his *** kicked (( link )) - - - all the way back to the Third World -

and possibly to the Fourth."

*** . . . my addition !