Posted on 06/03/2007 8:37:29 PM PDT by george76
http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/nicaragua_election_final06.pdf
quite a production, with all the trimmings
Damn....I hate it when I’m right. (That was just a guess.)
The Axis of absolute Evil keeps growing. Drug peddling Ortega, another one of Jimmy Carter’s favourite commies.
You are good !
( nice guess )
Evil is as evil does..
The next 2 decades are going to be sad, IMO.
We freed the Nicaraguans from Commie Danny once. They are, however, latinos and thus want something for nothing. Same for the rest of Latin America.
Unless, and until, they are willing to make the necessary changes to both their laws and their cultures, they should be treated as colonies and subjected to a Roman style domination.
This would require that America be willing to “do a Carthage’ on societies which continue to attempt to hurt America.
There is no excuse for allowing crypto-commie countries like Mexico and Venezuela to continue as they are now doing. Even less is there any reason to spend any of teh American taxpayers money of aid or anything else with such places.
If a thief like Chavez wants to steal from our businesses, then I think we have the capability to turn him into “pink mist” - and should have so done long ago.
I wonder if Ortega is going to say hi to Vladimir Putin on this trip.
This reminds me of the scene in the Naked Gun when the enemies of America get together for a summit...
All kidding aside, I do not like the idea of these nations forming an anti-American access. Any one or two of them we a could handle with ease. Six or seven or eight, spread around the world could be a handful. To say nothing of Russia or China. This is not good at all.
Axis, not access. Sorry, typing quickly while I do something else...
We’d have to declare war to actually win one. We haven’t lost a war we declared, ever, that I can think of.
Origin
From Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, 1594:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/305250.html
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
Meaning
What matters is what something is, not what it is called.
JULIET:
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
A story, much favoured by tour guides, and as such highly suspect, is that in this line Shakespeare was also making a joke at the expense of the Rose Theatre. The Rose was a local rival to his Globe Theatre and is reputed to have had less than effective sanitary arrangements. The story goes that this was a coy joke about the smell. This certainly has the whiff of folk etymology about it, but it might just be true.
“We freed the Nicaraguans from Commie Danny once. They are, however, latinos and thus want something for nothing. Same for the rest of Latin America.”
Latinos simply need land deeds, I.D.s, bar codes and assigned postal addresses and things would get better very quickly. You can’t have an economy without being able to send and receive payments, packages or bills.
Only second generation Latinos fit your stereotype and that is our fault for training them to expect something for nothing.
When patterns are observed by many different observers over a long period of time, generations in this case, the non-prejorative term is societal pattern, perhaps customary behavior, traditional behavior, etc.
I take no pleasure in pointing out the long history of Latin America (they were in the New World 150 years before we arrived) as being based upon authoritarian government ala European monarchy, with the worst of the behavior of their Muslim overlords having also been assimilated into their culture.
Note the similarities between the position of women, “baksheesh/La Mordite, ad nasueam.
What is, simply is. Ignoring it does not help.
The accouterments of our culture you mentioned would be a help to Niccas, but being only mere isolated fragments of a free society.
Until they become a society of individuals who are both responsible for the exercise of, and the defense of, their Unalienable rights - they will be mired in the morass of corruption that Latin America has always been.
Ironically, when they do actualize their Unalienable Rights and do become responsible for their own lives, then and then only will they become what El Presedente Boosh claims they now are. When they act like Amerxicans, then and then only, will they become compatible with America.
For those One World types, consider that the Founding Brothers were centuries ahead of you. They believed that all men had Unalienable Rights - not just Americans. BUT THEY HAD TO DEMAND AND ACTUALIZE THEM.
Want “One World”? Go forth and sell the Founding Documents! That, and only that is the basis for a viable society.
Sorry, “multi-culturalists” if this offends you. Again, reality simply is. Learn to live with it.
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