Posted on 03/25/2002 3:23:25 AM PST by hobblemaster
That is because we are responsible for everything.
Bridges? Men. Cars? Men. Roads? Men. Airplanes, Electricity, Radio, Television, Cosmetics, Farming, Domestication of Animals? Men.
I give women ONE accomplishment: Madam Curie discovered radioactivity -- which lead to the atomic bomb. So I will credit them with some certain weapons of mass destruction.
If they insist.
My favorite's always been Grace Hopper.
I've always heard that Germany in the 20s had an extremely liberal permissive society.
--Boris
Penis Envy.
Roger that. :o)
Dr. Rihab Rashida Taha aka Dr. Germ A woman, Dr. Rihab Rashida Taha, may rank as the deadliest person on earth if rumors of her exploits can be sustained.
In an amazing 1998 article by Robert Windrem, NBC news investigative producer, he holds Dr. Rihab Rashida Taha personally responsible for the creation of Iraq's biological weapons while claiming she is both a marginal scientist and a poor administrator who gets (woman-like) hysterics in meetings.
Tagged "Dr. Germ" by U.N. inspectors, the claim is she heads Iraq's manufacture and testing of biological weapons as anthrax and botulinum toxin. Writer Windrem calls her one of the "new breed of Third world weapons designers - highly nationalistic, Western-educated and willing to violate any international norms or scientific ethics." He goes on to note several times in his exposee that she would turn hysterical in meetings. He makes it a point to quote those who say she was a marginal student and would not have received her British Ph.D. if she was not a foreign national.
That Dr. Taha is responsible for the highly dangerous, inhuman germ weapons constructs in Iraq is beyond a doubt, although "Gen. Amer Rashid al-Ubaidi, her husband of three years, has long been the man the U.N. inspectors deal with on the most sensitive superweapons issues, since he oversaw many of them." The mother of one girl, Dr. Taha is undoubtedly on a war crimes list as a criminal of horrible proportions - and deserves it. And yet, she based everything she's doing on programs in the U.S. and Britain. Both nations have done extensive studies on germ warfare, and though the programs were supposed to be shut down, no one really believes it.
Windrem wrote, "[Dr.] Taha has been held up as an example to Iraqi women interested in science in spite of a career devoid of any accomplishment other than the development of germ warfare." Windrem's one-sided and very anti-woman writing makes one wonder what "the rest of the story" is. However, if Irag's military government ever falls, one can be certain that Dr. Taha will be held personally responsible for the germ warfare crimes. One must always remember that the war crimes of Dr. Braun, the German inventor of the silent rockets that rained death on London during World War II, was never prosecuted. Instead, he was brought to the U.S., treated like royalty to help the U.S. in its rocket program. And a woman whose only crime was directing a couple of movies is still villified.
Can't speak for OPH, but my wife enjoys seeing what I have to say from time to time. Given my posts, perhaps that is the first sign of insanity? For whatever reason she likes learning what I think about things, so she sometimes checks to see what I'm discussing. I do the same with her, I'm curious to know what she finds interesting here as well. Sometimes we wind up talking about it at home. It's nothing sinister or distrustful.
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Since my wife and I have similar interests, it sometimes happens that we post on the same thread at the same time. Because of that (and self-preservation) I have a powerful incentive to behave.
Hey Gloria, ever heard of Eve, Andrea Yates or Susan Smith?
Yeah, and make them wear dresses and play with Barbie dolls too.
It's normal for women to blame men for things because men are the doers and women are the complainers....excuse me, I gotta go doo doo.
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