[Allan from Fallbrook]

arraya: You’re welcome on the Goethe/Faust reference. My grandma left Germany in 1935 (she was a teacher at a girl’s college near Heidelberg), and she used Goethe to illustrate quite a few morality lessons, as well as to show how a country as educated and intelligent as Germany could bring Hitler to power and ecstatically so.

On another note, and referencing another post: Have you read up at all on Smedley Butler and the US/USMC during the Banana Wars? I’d be curious as to your thoughts. I spent three years down there during the mid-1980s and it completely altered my view of the world, to say the least.

You mentioned Butler regarding uncovering a planned coup during the 1930s, but I was interested to see if you knew of his exploits during the Banana Wars. He was like the Zelig of the 1920s and 1930s, and was a driving force behind the Marine Corps’ SMW (Small Wars Manual), which has become the bible of counterinsurgency. It was written in 1940, and we were using it in the 1980s. Fascinating read.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: No question that Obama brings considerable intellectual horsepower to the equation, and his academic record speaks for itself.

The unanswered question is the one posed by the article that started this thread: Where is the “change” and the break with the status quo ante we’ve been promised? His appointments, starting with Rahm Emanuel, look to be more of the same and many of them are intimately tied to the very mess they’ve been tasked to fix.

Also, most true conservatives loath Bush as much as you do.

I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about Rubin, Emanuel, et al.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: No question that Obama brings considerable intellectual horsepower to the equation, and his academic record speaks for itself.

The unanswered question is the one posed by the article that started this thread: Where is the “change” and the break with the status quo ante we’ve been promised? His appointments, starting with Rahm Emanuel, look to be more of the same and many of them are intimately tied to the very mess they’ve been tasked to fix.

Also, most true conservatives loath Bush as much as you do.

I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about Rubin, Emanuel, et al.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: No question that Obama brings considerable intellectual horsepower to the equation, and his academic record speaks for itself.

The unanswered question is the one posed by the article that started this thread: Where is the “change” and the break with the status quo ante we’ve been promised? His appointments, starting with Rahm Emanuel, look to be more of the same and many of them are intimately tied to the very mess they’ve been tasked to fix.

Also, most true conservatives loath Bush as much as you do.

I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about Rubin, Emanuel, et al.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: No question that Obama brings considerable intellectual horsepower to the equation, and his academic record speaks for itself.

The unanswered question is the one posed by the article that started this thread: Where is the “change” and the break with the status quo ante we’ve been promised? His appointments, starting with Rahm Emanuel, look to be more of the same and many of them are intimately tied to the very mess they’ve been tasked to fix.

Also, most true conservatives loath Bush as much as you do.

I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about Rubin, Emanuel, et al.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: No question that Obama brings considerable intellectual horsepower to the equation, and his academic record speaks for itself.

The unanswered question is the one posed by the article that started this thread: Where is the “change” and the break with the status quo ante we’ve been promised? His appointments, starting with Rahm Emanuel, look to be more of the same and many of them are intimately tied to the very mess they’ve been tasked to fix.

Also, most true conservatives loath Bush as much as you do.

I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about Rubin, Emanuel, et al.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Dan: Dude! For shame! Now you’re just being plain nasty! Alan Greenspan? What’s up with that?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Dan: Dude! For shame! Now you’re just being plain nasty! Alan Greenspan? What’s up with that?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Dan: Dude! For shame! Now you’re just being plain nasty! Alan Greenspan? What’s up with that?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Dan: Dude! For shame! Now you’re just being plain nasty! Alan Greenspan? What’s up with that?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Dan: Dude! For shame! Now you’re just being plain nasty! Alan Greenspan? What’s up with that?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Rus: You’re right, I didn’t mean to threadjack. We should start another OT on music. I bet we’d get some interesting responses.

New Order, huh? “Bizarre Love Triangle” is the New Order song I remember. Had a girlfriend that loved that song. She was into New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen and Depeche Mode. She might have been a liberal, too! Kidding.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Rus: You’re right, I didn’t mean to threadjack. We should start another OT on music. I bet we’d get some interesting responses.

New Order, huh? “Bizarre Love Triangle” is the New Order song I remember. Had a girlfriend that loved that song. She was into New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen and Depeche Mode. She might have been a liberal, too! Kidding.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Rus: You’re right, I didn’t mean to threadjack. We should start another OT on music. I bet we’d get some interesting responses.

New Order, huh? “Bizarre Love Triangle” is the New Order song I remember. Had a girlfriend that loved that song. She was into New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen and Depeche Mode. She might have been a liberal, too! Kidding.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Rus: You’re right, I didn’t mean to threadjack. We should start another OT on music. I bet we’d get some interesting responses.

New Order, huh? “Bizarre Love Triangle” is the New Order song I remember. Had a girlfriend that loved that song. She was into New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen and Depeche Mode. She might have been a liberal, too! Kidding.

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