Relatedly, thanks to Chavez, Noam Chomsky has hit the number one best seller
list on amazon and bn.com. Check ny times today.
mike
On 9/23/06, Leif Strandberg <leifstrandberg.ab@telia.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Mafalda is a favourite in our family - Mafalda was translated into
> Swedish 1980
>
> Long live Mafalda - We need her now!
>
> Leif
>
> Sweden
>
>
> 2006-09-22 kl. 04.46 skrev David Preiss:
>
> >
> > Things aren't going well in Venezuela either, I guess.
> > I lived there for 10 years, and it is hard to see how fast the
> > democratic institutions disappeared because of the political parties'
> > corruption, large-scale social inequalities and lack of leadership.
> > Please, don't see in Chavez a decent leadership. The guy is a shame
> > for latin america as well.
> > Alas! It is not easy to find a decent leader in the whole assembly of
> > the UN either. There is a famous Argentinian cartoonist which created
> > a famous character Mafalda. I wish she were translated to english.
> > Most of her political irony, although made decades ago, applies nicely
> > to these days.
> >
> >
> > On Sep 21, 2006, at 8:44 PM, bb wrote:
> >
> >> He's Chavez' devil, sir,
> >> evolved since Jabez Stone.
> >> And poor old Daniel Webster
> >> can't send back this one.
> >>
> >> We've made our deal,
> >> we're all going to hell.
> >> Tho our votes weren't real,
> >> and the devil can't spell.
> >>
> >> Against Webster's orality
> >> there's "fool me once, shame on you".
> >> Better face our damned mortality,
> >> the remaining days of freedom are few.
> >>
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