Re: [xmca] state of affairs?

From: David Preiss (davidpreiss@uc.cl)
Date: Sat Sep 23 2006 - 12:05:35 PDT


let us see if we can increase the best seller number of mafalda too! :)

On Sep 23, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Mike Cole wrote:

> 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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