Re: Niiice kitty....

2000-10-06 Thread James A.. Donald
-- At 08:45 PM 10/5/2000 -1000, Reese wrote: You are a broken record. You keep demanding that I present evidence that I have already presented hundreds of times, that hundreds of people have already presented hundreds of times. The first exposure of Chomsky's deceptive citations was

Re: Fwd: Re: Niiice kitty....

2000-10-05 Thread James A.. Donald
-- This is a calumny. I have personally checked hundreds, and I do mean hundreds--probably over 500--Chomsky citations to original texts and documents, and have never found any error that was not an obvious typographical error, a misprint or something like that. It would take you

Re: Niiice kitty....

2000-10-03 Thread mike d
James A.. Donald wrote: : : To continue, high US officials cited by the : : highly-respected Asia correspondent of the (eminently : : respectable) Far Eastern Economic Review predicted that 1 : : million would die as a consequence of the US bombings. US : : aid officials leaving

Re: Niiice kitty....

2000-10-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 10:41 PM -0700 on 10/2/00, James A.. Donald wrote: How can I prove Churchill did not say this? The problem is the curious absence of evidence that he did say it. Weirdly enough, I may actually be working on it. A friend of friend may be able to lay hands on the source documents. Wouldn't

Niiice kitty....

2000-10-01 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Another addition to my expanding .sig file quote collection. Personally, of course, I think Chomsky something of a brilliant yutz, politically, :-). Nonetheless, the Churchill quote below is especially apt in describing the USA's current geopolitical situation. Here's hoping the US fares better

Re: Niiice kitty....

2000-10-01 Thread James A.. Donald
-- I've been reading Noam Chomsky's book on Kosovo and came across this quote from a Cabinet note written by Churchill in January 1914 explaining the need for increased military expenditure (taken in turn from Clive Ponting's Churchill, 1994, P 132): "We are not a young people