Ray, Enjoyed your piece. Just one technical correction, if I may? (It enhances your case actually.) In your fourth paragraph, you are not talking of a 3,000 year-old culture but one of more like 6,000 years. Not only were the Sumerians more civilised and travelled than Bush Junior will ever be, but they were also the first to establish modern methods of credit and long-distance trade with another recent recipient of America's fireballs -- namely Afghanistan -- with which ancient Iraq had an immense trade, exchanging grain for minerals, lapis lazuli and the you-know-what which, in those times, was taken purely for social relaxation at the week-ends and not as an escape from the nastiness of the world.
Keith Hudson At 09:11 24/03/03 -0500, you wrote: <<<< Texas really is a Province. I believe the time has come for Texas to finally admit that they are neither the largest state in the Union nor the most sophisticated in the ways of the world. If the truth be known, Texans would not be any more willing to sell their religion for a better economy than George Bush is, considering that he is spending it all to hell. If some despot came to America and offered a better economy and security for their children as long as they swore fealty to him and allowed their religion to be a subset of his, would they agree? Not blood likely. I suspect that even Molly Ivey would come out in defense of her state and join hands with George Bush if so attacked. George may be a Despot who stole the Presidency with the Republican high rollers but he is at least her Despot and not some foreign one. Why would they consider that a 3,000 year old culture would not have ties deep enough to join together against a young, provincial and basically illiterate arrogant son of the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, not the most beloved institution in the Middle East? It was not always that way. Once, Texas still had the sophistication of the Hispanics of Mexico North to help the Anglo farmers. They were underneath but they still shaped the discussion. In fact it was Texas who absorbed all of the liberal immigrants from the Oklahoma ethnic and political cleansing in 1917 in the Green Corn Rebellion. Another dirty little secret along with the recent Greenwood race riots in Tulsa that has come to the surface. But today, after oil, Texas is different. Maybe from all of the Immigrant Arrogants from the other states in the Union who liked the Texas Braggadocio and have absorbed it like Seiji Ozawa absorbed Western Music. More broad than deep. But still effective. Certainly not deep enough to understand the failures of the Imperialists whose steps they now follow though they deny it. Ray Evans Harrell >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
