On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 21:45:12 -0600, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter J. Alling" > Subject: Re: Last-minute political camera fun > > >I always knew that it was Official Canadian Policy to assume that > >the US government didn't "work". > > Ummm, sorry to give you the wrong idea. It is the thought behind > Franks words that are at issue, not the words themselves. > It's the Canadian way. >
Kripes. All I meant by "work" is, basically, ~exist~, more or less intact. I didn't say it worked well (maybe it does, maybe it did, I don't know), just that it worked. Unlike, say, the Russian Revolution, which devolved into a dictatorship, or the French Revolution, which ended up with Napoleon trying to take over Europe. Those didn't work. The USA is still here, it has a President, Congress (two houses), a judiciary, and it's all held together by a Constitution (with amendments). It worked back then, it works now. I'm not saying it's a good thing, or a bad thing, that it's better now or worse. Is this so damned subversive? <vbg> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
