Re: Expelled...not bad....anyone?

Jim Larson wrote:

> Weirdwolf wrote:
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>> In article <Xns9A86D813BB1663v234oiwofui3284af93@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Weirdwolf wrote:
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>>>> In article <1cc0e809-e2b9-4450-8bf3-
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>>>>> On Apr 20, 8:20 pm, Weirdwolf <h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> Ken McElhaney <mcelha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 6:08 pm, Weirdwolf <h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>> Bert Hyman <b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>>> Innews:Xns9A86E984C8580tusrytjsyjksyksy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>>>>> <h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>>>> John Iwaniszek <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>>>>> He's a comedian, right?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Ex-speech writer for Nixon and Ford as well.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Like the man said, a comedian.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>  I believe at one point his father was the cheif economic advis
>>>>>>>> or  to Nixon I believe,(I read nixons memoirs of the presidency
>>>>>>>> recently ).  I knew nothing about the chap I was rather
>>>>>>>> surprised to find that h e was the boring economics teacher in
>>>>>>>> Ferris Buellers day off. I th en read some of his quotes on
>>>>>>>> Woodward,Bernstein and "Deep Throat" i f i t wasn't so scary it
>>>>>>>> would be hilarious. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Well, if you had actually seen the film, you might realize his
>>>>>>> background in politics was right in line with the point of the
>>>>>>> fil m. Of course, if you wish to discount him on the basis of
>>>>>>> his educati on and background, you should also throw in Al Gore
>>>>>>> as well. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I discounted him on neither of those things.It was purely an
>>>>>> express ion of surprise, I really did no nothing of this chap and
>>>>>> it was interes tin g to me that I was reading about his father a
>>>>>> little while ago.Have yo u read what he thought about Watergate? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I assume you mean Ben Stein's father? No, I don't really care
>>>>> about what he thinks about Watergate as it makes little
>>>>> difference. Sorta like asking what Bill Clinton's speechwriter's
>>>>> father thought about Monica Lewinski.
>>>> 
>>>> Nope Ben Steins comments, he doubted that deep throat existed and 
>>>> indicated that he believed despite the evidence to the contrary
>>>> that he 
>> 
>>>> was a fiction made up by W&B. Watergate interests me, I've read the
>>>> W&B 
>> 
>>>> books and Nixons memoirs.
>>> 
>>> Whoah there, Nelly. Is this before or after the identity of DT was
>>> confir med  by some random old dude named William Felt[1] in 2005?
>>> It wouldn't really 
>> 
>>> surprise me if it's the latter, given the discussion so far. 
>> 
>> Before but it was a little weird as I don't think I've heard that 
>> argument before at least not seriously and put forward in such a 
>> strident manner.. From an interview in the May 14=3F21, 1998, edition
>> of the Philadelphia City Paper Stein is quoted saying, "Oh, I don't
>> think 
> 
> What the hell is the Philadelphia City Paper? The two main
> Philadelphia newspapers for as long as I can remember have been the
> Inquirer and the Daily News.
> 
> Let us consult the all-knowing wikigods:
> 
> "Philadelphia City Paper is a free alternative news weekly in
> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in November 1981 as a
> spin-off of the now defunct WXPN Express newsletter. New issues are
> released every Thursday. 
> 
> The Philadelphia City Paper regularly covers offbeat news, arts, and 
> entertainment stories, both in Philadelphia and nationwide...
> 
> It serves the Philadelphia suburbs and southern New Jersey. Within the
> city limits, copies may be obtained from the paper's signature
> orange-colored boxes. The Philadelphia City Paper is found on many of
> the street corners in Center City Philadelphia as well as many points
> throughout the city and the surrounding region."
> 
> Ahhhh...the orange boxes ring a bell. I guess I just never bother to
> look inside one on the assumption that it was some advertising crap. 
> 
>> there was a Deep Throat. That was a fake. I think there were several 
>> different sources and some they just made up".
>> 
>> Several Nixon administarion employees and Nixon himself 
>> Afterwards he is quoted as saying.
>> "If there is such a thing as kharma, if there is such a thing as
>> justice in this life or the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the
>> worst future 
> 
> MARK Felt. Damn it. Where did I get William? 
> 
>> of any man on this earth. And Bob Woodward is right behind him, with
>> Ben Bradlee bringing up the rear. Out of their smug arrogance and
>> contempt, they hatched the worst nightmare imaginable: genocide"
>> http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8242
Mainly because
>> it seems that he believes that if Nixon was left in power  the rise
>> of Pol Pot and the Khymer Rouge would never of happened. 
> 
> Too bad we got that liberal firebrand and commie lover, Gerald Ford,
> as a replacement. That virtually guaranteed the rise of the Khmer
> Rouge. 
> 
> (Did the US under Nixon have any interest in Cambodia at all? I mean
> other than invading it to chase the Viet Cong and bombing it once in a
> while.) 
> 

I think that was it.  And I think we were basing allies there, as well.