Frank Kalder wrote:
>
>> My grandfather and I used to debate all the time regarding Ukrainian
>> literature. I told him Ukrainian literature would never enter the
>> annals of the great as long as they kept writing about Cossacks. I
>> said they had to write books of greater universal appeal -- sex love
>> etc in more modern arenas.
>>
> You were a real visionary :)
yeah and I was only about 15 then.
dag, and I also think it was because my grandfather used to drink
quinine soda and I liked it and I was smarter then so I should start
drinking it again.
Who did Britney Spears marry? kveye-nine federline
My grandfather used to push quinine soda across the table in the same
way as say,
chocula (you now know what this is) or oranges, trying to tempt us to
eat it
I don't remember any of us having malaria either.
it did taste kind of interesting, and i developed a taste for
it, tho can't say as I have seen it on the shelves recently
but that just proves that the Food and Drug Administration is very very
good at its job of pulling things off
the shelves even before they started pulling it off the shelves, as
they have apparently recently banned quinine products in the USA.
Back to "Brokeback Mountain" I am embarrassed to
say, that, the plot has escaped me the first time I saw it, and I had
to watch it a few more times to "get it"
tho I think heath ledger did a great job of getting rid of his
australian accent
and sounding just like every guy with a pickup truck i met in roanoke
and by that I mean incomprehensible
>
>> He initially disagreed, but the following day told me he agreed with me
>> completely. Why would anyone every consider Ukrainian worth learning
>> unless it had great literature, great technological journals or bawdy
>> sex stuff.
>>
>> At last, they are learning.
>>
> Indeed! Let's celebrate OKSANA_!_
>
> _Iran_
>>
>> Lots of talk on our news today about possible strikes on Iran to wipe
>> out their nuclear weapons.
>>
>> Perhaps being in the thick of politics, I will become more interested
>> in them
>>
> Yeah, that will be highly interesting and, moreover, sort of rewarding,
> I'd guess.
>>
More even than that -- do you remember when you told me you could
debate politics for days on end. What would happen if I ever made
politics a true arena of interest instead of occasionally just dropping
in on some items. Wouldn't be able to shut me up, I guess.
>
> _Changes in Western Policies_
>
>> Here's a link to an interesting article on changes in Western policies
>> by Bush administration, concerning the recently appointed Shannon
>> assistant secretary of state
>>
>>
http://www.coha.org/2007/01/02/tom-shannon-inherits-the-wreckage-of-the-bureau-of.../
>>
>> Shannon's conciliatory rhetoric to the
>> contrary suggests a deliberate good cop-bad cop approach to hemispheric
>> issues, utilizing his Oxonian good cheer to mitigate the harshness of
>> Bush's policies once they are being put to a test in a given Latin
>> American country.
>>
> I'm not yet familiar with that particular issue...
I don't think it's the issue that we need to pay attention to so much
as the question of Bush's international style. Will he do something
similar with Angie?
>>>
>> Oui, je comprends. ...
>>>
>> Oui, justement merveilleux :)
>>
>
> _New DC Start_
>
> FIRST DAY ... - GOOD LUCK again!
It was a great first day.
mk5000
"Lakatos often writes as though axiomatization simply "fossilizes"
a discipline. In contrast, Corfield argues that axiomatization often
invigorates a discipline, spurring the development of new concepts and
opening up new directions for inquiry."_-Timothy Bays
