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Re: Friday Funnies (was Stop Cheney)



I've alwyas felt that, at the very least, the US should have a Monster
Raving Loony Party, as do in the UK. For more info, see
<http://freespace.virgin.net/raving.loony/>.

   ---Terry

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Terry Abraham   Special Collections, University of Idaho
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>


On Fri, 18 May 2001, Mark Walsh wrote:

> Folks -
>
> I sometimes marvel at the two-party debates amongst my American=
>  colleagues....
>
> Come to the Great White North, where federally you can vote for and/or
> criticize:
>
> Progressive Conservatives (now there's an oxymoron if ever there was one) -
> somewhat equivalent to Republicans
>
> The Alliance (who can't even stay allied behind their leader) - somewhat
> equivalent to your far right or Jerry Falwell in office
>
> Liberals (who have turned out to be fiscal conservatives) - something like
> your Democrats
>
> The New Democratic Party (yes, you can vote for a Socialist in Canada) -
> sort of like the far left in the U.S. Democratic Party
>
> The Bloc Quebecois (only in Canada, eh, could separatists get elected and
> almost form the Official Opposition) - sort of like nothing you have had
> since the 1860s
>
> And that's not even counting the "also rans" - the Green Party,
> Marxist/Leninists, the Canadian Communist Party and the Rhinoceros Party....
>
> And fear not....the Progressive Conservatives are in control in Ontario and
> in the process of de-regulating our hydro-electric sector...it is only a
> matter of time before someone figures out how to develop a transmission
> line that will send our electricity to California...so watch for Canadian
> posts on advice for lighting reading rooms with candles....not all bad,
> though...we won't have to worry about electronic records anymore...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mark=20
>
>
>
> At 09:43 AM 18/05/2001 -0400, Tom Berry wrote:
> >California's electricity crisis is happening under a Democrat governor.
> >$2.00 and more per gallon of gas first happened under a Democrat president.
> >Environmental restrictions concocted largely by Democrats hamstrung energy
> >development nationwide for years. And getting rid of the Republicans will
> >make everything hunky-dory. Ludicrously funny.
> >
> >Thomas Berry
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Sharon" <centans@TAMPABAY.RR.COM>
> >To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> >Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:46 PM
> >Subject: Re: Attend the Voter Rights March & Stop Cheney
> >
> >
> >> If we don't get rid of the Republicans, we may soon find no funding at=
>  all
> >> for libraries and archives and then what happens to intellectual
> >freedom???
> >> Bush stole the election. When we had Democrats in the White House,
> >> California had electrical power, remember?  I do not live in California,=
>  I
> >live
> >> in Florida and Bush stole the Florida vote illegally.
> >>
> >> Sharon Centanne
> >>
> >> "Diane C. Russell" wrote:
> >>
> >> > When I read todays first off-topic message from=
>  centans@TAMPABAY.RR.COM,
> >I
> >> > thought that this must be some poor deluded soul who believes that it's
> >good
> >> > for felons and dead people to vote and who simply sent her message to
> >the
> >> > wrong list.
> >> >
> >> > But now that she's decided to post a message that libels the Vice
> >President
> >> > with charges like "rape, burn and pillage," it seems more likely that
> >she's a
> >> > deliberate mouthpiece of the radical-left, enviro-wacko hate lobby that
> >wants
> >> > us all to enjoy the nirvana her kind have brought to California.
> >> >
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