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[ChinaEFLteacher]

Just where does the furious little chimp belong?
Most teachers are educated and thus we can assume not voting for the moron, so lets trash the chimp a bit. It always makes me feel better, how about you?

[Roger]

Why trash bushy George? Is it his fault if Americans are so stupid as to fall for such a morally challenged, stupid chap?

[ChinaEFLteacher]

i apologize for the crude nature of this post, offering only that my frustrations with my home country are sometimes too great and I need to vent.

[distiller]

I know exactly how you feel. Sometimes I think that if people are that stupid then they deserve him and other times I beleive that the truth can persuade people. We'll see which one wins on Nov. 2

[ls650]

Ouch! That hurts my eyes!

[ChinaEFLteacher]

please don't be mad at me Seth but i just had to borrow your avatar until the election. good ol' georgie porgie dancin' away!
the anticipation of reading about the election fiasco is already making it difficult for me to sleep. long live democracy!!!

[extoere]

Roger, methinks your personal frustrations are beginning to loom a bit too large, a bit too publicly. Get a grip, dear man. Stupid? Not sure what country, if any, you owe any allegiance. Me, I'm an American. And I'll accept the judgment of the electorate, no matter which political party wins. And I'll try to accept it with an open mind and with optimism. Not that I don't have preferences. I do. I've already cast my absentee ballot for Bush. But I don't think Kerry supporters are stupid. Their influences have been and continue to be, most likely, quite different than mine. The nature of politics is conflict. But our individual temperaments determine whether that conflict will be civil or insulting in a fatally alienating way. You're too good a man to be labeling an entire people --- or even a significant part of them in such a rash (and psychologically telling) way. Particularly when you've had such an extremely limited experience of America and Americans.

Think about it, old man!

Best wishes,
ex

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[Roger]

[extoere]

Furious Roger, I just know that beneath all that raw indignation, there's a rational man waiting to come out. I'm ecstatic to know that no such "Disneyland circus" exists in your country, which, by the way, you have failed to identify. Come now, old man. You do have a country, don't you? Well, don't you? And particularly gratified to know that no such debacle exists in China or Hong Kong. "Or," Roger? "Or?" Last time I checked, Hong Kong was still in China. Did they move it since my last visit? And Roger, I did not say all French are rude; I said I'd never met one who wasn't. Specifically, I pointed out the rudeness with which my wife and I were so universally treated as guests in Paris last year. But what I think isn't quite so important as what Mr. Bernard Plasait, a member of France's upper house of parliament, concludes in a report commissioned by Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, after a drop in U.S. tourism last year by some 21%(6 Billion dollars): "Our bad image ... the arrogance ... are among the ugly facts of which we should not be proud. (We) have to learn that the tourist is not a nuisance but a benefit. Our welcome is not good enough .... This is not a fantasy, but a cruel reality."
France, with twice the population of the state of California, but with a gross economic output that is less, can ill afford to treat its visitors with such open disdain.

Have a nice weekend, Roger.
ex

[waxwing]

[Roger]

Merci, mon ami extoere,
my weekend has already begun on a sweet note.
I only regret I have no chance to spend a weekend in Paris or in the Provence... This because I have ten years of sweet memories of living in France, and by gosh, what Americans, and apparently only Americans find to complain about the perceived "arrogance" of the French totally eluded me during those years.
This is not to say I am a through-and-through francophile; far from it: at some point in my life I detested French and France! It all changed when my sojourn in France began.
Maybe you do take a more sober look at Americans and their own narcissism. Americans strongly remind me of those unbearably oversensitive and terribly chauvinistic Chinese...
These characteristics are, to my way of thinking, expressions of a lack of natural self-confidence. Either you are too sure of yourselves, or not sure at all! Inferiorty complexes beget superiority complexes!

[extoere]

Ah, to have spent a few indolent years on the Left Bank and in that storied countryside of Provence, haunted by romantic melodies of Edith Piaf singing "Lame(?) des Poetes" and gothic cathedrals sounding of Durufle; a slender, half-eaten baguette under one arm and a bottle of vin ordinaire in the other; hand-rolled cigarette in the corner of my mouth like Jean Gabin, lusting after distant milk maids with their sturdy peasant legs and demure eyes .... Yeah, Rog, I think you must have some very moveable feasts stored in the memory bank! And I do envy you.

On the other hand, I had ... Hawaii and throbbing Tahitian drums amid moon-flooded palms and midnight romps in the surf with sun burnished vahines with long, flowing tresses and ... little else.

And Rog, old man, I'll be back there in less than two weeks. The vahines are, like me, grandparents now. But I do have the cell phone numbers of some of their comely daughters .....

Haere mai, vahine!
Aru te pahu

(Come, my lovelies; start the drums!)
lecherous ex
P.S. Waxwing: back to yer rice gruel 'n Naom Chomsky!

[Seth]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040317/325/eotq9.html

al qaeda endorses bush for president

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=2&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/iran_us_elections

iran endorses bush for president

a bit odd that 'the evildoers' endorse mr. bush

[extoere]

Seth: Soon now, this part of your problem will be over. One way or the other. What will you do then? Discover yet another problem in need of your worry?

cheers,
ex