[Fwd: Iraq Dispatches: Inside Abu Hanifa mosque during attack]

[Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.]

On Dec 10, 2004, at 12:28 PM, Lan Barnes wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:18:34PM -0800, James E. Henderson wrote:
>>
>>
>> Lan Barnes wrote:
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>> For the time, place and circumstances, the Roman Empire was a good
>> solution to the developing conditions. As such, I would call it a Good
>> Idea ... but conditions have changed, making it no longer workable.
>>
>
> I couldn't describe the system that brought forth Nero, Commodus,
> Caligula, and Elagebalus a "good solution", but maybe that's just me.

The problem is not that the system produced them, but that it
couldn't get rid of them afterward.

This is actually the problem with Congress.  The rest of us get stuck
with a schmuck from Elsewhere, USA *in perpetuity* as Elsewhere keeps
reelecting their dingbat indefinitely.

Congress is starting to make the Japanese Diet (parliament) look young.

-a