XPost: alt.politics.socialism, alt.politics.economics, alt.politics.media   
   From: efreem2@alumni.umbc.edu   
      
   A Somali arrives in Minneapolis as a new immigrant to the United States.   
      
   He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says.....   
      
   Thank you Mr. American for letting me in this country, giving me housing,   
   food stamps, FREE medical care and free education!"  The passer-by   
   says....   
   "You are mistaken, I am Mexican".   
      
   The man goes on and encounters another passer-by.  "Thank you for having   
   such a beautiful country here in America!"  The person says.... "I no   
   American, I Vietnamese.   
      
   The new arrival walks further, and the next person he sees, he stops,   
   shakes   
   his hand and says.....  Thank you for the wonderful America!" That person   
   puts up his hand and says "I am from Middle East, I am not an American!"   
      
   He finally sees a nice lady and asks "Are you an American?"  She says,   
   "No,   
   I am from Russia!"  Puzzled he asks her...... "Where are all the   
   Americans?"   
      
   The Russian lady checks her watch and says..... "Probably at work!"   
      
   *.*   
      
   Oneliners   
      
   If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill   
      
   Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.   
      
   Meanness doesn't just happen overnight.   
      
   Living in the past has one thing in its favor. It's cheaper   
      
   I got in touch with my inner child...now my imaginary friend is jealous   
      
   A voltage spike? OUCH! That hertz!   
      
   A careful driver is one who just saw the driver ahead get a ticket.   
      
   Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.   
      
   More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin   
      
   For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.   
      
   A Somali arrives in Minneapolis as a new immigrant to the United States.   
      
   He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says.....   
      
   Thank you Mr. American for letting me in this country, giving me housing,   
   food stamps, FREE medical care and free education!"  The passer-by   
   says....   
   "You are mistaken, I am Mexican".   
      
   The man goes on and encounters another passer-by.  "Thank you for having   
   such a beautiful country here in America!"  The person says.... "I no   
   American, I Vietnamese.   
      
   The new arrival walks further, and the next person he sees, he stops,   
   shakes   
   his hand and says.....  Thank you for the wonderful America!" That person   
   puts up his hand and says "I am from Middle East, I am not an American!"   
      
   He finally sees a nice lady and asks "Are you an American?"  She says,   
   "No,   
   I am from Russia!"  Puzzled he asks her...... "Where are all the   
   Americans?"   
      
   The Russian lady checks her watch and says..... "Probably at work!"   
      
   *.*   
      
   Oneliners   
      
   If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill   
      
   Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.   
      
   Meanness doesn't just happen overnight.   
      
   Living in the past has one thing in its favor. It's cheaper   
      
   I got in touch with my inner child...now my imaginary friend is jealous   
      
   A voltage spike? OUCH! That hertz!   
      
   A careful driver is one who just saw the driver ahead get a ticket.   
      
   Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.   
      
   More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin   
      
   For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.   
      
   You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.   
      
   Killing time murders opportunities.   
      
   Egotist: - Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation   
      
   *.*   
      
   "Which would you rather be in . . . an explosion or a collision?"   
      
   "In a collision, anytime."   
      
   "Why?"   
      
   "Well, in a collision, there you are. In an explosion, where are you?"   
      
   *.*   
      
   New York is a place where all the girls are looking for husbands   
   and all the husbands are looking for girls.   
      
      
   Don't forget that people will judge you by your actions, not your   
   intentions.   
   You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.   
      
      
   >From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition   
   is something up with which I will not put.   
      
   *.*   
      
   A young Rabbi, fresh out of a Brooklyn Yeshiva,   
   thought it would help him better understand   
   the fear and temptations his future congregations faced,   
   if he first took a job   
   as a policeman for several months.   
      
   He passed the physical examination;   
   then came the oral exam   
   to test his ability to act quickly and wisely   
   in an emergency.   
      
   Among other questions he was asked,   
   "What would you do to disperse an angry crowd?"   
      
   He thought for a moment and then said seriously,   
   "I would take up a collection."   
      
   Issue of the Times;   
   How Hitler Became a Dictator by Jacob G. Hornberger   
      
   Whenever U.S. officials wish to demonize someone, they inevitably compare   
   him to Adolf Hitler. The message immediately resonates with people because   
   everyone knows that Hitler was a brutal dictator.   
      
   But how many people know how Hitler actually became a dictator? My bet is,   
   very few. I'd also bet that more than a few people would be surprised at   
   how   
   he pulled it off, especially given that after World War I Germany had   
   become   
   a democratic republic.   
      
   The story of how Hitler became a dictator is set forth in The Rise and   
   Fall   
   of the Third Reich, by William Shirer, on which this article is based.   
      
   In the presidential election held on March 13, 1932, there were four   
   candidates: the incumbent, Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler, and   
   two minor candidates, Ernst Thaelmann and Theodore Duesterberg. The   
   results   
   were:   
      
   Hindenburg 49.6 percent   
   Hitler 30.1 percent   
   Thaelmann 13.2 percent   
   Duesterberg 6.8 percent   
      
   At the risk of belaboring the obvious, almost 70 percent of the German   
   people voted against Hitler, causing his supporter Joseph Goebbels, who   
   would later become Hitler's minister of propaganda, to lament in his   
   journal, "We're beaten; terrible outlook. Party circles badly depressed   
   and   
   dejected."   
      
   Since Hindenberg had not received a majority of the vote, however, a   
   runoff   
   election had to be held among the top three vote-getters. On April 19,   
   1932,   
   the runoff results were:   
      
   Hindenburg 53.0 percent   
   Hitler 36.8 percent   
   Thaelmann 10.2 percent   
      
   Thus, even though Hitler's vote total had risen, he still had been   
   decisively rejected by the German people.   
      
   On June 1, 1932, Hindenberg appointed Franz von Papen as chancellor of   
   Germany, whom Shirer described as an "unexpected and ludicrous figure."   
   Papen immediately dissolved the Reichstag (the national congress) and   
   called   
   for new elections, the third legislative election in five months.   
      
   Hitler and his fellow members of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party, who   
   were determined to bring down the republic and establish dictatorial rule   
   in   
   Germany, did everything they could to create chaos in the streets,   
   including   
   initiating political violence and murder. The situation got so bad that   
   martial law was proclaimed in Berlin.   
      
   Even though Hitler had badly lost the presidential election, he was   
   drawing   
   ever-larger crowds during the congressional election. As Shirer points   
   out,   
      
   In one day, July 27, he spoke to 60,000 persons in Brandenburg, to nearly   
   as   
      
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