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   Martha Bridegam to Gene Zitver   
   Re: 1946 letter   
   13 Jun 04 13:22:12   
   
   From: mabjo@pacbell.net   
      
   Gene Zitver wrote:   
      
   > Bobby Farouk wrote   
   >   
   > >"Moyehoist"  wrote in message   
   > >news:20040612210800.16718.00000891@mb-m29.aol.com...   
   > >>   
   > >> Look, there is really only one thing you need to know about history and   
   > >> politics.   
   > >>   
   > >>  The principal mechanism of the 20th century was the communist holocausts   
   > >and   
   > >> the leftist cover up of same.   
   > >>   
   > >> Everything since 1920 is expalined by this.   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > >Another sweeping generalization liberating one from the nasty business of   
   > >thinking.   
   > >   
   > >Works for me.  Explains the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the American   
   > >Civil Rights movement, the dissolution of the British Empire, Huey Long's   
   > >assassination, and Lindberg's flight from New York to Paris.  Also answers   
   > >all those thorny questions about why the chicken crossed the road.   
   >   
   > A case can also be made that it explains Truman Capote's 1966 "Black and   
   White   
   > Ball" at New York's Plaza Hotel in honor of Katherine Graham, which no less   
   an   
   > anticommunist than Norman Podhoretz called a “turning point in the cultural   
   > history, the social history of New York, even the United States in the sense   
   > that the confluence of the fashionable social world and the literary world   
   and   
   > the world of political power was embodied in that guest list.â€*   
   >   
   > http://nymetro.com/nymetro/news/culture/features/2161/index3.html   
   >   
   > Gene   
      
   A cat we're keeping for a neighbor brought in a dead dove this morning. I guess   
   it explains that too.   
      
   /M   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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