Colin Powell

Chris Losinger

found an interesting article about him. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/121700a.html[^] while i'm sure Bush-lovers will chafe at the first few paragraphs (an editorial comment about the 2000 election), the rest of the article seems essentially factual, and contains a good deal from Powell's own book, the Iran-contra investigations and a lot of stuff from other mainstream sources. reading this really makes me wonder why the press and Congress both fellate the guy as much as they do; he's anything but the model of a modern major-general. -c

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Fractals

Paul Watson

Chris Losinger wrote: he's anything but the model of a modern major-general. *Paul takes a huge deep breath, sets feet apart and prepares to sing* I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. ALL: With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. GENERAL: I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. ALL: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, He is the very model of a modern Major-General. GENERAL: I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's; I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes! Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. ALL: And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. GENERAL: Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform, And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. ALL: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, He is the very model of a modern Major-General. GENERAL: In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin, When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat", When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know mor

Jamie Hale

Christ almighty. :| That certainly makes one look a bit differently on the present situation, yes? J "We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." - Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

KaRl

Paul Watson wrote: *Paul takes a huge deep breath, sets feet apart and prepares to sing* You have this in common with Julius Caeser to speak about yourself using the 3rd person :-D About the song, I've not understood everything yet, but if it's one of your creations, congratulation, nice effort :cool:

Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop

Chris Losinger

Jamie Hale wrote: yes? yes, for me. we were always told how he was the great honorable outsider, not a calculating inside playa. -c

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Paul Watson

KaЯl wrote: but if it's one of your creations, congratulation, nice effort I wish! No, it is a famous English culture song. It is meant to be sung very fast, which is hard to do. Just trying singing this fast: "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" All those Ms trip one up. It comes from the play The Pirates of Penzance, very famous. Hilarious when a good actor/singer does it right. KaЯl wrote: You have this in common with Julius Caeser to speak about yourself using the 3rd person I will take that as a good thing and ignore how he died... *Paul reads up on Julius* ;) I promise though, I hardly ever talk about myself in the 3rd person in "real life."

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

Lost User

What did Powell do in Vietnam? What was his role in the Iran-contra scandal? How did he rise so smoothly as a black man in a white-dominated Republican national security establishment? Were Powell's victories in Panama and Iraq excessively violent and insufficiently concerned with civilian dead? Almost believable until he slipped in the race issue. X| I hate authors who stoop to this level and imply less than honest dealings whenever a minority excels. Mike Mullikin :beer:

I'm not convinced that oil is the problem. I'm pretty sure we could fly over the Middle East and drop bags of money and they'd still want to kill us for blocking the view. - Scott Adams