<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> This is nonsensical. Tony Soprano is a fictional character; heads of state are real people dealing with real events in real time. Communism is a word that doesn't mean jack shit until people try to make something real; when they do, you evaluate the outcome. Black and white thinking is good for adolescents, but silly for grownups. Joanna Angelus Novus wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid20060831203450.43699.qmail@web34010.mail.mud.yahoo.com"> <pre wrap="">--- Chris Doss <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lookoverhere1@yahoo.com"><lookoverhere1@yahoo.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">How on Earth are Chavez, Chirac, and Putin "nasty thugs"? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> All heads of state are nasty thugs. No matter how refined or intelligent, there is not a bit of difference between the morality of heads of state and a character like Tony Soprano. Communism is the transcendence of state and value. I am not interested in any left that fails to recognize this. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mail.yahoo.com">http://mail.yahoo.com</a> ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>