Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdcsu!dmcanzi From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Parallel Message-ID: <1688@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 15:54:30 EDT Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1688 Posted: Mon Sep 23 15:54:30 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Sep-85 03:23:47 EDT References: <7800427@inmet.UUCP> <7800431@inmet.UUCP> <11683@rochester.UUCP> <767@rlgvax.UUCP> <1178@ihuxn.UUCP> Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) Organization: University of Woolamaloo Lines: 19 Summary: In article <1178@ihuxn.UUCP> gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) writes: >-- >Oh boy, somebody said the magic word: > >> So what? Why not salute the flag, you are an American aren't you? >> What is the problem with patriotic songs. Do you find patriotism >> offensive? > >"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." --Samuel Johnson "In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first." -- Ambrose Bierce -- David Canzi ACCUSE, v. t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him. (Ambrose Bierce) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com