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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:00 AM

John McCain, Internet dunce

Why the Arizona senator, who can barely Google, is not the chief that an increasingly technological world requires.

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  • Wednesday, August 13, 2008 03:51 PM

    Why would any American use the French word "elite"? I suggest that the English word is "chosen"

    but you can suit yourselves with all this faux nonsense - although, Lord between us and all harm, that's another French word for false. I don't know now, but it appears that Americans would like to be French or is it British as so many seem to admire Margaret Thatcher. Dear Margaret is a Baroness now and is remembered for many things, one of which is her reference to those who opposed her as being motivated by "the politics of envy". It may be that the unchosen ones are all fired up to be the chosen but that some people are too choosy - the electorate - to regard what's on offer as any choice at all. This codology seems "unsavory" to Ms. Terkel who prefers cranberry stuffing although Europeans tend to choose sage and onion when stuffing the Christmas turkey.

    The above comes straight from Taurus (the bull) but why not respond in kind to an article that purports to show that the use of a mouse is the latest sign of evolutionary advancement?

    In case you're wondering, US troops have just arrived in Georgia which has no connection at all with Atlanta but is in S.E. Europe somewhwere between the Caucasus mountains and the Black Sea. The place is full of Caucasians but they don't speak English or know much about Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie (oh, that's French too). The American soldiers may not be terribly interested to hear that it was the German physiologist, Blumenbach, who inspired some other pointy-heads in the USA to call white Americans "Caucasians" but they do need to know that Stalin, as cruel a tyrant as Hitler, was a Georgian in what was once the Russian Empire. Happy days are here again but you'll be fine and dandy if you can just Google it "as an increasingly technological world requires", from the Black Sea, to the White Sea and from the Yellow Sea to the Dead Sea, which Michael Phelps doesn't need to keep afloat but which the rest of us might, if only there's room.

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