Cobol - Re: Iraq

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Re: Iraq

Joe Zitzelberger

2005-12-02, 9:04 pm

In article <11ou709cpemqp41@news.supernews.com>,
"HeyBub" <heybubNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> And if you read Ann Coulter's book you'll find that virtually every
> derogatory thing said about Joe McCarthy was fiction.

It is interesting that people still like to beat up on Joe McCarthy.

Not only have 50 years of lies about 'witch-hunting' hollywood actors
been repeated so many times that they are now regarded as truth by many.
But the KGB document dump in the early 1990's has been widely ignored by
all of the McCarthy detractors.

If there is one many in the human history whose reputation deserves a
serious apology, it is Joe McCarthy. He was amazingly accurate at
identifying actual KGB employees working for the US government at a time
when we we involved in a hot war with the Soviet Air Force and two of
their puppet states.

The Edward R. Murrow movie that came out last month was amazing in its
avoidance of the information the KGB made public. It is a very artful
piece of propaganda. Very reinforcing of the idea that if you tell a
lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

So how do you address the simple, but unavoidable, fact that many of
those fingered by McCarthy were quite guilty? Do you just ignore it?

Howard Brazee

2005-12-12, 6:55 pm

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 06:37:03 -0600, "Judson McClendon"
<judmc@sunvaley0.com> wrote:

>Shades of C, in a COBOL group, no less! ;-) It may interest you to know
>that many years ago (~1900? I have researched the authenticity of this, and
>it's true, but it's been a while, and I can't remember all the details) the
>Legislature of the State of Illinois came within hours of voting a
>resolution into law to do precisely that. Some quack had convinced the
>legislature that this would make math easier for students in Illinois
>schools, and they were about to vote the ridiculous proposition in as law.
>Fortunately for Illinois, a university professor got wind of it and
>hurriedly contacted a number of influential friends who quickly clued in the
>witless lawmakers. If you have ever had to write software to satisfy legal
>requirements, this probably doesn't surprise you all that much. :-)

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