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Old May 10th 04, 08:04 PM
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LW wrote:
(RHF) wrote ...


The Rich and Powerful Man can Buy the Men with the Guns.



So sad but so true.

Jacob and Esau cut a deal over a bowl of soup.

We can be bought for less in too many cases.


Soup? Nope.

If memory serves, it was Esau selling his birthright to Jacob for a bowl
of porridge.

In today's world it may well be re-phrased as:

USA Selling it's Birthright to Halliburton for a Bowl of Oil

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Porridge seems to play an important part in literature. Note how, many
centuries later, a certain 'Goldielocks' did a break and enter to steal
this stuff from three innocent bears, who had gone out to commune with
nature. Then 'she' trashed their sleeping quarters...


mike