"Popess Pantiara Evokovitch" wrote:

Reverend Canoodle wrote:
Oh, Popess - you are pleasant and perfect in your fullness of response!

I better be, it took one and a half ****ing hours to write. I could
have written a decent sized paper for school and gotten an A on it with
the time and effort I put in my last post. I just hope mullah sees it,
I really do want a debate now.


Oh, yeah! White man can't jump!
These mother****ers are doing
the Funky Chicken and the Raggedy-ass Boogaloo
all over the place! They be into Hip-Hop, y'all!
Oh, help us people of Zimbabwe!
Send us some gound nuts and yams and water!
We be jumpin'! Yo, y'all!

Drought Comes Again to East Africa

By CHRIS TOMLINSON
The Associated Press
Sunday, February 19, 2006; 6:24 PM

BISSEL, Kenya -- Babies in East Africa are starving again.

They lie in battered beds, hooked up to IV drips, their skeletal mothers beside them.
Their cries are barely audible for now, but their woes won't end when they have
gained weight. All of their families' wealth _ their cattle and goats _ are dead.

When drought comes, the very young and the very old are the first to suffer.
But according to the latest U.N. figures, they are only the most visible of 11.5 million
East Africans who don't have enough to eat.

Hunger strikes Africa for reasons as diverse as its 53 countries _ drought,
locusts, government policies that wreck the agricultural economy.

In East Africa, which includes Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania
and Uganda, drought arrives every few years, usually predicted months in advance.

Drought does not have to cause hunger, but inevitably it does.

Breaking the cycle wouldn't take much: just the vision and enough money
to provide clean water, distribute electricity and build some roads.

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Cattle are grazing the suburbs again.

Says the moo-cow of the NOW!