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2004-07-08 Africa: Subsaharan

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Posted by Bulldog 2004-07-08 8:27:12 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Time for some "folk" food, starting with Mugabe.

Posted by ed 2004-07-08 9:03:22 AM|| 2004-07-08 9:03:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Throw another 10 spot on Zimbabwe in the pool, if ya don't mind, bookmaker.

Posted by tu3031 2004-07-08 9:28:36 AM|| 2004-07-08 9:28:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Apparently European colonalism had some benefits. I work with a bunch of guys from South Africa, they seem to think that's the next country to recieve the hellhole treatment after Namibia.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-07-08 10:09:51 AM|| 2004-07-08 10:09:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 A dramatic land reform plan by President Robert Mugabe has also affected harvests.

Gee, ya think? More grist for Thomas Sowell's mill.

Posted by BH 2004-07-08 10:21:43 AM|| 2004-07-08 10:21:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Okay, so what's next? Declare the half of the population that is opposed to Mugabe "enemies of the state", and massacre them? Try to push them out of the country? Declare war against somebody else?
Perhaps the problem here isn't the tyrant, it's the unwillingness of everybody else to do something about him.

Posted by Anonymous5545 2004-07-08 10:28:58 AM|| 2004-07-08 10:28:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "seeds that they have been planting maize grain supplied as food aid"

Sigh. Folks, modern maize is almost exclusively hybridized. The food staple isn't the same thing as the seed. You can't save seed with maize, and expect good harvests on the replant. It depends on the varieties in question, and maize food aid would be a fairly random sample, but I would expect that the resulting plants, if they grew at all, would be terribly underweight and yield something that barely merits the name of "maize".

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-07-08 12:28:02 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-07-08 12:28:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 3 x 10^10 ears of corn, folks...

Posted by mojo 2004-07-08 1:07:40 PM|| 2004-07-08 1:07:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Throw another 10 spot on Zimbabwe in the pool, if ya don't mind, bookmaker.

Another $20 for me, si'l vous plait.

Posted by badanov 2004-07-08 1:08:24 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-07-08 1:08:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Perhaps somebody should tell them of the excellent bark and grass recipes North Korea has been perfecting.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-07-08 2:20:33 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-07-08 2:20:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Gee I wonder what country always grows more than enough food to feed itself and most of the world? France? Maybe they win in snail production and harvest. PRC? They produce and import a lot of foodstuffs. Syria? Grow plenty of Jihadis and nice little National Socialists but not enough farm land to export. What about that evil, despotic, unilateral, and genetically altered U.S.?

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-07-08 4:14:51 PM|| 2004-07-08 4:14:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Australia?

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-08 6:05:00 PM|| 2004-07-08 6:05:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I believe Argentina does well with grain exports as well. At least ~15 years ago they were.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-07-08 8:28:07 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-07-08 8:28:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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