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2005-12-03 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by Pappy 2005-12-03 10:47|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 he had sold thousands of heavy, (Chinese-made) single-speed bicycles this year

Oh yeah - freakin' sign me up for one of those puppies. Alpe d'Huez, here I come!

Posted by Lance Armstrong 2005-12-03 11:33|| 2005-12-03 11:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like some of those Chinee 40 pounders that the Beard brought in during the special economic times. Very sturdy, a bike for me. On a level or downhill grade I was pure sleek momentum.

Posted by Shipman 2005-12-03 12:27|| 2005-12-03 12:27|| Front Page Top

#3 arm the opposition - otherwise they'll die in a giant gulag. Bob and Grace and co. need to die untimely deaths...soon

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-03 13:13|| 2005-12-03 13:13|| Front Page Top

#4 There is no real opposition. The MDC tried initially, got dumped upon by the intellectual and cultural elite for not being 'sensitive enough', and is now in disarray. The intellectal and cultural elites themselves are blithering; they want change, have no stomach for revolution, and any change has to "not hurt the poor".

Posted by Pappy 2005-12-03 20:41|| 2005-12-03 20:41|| Front Page Top

#5 One trillion dollars in aid to Africa has been pissed up against the wall since world war 2 and this is the end result!?....is it any wonder there's so much "compassion fatigue"?....They were a thousand percent better off under colonial rule.

Posted by Malikrik 2005-12-03 22:42|| 2005-12-03 22:42|| Front Page Top

#6 At risk of being redundant, for anyone on the 'Burg who hasn't read it, I suggest Kim DuToit's article, "Let Africa Sink." Nothing can be done for those people from outside that will be truly lasting except recolonization. And that won't happen because no country in its right mind would want the problems that would come with an African populace. It's a Darwinian dilemma.

Posted by mac 2005-12-03 23:00|| 2005-12-03 23:00|| Front Page Top

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