IF ANY OF YOU CAN READ THIS ITEM, please let me know.

For some reason or another, one posting as was intended for yesterday has not posted timely into this space, despite repeated contacts to Technical Support @ Blogdrive.

I hope this will serve as remedy.

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AS IF THAT WEREN'T GET-ALL, Your Correspondent understands where virtually all the participants @ a spontaneously-called-for rally in Seoul against reallowing imports of American beef after a five-year ban on same because of "mad cow" fears were middle-school students rather than typical Korean consumers and livestock producers.

You read right--middle-school students influenced by local websites and youth magazines into all manner of scare paranoia about the supposed effects of American imports upon their bodies and thought-processes.

And we all thought where, back in the 1960's, fluoridation of drinking water supplies was part of a Greater Communist Plot to weaken and undermine the American thought processes! (IIBC, I am not aware of any evidence showing an interconnexion between fluoride used in drinking water and brain damage, indirect or otherwise.)

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NOW TELL ME IF THE FOLLOWING PICTURE (THANKS TO DOWN WITH TYRANNY) of a billboard outside the American Embassy in the former Myanmari capital of Yawgon reflects not so much the "desire" of Myanmar as those of the so-called "right-thinking Americans" hard-wired into accepting Fox Prolefeed as "fair and balanced" TV news:

(Or is it?)