8.10b - first impression and questions [Yes, I am going to hijack this thread!]

[Glenn R Williams]

On Thursday 09 October 2008 10:23:04 Ian L. Target wrote:
> Art Alexion wrote:
> > A lot of things moved backwards in the US in the '80s and 2000s...
>
> Oh my gosh!  The 80's were the best!  Big hair - /really/ big hair,
> mullets, parachute pants, one-hit wonders pop-music, 99 Red Ballons,
> Girls Just Wanting to Have Fun  . . .
> Home computers using BBS's instead of the internet.  Ronald Reagan and
> Margaret Thatcher ruled the world.  Nobody dared f*** with
> Maggie or Ronnie!  The wall came down, which of course is not in the US,
> but its fall was initiated by Ronnie's famous command, " . . . tear down
> this wall."
>
> Backwards in the 80s?  No way.  2000s, unfortunately, I have to agree.

Mullets did come at a price: illegal arms sales to Iran, funding through drugs 
of the dirty Contra war in Nicaragua, invasion of Granada, destruction of the 
right to organize, the invasion of Panama, assassination of Archbishop Romero 
in El Salvador, the devastating Iran-Iraq War, gassing of Kurds, deregulation,  
etc. 

A great time was had by all!

Glenn