[Newspoetry] hailp

[Bill Wendling]

Also sprach Anne Bargar:
} Ok, here's a poem.
} 
} Word Problem
} 
} Directions: read through the folowing scenario.  Then try answering the
} questions at the bottom of the page.
} 
} 
} There is a disabled Russian submarine sitting at the Bottom of the Berent
} Sea.  There are anywhere between 106 and 130 people trapped inside it.  No
} one knows how many of them are alive.  No one really knows how long the
} survivors will be able to survive; the estimate has been 48 hours.  The
} nuclear reactors on the sub have been shut down, which is suppossed to
} minimize environmental damage.  That also means that there is no way to
} filter the air as it slowly becomes sutrated with carbon dioxide.  It also
} means that they can't heat the sub, and will be surrounded by the stench
} of decaying bodies.  The paper was printed on Tuesday, and the accident
} happened on Sunday, which means that most of those sailors are probably
} dead by not.  This disaster is said to "highlight the rundown state of
} Russia's navy," according to today's Chicago Tribune.
} 
} 
} With Russia's military in the state that it is, can someone please explain
} why we need that damned proposed missle defense system?  And hasn't anyone
} figured out yet that being in the military is just plain dangerous?
} 
} 
Babz!

You're being dupped and don't know it. The Russians just WANT you to
believe that their military is woefully outdated and that they don't have
the funds to build expensive, world-shredding weapons. This is a ploy.
Those Godless Russians wouldn't think twice about sending 100+ people to
their deaths as long as they can keep up their veneer of helplessness.

...it's either that or to save us from the Venusians!

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|| Bill Wendling			wendling at ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu