John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
> Mike Fester wrote:
> 
>> Hey, I knew an Irish-Japanese family; named 0'Gawa.
> 
> Really? There's a delightful family named O'Hara in our neighbourhood,
> though I'm sorry to say they wouldn't know a ceilidh from a
> shillelagh. And in a cemetary in my wife's furusato lie the bones of
> Terence O'Reilly, the famed Irish plumber, known affectionately
> throughout Japan as O'TeArai. 
> 
>>> And, since we're talking, the state of Israel dates from....
>> 
>> From the time  the people with the guns got the land and called it
>> such :-) 
> 
> I just *knew* that once we got past the local differences of
> perspective we'd find we were in complete agreement over this!

United Nations = people with guns? Ok.

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"This is the place where in the 1990s Hanna was hung from a rod and
beaten with a special stick when she called out for Jesus or the Virgin
Mary. This is where she and other female prisoners were dragged outside
and tied to a dead tree trunk, nicknamed "Walid" by the guards, and
raped in the shadow of palm trees. This is the place where electric
shock was applied to Hanna's vagina. And this is where in February 2001
someone put a bullet in her husband's head and handed his corpse
through the steel gate like a piece of butcher's meat."       
- The Washington Compost on the Baghdad police academy where Jumana
Michael Hanna and other Iraqi women were tortured, raped, and
brutalized. Mrs. Hanna was not liberated in Martin Sheen's name.