http://www.extrememortman.com/bush/sinkhole-de-mayo/ Just When You Thought it was Safe to Take Politics Seriously Again Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:29:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.extrememortman.com/bush/sinkhole-de-mayo/#comment-29399 Sat, 05 May 2007 20:43:00 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/bush/sinkhole-de-mayo/#comment-29399 Cinco de Mayo commemorates the defeat of the French by the Mexicans in 1862, an achievement right down there with the defeat of the Italians by the Ethiopians in 1891. (The Italians, like Custer, had left their machine guns at home. Second time around, under Mussolini in 1935, the Italians corrected this mistake, and threw in airplanes & poison gas just to make sure.) Cinco de Mayo commemorates the defeat of the French by the Mexicans in 1862, an achievement right down there with the defeat of the Italians by the Ethiopians in 1891. (The Italians, like Custer, had left their machine guns at home. Second time around, under Mussolini in 1935, the Italians corrected this mistake, and threw in airplanes & poison gas just to make sure.)

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