From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com> To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org Subject: [WSFA] Re: Third Friday Minutes Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:56:41 -0400 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Right, but those take decades to work their effect. What the Europeans brought to the Americas halved or worse the local population in one generation. For the want of anything else, the scales of equality favored the Europeans. Bob MacIntosh >From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net> >Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> >To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> >Subject: [WSFA] Re: Third Friday Minutes >Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:44:42 -0400 > >Robert MacIntosh wrote: > > And what, might you image, did them red-skinned folks have to say about >them > > silly Europeans? Too bad they didn't have any plagues them could give >the > > intruders to their shores. Might have changed history in significant >ways... > > > > Bob MacIntosh > >Hmm. Syphilis, tobacco, cocaine ... > >-- >Steve Smith sgs at aginc dot net >Agincourt Computing http://www.aginc.net >"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense." >