Comments on: Monday morning sniefs https://www.yourish.com/2010/01/18/9864 Cutting straight to the point Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:16:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Michael Lonie https://www.yourish.com/2010/01/18/9864/comment-page-1#comment-38996 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:16:40 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=9864#comment-38996 “Chavez says the U.S. is occupying Haiti under the pretense of giving aid to the earthquake-devastated nation.”

The Haitians should be so lucky. The only time in Haiti’s history when it had halfway decent government and the tax money was spent on benefiting the Haitian people rather than fattening the bank accounts of the politicians was when the U.S. Navy and Marines were running the place, from 1915 to 1934. President Hoover wanted to withdraw the Marines in 1929 but the Haitian Congress begged him to let them stay, because the Congresscritters there knew that if the Marines weren’t running things they’d quickly have a corrupt dictator again. And they were right.

]]> By: Meryl Yourish https://www.yourish.com/2010/01/18/9864/comment-page-1#comment-38991 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:51:44 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=9864#comment-38991 I did not know that, and as a result, the first Yo-Prize goes to Eric J. Congrats! That, and four or five bucks, will get you a Starbucks cup of coffee!

]]> By: Eric J https://www.yourish.com/2010/01/18/9864/comment-page-1#comment-38988 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:23:21 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=9864#comment-38988 Did you know that Marvel used to actually mail out No Prizes? It was a Marvel letterhead envelope, with nothing inside.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/NoPrize.jpg

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