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To: jttmab who wrote (161576)	5/7/2005 8:39:50 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

How fortunate we were that the Irish were too stupid to be able to grow potatoes, just at the right time when we were building the transcontinental railroad and the plantation owners weren't willing to give up any of their employees to help build it. Please tell me this was "tongue in cheek".. The patent that Thomas Edison bought for the lightbulb from the inventor, a Canadian. Did Edison force him to sell it? No. Just like Bill Gates didn't force Tim Patterson to sell him DOS $50,000. In Edison's case, he bought a patent for a technology with potential, further developed and refined it, and eventually marketed it. He simply succeeded where Woodward failed. I'm always amazed by people with perspectives such as yours. It would seem you deliberately seek to adopt a myopic anti-american view, no matter how blatant the evidence of even greater corruption and wrong-doing going on in other parts of the world. And it just ignores the fact that millions of people STILL want to come to the US to live and/or work. There must be a tremendous amount of global insanity out there in the world.. Or maybe they all know something that you don't.. Hawk

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