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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (76081)	11/15/2000 4:21:35 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Democracy should not distinguish between votes in a city or in a hamlet or black or white or man or woman or party affiliation. And as Lazio took 47% in New York you can see even in New York there is no uniform character. There are thousands of different kinds of people with different ideas in every city. And even if there were some unity in one area that is no reason to deny each person's right there to have their vote counted.

To: Srexley who wrote (76081)	11/15/2000 4:27:29 PM
From: Aggie	Respond to of 769670

...And now for a fable.. Once upon a time, on a sunny day at the beach, two men, call them George and Al, decided to have a contest building sand castles. Each man was proud of his castle and boasted that it was the best. Unable to decide on a winner, they then agreed to have a contest filling buckets full of sand. A series of paired buckets were collected and lined up, but, as this was the beach, the pairs were of different sizes. In the allotted time, each man shoveled the buckets as full as they could. It was a tremendous amount of shovelling. To decide the contest, a feed store donated their scales to weigh the results. All of the paired buckets were weighed, and each man sometimes won and sometimes lost, but at the end, it was very close indeed who had shoveled more. It came down to the last pair of buckets. On the feed store scales, George's last bucket was just a whisker heavier than Al's, just slightly, and this led to an argument. A set of bathroom scales was fetched, but this too showed the same bucket slightly heavier, but only just. An accurate beam balance was brought from the high school science lab, but it showed the same result, and Al insisted then on counting the sand grains in the buckets to settle the argument. This proved to be extremely difficult and also inconclusive, and it soon became apparent that, with the blowing breezes and clumsy tweezers, it was going to take a long time and it would still be very close. But Al hit upon a wonderful idea. He insisted that he should be allowed to count not only those grains in the bucket, but also to grains which missed the bucket during his shovelling efforts, because after all, it was his intention to hit the bucket all along. Meanwhile, the tide was coming in and each man with his buckets was standing in deeper and deeper water. Coincidentally, with all of this commotion, sharks began to congregate in the area, circling around each of the men. Well, the poor lifeguard who was on duty eventually blew the whistle and called both of the men out of the water and banned them from the beach. The winds, meanwhile, blew so much sand in and out of the bucket, that nobody knew anymore who had had more sand to begin with. The sharks, meanwhile, being the practical ones, went about their business looking for bigger fish.