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To: Nemer who wrote (535)11/25/2000 4:09:17 PM
From: Patrick Slevin  Respond to of 548
 
The only guy I would ignore is Ground Hamburger.

But I get a laugh out of his stuff so what the heck.

There is a fellow who anyone could tell was unable to handle a large amount of money yet he was crusading to run a Fund.

I could not put that on ignore. By the way, the results were,

Market, 2
Fund, Zero

No wonder his nick is Zero.



To: Nemer who wrote (535)11/25/2000 5:15:01 PM
From: SE  Respond to of 548
 
Thanks beans.

However, I suspect that is the last we shall see of Mr. Hit and Run Poster.

Some people have too much time on their hands. Don't even know what he was doing on the Systems thread. Kinda out place for him.

Whatever.

Beans, I don't understand how you can have so many projects going at the same time. I suspect that you have rebuilt your house about twice now since I have known you.

I really wish you would run out of projects so you can come up here and start on my place. Plenty to do you know....



To: Nemer who wrote (535)1/5/2001 10:55:34 AM
From: Patrick Slevin  Respond to of 548
 
There are five towns named Paris in Texas?

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Man, you have a lot of Ambassadoring to do.



To: Nemer who wrote (535)1/19/2001 10:42:19 AM
From: SE  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 548
 
This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.

America: The Good Neighbor.
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a
remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian
television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant
remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:

"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most
generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out
of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying
even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who
propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the
streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries
in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by
tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped
billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those
countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.

I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the
erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other
country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the
Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why
do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?

Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the
moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk
about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American
technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times -
and safely home again.

You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store
window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued
and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they
are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at
home to spend here.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through
age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad
and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose.
Both are still broke.

I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other
people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to
the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during
the San Francisco earthquake.

Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired
of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with
their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at
the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is
not one of those."

Stand proud, America! Wear it proudly!!