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To: Rande Is who wrote (44465)	1/1/2001 9:38:25 PM
From: pressboxjr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

And if we were faced with a serious threat to our national security by a foreign entity. Would we rise to meet the challenge? Absolutely, with Colin Powell as Sec of State, IMO. I wish he had been running for President instead of GW or Gore. I really like that guy.

To: Rande Is who wrote (44465)	1/1/2001 9:55:39 PM
From: Trumptown	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 57584

Rande...thanks for all your hard work! OT - A little New Year's fun: pressanykey.com For anyone who hasn't seen the answers, post your score for fun!...I got 10 out of 12 SR

To: Rande Is who wrote (44465)	1/1/2001 10:36:23 PM
From: Wendisman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Rande....<ot> thanks for sharing your thoughts here through 2000....the strength of your leadership is that you point out the way rather than drag us there, and you inform us while attempting to minimize your bias (and when you are biased, you make it obvious). Remember this: your enemies shed light on your weaknesses due to jealousy....your friends shed light on your weaknesses due to love....it is not the message, but the way the message is delivered. <OT>My wife and I are expecting our first child in about five weeks....I'm sure many here have been through this, but I tell you it is the most wonderful experience to see my son moving about in his mother's belly....puts this market madness in perspective. Reminds me that my center is in the family, and my energies flow from the center. Take care in 2001, Wes

To: Rande Is who wrote (44465)	1/2/2001 7:29:00 AM
From: learnstocks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Rande, as a "lurker" on this site for a long time, I must say that I have enjoyed it. The last thing I want to do is to post something like someone you responded to recently. I would like to comment on your question "Could it be that America's REAL problem is complacency, selfish excess, glutony and decadence?". Although you posed it in the form of a question, I believe one could take a position that America's real problem is complacency, selfish excess, gluttony and decadence and defend it easily. It is quite unlikely that we could easily defend ourselves if we face other serious threats to our national security with the mind set of the current Administration. It is for that reason that I am very encouraged that we have a change of Administration in which I believe we WILL be more secure at the end of the next four years. Hopefully, my thoughts will prove prescient. The dynamics of the world are changing rapidly and I doubt seriously that the current visit of Yassar Arafat with Slick Willy will help our situation. Hopefully, nothing will be signed now and the process will be left to the next Administration that doesn't have the same "legacy" yearning that the current one does.

To: Rande Is who wrote (44465)	1/3/2001 9:31:49 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 57584

Hi Rande - thanks for your reply... While I agree that the stratfor link you posted is really long wave for most of the purposes of this thread, every american should be aware of these things that are going on in the world. Not in a paranoid Samuel Huntington bunker-dweller mode, but realistically keeping them on our radar screens. Our western democracy despite its faults really is the state of the art in government and our economic success is one demonstration of that. But the price is eternal vigilance. On China, it's not really us that they hate, it's everyone else! Throughout their history (and they had a civilization when the Europeans were still living in the trees) they've developed, without a shred of democratic culture, a strong, tight control point of view where the individual means nothing. Just look at Tibet - what possible military or economic threat does that hapless country pose? Absolutely none, the threat is far far worse: independent thinking. Actually, I'm not really a trader; I've been largely out of the market since early last year and am now more than ever convinced that for the near future long term investing doesn't have a high chance of working, so I'm still looking around at how to deal with the situation and put my money to work at reasonable risk. Clearly I should have shorted the market after I got out, but I can't see going to bed every night hoping things will get worse. :-( Most of the sour permabears give me the impression that they were middle aged already in their teens.