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To: ManyMoose who wrote (195252)	10/24/2001 12:28:42 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Dave, I admire your intelligence. What is intelligence? The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge. How do we measure the capacity to acquire knowledge in another. At the end of the day we look to see what a person does. What a person does is make decision and act and his action are the only real measure of how that person applies knowledge. So in the case of mr. bill I consider the man an apparently high IQ stupidest that ever was. I find nothing to admire in that in all cases mr bill's decisions of self or others sacrifice showed his choice was others. When mr. bill had the choice of honesty and courage or cowardly dishonesty the choice was dishonesty. In the words of poster E.T. honor meant dick to mr. bill. I don't consider that intelligent at all. I believe many good people supported mr. bill. All were betrayed by this man. What does the life of mr. bill represent to me in terms of what I value and respect. mr. bill's actions and conduct is deeply repugnant, It contradicts so utterly our principles and moral sentiments that we feel bound to lift up our voice against it. What we abominate does equal violence to our moral and religious sentiments. What we loathe is offensive to our own nature, and excites unmingled disgust. I donot wish evil to befall mr. bill. But the above is a description found in the definition of that which we hate. tom watson tosiwmee

To: ManyMoose who wrote (195252)	10/24/2001 3:41:07 AM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Boy Dave, your post really got to me. I come from a fairly long line of small business owners and have always been taught the value of hardwork, doing for yourself, and giving back to a system that make success possible. That anyone who is willing to put in the work, play by the rules, and treat people decently can succeed. So it pains me to hear you had so much of your work negated by the swipe of a pen for the swap of a vote. I have had my share of run-ins with the little bigmen of government. I was never that involved politically till the late 90's as I began to see what I percieved to be a shift in the role of government from being an implement of the people to the people becoming an instrument of govenrnment. Gore's acceptance speech was the final straw for me. I wish you well. D.H.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (195252)	10/24/2001 9:53:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I dislike Clinton's policies because they basically destroyed the benefits of my life's work, Are you saying that Clinton, or one of his policies, means that you cannot grow trees on your own land and sell it for timber? I doubt that but I don't know all the regulations. (We have a city ordinance that a tree of a certain diameter cannot be cut without a permit, but I am under the impression you are not talking about city landscape ordinances) TP

To: ManyMoose who wrote (195252)	10/24/2001 10:19:11 AM
From: RON BL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Dave very nice post. It is funny to see a government that has absolute zeal in collecting taxes, that would seek to destroy the life of a waitress who earns 10 K a year, but wavers and questions itself about going after terrorists. If our military had the same moral authority to go after the evil-doers of this world that it has to go after the tax payers and those who dare violate the rules of the PC movement than the rest of the world would be quivering in its boots. Make a mistake on your taxes and there is no voice talking about clemency or proportional punishment. Yet the government itself loses billions of dollars, can't account for it and there is no cry for punishment. Under Bill Clinton the energy department cannot account for billions of dollars missing but you and I are expected to work 50 + hrs a week, figure out their complex rules and insanely determine what we owe them and we had better be accurate to the penny. Something wrong with that picture