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To: Poet who wrote (44113)	2/15/2002 4:14:11 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

DITTO, YYB! / bia / eom

To: Poet who wrote (44113)	2/15/2002 6:36:14 PM
From: YlangYlangBreeze	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You sweetheart! Thank you! I am building a treehouse for my daughter and it's still sunny. I have a funny story to tell you later. Love ya j

To: Poet who wrote (44113)	2/15/2002 10:44:36 PM
From: coug	Respond to of 82486

Happy Birthday to You.. Happy Birthday to You.. Happy Birthday, Dear Ylang Ylang Happy Birthday to You And many MORE.. All the Cougars ROAR.. And when they learned.. They broke out the BEST As they Celebrate, Their Eternal QUEST.. For Peace and Love.. And HAPPINESS.. :) m

To: Poet who wrote (44113)	2/16/2002 9:54:07 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Anyway, I was still a Democrat when I first voted for Reagan, shortly out of college. I had been a pacifist and philosophical anarchist (strictly, a syndicalist, preferring direct industrial democracy), until my junior year. I got over my pacifism, essentially realizing that I could not stand acquiescing in evil in order to keep my hands clean, and that, in the final analysis, I would have blown up Berlin if it would have prevented the Holocaust. As for my anarcho- syndicalism, I simply got more practical, and developed a better sense of how society works. At the time that I voted for Reagan, I would probably have said that I was a neo- liberal, not a neoconservative, along the lines of the Washington Monthly and New Republic crowd: trying to create a leaner, meaner liberalism, one that took into account what was legitimate in conservative criticisms. Like many people, I was disillusioned with the drift of the Carter Administration, and was not about to vote for him again. Various things persuaded me to vote for Reagan: Herbert Block, the editorial cartoonist, saying that if Reagan were the only choice, he would vote for him; intellectuals I respected jumping onto his bandwagon; an interview with Reagan I saw on PBS; other things, as well. In some ways, I was pushed into neoconservatism by the reaction of acquaintances to the fact that I supported Reagan. I decided that, at that time, a neoconservative was just a neoliberal with the courage of his convictions. I did not change my registration from Democrat to Republican for almost a decade. In any case, to make a long story short, as events unfolded, and liberal commentators were so often proven wrong, while Reagan and his people were so often proven right, I became more and more conservative. This was also part of a process of reexamination, unsurprising considering that I was considered conservative by a number of people, and therefore had to evaluate my position. From my point of view, most things went as they were supposed to, as a consequence of supporting Reagan, and I have never had reason to regret it.......