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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (4336)	3/20/2003 2:53:01 PM
From: LeonardSlye	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

"It is far better to be feared than loved" -Machiavelli This seems to be the policy...unfortunately...on both sides of this conflict. There's a strange irony for me today as I watch the bloodshed on TV and also watch my short-term position in Hemosol, the blood substitute, completing it's 5th intraday wave. Ah well, makin' a few bucks makes me feel a little less depressed. As one of the CNN talking heads just said a little while ago, "There'll be lots to watch.". There seems to be real disappointment that they haven't seen the "Shock and Awe" part yet. I turned over to CBC, where they are referring to the "coalition of the coerced" and the "coalition of the billing". BTW, I see that Uncle Sam is suing the tobacco companies retroactively for decades back for over 200 billion dollars. That kind of money could set up the next domino. But, mind you, it will be in American Dollars, which may not be worth much by the time they settle. Gotta go, I think my blood substitute is heating up again too. Happy Trails Lenny

To: marcos who wrote (4336)	3/21/2003 8:34:11 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 8273

'Every man has two countries; his own, and France.' - Benjamin Franklin I checked that out with the fr. consulate and they told me that Ben said that because he wanted to borrow money a few years back and not to take it too seriously. They did say that if I wanted to pay taxes in fr. and still not live there that they would make me an honorary citoyen. They also said that certain things would make me an automatic citoyen, even if I could not 'parlay la langue obscure'. These were: 1. The tendency to wear a tie to the beach without a shirt 2. Wearing dark glasses everywhere at all times of day. 3. the inability to drink anything but red wine. 4. believing it was necessary to wear loud print bikini underwear if one was to call oneself a man. 5. taking a one metre stick of bread to all variety of social functions. 6. putting the profession of bicycle thief, auteur, or prostitute on my tax form. 7. being proud of number 6. 8. possessing the belief that being ignored or called an oaf by a salseperson meant that the goods in that store were seriously worth buying. 9. posessing the belief that fr. people can do things better than others in general, but to demonstrate that in practice is unecessary. 10. possessing the belief that restrictions of freedom could be infinite as long as it could be said that the restriction was designed to increase safety from an imaginary evil. The positive denial of this in principal but resignation to its practical implementation for the good of the country as long as it does not effect oneself. 11. believing that women cannot help but to exist to serve man and while this makes one of life's chief leisure pursuits, it is possibly a man's most noble profession in making this an avocation. 12. pursuing an ideal or interest to the point of fanaticism is a most admirable quality. 13. despite number 12, it is other races of people who deserve to be called fanatics, in particular the English. 14. nothing English people do in particular is very interesting or is inspired by anything but base needs, low intellect, or utilitarianism. Only a frenchman deserves to be called an artist. EC<:-}