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To: LindyBill who wrote (11546)	10/9/2003 5:50:19 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793896

Quote of the Century The twentieth century was one in which limits on state power were removed in order to let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir…We Americans are the only ones who didn't get creamed at some point during all of this. We are free and prosperous because we have inherited political and value systems fabricated by a particular set of eighteenth-century intellectuals who happened to get it right. But we have lost touch with those intellectuals. - Neal Stephenson, from In the Beginning Was the Command Line catallarchy.net

To: LindyBill who wrote (11546)	10/9/2003 6:23:08 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793896

<<What we have here is the problem with Clark's Military BG. He is one way in public, but very authoritarian in private.>> I watched a program about DDE, Ike. During his declining years he was on his porch watching a couple of his horses that had gotten loose trampling his putting green. His aides wanted to get the horses back in the stable ASAP. Ike told them to let it go, the green could be repaired and he enjoyed seeing the horses have fun. That was a laid back General/President.