To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (18017 ) 6/29/2004 3:56:04 PM From: 2MAR$ Read Replies (1) | Respond to That's good then , and not warmongering as you said but just the opposite coming out of the Cato Institute:In November 2002, shortly after Cato was named the "Best Advocacy Website" by the Web Marketing Association, the Alexa ratings service issued a report saying that it was "the most popular think tank site over the past three months," receiving a total of 188,901 unique visitors during the previous month of September. [1] However, Cato has sometimes differed with Republican Party positions on specific issues, such as the 2003 decision by U.S. President George W. Bush to go to war with Iraq. Cato has also criticized the 1998 settlement that many U.S. states signed with the tobacco industry. barca.fsnet.co.uk Happily for Cato’s peace of mind, he died before the casino with its cachucha—or cancan, or whatever it might have been—was introduced, and before the fashions of Asia had been added to those of Greece. But he lived long enough to see the Graeco-maniacs triumphant. In earlier and happier days he had been able to expel two philosophers from Rome, but now he saw them swarming in the streets with their ragged cloaks and greasy beards, and everywhere obtaining seats as domestic chaplains at the tables of the rich. He could now do no more than protest in his bitter and extravagant style against the corruption of the age. He prophesied that as soon as Rome had thoroughly imbibed the Greek philosophy she would lose the empire of the world; he declared that Socrates was a prating, seditious fellow who well deserved his fate; and he warned his son to beware of the Greek physicians, for the Greeks had laid a plot to kill all the Romans, and the doctors had been deputed to put it into execution with their medicines. speed
