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To: jimtracker1 who wrote (13405)	7/19/2007 4:54:31 AM
From: NightOwl	Respond to of 14464

Well Mr. Tracker... If I had any friends... Or an idiot's search engine... Or fell prey to someone else's paranoid conspiracy fetish... Or had more TITTs than I knew what to do with... Then maybe I'd be able to find your "meaning behind"... But I doubt it. <vbg> I recommend you consult a qualified search firm, e.g: jonesdavey.co.uk Or... should you be averse to offshore outsourcing... then perhaps this firm will do: jonesday.com In any case I am afraid I'm just too busy recording the pitiable manner in which fact attempts to imitate fiction, i.e: imdb.com Frankly "Lou Dobbs" is a tad unconvincing as "Howard Beale" for my taste... Then too there's no George Bush or Dick Cheney involved. Of course... they did have a "George Bosch" and a "Nelson Chaney." Not bad I guess for 1976 Hollywood crystal balling. But there's always the condemnation of history ignored to fall back on, e.g: Slap a powdered wig on his economy bustin' foreign wars... throw in an intimate acquaintance with the "Bourbon" family... and George Bush is just another iteration of Louis XVI. "Louis XVI was characterized for a long time as a little simpleton, handled by his advisers, with crazes for iron work and hunting. *** When Louis XVI succeeded to the throne in 1774, he was only twenty, as his father, the son of the previous king, Louis XV, had died in 1765. He had an enormous responsibility, as the government was deeply in debt, and resentment towards 'despotic' monarchy was on the rise. Louis therefore appointed an experienced advisor, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas who, until his death in 1781 would take charge on many important ministerial decisions." en.wikipedia.org It appears that every revolution is preceded by a "little simpleton" of some sort. Fortunately it's not possible for every "little simpleton" to be immediately followed by a revolution. Unfortunately... this gives rise to the false hope of "it can't happen here"... until it does... even in IdaHoo. <vbg> 0\|0