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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill/WA who wrote (117392)	12/23/2008 12:00:55 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

And, as Richard Petty said, "All of your good races can be erased by running into a wall." Well, he didn't say that, but it's true. Options are mostly useful not for making big returns, which they can accomplish, but for allowing us to walk away when we're wrong. Or, more often, when the market is too stupid to realize we're right. <VBG> I hear from Joan occasionally. I haven't heard from Earlie in a while. But he is a flying galivanter of many interests, so that may not be an ominous sign.