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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (623072)	1/23/2017 8:21:36 PM
From: sm1th	4 Recommendations Recommended By alanrs dave rose Follies SirWalterRalegh Respond to of 793905

Now I'm in favour of raising the voting age to 40 or maybe 30. Now that I am in my 60's I think it should be at least 50. Can we bring back the requirements for property ownership?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (623072)	1/23/2017 10:14:16 PM
From: James Seagrove	4 Recommendations Recommended By D. Long lightshipsailor Old_Sparky Ron M Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793905

I know folks that have a 33 year old living in the basement. He has a big screen tv, video games, beer-fridge and a jeep. He has a semi-decent job, pays rent, helps with the groceries and has no intention of ever leaving home and his mom rules the roost. I was making plans to skedaddle at 15.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (623072)	1/24/2017 8:07:31 AM
From: James Seagrove	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793905

A very good book by Winston Churchill "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan" amazon.com Or free on Gutenberg gutenberg.org "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."