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To: Grainne who wrote (17674)	2/10/1998 8:52:00 PM
From: Carol	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Dear Chrissy: In reference to your post on Galt, do you mean sugar soaked as in "candidate for AA meetings" soaked. Or California rainstorm soaked? Geez, are there no really geniune colorful characters left in the world, without the aid of 100 % proof or something. Did you notice that since Father posted his heart-warming little Valentine's thingy, all the women just love him. Is he ever smart or what. Remember the lady on the Antiques Roadshow, I was telling you about a couple of weeks ago, who had the table worth 250K, she was just on Oprah, she sold it through Sotherby's Auction house, for over 1/2 million, she paid $25 dollars for it. Everyone check your attics. hehehe 0:-} Carol

To: Grainne who wrote (17674)	2/11/1998 12:37:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, I'll only touch lightly on one theme. The clouds scudding across this thread this week are draining my Danny de Vito gland (the one that makes emphatic discussion fun). I don't know how you can feel that Islamic extremism might sometimes seem like a good idea. It's a form of state (like Maoism or what's going on in North Korea) which rejects pluralism as "subversion". It's today's bastion of the totalitarian ideology, with the weight of scripture behind its society-rearranging power. In this way it's profoundly anti-socialist, since in the sort of socialism the world's intellectuals seem to regard as moths do a flame, free speech is a cornerstone. Saddam is a despot. Despots are transitory. When he goes, whether by Maverick or curved dagger (or just falling off his toilet from an overdose in the grandest Western tradition), I'll lay money that the replacement will draw public support for a return to basic moral values. Like Germany in the early Thirties. Nobody wins, except Iraq's patient neighbor to the East.