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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (7314)	3/11/1999 2:35:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 12810

Jorj, looks like Ray's first SI promotion, IOPS, didn't go so well. I see it started trading around $3.25 last May, got up over $5.60 a few weeks later, and is now trading at .07. #Subject-20832 - Jeff

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (7314)	3/11/1999 9:36:00 AM
From: Razorbak	Respond to of 12810

Smells like toast to me. Clock is ticking. Razor

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (7314)	3/11/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 12810

I got a good one. I didn't know about this moron until a friend sent me a PM, and I am taking the liberty of sharing it with anyone else who was not paying attention: It's Dan Quayle! Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is IN the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island thatis right here. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, Hawaii, September 1989 What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. -- Vice President Dan Quayle speaking to the United Negro College Fund You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the American Samoans, whose capital Quayle pronounces "Pogo Pogo" The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Vice President Dan Quayle (The New Yorker, October 10, 1988, p.102) We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights...El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans, I have heard a single voice. I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, March 1990 I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. The future will be better tomorrow. I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world. Don't forget about the importance of the family. It begins with the family. We're not going to redefine the family. Everybody knows the definition of the family. A child. A mother. A father. There are other arrangements of the family, but that is a family and family values. I've been very blessed with wonderful parents and a wonderful family, and I am proud of my family. Anybody turns to their family. I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it. I suppose three important things certainly come to my mind that we want to say thank you. The first would be our family. Your family, my family -- which is composed of an immediate family of a wife and three children, a larger whichever that may be ... The very beginnings of civilization, the very beginnings of this country, goes back to the family. And time and time again, I'm often reminded, especially in this Presidential campaign, of the importance of a family, and what a family means to this country. And so when you pay thanks I suppose the first thing that would come to mind would be to thank the Lord for the family. We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican. Who's responsible for the riots? The rioters! -- Vice President Dan Quayle giving an analysis of the LA riots. (Herb Caen, SF Chronicle) It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help mattters any when prime time TV, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong. -- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco and criticizing Murphy Brown's decision to NOT have an abortion and to be a single (highly successful) mother. When told about Quayle's comments, a senior Bush campaign official replied only "Oh, dear." Bush's top aid said, "The world is a lot more complex than Dan would like to believe" Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it. Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women. -- Vice President Dan Quayle talking about breast cancer Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright! -- Vice President Dan Quayle correcting a student's correct spelling of the word "potatoe" during a spelling bee at an elementary school in Trenton. Dan Quayle had a trip planned to Beijing, but was worried because of the turmoil at that end. His security adviser however informed him that it was pretty safe for D.Q. as, "They are only harassing intellectuals." We are ready for any unforseen event that may or may not occur [The U.S. victory in Gulf war was a] stirring victory for the forces of aggression. The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought. Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places. The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Near East and the Far East from encroaching on each other. Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement.' Not so. No one was fooled. People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns. Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.