[Rhodes22-list] Re: Rhodes22-list Digest, Vol 564, Issue 1

[Michael Meltzer]

could it be that you have become "As mad as a hatter" from inhaling all 
the mercury fumes from the broken fluent light bulbs. could be and that 
would explain it.

MJM

PS. running and ducking for cover.
 
Loumoore at aol.com wrote:

>Ok I can't resist a few political comments, especially for my friends in 
>swing states who did not experience the blow of 9/11 directly. 
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>President Bush declared today that Senator Kerry still has not grasped the 
>signifance of the war in Iraq as a campaign against terror.  Bush insists that 
>in fighting the war in Iraq we are actually fighting terrorists on the front 
>lines who have come to that country to wage war on our troups.  I am confused.
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>Is the president now suggesting that it is a positive development that Iraq 
>has become a breeding ground and magnet for terrorists?
>
>I also read today that nearly 400 tons of extremely dangerous and powerful 
>explosives that should have been guarded have vanished.  It seems that in the 
>"new Iraq" terrorists go in and dangerous weapons go out through unmonitored 
>borders
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>Meanwhile recent reports indicate that Saudi Arabian citizens continue to 
>supply the insurgency in Iraq with funds.
>
>Three weeks before I was married I saw the Towers burn and collaspe from near 
>my home town.  My best friend just made it out of the World Financial Center 
>before the South Tower came down.  My wife's best friend lost her cousin in 
>the North Tower.  The children of two close friends have served or are serving 
>in Iraq.  Almost everyone I know has been directly affected by 9/11.  If you 
>did not see the aftermath in NYC firsthand, you only grasped 1 percent of the 
>blow it had on the people living here.  I will never forget it.  
>
>Here is my point:
>
>If Bush's leadership on terrorism and national security has inspired so much 
>confidence, why are New Yorkers and New Jerseyans, the two states hit hardest 
>by the terrorists, decisively rejecting his flawed leadership?
>
>I guess if I lived in Norman, Oklahoma, I would feel confident about the 
>president's ability to lead and protect the nation from the enemy.  Fifteen miles 
>away from ground zero, I have absolutely zero confidence in Bush's ability to 
>protect my country and my family and bring justice to our enemies.
>
>As a proud member of a navy family, I will vote with great enthusiasm for 
>John Kerry.
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