[Rhodes22-list] Quote Stan

[SVGravityLeak at aol.com]

Stan,

When did it go up to 40 virgins?  When it was 27 virgins, I couldn't get into 
it.  But with 40, I think it may be time to strap on the old bomb belt.  (In 
Semitic idiom, 40 means beyond counting.)

Fred

In a message dated 9/3/2004 1:00:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, salm at mn.rr.com 
writes:
On 9/2/04 9:16 AM, "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:

> We are back to politics? - Wonderful:
> 
> Notice when it is one of their own they flip flop:
> 
> Cheney's daughter is gay so he is against the constitution amendment.
> 
> Bush's father and TX friends went out of their way to keep him out of the
> fray but if you sign up for it like Kerry did, and find it was a mistake -
> that is a flip flop.
> 
> If anyone else is accused of a conflict of interest, like Clinton's wife was
> strung up for, that is ok, but the flip flop allows Mrs. Cheney to sit on
> the board of our huge defense contractor and that is not a conflict of
> interest.  Under whose definition?.
> 
> If you want to do the real count on flip flops, see Effros book of quotes to
> see who leads by a mile.
> 
> Chris Mathews says the differences in this election are crisp if you look at
> the major issues - I liked the way he put the decision making:
> 
> If you want to cut taxes proportionally much higher for the wealthiest of
> us - you know who to vote for.  .
> 
> If you have reservations on advancing science - you know who to vote for.
> (If you have questions on this one, ask president Regan's son)
> 
> If you want us to lead the world single handedly - you know who to vote for.
> 
> If you do not mind someone else's kid dying to secure Feluja (sp?) as long
> as it is not you or yours who has to die for this strategic piece of land
> needed to keep us free of terrorist - you know who to vote for
> (personally I grieve more for the thousands and thousands whose lives are
> now shattered by wounds then I do for the ones who may be going to heaven to
> get their 40 virgins)
> 
> If you think the way to have no child left behind is to have the rest of the
> children stand still while the left behind kids catch up and therefore flip
> flop over the funding of the program as it was intended - you know who to
> vote for.
> 
> If you think being for the environment is passing a law requiring new energy
> plants to meet regulations and then allowing all energy plants to rebuild
> themselves 99% and call that "not new" so not under the regulations - you
> know who to vote for.
> 
> And if you think the costs of the higher health bills with lower worker
> productivity that results from dismantling in-place environmental
> regulations can be made up with tie-ins to a stock market because it always
> goes up - you know who to vote for.
> 
> If you agree that the super new debt is going to be taken care of by the
> super booming economy just around the corner - you know who to vote for.
> 
> If you think leadership is someone who sits there for seven minutes in a
> helpless state with a totally blanc look when told we are being attacked, or
> who lands on an aircraft carrier and emerges from a war plane announcing the
> war is over when it has not even started, is the kind of man we need to lead
> this country in war - you know who to vote for.
> 
> If you think government should stay off your back and not be telling you how
> to run your personal business and then flip flops and tells you what you
> have to do with your body - you know who to vote for.
> 
> If you think religion should be allowed to sneak into government by funding
> religious organizations and other creeping back door techniques because you
> think religiously controlled countries are more likely to live in peace -
> you know who to vote for  - but you don't know your history or current
> events..
> 
> sorry, I am running out of time - not issues that make this election an easy
> distinction between the two major parties.
> 
> Just go out and vote - or you deserve what you get.  The last election was
> lost to the minority by just a handful of voters not voting to counteract a
> handful of incompetent old Jewish voters who voted for the favorite son,
> Buchanan, because they could not make out a ballot that showed the wrong
> picture next to the one they actually intended to make president.   Vote.
> Your vote does make a difference.
> 
> stan/gbi