[Rhodes22-list] Economics - strictly sail

[Joseph Hadzima]

Ron, please pass along our sympathy, and best heart felt
wishes for Elton.

thanks

--- Ronald Lipton <rlipton at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Rik,
> 
>     Elton was indeed there today.  I didn't get your note
> until this 
> evening. I
> hope that someone going on Saturday can convey your
> greetings.  
> Evidently
> he arrived a bit late due to "white out" conditions near
> Mishuwaka and 
> the
> boat still needed a bit of cleaning due to the road salt.
>  Early 
> practice for
> spring commissioning.
> 
> Ron
> On Feb 1, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Rik Sandberg wrote:
> 
> > Ron,
> >
> > I'm sure you'll see Elton at the show. We had hoped to
> be able to go 
> > ourselves, but timing on some other unavoidable things
> got in the way. 
> > If you'd say HI from Rik and Sandy and tell him we
> wanted to be there, 
> > but couldn't make it, I'd sure appreciate it.
> >
> > Have fun at the show.
> >
> > Rik
> >
> >
> > Slim wrote:
> >
> >> Ron,
> >> Frankly, I'm insulted to be left off that list.
> >> Enjoy the show.  Wish I was there.
> >> Slim
> >>
> >> On 2/1/07 8:29 AM, "Ronald Lipton"
> <rlipton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Ed,
> >>>
> >>> Please don't tell me what kind of brain I have, What
> kind of
> >>> traveller I am
> >>> or how I feel about bureaucracy.  Please don't tell
> me who or what I
> >>> think
> >>> needs to be nurtured.   I am a liberal in most areas,
> proud of it, 
> >>> and
> >>> feel that
> >>> the ideas of equality and openness are at the core of
> what has made
> >>> this a
> >>> great country.  But my detailed beliefs are a result
> of my own 
> >>> thoughts,
> >>> my family's heritage and background, and my
> understanding of the 
> >>> world
> >>> and
> >>> the nation.  It doesn't serve any purpose to
> categorize me on a 
> >>> range of
> >>> issues due to a handful of postings to a sailing
> forumn. It may be
> >>> representative
> >>> of your own limited thought process and prejudices.
> At some point 
> >>> some
> >>> of us may be insulted by your scattershot approach to
> personal and
> >>> political
> >>> name calling.
> >>>
> >>> I am going to the sailboat show.
> >>>
> >>> Ron
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 1, 2007, at 7:13 AM, Tootle wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Brother Bradley:
> >>>>
> >>>>     You do not expect Dave L or Bill E or Ron L or
> the other fellow
> >>>> travelers to read and embrace this concept do you. 
> You are just
> >>>> pissing
> >>>> into the wind.
> >>>>
> >>>>      The first problem you encounter is that they
> have television
> >>>> brains.
> >>>> Just change the channel and instantly things will be
> fine.  Second,
> >>>> they do
> >>>> not believe that democracy needs to be nurtured. 
> That goes back to
> >>>> their
> >>>> television mentality where things will be instantly
> fine.  Third, 
> >>>> they
> >>>> believe that bureaucracies work, there is no place
> for free people 
> >>>> and
> >>>> individual responsibility.  Are you trying to create
> chaos or was 
> >>>> that
> >>>> Peter
> >>>> Drucker?
> >>>>
> >>>> Ed K
> >>>> Greenville, SC, USA
> >>>> Addendum:  "It is not by the consolidation of
> concentration of 
> >>>> powers,
> >>>> but
> >>>> by  their distribution, that good government is
> affected." Thomas
> >>>> Jefferson
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> This is worthy of your time - check local listings.
>  Brad
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *TV's Evangelist for Capitalism
> >>>>> *The man behind "Free to Choose" with Milton
> Friedman.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *BY JOHN H. FUND*
> >>>>> *Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:01 a.m.*
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Despite his renown as a Nobel Prize-winning
> economist and 
> >>>>> best-selling
> >>>>> author, most people came to know the late Milton
> Friedman through
> >>>>> television. His 10-part 1980 series, "Free to
> Choose," was so 
> >>>>> popular
> >>>>> that
> >>>>> it aired three times on public television and is
> even now adding 
> >>>>> fans
> >>>>> via
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> free Internet video-stream (www.ideachannel.tv).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So it's fitting that the original team of producers
> for "Free to
> >>>>> Choose"
> >>>>> returned to PBS Monday (declared "Milton Friedman
> Day" in 
> >>>>> California
> >>>>> by
> >>>>> Gov.
> >>>>> Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Gavin Newsom of San
> Francisco) 
> >>>>> with a
> >>>>> 90-minute intellectual biography called "The Power
> of Choice: The
> >>>>> Life and
> >>>>> Times of Milton Friedman." (Many public television
> stations are
> >>>>> airing the
> >>>>> program at other times this week; check local
> listings.)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The show ranges far and wide to show the influence
> of Friedman's
> >>>>> thought.
> >>>>> Former Prime Minister Mart Laar of Estonia, a
> former Soviet 
> >>>>> satellite
> >>>>> that
> >>>>> turned to free markets in desperation after
> independence, says that
> >>>>> "the
> >>>>> only book about economy what I read was 'Free to
> Choose,' but there
> >>>>> was a
> >>>>> lot of good ideas in there, and I introduced a big
> part of those."
> >>>>> Such
> >>>>> Friedmanite reforms as a 23% flat-rate income tax
> (soon to fall to
> >>>>> 20%)
> >>>>> have
> >>>>> led the latest "Index of Economic Freedom" to list
> Estonia as the 
> >>>>> 12th
> 
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