[Rhodes22-list] Question for Hank

[Tootle]

Hank,

After Bob Skinner's last post, I immediately thought of your hero, maybe
this is how Bob ought to dress?

http://www.buycostumes.com/Category/0/Product/31481/ProductDetail.aspx?REF=AFC-datafeed&AID=10273928&PID=2567034&SID=398798

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
Addendum:  
"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and
for all." [Nikita Khrushchev , February 25, 1956 20th Congress of the
Communist Party]

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is
best for society." [Hillary Clinton, 1993]







Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> 
> Robert,
> 
> Please expound on that response.
> 
> "When the incumbent makes it clear that he has little respect
> for the people at the bottom of the heap-"
> 
> Exactly where has 43 forgotten the people at the bottom of the heap? 
> School
> choice?  Illegal Mexicans?  Elders and Medicare?  Inquiring minds want to
> know.
> 
> Republicans?  I am one and they (the GOP) have learned not to call me and
> ask for a donation the last few months.  We need a house cleaning and I'm
> convinced the GOP will get one.  The 2006 election results were
> predictable
> given an off year election during a lame duck Presidency. But, if they
> didn't get the message, the lack of my checkbook response (and many
> others)
> should give them a message.
> 
> Election robbery?  Give me a friggin' break.  The newspaper consortium
> that
> recounted every single vote using every single method, including Al Gore's
> first choice, gave the election to W.  Give it up!
> 
> 
> "It is time for the pendulum to swing the other way".  It did, and they
> are
> at the 11% approval rating level.
> 
> Now as to your comments about women - I'm confused.  Please explain it in
> detail and not in code.  I'm not that clever or smart.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/23/07, Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:
>>
>> When the incumbent makes it clear that he has little respect
>> for the people at the bottom of the heap, the broad base of
>> the heap reacts.  As Brad remarked, there is little
>> difference between this and the Irish organizations last
>> century.  If there are any issues of impropriety, they are
>> lost in the still-blazing memory of the great election robbery.
>>
>> However different from Bush, and there are some big
>> differences, anyone with the "Republican" sign hanging
>> around his/her neck is tarred with the Bush brush.
>>
>> Unalloyed loyalty to the Republican cause, as defined by
>> Bush, has a price in a we/they contest.  Make no mistake
>> about it -- Bush is at least as much reviled as he is
>> revered, and many voters, myself included, will go to
>> great lengths to restore the presidency to a more
>> cooperative relationship with the other branches of our
>> government.  We will also go to great lengths to break the
>> nominally-conservative-but-actually-drunk-evangelical-in-
>> a-whorehouse Republican party's hold on our government.
>>
>> It is time for the pendulum to swing the other way for a
>> while.  This is a nominally secular and peaceful nation.
>> Yes, we have some responsibility for world-wide issues
>> such as combating terrorism, but we have been using a
>> 10-guage shotgun to kill a cockroach, and been pointing it
>> in the wrong direction to boot.
>>
>> And a policy of setting limitations on other countries
>> options to provide their women with the tools to control
>> their own lives is hideous.  Bush appears to regard women
>> as chattels.  I thought we dealt with that in 1865.  But
>> the Republican candidates seem to be courting our own
>> radical extremists with that view.  Another mill-stone
>> around their necks.
>>
>> Reality will intrude.
>>
>> /Robert
>>
>> Tootle wrote:
>> >
>> > Brad,
>> >
>> > See this article from the LA Times:
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,4231217.story?coll=la-home-center
>> >
>> > Ed K
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