[Rhodes22-list] Question for Hank

[Hank]

Ed,

Sorry, but that's a little too obscure for me.  What exactly are you trying
to say?

Hank

On 10/23/07, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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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