[Rhodes22-list] pls take me off your list.

[Hank]

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On 8/12/08, jhn ldrs <jhnldrs at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> --- On Tue, 8/7/07, stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
> From: stan <stan at rhodes22.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Which list is this.
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Received: Tuesday, August 7, 2007, 11:53 AM
>
> OK, I can't allow losing Rummy, so here goes.
>
> I told you guys I had a response to Brad's view that if no one knows how to
>
> solve our current mess, at least stop whining.  But no one showed interest
> so I kept my secret "Nixon" plan to myself.  Ah, now that Rummy is
> curious,
> here it is.
>
> What fuels the terrorists:
>
> My guess is drugs and oil money   (or course our being there probably does
> too but I won't start a war with that view just now)
>
> The drug money cure is easy;  join me and Bill Buckley and make drugs
> legal.
> (Alcohol and tobacco and all the drug company drugs are already legal in
> this country so what's the big deal - just do it)  So what if this step
> does
> not completely shut off their funds if it helps cut down their ability to
> buy some arms and politicians.  It saves some lives and that is better than
> saving none.
>
> Oil is another major source of funding for the religious nuts.  We import
> oil, no matter what the price.  The overseas producers make huge profits so
> they can afford to be generous with our enemy.   We simply have to stop
> importing oil.  If we become good at this, others will follow, except
> Brazil, who are already there.
>
> Now Brad and others are going to make the correct argument that alternate
> ways of getting energy are not efficient (wind, solar, ethanol, hydro,
> etc.)
> and expanding our own oil reserves and atomic energy have down sides.  But
> that is missing the point.   (When I was a few years shy of the draft, our
> country was taking down the Third Avenue El and sending its steel to Japan
> who obligingly converted it to bombs for my less fortunate young friends.)
>
> Efficiency, even environmental issues, should be back burner considerations
> if we are weighing life and the huge costs of wars we simply cannot win
> with
> the intelligence we currently have.  Meantime the intelligence we do have
> will come up with a US master minded energy fix if we seed such programs
> with part of the money we are pissing away hitting our heads against a
> composite stone wall.  Besides, when I hear the argument that says making
> ethanol is not efficient, I wonder, is going to war to protect our oil
> interests more efficient?
>
> Nixon was correct when he said we should be 100% oil import free by 1986 -
> he just did not have the smarts or maybe it was the strength to overcome
> the
> lobby influences, to make it happen.
>
> Today we can make it happen - although we still have the lobbyists to
> contend with and congressional Democrats have shown themselves, at least so
> far,  not to be up to that problem.  Did any one catch the 60 Minute
> segment
> a few weeks ago about the all night session to keep the pharmaceutical drug
> bill from reaching a vote since it did not have the votes to pass - until 3
> in the morning when enough bribery had been doled out to squeeze it
> through.
> The lead politician came away with a two million dollars a year job with
> one
> of the drug companies (don't ask his drug expertise or what he is actually
> doing to be worth that money - he earned it ahead of time)  And they listed
> all our other representatives who got amazingly hefty rewards for their
> switched votes in the middle of the night when apparently no one was
> looking
> other than Roger.
>
>
> But I digress.  Simply help cut off the funding of my enemy, from dugs and
> oil  (and stop giving them our guns by the thousands)  and even I may vote
> for the next war.
>
> ss
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <R22RumRunner at aol.com>
> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 10:28 AM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Which list is this.
>
>
> > Personally, I preferred the list the way it was two weeks ago before the
> > winers opened their mouths and blew everyone off. Without the political
> > chit
> > chat a few people complained about, this is what the list
> > becomes............................very quiet.
> > If this continues, I'm going to sign off. It just isn't worth
> staying
> > around
> > for.
> >
> > Rummy
> >
> >
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