[Rhodes22-list] Bill Effros must have bought stock in hip boot making company...

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Bill recently posted text from three speeches.  Instead of summarizing the
essence of what the speakers were saying, he dumped much verbal shit on the
proposed readers.  I have no problem with posting one well written article
on this forum, but to make a dump of that style is wrong and useless.

Speeches can help us understand and learn.  Real Americans look to Lincoln
at Gettysburg on how it should be done.

If you cannot make your point in 260 words, then maybe the purpose of the
speech is really nefarious and should be treated as such.

Read this speech:

ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF THE CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG
The number of words in each sentence is indicated in [brackets] at the end
of the sentence. 
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this Continent,
a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal. [30] 

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. [24] We are met on a
great battle-field of that war. [10] We have come to dedicate a portion of
that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live. [27] It is altogether fitting and proper that
we should do this. [11] 

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we can
not hallow--this ground. [19] The brave men, living and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. [21]
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can
never forget what they did here. [21] It is for us the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus
far so nobly advanced. [26] It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure
of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died
in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth. [81] 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
November 19, 1863.

People can read and understand.  It is not the Communists Big Lie.

Ed k
Greenville, SC, USA 

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