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

[Bill Effros]

Ed,

I've missed you!

One of the great instructional manuals of all time was based on the 
Gettysburg Address.

It was for an early word-processing program, based on the premise that 
the reader is Lincoln's secretary and the Great Man keeps making 
revisions.  They provided the original address he wrote and then teach 
you how to use the program to change the original to what he finally 
delivered.

The original, as they provide it, began "87 years ago..."

BTW -- Why are you quoting a Communist Liar like Lincoln?  He never got 
a single vote from South Carolina; was the darling of the liberals; 
inserted big government into the lives of private citizens; started a 
war to end slavery when almost every other slave holding country in the 
world managed to end slavery without civil war; was elected by a 
minority of voters; almost lost a war that shouldn't even have been 
close; ...

This is your kind of guy?

I think not.

Bill Effros



Tootle wrote:
> 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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