At 06:04 AM 6/11/02 -0400, Janet wrote:
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>you can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake
>
>jeannette rankin
My dear Janet,
I sincerely hope that akinetic rigidity is a playful and perky
exaggeration of your condition. If not, forgive me for what follows (I
would have just let it slide) although now I have to stand behind my
comments in either case.
A few of the many quotes with which you quite often entertain us
fall into the category of "truisms" and I do appreciate them as such.
However, some of them are really not thought provoking at all and are "just
plain dumb" in my opinion. This one by Jeanette Rankin, whoever she may be,
(am I uninformed? perhaps I should know!) is more than obtuse. I can
easily think of several wars which, if we had lost, would have the USA and
Canada, not to mention the European continent, living in a despotic society
in which YOU could not share your thoughts with this group and I could not
disagree....if our opinions did not follow the "party line" (better known
these days as "Political Correctness"). The war in which we are now engaged
is surely one that must be won. Can you not imagine the consequences if it
is not won or at least our adversaries being contained?
At any rate I do not see how this statement by Ms Rankin lies
within the PIEN guidelines, and I am sure that this, my response, does not.
If the war is assumed to refer to our war against Parkinson's Disease the
statement would be just as stupid. I trust that if I am "called down" for
this "non-PD" contribution that I will not be alone in being reprimanded.
In any case I ask for indulgence by the group for this mild "outburst''. I
promise not to do this again until next time LOL. I hope you have a good
dictionary (Heh, Heh). I have one, as you will notice.
Don
(a sinistral anaseismic, eclectic, seldom perky,
paronomasial Parkie)
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