[Rhodes22-list] Can a girlyman be a sailor

Fri Sep 3 00:41:02 EDT 2004

stan, the whole thing here is "Not bush", the polls are tied, fair enought could you try framing it only in terms of kerry, he might 
win, I relly do not know what to execpt from him even hearing his words.

MJM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Can a girlyman be a sailor

> We are back to politics? - Wonderful:
>
> Notice when it is one of their own they flip flop:
>
> Cheney's daughter is gay so he is against the constitution amendment.
>
> Bush's father and TX friends went out of their way to keep him out of the fray but if you sign up for it like Kerry did, and find 
> it was a mistake - that is a flip flop.
>
> If anyone else is accused of a conflict of interest, like Clinton's wife was strung up for, that is ok, but the flip flop allows 
> Mrs. Cheney to sit on the board of our huge defense contractor and that is not a conflict of interest.  Under whose definition?.
>
> If you want to do the real count on flip flops, see Effros book of quotes to see who leads by a mile.
>
> Chris Mathews says the differences in this election are crisp if you look at the major issues - I liked the way he put the 
> decision making:
>
> If you want to cut taxes proportionally much higher for the wealthiest of us - you know who to vote for.  .
>
> If you have reservations on advancing science - you know who to vote for. (If you have questions on this one, ask president 
> Regan's son)
>
> If you want us to lead the world single handedly - you know who to vote for.
>
> If you do not mind someone else's kid dying to secure Feluja (sp?) as long as it is not you or yours who has to die for this 
> strategic piece of land needed to keep us free of terrorist - you know who to vote for
> (personally I grieve more for the thousands and thousands whose lives are now shattered by wounds then I do for the ones who may 
> be going to heaven to get their 40 virgins)
>
> If you think the way to have no child left behind is to have the rest of the children stand still while the left behind kids catch 
> up and therefore flip flop over the funding of the program as it was intended - you know who to vote for.
>
> If you think being for the environment is passing a law requiring new energy plants to meet regulations and then allowing all 
> energy plants to rebuild themselves 99% and call that "not new" so not under the regulations - you know who to vote for.
>
> And if you think the costs of the higher health bills with lower worker productivity that results from dismantling in-place 
> environmental regulations can be made up with tie-ins to a stock market because it always goes up - you know who to vote for.
>
> If you agree that the super new debt is going to be taken care of by the super booming economy just around the corner - you know 
> who to vote for.
>
> If you think leadership is someone who sits there for seven minutes in a helpless state with a totally blanc look when told we are 
> being attacked, or who lands on an aircraft carrier and emerges from a war plane announcing the war is over when it has not even 
> started, is the kind of man we need to lead this country in war - you know who to vote for.
>
> If you think government should stay off your back and not be telling you how to run your personal business and then flip flops and 
> tells you what you have to do with your body - you know who to vote for.
>
> If you think religion should be allowed to sneak into government by funding religious organizations and other creeping back door 
> techniques because you think religiously controlled countries are more likely to live in peace - you know who to vote for  - but 
> you don't know your history or current events..
>
> sorry, I am running out of time - not issues that make this election an easy distinction between the two major parties.
>
> Just go out and vote - or you deserve what you get.  The last election was lost to the minority by just a handful of voters not 
> voting to counteract a handful of incompetent old Jewish voters who voted for the favorite son, Buchanan, because they could not 
> make out a ballot that showed the wrong picture next to the one they actually intended to make president.   Vote. Your vote does 
> make a difference.
>
> stan/gbi
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Alm" <salm at mn.rr.com>
> To: "Rhodes" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 3:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Can a girlyman be a sailor
>
>
>> No doubt it takes that kind of fire power to guard the Republicans and their
>> little get-together this week.  Without them putting their butts on the
>> line, ready to take a bullet for...um...let's see...who?  Just because
>> you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you.  There must be
>> SOMEONE who deserves all that tax-payer money.  Would you take a bullet for
>> a politician that most of the world hates?  I wouldn't.  And if that makes
>> me a girlyman, then show me to the pantyhose isle!  Maybe the original
>> girlyman, Corporal Klinger, had it right all along.  8-)
>>
>> Slim
>>
>> On 9/1/04 9:19 PM, "Michael Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, I have a beer in one hand and bowl of peanuts near the other. Still
>>> wondering about girlymem, I have to admit the 4 grardsman on
>>> the train patform looked cute, the 2 state police riding in the train car had
>>> nice hair cuts, The 200 plus cops in thier cute blue
>>> NYPD uniforms(48 to 58 street, the waldoff did it) while I walk to the office.
>>> But the cutest of all was the swat terms(NYDP
>>> specical action units), They look darling standing thier in thier tight
>>> unimforms, standing thier with thier m16a2 finger indexed
>>> long the triger(at least point down) and the selector set to 3 round(I think
>>> so), I gives me a woody just thinking about it. Bad
>>> day! haw! How many are putting thier ass on the line.
>>>
>>> MJM
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "ed kroposki" <ekroposki at charter.net>
>>> To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 6:53 AM
>>> Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Can a girlyman be a sailor
>>>
>>>
>>>> Michael:
>>>> We understand that you had a bad day.  The use of alcohol after such
>>>> a day yields weird results.  Stay away from the bottle.
>>>> Just tune into Rum Runner music: http://users2.ev1.net/~barr/
>>>> Listen and you can tell what rum will do to you.
>>>>
>>>> Ed K
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> R22RumRunner at aol.com
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 6:18 AM
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>>>>
>>>> Answer......NO. That would be an oxymoron.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rummy
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