[Am-info] MCBRIDE BLAMES IBM, NOVELL FOR SCO'S FISCAL WOES

[John J. Urbaniak]

Stephen A. Carter wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:07:49 -0400, Fred Miller wrote:
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>>Ronald Reagan 1911 - 2004
>>An American Patriot who hated Communism and Socialism, never 
>>brought shame upon himself, his family, his political offices or abused 
>>the trust of the American People.
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>Did you just sleep right through the 80s, Fred?
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Oh, I hate to get involved, but you are just so wrong...

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>"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it
>now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and
>that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who
>are homeless, you might say, by choice." -- Reagan explaining away
>the failure of his Voodoo Economics
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Funny how there are only homeless when a Republican is President. 

If going from 20% interest rates to 7 is "voodoo,"
ig going from 15% inflation to about 6 is "voodoo,"
if going from 10.5% unemployment to about 7 is "voodoo,"
if raising government revenue from 560 billion to 1.2 trillion is "voodoo,"
you might have a point.

Perhaps you would prefer those high rates and failing economic policies?

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>"You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off." -- on his
>qualifications to be President
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>"You sonofabitch, you broke my rib." -- to the Secret Service agent
>who pushed him into the limousine after John Hinckley's attack
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I take it you know this supposed agent's name?

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>"In spite of the wildly speculative and false stories of arms for
>hostages and alleged ransom payments, we did not -- repeat did not --
>trade weapons or anything else for hostages; nor will we."
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Well, we got the hostages back after 446 days of Carter's ineptitude.  
Because the Iranians were terrified of what Reagan might do to them.

I bet the hostages were glad to be back.  Perhaps you weren't?  Perhaps 
you would prefer the hostages stayed in the hospitality of the Ayatollah?

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>"If the question comes up at the Tower Board meeting, you might want
>to say that you were surprised." -- Reagan fucking up and reading his
>stage directions aloud in his testimony before the Tower Commission,
>where he reverses himself and specifically admits having approved the
>sale of arms to a terrorist nation in order to illegally fund
>drug-running guerrilla forces in Nicaragua
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Well, the Nicaraguan people have successively *elected* those "guerilla 
forces" year after year since the Sandanistas were removed from power.

Perhaps you think you know better than the Nicaraguans what's good for them?

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>"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed
>legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five
>minutes."
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>Then there's Joan Quigley, the official White House astrologer who
>for eight years divined the timing for every important event in
>Reagan's itinerary -- press conferences, Air Force One departures,
>even international summits.
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BS.

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>And let's not forget the man's obsession with invasion by space
>aliens:
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It wasn't an obsession with aliens.  It was a genuine belief in 
humanity.  Perhaps you would prefer the cold war?  Perhaps the East 
Germans, the Poles, Czechs, ... would be better off still under the 
Communist boots.  Perhaps you think you know what's better for those people?

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>"[H]ow easy [Gorbachev's] task and mine might be in these meetings
>that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some
>other species from another planet outside in the universe. We'd
>forget all the little local differences that we have between our
>countries ..."
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>Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 -- "At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S.
>President said that if the earth faced an invasion by
>extraterrestials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join
>forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis,
>though I think it's early yet to worry about such an intrusion..."
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>If the Earth were under attack from an external threat, "Don't you
>think the United States and the Soviet Union would be together?" --
>Reagan to Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnatze at a luncheon
>in the White House
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>"I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that
>we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from
>another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have
>any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens
>of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular
>threat?"
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Well. wouldn't we?

John

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>Microsoft faces more monopoly misery in New York
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