[Am-info] Gates gets governmemnt security at tax payer expense

[Gene Gaines]

On Sunday, August 1, 2004, 8:44:59 PM, John wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:54:16 -0300, Mark Dodel wrote:


> Uh, gentlemen in the US of A.

> Please remember that 
> a) this is an international list (I'm in Australia)
> b) you are getting decidely off topic

> :-)


> Best regards
> John Angelico
> OS/2 SIG
> talldad@kepl.com.au

John,

Thank you. To call USA people "gentlemen" at this juncture
is a compliment.

I strongly agree that it is best to keep politics out
of this list, otherwise it will surely divide us.

In what I hope will be taken as nonpartisan, personally
I am very, very angry about what I perceive as the
change in view through much of the world of the U.S.

As some of you may know, I volunteer as a tour guide on
Saturdays at the U.S. Capitol building.  I greet and
speak with large numbers of international visitors.

In less than four years, it appears to me that the general
world opinion of the U.S. has changed from one of respect
as a moral, if somewhat imperfect, world power to being
regarded as the world's bully.

So, John, I appreciate your thought.

Please, people, let's keep our local U.S. politics off
the list. If we do not, we will lose our focus on
Microsoft.

Gene Gaines
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
Sterling, Virginia



> In <200407302151.11285.fmiller@lightlink.com>, on 07/30/04 at 09:51 PM,
>>   Fred Miller <fmiller@lightlink.com> said:
>>
>>>> It is time for regime change at home.
>>
>>>Sure, put the biggest liar and scumbag to run for the Oval Office in MANY
>>> years in office, meaning Kerry. Sure, that's real
>>>intelligent....NOT!!
>>
>>
>>Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but from the performance over
>>the past 3.5 years, the most telling lack of intelligence has been in the
>>White House.  And the biggest bunch of liars to occupy those offices as
>>well (and that is saying a lot).  My father who hasn't voted for a
>>Democrat in 4 decades has already told me he won't vote for Bush.  The
>>only real question isn't whether he will be voted out, its whether the
>>criminals running things will steal yet another election.  Most likely
>>with Mr. Gates' assistance with those funky computerized voting systems
>>and this time there will be no chance for a recount, as there is no audit
>>trail.  Isn't that convenient?
>>
>>
>>Mark
>>
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