You be it's OT: World Trade crash updates...

Now just a minute, there, mister! I remember the hue and cry at the outset of the Gulf War when the nation's military was represented on the air for the better part of a week whining that they hadn't signed up to go somplace overseas to get shot-at, but only to be able to retire in luxury (at least above poverty-level) after only 20 years of doing very little useful work. That's what attracts the sorts that keep society brother Neil Bush went on trial on 1/15/91, the day the "Desert Shield" operation started, BTW, and that was probably no coincidence.) My own experience in the military, where I spent several years certainly taught me that few groups could be singled out as having fewer grey-cells per capita than the military, though there were certainly SOME people in it who weren't total nit-wits. The only group I've ever seen collected that has exhibited less intellectual horsepower than what I observed in the military is what's gathered in Washington D.C, and particularly in the White House during the current administration. The previous chief exec certainly was no beacon of honorability, but was certainly smarter than what's in power now. At least he spoke English well enough so you could understand what he'd said. His English is barely better than his Spanish, and that isn't too good! I'm ashamed to admit that I once made it a blanket policy to vote for Republicans, at least for state and local offices. Though I haven't voted for a Republican chief since the disappointing results I got from Tricky Dicky, the past election was the first one in which I actually voted for a Democrat ... ANY democrat. That was a vote against George II and largely because it's embarassing to have the pres of Mexico speak better English than our Pres. I admit that back when Carter, Sadat, and Arafat were on the tube, it wasn't our chief who spoke the most elegant English either, though at least he could put together a coherent subject and predicate. Now that he writes some of his own stuff it's improved greatly. The reason the military is weak is not because it has too little in resources, but because it's too corrupt, but not only from the top down, which is dishonest, for sure, but from the bottom up as well. That's because the entire premise of "sit around for 20 years, keep your head down, and retire ..." is corrupt. It wasn't always like that, but somewhere, between the 60's and the mid-70's ... Throwing more money at that mess won't fix a thing, and that's all those yokels in 'D.C. know how to do. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblakeman(a)kih.net> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:00 PM Subject: RE: OT: World Trade crash updates...