[Vision2020] Thank you

lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Wed Feb 22 11:58:35 PST 2006


When ever I try to open political compass, I get a message saying " page cannot be displayed."

roger
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From: Joan Opyr joanopyr at moscow.com
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:42:35 -0800
To: Vision2020 Moscow vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Thank you

> Dear Visionaries:
> 
> Thanks to those of you who took the Political Compass 
> (http://www.politicalcompass.org) and shared your results.  I got 40 
> responses -- six after I had already written the story for New West, so 
> they're not included -- many from friendly lurkers.  The result?  A 
> statistically insignificant number of us are very libertarian.  Well, I 
> say statistically insignificant, but I choose to believe that it's 
> representative.  As Churchill said, there are lies, damn lies, and 
> statistics.  Why put my faith in that when I could put it in my fellow 
> (wo)man?  Feel free to log onto New West, read the piece, and offer up 
> a comment.  I have preserved the anonymity of everyone except Dan 
> Carscallen.  (I'm not picking on Dan.  If you read the article, you'll 
> see that he's named because he's a politician.  In Idaho, that ought to 
> mean that he's authoritarian/right wing, but, strangely enough, he's 
> not.  I find that significant.)
> 
> And now for a Self-Serving Public Service Announcement:
> 
> On March 8th at 7 PM, Moscow's Bookpeople will be holding a launch 
> party for my first novel, "Idaho Code: Where family therapy comes with 
> a shovel and an alibi."  I cordially invite you, your mother, your 
> wife, your brother, your cousin, your cousin's cousin, your cousin's 
> cousin's best friend from high school . . . you get the picture.  
> Please, come yourself and bring the world and his wife.
> 
> About the book -- it's a murder mystery/black comedy set in a small 
> college town in North Idaho that IS NOT MOSCOW.  No characters in the 
> novel are meant to represent IN ANY WAY any real people you might have 
> known (or might be) whether living or dead.  It is a work of fiction -- 
> of pure, unadulterated fantasy.  You can try to sue if you have a Crack 
> Legal Team, but you won't win because I made the whole thing up, and my 
> agent, my publisher, and my relatives will vouch for me.  Right, Rose?
> 
> Joan Opyr
> Northern Idaho Editor
> New West Magazine
> www.newwest.net
> www.joanopyr.com
> 
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