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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Very true, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>As I said a long time ago, the only
difference between Doug “His Whineyness” Wilson and Jimmy Jones is
the fruit punch.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom “49er” Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>We could learn a lot from crayons: some are
sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are
different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Art Deco aka W. Fox<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, December 12, 2004
5:31 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Vision 2020<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020]
Slavery's Delights are Illusory (from <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">North
Carolina</st1:place></st1:State>)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>Nick, et al,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Verdana Ref"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>Have you ever read or seen depictions of snake-oil
hucksters? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>No matter what the evidence presented, these
con artists will cleverly and successfully continue to claim the
truth of their assertions that snake-oil is a cure-all. Why? Because there
are many, many sheep that will buy snake-oil because, to their uncritical
minds and deep needs, the huckster has charm and certainly would not mislead
them about something so important.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>Christ Church Cult Master Douglas Wilson is no
different than these snake-oil flimflammers. I am sure he knows what he
writes and preaches is pure hog-shit (it must be hard for him to keep a
straight face at times) but as long as there are gulls to buy his fecal
utterings, he'll stick with his claims. Why not? The ovine in the
cult and elsewhere enrich him materially and give him power and control over
their lives, all of which fulfills his most pressing worldly desires. <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City> has mastered the
art of pushing the right buttons of the emotionally needy, especially those
needing a strong authoritarian/father figure.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>We ought admire <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City>'s flimflamery as we do that of P. T.
Barnum's. His success is another example of showing the truth of Barnum's
"There's a fool born [at least] every moment."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Verdana Ref"'><br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Verdana Ref"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>Art Deco (Wayne Fox)<br>
<a href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:ngier@uidaho.edu" title="ngier@uidaho.edu">Nick Gier</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" title="vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Sunday, December
12, 2004 12:14 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> [Vision2020]
Slavery's Delights are Illusory (from <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">North
Carolina</st1:place></st1:State>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>Hail to the Vision,<br>
<br>
Just in from the News Observer, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Raleigh</st1:City>
<st1:State w:st="on">NC</st1:State></st1:place>, Dec. 11, 2004<br>
<br>
Slavery's delights illusory<br>
<br>
By DENNIS ROGERS, Staff Writer<br>
<br>
It's clear where my ancestors went wrong. Instead of working hard to keep a
roof over their heads and the babies fed by farming a few acres of <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:place></st1:State> dirt,
they should have been slaves. <br>
"Nearly every slave in the South enjoyed a higher standard of living than
the poor whites of the South -- and had a much easier existence." <br>
So says a ridiculous propaganda pamphlet called "Southern Slavery, As It
Was" that claims to present the truth about slavery. The booklet was being
used at a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wake</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> private school until the
principal wisely called a halt to such silliness this week. <br>
This kind of trash masquerading as historical fact shows how far some people
will go to excuse the inexcusable. That its authors are closely involved with
the goofy League of the South tells you all you need to know. The league, among
other things, still advocates seceding from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. It is the same kind
of revisionist pap being peddled by those wackos who claim the Holocaust wasn't
all that bad. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>A sample of the booklet's lunacy is this jewel of
fractured history: "Slavery ... was not an adversarial relationship with
pervasive racial animosity. ... It was a relationship based upon mutual
affection and confidence." <br>
I can just hear the happy slaves serenading Ol' Massa now, can't you? Have
another mint julep, Miss Scarlett. <br>
Mutual affection and confidence? I don't know about you, but if someone came to
my village, put me in chains, crammed me into a ship and hauled me halfway
around the world to a land where I, my wife and my children could be auctioned
like cows, I think I'd be pretty darned adversarial and not at all
affectionate. <br>
Sounds to me like someone has watched "Gone With The Wind" a few too
many times. Great movie, bad history. The truth is, slavery was the great sin,
shame and ruination of my beloved South. <br>
I love the South. I love Southern people, Southern food, Southern music,
Southern women, Southern weather (except for August) and Southern history. I'm
proud my great-great grandfather <st1:City w:st="on">Warren</st1:City> Biggs
served with the 1st and 10th North Carolina Artillery at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Fort</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Fisher</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.
I am proud that when his remains were reinterred in 2000, he was laid to rest
with full Confederate Army honors. <br>
But I am not proud of slavery. It was inhuman. It turned innocent people into
chattel and shamed all who profited from it, whether they were Southern slave
owners or Yankee slave traders. That it is condoned in the Bible, as the
writers of the pamphlet labor to point out, is no excuse. Stoning is in the
Bible and it's wrong, too. <br>
Such twaddle as "slave life was ... a life of plenty, of simple
pleasures" is profoundly embarrassing to those of us who have proudly
defended our Southern heritage. There is much about our Southern history that
we can be proud of -- including fighting an invading army -- but slavery, in
all its forms and in all its times, is indefensible. <br>
To those who claim to find even a flicker of decency in slavery, I have an
offer: I'll feed, clothe and work you humanely. But first I'll sell your spouse
and your children. And if you cause a fuss, I'll sell you, too. <br>
Any takers?<br>
<br>
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Dennis Rogers</st1:PersonName> can be reached at
829-4750 or <u><font color=blue><span style='color:blue'>drogers@newsobserver.com.</span></font></u>
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<p></X-SIGSEP><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>"Modern physics has taught us that the nature
of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and
studying each part by itself. . . .We must keep our attention fixed on the
whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our
intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science,
religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various
parts." --Max Planck<br>
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</span></font><font size=4 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>Nicholas F. Gier<br>
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Idaho</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><br>
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">1037 Colt Rd.</st1:Street>, <st1:City
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">ID</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">83843</st1:PostalCode></st1:address><br>
<a href="http://users.moscow.com/ngier/home/index.htm" eudora=autourl>http://users.moscow.com/ngier/home/index.htm</a><br>
208-883-3360/882-9212/FAX 885-8950<br>
President, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State>
Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO<br>
<a href="http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/ift/index.htm" eudora=autourl>www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/ift/index.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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