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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'>No offense intended, at all, towards (I
didn’t even think it existed) the Liberal Arts Department of MIT, but quoting
Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” from an MIT website seems just a tad ironic.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Just a thought.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Moscow</span></font></st1:City><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>"Life should NOT be a journey to the
grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved
body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the
other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a
ride!'"</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>Ted Moffett<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, January 14, 2007
10:19 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> debismith@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Why I
didn't vote for Brady</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Debi et. al.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>"Which way to the egress?"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I could attempt an answer... I rehearsed, with poetic
inspiration and lofty, passionate ideals, philosophical dissection and
illumination, scientific precision and wonderment, the complexities of
political and economic systems, the universals and particulars of spiritual
struggle, the Eros of human compassion and empathy, the unthinkable and
horrifying depths of evil, cruelty and deception, and... <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>"The Earth is our mother, and we are all her children, down to the
most infinitesimal living being...We live or die insofar as we
respect this truth"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This ridiculous, laughable, simpleton, childlike statement will be
dismissed my most...It suggests more than I am capable of
articulating. But if all that this statement implies was
"respected," this might be an answer to your question, which for some
reason felt I should answer seriously, and simply, however silly my response...
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Despite my all too human need to feel I have the human condition,
our place in the universe, figured out, that I can make sense of it all,
really, I have no clue! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Which way to the egress, indeed!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/macbeth/macbeth.5.5.html">http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/macbeth/macbeth.5.5.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a name=speech5><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>MACBETH</span></font></b></a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a name=19><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>She should have died hereafter;</span></font></a><br>
<a name=20>There would have been a time for such a word.</a><br>
<a name=21>To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,</a><br>
<a name=22>Creeps in this petty pace from day to day </a><br>
<a name=23>To the last syllable of recorded time,</a><br>
<a name=24>And all our yesterdays have lighted fools</a><br>
<a name=25>The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!</a><br>
<a name=26>Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player </a><br>
<a name=27>That struts and frets his hour upon the stage</a><br>
<a name=28>And then is heard no more: it is a tale</a><br>
<a name=29>Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,</a><br>
<a name=30>Signifying nothing. </a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Ted Moffett<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 1/14/07, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a
href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com">debismith@moscow.com</a></span></b> <<a
href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com">debismith@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></span>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ted, very true. Anyone
who believes his or her own bull can lie with a straight face, dissemble<br>
until dawn, and give you a Hale-Fellow-Well-Met firm handshake while picking
your pocket. <br>
Politicians have to believe their own BS to get elected. They also have to be
able to baffle with<br>
their BS all those voters who will fall for a con.<br>
<br>
I met both these men when they were candidates--I knew Brady wouldn't get
elected because <br>
he was a real person. While being near Butch raised the hair on the back of my
neck, I looked<br>
at the folks around him and knew they were believing everything he said and
inventing wonders<br>
he hadn't said, and I knew he was gonna get elected. People love to be lied to.
Just look at <br>
those (fewer than six months ago!) Bushites---they know he's a damn liar, but
they don't care.<br>
They will invent their own story to justify his lies because they can't admit
they were conned.<br>
<br>
Also keep in mind that the easiest person to con is a con artist...they do
believe there is a <br>
quick fix, a magic bean, a real get-rich-quick scheme. Bushites, and Otterists,
and<br>
ChickenHawks, oh my....Barnum was right! Which way to the egress?<br>
<br>
Debi R-S<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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