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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/29/2012 10:59 AM, Sue Hovey
wrote:<br>
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<div>Then I’m thinking the RFP was written in such a way that
only HP in Idaho has the capacity to meet its terms. So
sad. Doesn’t seem to fit with all the Party rhetoric about
protecting small business. If Frontier and US West are
local businesses, then so is Walmart. Thanks for the
informative response, Kevin. I’m thinking most Idaho voters
aren’t even aware of this twist. Few of us find RFPs as
exciting as James Patterson.<br>
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What a thought. So, it is not outside the realm of imagination that
we are living in an "obdurate" past, in a Stephen King sense, in
that we've been here before, and have returned in an attempt to
change the outcome to a more favorable result, but are now finding
that the past resists efforts to change it by making the results of
attempted changes even worse than would have occurred without
changes made with a better future in mind.<br>
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For those who don't understand this idea, I refer you to the recent
novel titled 11/22/63, by Stephen King, who writes about the
obdurate nature of the past when it is presented from within itself
with changes affecting what it would otherwise have done.<br>
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Ken<br>
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