From: Nick Naym on 18 Apr 2010 23:54 In article hqgj2n$bs9$1(a)news.eternal-september.org, Wes Groleau at Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org wrote on 4/18/10 11:35 PM: > On 04-18-2010 10:22, Nick Naym wrote: >> Eloquent. > > The first time, maybe. The second was completely unnecessary, > as I had already read the original. "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before..." -- iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.3)
From: Fred Moore on 19 Apr 2010 16:36
In article <michelle-513721.08103319042010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <__ednV-C54M32FbWnZ2dnUVZ_gidnZ2d(a)speakeasy.net>, > russotto(a)grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) wrote: > > > >> Bush II and Nixon were *actively* bad Presidents. > > > > > >I maintain that if not for Watergate and all that went with it (e.g., > > >the enemies list), Nixon would have gone down in history as one of the > > >best presidents of the 20th century. > > > > ...and aside from THAT, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? > > Exactly. Watergate and all that went with it overshadowed everything else > he did in his life. However, it started WAY before then. His Checkers Speech was a pretty good template for 'I am not a crook...'. |