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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

This was sent to me from another "li'l ole lady 
in tennie runners" :
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(snipped the personal part)    (give the URL a minute to load)

> while it's dispiriting in some ways, it's also heartening; it's good to 
> know that so many - mostly young - people are able to see straight... 
>
> R-rated for language in places, though.
>
> http://www.sorryeverybody.com/gallery/1/<http://www.sorryeverybody.com/gallery/1/>
>
> And, from the same source, with "prophetic" as a subject line:
>
> "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more
> and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and
> glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire 
> at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
> H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Since Mencken died in 1956, he didn't 
get to read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged".
And Rand is gone so she hasn't seen
her prognostications come true .... first
a clown and now a criminal.
Toni
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>I live maybe 25-30 miles or so from BJU. Even around here a lot of people
>think they are kooks. Him writing that letter has no more validity or impact
>on anything than the things B. Streisand or Madonna or the Baldwin Bros or
>anyone else has to say about "the other side" It's just one factions
>opinion, no more.

I think you are essentially correct. I guess we most fear religious power
more than other forms because of history, stuff like the Crusades, people
burned at the stake for witchcraft, and of course the beheadings going on
in the Middle East. Something there is about religion that causes otherwise
decent people to do inhuman things. That irrationality scares me.