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On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:26:43 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

Sorry for starting a new political OT thread, but this one has had me
rolling on the floor all morning and I had to let it out.

The press is remarking today about the four-hour transition of John McCain
from an anti-regulation hawk to his new position calling for tight federal
regulation of the finance industry and an end to its "greed." ("We're going
to put an end to the abuses on Wall Street! Enough is enough! We're going to
put an end to the greed!") That was the setup.

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Zinger of the day

Obama: "John McCain Can't Decide Whether He's Barry Goldwater Or
Dennis Kucinich"

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.c...john_mcca.html


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).