[Peace-discuss] Urbana City Council meeting last night

Stuart Levy slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tue Apr 15 16:24:27 CDT 2008


On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 02:52:38PM -0500, John W. wrote:
> At 01:50 PM 4/15/2008, Karen Medina wrote:
>
>> cge>>flakier than a basket of fresh croissants.
>>
>> jw>Oh, indeed.  Much better to have a bunch of tough cookies
>>
>> I've just recently realized that Jeez tends to regard more harshly those 
>> that he considers fakes than those he considers to be polar opposites.
>>
>> On that note, I'll share a quote from an email signature. If one thinks of 
>> the US and its role in Iraq while reading it, it has quite an effect:
>>
>> "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim 
>> may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons 
>> than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may 
>> sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who 
>> torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so 
>> with the approval of their own conscience." C.S. Lewis
>
>
> Who is Jeez?

Carl.  Thanks to Laurie who recognized him as such, in a post that began:

   Christ, isn't that a description of our government's enemies list, which
   they have stamped as classified?   [...]


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