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   Joe Fineman to All   
   Orwell lives!   
   27 Jan 06 01:59:06   
   
   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   In the alumni magazine of my high school, the address of the   
   graduation speaker, one Tim Weiner '73, includes:   
      
     The White House continues to spout its moral certainties, to mouth   
     political platitudes that give the appearance of solidity to pure   
     wind, to wield secrecy and fear as a sword and a shield to protect   
     their power.   
      
   No quotation marks, but perhaps he could reasonably expect his   
   audience to recognize the phrase.   
      
   LBJ also lives:   
      
     Last piece of free advice:  The only thing in the middle of the   
     road is white lines and road kill.   
      
   Mr Johnson, IIRC, made it yellow lines & dead armadillos, which IMO is   
   better poetry, making us all Texans for the nonce.   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   ||:  Solid-state physics is the physics of dirt effects.  :||   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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