maxine in ri wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:37:37 -0700, "The Ranger"
> > connected the dots and wrote:
>
> ~nancree > wrote in message
> roups.com... ~> The
> following full page ad was placed in the Washington ~> Post by a
> businessman named George J. Esseff, Sr. He ~> paid $104,655.60 to run
> the ad ~[snip remaining bullshit] ~ ~He should have added in another
> US$44.40 for someone else to ghost write ~it. That work he would have
> been proud of, not the ad he blew his life ~savings on. ~ ~The Ranger
>
> He has a right to say whatever he pleases, and if he pays for the
> privilige, have it printed in the newspaper as an ad. He sounds like
> the sort of people I work with, "who believe in God and Senator Dodd
> and putting old Castro down" and have no desire to think for
> themselves about what the political decisions being made have to do
> with them.

And that's the final problem, isn't it? My experience with these folks
is that they're only too happy to say, "I ain't no fool, I'm a goin' to
school, and I'm working in a defense plant." They live in a world of
distant principles and far-off cataclysms where they know how best you
should live, but their hands are tidy.

> And I doubt that's his life savings.
> http://www.supraalloys.com/PressRelease.htm

Pity. It would mean no more such smug twaddle.

Pastorio