From: Glen Bedel (GBedel@designforum.com)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 05:09:48 PDT
You'll feel smarter after you read these quotes -
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would not
live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were
supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live
forever, which is why I would not live forever," --Miss Alabama in the 1994
Miss USA contest.
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I
can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all
those flies and death and stuff," --Mariah Carey
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your
life," --Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for
federal anti-smoking campaign.
"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body," --Winston
Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in
the country," --Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the
president," -Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed
documents.
"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm
just the one to do it," --A congressional candidate in Texas.
"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them.
There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were
selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." --John Wayne
"Half this game is ninety percent mental." --Philadelphia Phillies manager,
Danny Ozark
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in
our air and water that are doing it." --Al Gore, Vice President
"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." --Dan Quayle
" It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or
another" --George Bush, US President
"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" --Lee
Iacocca
"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the
truth. I assisted in furthering that version," --Colonel Oliver North, from
his Iran-Contra testimony.
"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein," --Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback &sports analyst.
"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of
people." --Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." --Bill Clinton, President
"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." --Al Gore,
VP
"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." --Keppel
Enderbery
"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received
notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is
a change in your circumstances." --Department of Social Services,
Greenville, South Carolina
"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go
to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night.
And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record." --Mark
S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
...Feeling smarter yet?
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark B. Anderson [mailto:whoha1@mb.sympatico.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:13 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List; Glen Bedel
Subject: Re: [MV] No More BDU's....!
No as I'm buying the new CADPAT's already in surplus. but then again I'm
Canadian not American and the rules are likely different.
Regards,
mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Bedel" <GBedel@designforum.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] No More BDU's....!
> Just a question? Not to side with the current government, but....
>
>
> Could it just be for the current issue of BDUs? you know that new Computer
> generated pattern?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan M Gill [mailto:rmgill@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 6:19 PM
> To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
> Subject: Re: [MV] No More BDU's....!
>
>
> At 6:01 PM -0400 7/30/02, Steve Grammont wrote:
> >
> >The question is... will this new policy last? Many things that the
> >government does which are ill advised do not get reversed. However,
> >sometimes once the general public figures out that they are affected some
> >back peddling will happen.
>
> If more people bitch about it, then likely it will. The big flag to
> raise is the damage that it will do to the camping and surplus
> clothing market. The long term effects are that historians of
> tomorrow will be hampered by the decision. We still have time to get
> the Demilitarization of Vehicles turned around without much of a gap.
>
> Officially the army likes living historians. Otherwise they wouldn't
> roll out the red carpet at events and even still allow real firearms
> on posts for events like the one earlier this month here in Georgia
> at I think McPherson.
>
>
> >There is a LOT of that going on right now as Bush rams through a lot of
> >highly restrictive policies under the guise of a losely defined,
> >perpetual state of war. In some cases his policies are in violation of
> >the Constitution or at least go against ever fiber of what this country
> >is about. I cut the guy a lot of slack after 9/11, but there is an
> >agenda behind the continued actions that every citizen of this world
> >(especially Americans) should be very critical of. Funny enough, the
> >people on this list who would fire off angry emails every time "Klinton"
>
> I've recently put more of my money where my mouth is by joining and
> donating money to the SAF and the ACLU as well as the EFF. The NRA
> already had my money in bits....I am watching this guy closely. His
> father already did enough damage to the 2nd amendment.
>
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