--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> 
> > wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Thanks- great summary in the 2003 article of Cheney. I tend
> > > to trust common sense a great deal, and there's just gotta be 
> > > something seriously wrong with someone who obsessively kills
> > > small animals to relax...
> > 
> > My mother developed a deep, primal loathing for 
> > Cheney right at the start of the the 2000 campaign,
> > which kind of surprised my sister and me.  We
> > didn't like him, goodness knows, but we didn't quite
> > see why she was so passionately against him.  We
> > couldn't get her to be specific about why, other
> > than the way his mouth twisted on one side.
> > 
> > But she apparently sensed something about him she
> > couldn't articulate that my sister and I missed, at
> > least before he got into office.  But it wasn't
> > long after that that we started congratulating her
> > on her intution.
> > 
> > She died (at the age of 93) shortly before the
> > hunting incident; my sister and I were very annoyed
> > that it hadn't happened while she was still alive,
> > because she would have enjoyed it immensely.
> > 
> > (Not the old guy getting shot in the face, obviously,
> > but Cheney's embarrassment.)
> >
> Sounds like a really fun person- your Mom I mean.

Yessir, she was a pistol!

 I enjoy the 
> effortless wisdom that older (everything's relative, right?) people 
> have. Being around for that long, they just *know* stuff, and they 
> don't mind sharing it.

Tremendously underused resource in this society.


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