Good evening Dave! You've certainly laid out an ambitious set of goals. I'm not sure that anyone can do much more than move things in that direction. But it certainly would be something to see, wouldn't it.
Lowell C. Savage It's the freedom, stupid! Gun control: tyrants' tool, fools' folly. > Good morning, Ed... > > shadow wrote: > > > On 08-Dec-04, Lowell C. Savage wrote: > > > > DL>>> ... Unlike Bush, who probably didn't entirely earn his > degrees,... > > > > s>> Are you insinuating that Yale awards MBAs to candidates who aren't > > s>> qualified?!? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked! > > > > LCS> Uhm. Are you thinking of someone who earned a Yale undergraduate > > LCS> degree and a Harvard MBA? :-) > > > > DUH! Silly me... I forgot about Harvard, that well-known diploma-mill. > > > > s>> Up to this point, she's been an advisor. Let's hope she can manage > an > > s>> entrenched bureaucracy. > > > > LCS> Mever mind "manage." Let's hope she can shake things up! > > > > Shaking up the State Dept will be a herculean task. > > Do you think Condolessa Rice incapable of such a task? Or will there be a > new influx of state department bureaucrats cast a in new mold? For > example: > > 1. State Department officials posted to foreign countries will, in the > future, fluently speak the predominant language of the countries in which > they serve, plus have a comprehensive knowledge of the religious and > political cultures present in that country. > > 2. Under Condolessa Rice, State Department Officials will cease and desist > with the use of racial epithets to refer to the residents of the country > in which they serve. > > 3. State Department Officials and employees will cease and desist the > practice of "shacking up" with residents of the country in which they > serve, especially when predominant religious practices forbid such > behavior on anyone's part. > > 4. The sale or purchase of goods, regardless of their source, on the Black > Market in foreign countries will be punishable by immediate expulsion from > the foreign country and termination from the State Department. > > 5. State Department officials will be held to the highest moral and > ethical standards. Either moral or ethical violations will be dealt with > most harshly including having to listen to nine hours of Hillary Clinton's > speeches on American politics. > > Do you think this would be possible? 8-) > > Dave > -- > Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > The Used Kharma Lot > Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 11/24/2004 > Usenet news server : news://news.kharma.net > > Fortune Random Thought For the Minute > Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, > Statistics, > Benchmarks, and Delivery dates. > _______________________________________________ > Libnw mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List info and subscriber options: > http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw > Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
