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Ralph Reed's mouth piece recently criticized Sen. Casey Cagle for talking about Ralph's recent troubles: Cagle has demanded that Reed forswear all money from gambling
interests. Reed says he already has, but that the lobbyists at the
April 19 party don't count. Gaming interests are only incidental to
their huge client lists, his spokeswoman said. [Political Insider, April 7, 2005]
"Casey Cagle obviously has no positive agenda to move Georgia forward," said Reed spokeswoman Lisa Baron. She called on Cagle to recall Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment — the one that says Republicans shouldn't speak ill of one another. So, I find it interesting that Reagan owed
his ultimate ascendancy to the White House by "breaking the 11th
commandment" (quotes courtesy Raleigh News Observer). When Helms and Ellis took command of the Reagan effort in North Carolina, they launched a conservative holy war against the moderate Republican establishment. Reagan, his back to the wall, complied. "He came into North Carolina, and I won't say he tore up the 11th commandment, but he bent it pretty badly," Shirley said. "He ripped into Ford for Henry Kissinger's detente, the Panama Canal, everything." Reagan campaigned 12 days in North Carolina, while Ford was here only two days. Helms stumped the state, while Ellis raised money to repeatedly air a Reagan speech as a TV ad. Young conservatives hit the courthouses, compiling one of the first statewide lists of Republican voters. Reagan upset Ford, 52 percent to 46 percent -- the first time in a quarter-century that a sitting president had lost a primary anywhere in the nation.
North Carolina started a political prairie fire. Reagan won in Texas,
Indiana, Georgia, Alabama and Nebraska and came within 57 delegates in
Kansas City of winning the nomination. [Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign Trail] So, Senator Cagle -- take a hint from the Gipper -- Rip Reed a new one.
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Edward George Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873),
an English novelist, wrote this for the first time in 1839. He wrote, "Beneath
the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword." [BYU page]
Salmon Rushdie pens a powerful commentary in the LA Times today. Highly recommended reading. In particular: ... The old idea of the intellectual as the one who speaks truth to power
is still an idea worth holding on to. Tyrants fear the truth of books
because it's a truth that's in hock to nobody; it's a single artist's
unfettered vision of the world. They fear it even more because it's
incomplete, because the act of reading completes it, so that the book's
truth is slightly different in each reader's different inner world, and
these are the true revolutions of literature, these invisible, intimate
communions of strangers, these tiny revolutions inside each reader's
imagination; and the enemies of the imagination, politburos,
ayatollahs, all the different goon squads of gods and power, want to
shut these revolutions down, and can't.
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Alan at Sun notices that blogs have changed his opinion of MSFT. From Scoble, we learn: Alan Coopersmith, who works at Sun Microsystems, about how Microsoft's blogs are changing his opinion of his competitor: "Maybe they're not so different from us..."
I like how he calls me "the one who Pubsub's" and his tip for getting the Tablet PC more exposure is good. Now I gotta learn something about Solaris and see if I can continue this positive ping-pong match. If any Sun employees visit Seattle, drop me a line. So, the next President, Governor, whomever, shall propose a blog for everyone. Once everyone has expressed their opinion, discovered a civil manner with which to have conversations, and learned what Alan has learned, all will be well with the world. Course, there will always be conflict within the standards community -- the tech community's version of Northern Ireland... But, that's another story.  comment []
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Alan Coopersmith, who works at Sun Microsystems, about how Microsoft's blogs are changing his opinion of his competitor: "Maybe they're not so different from us..." I like how he calls me "the one who Pubsub's" and his tip for getting the Tablet PC more exposure is good. Now I gotta learn something about Solaris and see if I can continue this positive ping-pong match. If any Sun employees visit Seattle, drop me a line. comment []
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