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Even though I am an unemployed recluse, I somehow become
privy to glad tidings that the general population obviously
doesn't see -- the major media are often accused of
ignoring good news
-- so I feel compelled to pass
some along.
One neighbor gets conservative mail by the truckload. He
shared this: My friend, because of your longstanding
support for Oliver North and the Legal Affairs Council you
are one of the special few I am asking this question:
Question: shall we try one more time, to build support for
a Presidential Pardon for Oliver North? Shall we kick off
on the Fourth of July and culminate on Veterans Day in
November, 1990?
My friend, we really need to get Oliver North that
pardon. . . . Contributions have dropped off dramatically
for our pardon Oliver North nationwide campaign . . . We
have been forced to suspend the entire effort at this point
. . . Can you write out another contribution check to help
the Legal Affairs Council once more?
Or we could look at the local paper. Do you tend to
put other's needs before yours? Do you tend to judge your
thoughts and actions by the standards of other people? Are
you a perfectionist, especially regarding yourself?
I once naively believed that putting other people's
needs before your own was a condition known as marriage,
parenthood or citizenship. Police and courts are always
judging our actions by the standards of others.
Perfectionism as also known as trying to do it
right.
But according to that article, if you can answer any
of these questions with a
Everybody I know suffers frequent lapses from
total selfishness, and the mental health professionals say
they cannot stem this surging epidemic of
co-dependency.yes,
you may be a co-depending
person.
The Defense Department issues an annual shopping list for the benefit of small business. Consider this partial entry from the 431-page list for fiscal 1988, which appeared on my desk recently, courtesy of a non-defense contractor:
Air Force regional medical centers world-wide
generate annually about 100 50-gallon drums of syringes,
tubing, bottles, gowns, and rags contaminated with small
quantities of chemotherapeutic agents classified as
carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic drugs. A Phase I
engineering feasibility study should result in
recommendations to include a prioritized list of disposal
methods for implementation.
Do you want somebody
conducting that research on your street?
Or, There is a need for a compact, wide-dynamic-range
nuclear radiation detector, for possible use in a future,
advanced aerial radiation detection and fallout mapping
system. Such a detector should be capable of measuring
gamma radiation or X-ray intensities emanating from
contaminated terrain areas.
Want them to conduct those
field tests in Colorado?
A few months ago, several of our representatives complained that Colorado enterprises do not get their fair share of the military pork barrel.
So other states are getting more than their share of mutagen disposal research and aerial gamma-ray detection tests. They can't cure co-dependency, and Ollie North's pardon fund is broke. You can always find good news, if you look hard enough.
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