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| Thomas Sowell
Posted on 06/29/2005 10:09:45 AM PDT by manny613
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:09:46 AM PDT
by
manny613
To: manny613
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:11:41 AM PDT
by
sinclair
("Well, those are my principles. And if you don't like them...well, I have others." -Groucho Marx)
To: manny613
Tom Sowell BTT. Happy 75th!
To: manny613
Great column. Really makes you think.
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:16:50 AM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
To: manny613
Good article. I'm taking my Grandma out for burgers this weekend to celebrate her 94th birthday. Mmm
Apple Pan. Amazing to think about what she went through.
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:19:07 AM PDT
by
TheOtherOne
(I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed™)
To: manny613
Happy Birthday Tom!
I believe, absolutely, that we have lived through the most fascinating, productive and transcendent period in history.
And you shall forever be one of the more interesting parts of it.
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:23:59 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
To: TheOtherOne
careful about those fried onions
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:27:33 AM PDT
by
manny613
(Trying my best)
To: manny613
If I live to be 1000 I won't be half as sharp as Dr. Sowell. Happy Birthday Sir!
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:28:48 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
To: manny613
Sowell limited himself to the defining war and personal memories.
He left out all the wonders of science and technology; from the atom to black holes; rockets, satellites, cell phones, routine casual world travel; whimsical personal communications world wide, instantly; computers for everyone to rival the abilities of multi-million dollar ones of the 50s.
This period is simply awesome.
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:31:46 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
To: manny613
It is interesting to note what has happened during a lifetime. I was born in 1957, the year of Sputnik. I have seen the Presidencys of ten men. Incredible as it seems, though Sowell is 28 years older than me, he has only seen 13 Presidents - because FDR hogged it for four terms! Elvis was a big deal only during three decades while Frank Sinatra sang for 7 decades. I remember comics costing 12 cents, a dime newspaper, a dime for a phone call, 29 cents for a gallon of gas, 30 cents for a pack of smokes. When I first started going to the movies, it was 75 cents for 12 and younger and 1.50 over that. You got a cartoon with your movie, also. The closed the air-conditioned schools in DC about a month ago because it got to hot - 94 degrees. I remember sitting in absolutely stiffling classrooms and also freezing later on in the year. I remember party line phones - do they still have those? What do others remember?
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:32:08 AM PDT
by
7thson
(I think it takes a big dog to weigh a hundred pounds!)
To: manny613
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:34:07 AM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: manny613
Communists slaughtered even more millions of innocent civilians than died in Hitler's Holocaust but they were never condemned as much by the intelligentsia.
Intelligentsia indeed, I would hve used different words, but then I don't have the class Thomas Sowell has.
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:34:58 AM PDT
by
StACase
To: manny613
The man is a national treasure!
Happy Birthday, Sir.
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:38:00 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(AMERICAN WARS SET MEN FREE)
To: manny613
Happy birthday, Manny. Oh, you're not 75 :-)
To: rabidralph
some mornings I feel that way!
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posted on
06/29/2005 10:57:04 AM PDT
by
manny613
(Trying my best)
To: manny613
I thought he was alot younger than that.
To: manny613
I know what you mean, unfortunately.
To: dsmatuska
that's what my wife also said when she found out my real age
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posted on
06/29/2005 11:00:59 AM PDT
by
manny613
(Trying my best)
To: manny613
Work with a 75 year old. Although physically slowed down some, his mind is very sharp and alert as is his 75 year old wife who skis and walks a 7-mile run once a year.
To: manny613
Yesterday was my last day of being under 50.
I had to post the news somewhere, and this was as good a place as any.
(steely)
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posted on
06/29/2005 11:47:10 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Fortunately, the Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)
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