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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=3 color="#7c0a89"
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=3 color="#7c0a89"
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>I just
checked this out. Very interesting, and their article on the capitalist élites’
exploitation of radical Islam to counter “godless socialism” is pretty acute. Also,
that they point out that corporate funding, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>etc</span></i>.
of the Christian right here is much the same. I guess it takes one to know one.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 17:39:52 -0400</span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
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font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>From: "Chris Doss" <itschris13@hotmail.com></span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
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font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>Subject: RE: Mencken, thou shouldst be living at this hour</span></font><font
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font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
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font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;
mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>Is this kind of thinking widespread?</span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;
mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:
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font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>>Doug</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>Check out the extremely entertaining leftwing evangelicals at </span></font><font
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font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>www.endtimesnetwork.com (they think US capitalism is the Beast of </span></font><font
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font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
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font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>Revelation).</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=3 color="#7c0a89"
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>Interesting,
too, that somebody among them thought to quote Kurt Tucholsky, who was kind of
the Mencken of the Weimar Republic, only even funnier, if that’s possible, and
more thoughtful. Don’t know if anybody’s ever translated him, but some of his
pieces are among the great humor of the twentieth century. There’s one that
pretends to be a school essay of an enthusiastic Nazi twelve-year-old, that I
recall.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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