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2008-08-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Sherry 2008-08-25 10:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It's a torture to live with, whether from within or without. The worst is those intermittent moments of lucidity, knowing what is happening to oneself.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-08-25 16:11|| 2008-08-25 16:11|| Front Page Top

#2 On 19 January 1976, she made a speech in Kensington Town Hall in which she made a scathing attack on the Soviet Union. The most famous part of her speech ran:

The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-25 16:11|| 2008-08-25 16:11|| Front Page Top

#3 My heart goes out to her loved ones. It can't be easy to watch such a formidable presence slip away.

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-08-25 16:24|| 2008-08-25 16:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Second only to Winston Churchill in the pantheon of 20th Century British Prime Ministers, and definitely in the top ten ever. The world owes her a tremendous debt of gratitude. In the late 1970"s, a dark time of bleakness and despair, she and Ronald Reagan stood forth like bonfires to show the way and reinspire our confidence in ourselves. May God bless her forever.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-08-25 21:14|| 2008-08-25 21:14|| Front Page Top

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