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  • Re: Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State (1937-2022)

    From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 24 15:03:56 2022
    On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:47:49 -0400, "25.BX944" <25BZ494@nada.net>
    wrote:

    The best story about her comes from when she was
    staying in a euro hotel during some big conference.
    Another guest stopped her in the hall - and said
    she needed clean towels and some more TP :-)

    That's an absolutely terrible thing to say about a public figure at
    their death.

    (And I say that as someone who has lost their wife in the past month
    and as expected got tons of e-mails but the one I remember best from
    one former candidate for public office who I believe is doing so again
    in November who praised her as a 'controversial public figure' which
    coming from ANYBODY but a strong personal ally is a deep deep insult -
    guess who >I< won't be voting for in November!)

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  • From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 27 06:40:25 2022
    On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:03:56 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
    wrote:

    On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:47:49 -0400, "25.BX944" <25BZ494@nada.net>
    wrote:

    The best story about her comes from when she was
    staying in a euro hotel during some big conference.
    Another guest stopped her in the hall - and said
    she needed clean towels and some more TP :-)

    That's an absolutely terrible thing to say about a public figure at
    their death.

    I remember her mainly for two things:

    Her "we think the price is worth it" remark about the death of half a
    million childen in Iraq, and her starting the Nato War on Yugoslavia.

    As Shakespeare said, the evil that men do lives after them, the good
    is oft interred with their bones.

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