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Subject: Re: Tudors..Undeserving ??
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:33:53 -0400
D. Spencer Hines wrote:
>
> wrote: [kaboodle is John Steele Gordon]
> > Some one does. I understand that there appears in the Times of London
> > every year on the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings a notice that
> > says (I'm quoting from memory, which ain't what it used to be) "Died
> > this day 1066, Harold, King of England, in defense of his Realm and
> > People."
>
> You bet, about the memory. We
"We"? Since you have no friends on this newsgroup, you must be a king or
an editor. Or do you have a tape worm?
note that you do not even recall the date of the Battle of Hastings?
How can you logically infer from the above that I do not recall the date
of the Battle of Hastings? Not stating and not knowing are two different
things. You're shooting blind, old yellowstain.
But I'm tiring of this. One can shoot only so many fish in a barrel
before wanting to turn to other things. So let me just quote a passage
from the last paragraph of a biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II by Lamar
Cecil, in which he sums up exactly why the Kaiser brought such disaster
upon both himself and the world:
"Wilhelm Hohenzollern, on whom the trials at birth of bodily affliction
and in youth of familial alienation were blamelessly laid and for which
understanding and allowance should be granted, failed as a son, as a
husband, as a father, as a friend, as a commander, as a statesman, and
as an emperor because in all his roles, he was falsely confident that he
possessed truly uncommon talent and perception. For that reason, he
never listened to anyone, and he believed that those who stood with him
were right and those who opposed him were wrong."
Mercifully, Mr. Hines does not have the armed might of a great power at
his disposal with which to inflict what torments him upon the world, but
that is as apt a discription of this twisted little man as it is of the
kaiser.
They are both to be pitied *and* scorned.
John Steele Gordon
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