[All] Fwd: "Trump casts first term in optimistic light" Jan. 31, p. A8

[John Jackson]

See letter from Greg in today's Globe and Mail.

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John Jackson
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> From: "Gregory C. Michalenko" <gcmichalenko at uwaterloo.ca>
> Subject: Fw: "Trump casts first term in optimistic light" Jan. 31, p. A8
> Date: February 1, 2018 at 9:47:27 AM EST
> To: Roger Suffling <rcsuffling at uwaterloo.ca>, Brian Felske <travers777 at gmail.com>, Lauren Swenarchuk <l.swenarchuk at utoronto.ca>, "jjackson at web.ca" <jjackson at web.ca>, Bryce Kendrick <bryce at mycolog.com>, "zfigol at telus.net" <zfigol at telus.net>
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> Dear Friends,
> 
> I had a lot of fun writing this letter - it appeared in the Globe and Mail this morning. 
> - Greg 
> From: Gregory C. Michalenko
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:45 PM
> To: letters at globeandmail.com <mailto:letters at globeandmail.com>
> Subject: re: "Trump casts first term in optimistic light" Jan. 31, p. A8
>  
> Dear Editor,
> 
> Any disappointment I had last night that clouds would obscure the lunar eclipse were instantly extinguished by the spectacular conjunction of President Trump's State of the Union speech on CNN and a documentary about North Korea's Kim Jong-un on PBS.
> 
> What fun:  when I tired of the frenzied ululations of GOP Freedom Caucus members, I could  flip to the worshipful waves of  applause of thousands of Communist party comrades.  When overwhelmed by  rapturous paeans to The American People, there were baroque declarations of fealty to the The Great Leader.  
> 
> There were winners and losers on both sides.  The bombastic promises to build a wall to defend the US against teeming hordes of aliens was pretty boring --  compared to the frisson of seeing a pair of disciplined female assassins dispatch Mr. Kim's troublesome brother with a hankie-full of the world's most potent nerve gas, right in the middle of the Kuala Lumpur airport.
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> Then there's  the weirdo hairdos.   That made me think that the two sides should consider friendly exchange visits by their hair stylists as an overture to world peace.
> 
> Greg Michalenko
> 53 Menno St.
> Waterloo, ON
> N2L 2A6
> 519 725-1059

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