<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">See letter from Greg in today's Globe and Mail.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">john</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Gregory C. Michalenko" <<a href="mailto:gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca" class="">gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Fw: "Trump casts first term in optimistic light" Jan. 31, p. A8</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">February 1, 2018 at 9:47:27 AM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Roger Suffling <<a href="mailto:rcsuffling@uwaterloo.ca" class="">rcsuffling@uwaterloo.ca</a>>, Brian Felske <<a href="mailto:travers777@gmail.com" class="">travers777@gmail.com</a>>, Lauren Swenarchuk <<a href="mailto:l.swenarchuk@utoronto.ca" class="">l.swenarchuk@utoronto.ca</a>>, "<a href="mailto:jjackson@web.ca" class="">jjackson@web.ca</a>" <<a href="mailto:jjackson@web.ca" class="">jjackson@web.ca</a>>, Bryce Kendrick <<a href="mailto:bryce@mycolog.com" class="">bryce@mycolog.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:zfigol@telus.net" class="">zfigol@telus.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:zfigol@telus.net" class="">zfigol@telus.net</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Dear Friends,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I had a lot of fun writing this letter - it appeared in the Globe and Mail this morning. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- Greg </div><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 1149.53125px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gregory C. Michalenko<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:45 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:letters@globeandmail.com" class="">letters@globeandmail.com</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>re: "Trump casts first term in optimistic light" Jan. 31, p. A8</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Dear Editor,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Greg Michalenko</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">53 Menno St.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Waterloo, ON</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">N2L 2A6</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">519 725-1059</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>