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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>ha ha- that's about it Greg! all considered,
that's not much more absurd than any other idea that's being suggested!
The paradox of how absurd and yet poignant things are right now is stunning
and too hard to think about for very long, how one insulting careless tweet
could start the end of the world as we know it.. I suppose its a good thing
that some people are looking at the feasibility of inhabiting other planets
!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Lori S. </FONT></DIV>
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<A title=jjackson@web.ca href="mailto:jjackson@web.ca">John Jackson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=all@gren.ca
href="mailto:all@gren.ca">GREN ></A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 01, 2018 9:50
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [All] Fwd: "Trump casts first
term in optimistic light" Jan. 31, p. A8</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>See letter from Greg in today's Globe and Mail.
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<DIV>john</DIV>
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</B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Gregory
C. Michalenko" <<A
href="mailto:gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca">gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca</A>><BR></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Subject:
</B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Fw:
"Trump casts first term in optimistic light" Jan. 31, p.
A8</B><BR></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Date:
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style="FONT-FAMILY: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif">February
1, 2018 at 9:47:27 AM EST<BR></SPAN></DIV>
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</B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif">Roger
Suffling <<A
href="mailto:rcsuffling@uwaterloo.ca">rcsuffling@uwaterloo.ca</A>>, Brian
Felske <<A
href="mailto:travers777@gmail.com">travers777@gmail.com</A>>, Lauren
Swenarchuk <<A
href="mailto:l.swenarchuk@utoronto.ca">l.swenarchuk@utoronto.ca</A>>, "<A
href="mailto:jjackson@web.ca">jjackson@web.ca</A>" <<A
href="mailto:jjackson@web.ca">jjackson@web.ca</A>>, Bryce Kendrick <<A
href="mailto:bryce@mycolog.com">bryce@mycolog.com</A>>, "<A
href="mailto:zfigol@telus.net">zfigol@telus.net</A>" <<A
href="mailto:zfigol@telus.net">zfigol@telus.net</A>><BR></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Dear Friends,</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">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">- Greg </DIV>
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face="Calibri, sans-serif"><B>From:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Gregory C.
Michalenko<BR><B>Sent:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:45
PM<BR><B>To:</B><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:letters@globeandmail.com">letters@globeandmail.com</A><BR><B>Subject:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>re: "Trump casts first term in
optimistic light" Jan. 31, p. A8</FONT>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Dear Editor,</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">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>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">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"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">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>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">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>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Greg Michalenko</DIV>
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