Kyle,

    Thanks for the support. I have paid my dues and then some. I have been
lucky also. This gig is a blast with my students, but it is the rest of the BS
I hate. And 33 years is long enough. Joyce says she cant imagine doing any
thing for 33 years.

Bobby

Cleveland, Kyle E. wrote:

> Bobby,
>
> You've paid your dues.  Finish your gig ASAP, get a flat in Austin, you and
> Joyce enjoy that Texas weather and play grandma and grandpa.  Congrats on
> Sam Clifford.  If that ain't a Lone Star name, I don't know what is!  Get
> yerself a La-Z-Boy and point your toes toward the sky for a while!
>
> -Kyle
>
> PS--You've got 20 years on me and it's no fun now.  What will it be like in
> 20?  Being a wage-slave is everything it's cracked-up to be?  (Now...which
> galley oar was mine?)    :-o
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: greer.bobby [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:29 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Sun Newspapers - Sun Current Voter's Guide - South St. Paul
> C ity Council
>
> Kyle,
>
>     I am truly in a quandry as to who to vote for this year. It's a case of
> Dumb vs. Dumber. Gore is about as much Tennessean as I am Alaskan. It is too
> bad that we have come to rely on the Federal government to support social
> programs. Local entities could do this cheaper, more directly and more
> efficiently. I may just retire, go to Austin and play with Gus, Emma and now
> Sam Clifford(sounds like a name for a Texas Ranger).
> Sam was born October 7 of this year. Grandpappy for the the third time. Life
> has lost a lot off glitter of late. All this used to be fun, now it doesn't
> seem so.
>
> Bobby
>
> Cleveland, Kyle E. wrote:
>
> > Bobby, I think my day job is getting to me.  This will be my first
> > "presidential" election to work.  As such, local ballot issues always
> double
> > because the politicos know that more folks turn out for the Prez vote.  I
> am
> > inundated by politicking from morning 'til night, both inter-nicene and
> > electoral.
> >
> > Plus, Gus Hall (US communist party) died a couple weeks ago.  He was the
> > only fun in the whole business.  I decided not to vote for Nader because
> he
> > needs a bath.  Can't trust a man who says he wants to clean our
> watersheds,
> > but won't wash his pits.
> >
> > I know there are good people on this list that need and deserve financial
> > assistance with day-to-day living.  It's too bad that churches and
> > communities stopped doing this and the government took on that burden.  I
> > looked at last week's pay stub and I took home 64% of my gross.  I had no
> > say in the matter, neither did any of my co-workers.  If that's not
> > "taxation without representation", I know not what it may be.  It wouldn't
> > be so bad if that 36% of my salary went directly to the folks that
> deserved
> > it.  Trouble is, maybe 10% of that 36% was put to good use.  The rest paid
> > for bureaucratic overhead.
> >
> > Laura and I were in Boston over the weekend.  I wish I'd thought to
> > symbolically pitch a bag of Lipton in the harbor.  ;>)
> >
> > -Kyle
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bobby G. Greer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 9:12 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Sun Newspapers - Sun Current Voter's Guide - South St. Paul
> > C ity Council
> >
> > In a message dated 10/27/00 12:56:17 PM, [log in to unmask]
> writes:
> >
> > << Mr. Paulsen, why are you sending these press releases to a list that
> has
> > a
> > world-wide membership?  Ain't many of us here from South St. Paul.  Are
> you
> > looking for cash or will a check do?
> >
> > -Kyle
> >  >>
> >
> > Go, Kyle, Go! Anyone endorsed by Jesse Ventura can't be all that good!!!
> >
> > Bobby