[Rockhounds] Mineral Collectors- VOTE

Fri May 23 13:19:48 PDT 2008

Ron Paul - "We need to get Back to the GOLD Standard!
Oh, and bartering.  Not just for rocks, but also food.  And the colors, so 
many colors...ever really looked at your hand?"

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From: <pmodreski at aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Mineral Collectors- VOTE

> Very good, Larry, well balanced, you tried not to offend anyone to the 
> exclusion of others.? But you left out Ron Paul, surely you can come up 
> with a good line to attribute to him!
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> Pete
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> From: Lawrence Rush <larryrush at worldnet.att.net>
> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors 
> <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Sent: Fri, 23 May 2008 1:15 pm
> Subject: [Rockhounds] Mineral Collectors- VOTE
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> Vote For your Choice?
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> The 2008 presidential elections are coming soon, and we, as mineral 
> collectors, have to make the best choice for the future of mineral 
> collecting. I have interviewed the major candidates, journalists, and 
> authorities to see who will best represent us for the next four years. 
> It's up to you! VOTE......?
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> Question: How can we open up new collecting opportunities for mineral 
> collectors??
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> Barack Obama: We must get new opportunities for collectors because it is 
> time for a CHANGE! The collectors want change!?
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> John Mc Cain: My friends, collectors need new opportunities because they 
> recognize the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all of the 
> collectors on the other side of the mine.?
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> Hillary Clinton: When I was the First Lady, I personally called for new 
> sites to dig in. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to 
> ensure-right from day one-that every collector in this country gets the 
> chance he/she deserves to find specimens. But then, this really isn't 
> about me - and all collector delegate votes must count!?
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> Dr.Phil: The problem we have here is that collectors won't realize that 
> they must first deal with the problem as it exists now before they go 
> after the problem after the election. What we need to do is help them 
> realize how stupid they are acting by not taking on their CURRENT 
> collecting problems before adding "NEW" problems.?
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> Oprah: Well, I understand the collector is having problems, which is why 
> he wants those opportunities so badly. So instead of having the collector 
> learn from his mistakes and find very few minerals, which is a part of 
> life, I'm going to give these collectors quarries of their own, so that 
> they can just drive in there and not live their lives like the rest of the 
> world's collectors.?
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> George W. Bush: We don't really care why the collectors don't have any 
> places to dig. We just want to know if the collector is on OUR side of the 
> mine or not. The collector is either against us or for us. There is no 
> middle ground in our mines!?
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> Colin Powell: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the 
> satellite image of the collector entering the mine adit.?
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> Anderson Cooper - CNN: We have reason to believe there is a collector 
> internet group, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to it or 
> the Federation yet.?
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> John Kerry: Although I voted to let the collectors access to our mine, I 
> am now against it! It was the wrong mine to enter, and I was misled about 
> the collector's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against 
> it.?
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> Nancy Grace: That collector entered the quarry because he is guilty of 
> trespassing! You can see it in his eyes and in the way he carries his 
> tools!?
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> Pat Buchanan: Collectors only want to steal the jobs of decent, 
> hard-working American miners!?
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> Martha Stewart: No one called me to warn me which way collectors are 
> going. I had a standing order at the Tucson Show to sell my designer 
> trade-marked minerals when the price dropped to a certain level. No dealer 
> gave me any insider information!?
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> Dr.Seuss: Did the collector find the mine? Did he enter it and have a 
> find??
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> Yes, the collector entered the mine, but why he entered it is undefined.?
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> Ernest Hemingway: Collectors must dig, to die in the rain.?
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> Jerry Falwell: Collectors are gay! Can't you people see the plain truth??
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> That's why they call it a mineral "club". Yes, my friends, mineral people 
> are gay. And if you dig specimens, you will become gay, too. I say we 
> boycott all collectors until we sort out this abomination that the liberal 
> media white-washes with seemingly harmless phrases like "world class 
> specimens". That collector should not be digging in road cuts! It's as 
> plain and simple as that!?
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> Grandpa: In my day we didn't ask why collectors dug in prospect pits. 
> Somebody told us the minerals were there and that was good enough.?
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> Barbara Walters: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be 
> listening to the collector tell, for the first time, the heart warming 
> story of how he experienced a serious case of mineral envy, and went on to 
> accomplish his life long dream of finding Wulfenite.?
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> Aristotle: It is the nature of mineral collectors to dig in dirty, filthy 
> pits of clay.?
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> John Lennon: Imagine all the collectors in the world swinging picks 
> together, in peace.?
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> Bill Gates: I have just released EMinerals 2008, which will not only find 
> minerals, but will clean them, label them, and put them for sale on E-Bay. 
> Internet Explorer is an integral part of EMinerals. This new platform is 
> much more stable and will never cra... >:**"/DD (Reboot!)?
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> Albert Einstein: Did the collector enter the pit, or did the pit move 
> beneath the collector??
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> Rev. Al Sharpton, edited by the Rev. Jesse Jackson: Why are all the 
> collectors white? We need some black diggers in our clubs!?
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> Rev. Jeremiah Wright: G**D** all them white collectors, and G**D** 
> America, too!?
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> Louis Farrakhan: ..and after we overthrow all thems white diggers, the big 
> black mother ship will come from outer space and take us all to the new 
> black mineral world. No white minerals allowed!?
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> Bill Clinton: (the first black mineral president): I did not do XRay 
> diffractions with "that" female collector. What is your definition of 
> "collector", anyway??
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> Al Gore: I invented mineral collecting! And the crystal came before the 
> internet, which I also invented, along with global warming and climate 
> change, which is why the collector is escaping underground to the other 
> mine, by the way. Read my new book, "An Inconvenient Field Trip; The 
> Crisis of Mineral Collecting".?
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> Osama Bin Laden: We will rise up and expel the infidel mineral collectors 
> from the collecting lands of our fathers, and we will keep their female 
> collectors as "trophies" in our cabinets!?
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> Dick Cheney: Where's my gun? There's another terrorist mineral collector 
> in my field!?
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> (This material is copywritten. Please get permission from the author 
> before re-printing. Larry Rush; larryrush at att.net)?
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