http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/ Anyone who enjoys Gore Vidal's ideas Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:06:35 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10399 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10399 It's Lincoln. He said it in a speech to the Young Men's Lyceum in Springfield in 1838. He was 28 years old. Probably the quotation that prompted Vidal to Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:44:04 GMT vaeringjar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10398 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10398 ... Is this from "Lincoln"? Something Seward said? Wonderful passage, thanks! Dennis Clark Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:51:15 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10397 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10397 "Many great and good men sufficiently qualified for any task they should undertake, may ever be found, whose ambition would inspire to nothing beyond a seat in Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:25:43 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10396 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10396 There's talk that McKinney's ship has been fired upon. Apparently, the Israeli navy have isolated it and prevented it from radio communication. Light Unto Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:48:11 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10395 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10395 The boat, currently in international waters, is heading for Gaza. ************* BOAT SURROUNDED BY ISRAELI NAVY, COMMUNICATIONS ARE BEING JAMMED! Share Today Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:30:38 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10394 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10394 Jimmy Carter talking in Gaza. http://www.countercurrents.org/carter200609.htm Gaza: Bombs, Missiles, Tanks And Bulldozers By Jimmy Carter 20 June, 2009 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:42:28 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10393 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10393 We know that Gore could imitate most anyone. We've heard him do FDR, Eisenhower, JFK. And we've relished his unflattering impersonations of Nixon, Reagan, Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:32:48 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10392 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10392 YouTube has removed the video. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:54:09 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10391 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10391 The charm of the border police. ********************* Last update - 01:18 19/06/2009 VIDEO: Border Police upload footage of their abuse of Palestinians to Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:03:18 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10390 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10390 ... Yes, I believe that's where it was. Footage of them with Jackie exists. I've grown interested lately in "our Peloponnesian War" and will be reading Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:29:56 GMT vaeringjar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10389 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10389 ... That's very interesting, Frank - I hadn't thought about that connection before. I have heard Vidal say that elsewhere, in his uncannily accurate mimicry of Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:01:10 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10388 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10388 Had a look at Gore's novel tonight. Chapter 8 of Part II. After a failed assassination attempt, Lincoln says "The problem, Ward, is not my being killed. If Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:05:47 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10387 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10387 http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=123821109504&h=86h9K&u=ZaALc&ref=nf Alas, I believe they are a minority. But so were the 12 apostles who walked the Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:27:09 GMT vaeringjar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10386 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10386 ... It's definitely getting scarier out there, and the economic downturn, the hightened demagoguery from the right ring radio mouths, the election of an Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:57:58 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10385 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10385 ... Not surprisingly, this was talked about more in Israel than it was here. Haaretz carried a story on it, which I posted here yesterday. Not only did it