Re: Are you there?

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

I spent a few days on Little St. Simon's Island once, which had _9_ people on
it; and it was splendid in a muggy sort of way, a vast sand dune with giant
woodpeckers, armadillos, alligators.

Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx (in Manhattan, an island in the mouth of the Hudson
River, which keeps the United States awash in money; 13% of the national budget
generated in 22 square miles, down slightly from the 94% figure of the late
nineteenth century, all collected in a single Manhattan building, the
U.S.Customs House, back in the days of Sen. Nelson Aldrich, protectionism,
ultra high tariffs, and a constitutional prohibition [abolished in 1913] on
income tax)

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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