doesn't look to me like Wirt's "taking credit" nearly so much as it looks like you're jealously denigrating his very intelligence, once again. > -----Original Message----- > From: Denys Beauchemin [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 11:27 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: OT: Wirt's predictions > > > Actually Wirt's prediction was way off, as is the case with > most of his predictions. The prediction he made was that she would > resign by June of 2001. This did not happen. Even if one > allowed for the 9/11 events to muddy the waters, so to speak, Christie > Whitman should have resigned several months before these > events took place. > > So, for Wirt to predict Christie Whitman would be gone by > June of 2001 and watch her leave 2 years later does not prove > that Wirt > predicted correctly. Any ninny could see that CW was not > really suited for W's cabinet and that he took her on because > she was a > moderate. CW was not and is not a conservative and that's > why in the aftermath of the Florida debacle, W took her on, and placed > her in an unimportant position where she promptly screwed up. > > Now Wirt takes credit for a prediction that is 2 years late > (a time overrun of 800%) and believes she left on her own volition. I > would say that she was probably eased out of the cabinet just > like a few others were a few months ago. That would make Wirt's > prediction insanely late and incorrect as to the cause just > like his Enron prediction. Whilst Enron did fail, it was not > due to the > causes Wirt had predicted would cause Enron trouble. > > Here is a prediction, Wirt style. The stock market will > reach 10,000 again in 9 months. Now, if it gets there within > 6 years, I > will be as accurate as Wirt is now. > > FYI, two environment items have come to light in the last few > weeks, which further highlight CW's uselessness. > > 1- Europe is nowhere near meeting its obligation on the Kyoto > farce. http://www.obv.org.uk/europe/eu20030507a.html (I saw other > more complete articles a few weeks ago, but a quick search > with Google brought this one directly.) > 2- Belgium, the seat of all things Euro, just got the worst > possible grade in terms of water quality. Belgium has the worst water > in the world, worse than China, Mexico, India and the African > continent. The US came in at number 12, out of 122. Read more about > it here. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993458 > > In the meantime, the air quality in Houston has suffered for > the last few weeks, but it is because of the "agricultural fires" > burning south of the border, bringing us this nice pollution. > I think Mexico is exempt from Kyoto, proving once again how flawed > that accord was. > > Denys > > -----Original Message----- > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of > Wirt Atmar > Sent: > Wednesday, May 21, 2003 10:48 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: OT: Wirt's predictions > > Art writes: > > > RE: > http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0103E&L=hp3000-l&P=R 6756 > > Well, Wirt, it took more than two years, not just three months, but Christie > Whitman, E.P.A. Administrator, has resigned: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/politics/21WIRE-WHIT.html > > Still waiting on Colin Powell. As I wrote earlier, Whitman has demonstrated a much higher tolerance for abuse than I ever would have if I were her -- or imagined that she would have either. Wirt Atmar * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *