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Subject: [Leica] Breaking News...(even with a leica) More OT???
From: grdalton at hotmail.com (Gary Dalton)
Date: Fri Feb 27 10:36:00 2009
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We are in uncharted territory, to be sure.... Shooting in the dark? It could 
be a case for IR film?



> From: imagist3@mac.com
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Breaking News...(even with a leica) More OT???
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:30:55 -0600
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> 
> Love your word play Gary.
> ;~)
> First Bush closed the shutter curtain
> over the press coverage of bodies returning
> from the first gulf war - because the photographs
> produced negative political feedback.
> That curtain remained closed ever since.
> The current administration is attempting to
> work that old stuck shutter back open.
> 
> We'll see how it plays out.
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george@imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 27, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Gary Dalton wrote:
> 
> >
> > Words, such as "transparency" and "opaque," might mean that this  
> > topic isn't OT... Hmm....
> >
> > Looking back through US history, I believe that I see governments/ 
> > administrations that adopted opaqueness as a core value from the  
> > get-go. It wasn't a matter of becoming opaque. They loved being  
> > opaque because the safest course was not to disclose any truths  
> > that might make the populace uncomfortable.
> >
> > Is the Obama administration transparent? Maybe. Will it become more  
> > opaque? Maybe.
> >
> > I'm not so sure all citizens of the US can or will handle the  
> > coming truths. Maybe the Obama administration reach for a  
> > "polarizing filter"....(Wanted to stay OT)...
> >
> > You have to admit: This entry is more OT than prostate  
> > health...Unless you guys have another use for bayonet mounts....
> 
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