passed on from "JC Bowman" Subject: Season's Greetings: The Bowman Family Date sent: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:59:13 -0600 Friends & Family: We would like to take a minute and wish all our friends and family Happy Holidays. We will be out of town for the next two weeks (visiting Tennessee and Illinois). We will check our e-mail when possible. We certainly wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope 2000 is the best year of your life! Our lawyers (HERNANDEZ, BERNSTEIN, O'MALLEY, KOWALSKY, LUMUMBA) suggested we send the following greeting (we wanted to be more personal!): SEASON'S GREETINGS Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. May you have a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2000, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great, (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only 'AMERICA" in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual orientation of the wishee. By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher. Respectfully: HERNANDEZ, BERNSTEIN, O'MALLEY, KOWALSKY, LUMUMBA Happy Holidays & God Bless!! J. C. Bowman Bethany Bowman Jennifer & Julie Bowman J. C. Bowman Director of Research Texas Public Policy Foundation 8122 Datapoint Drive, Suite 816 San Antonio, TX 78229 (210) 614-0080 FAX (210) 614-2649 http://www.tppf.org e-mail: jcbowman#tppf.org