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p> FIRE SALE br> Re: Eric Peters' Archer Daniels Meltdown : /p> p>Kudos to Eric Peters for the most appropriate and most resonant historical allusion that I have yet seen in TAS . Given the context, I couldn't suppress a howl of delight at his felicitous use of the old Spanish Inquisition phrase, auto da fe . Needless to say, the Spanish Inquisition had nothing to compare with our latter-day environmental Torquemadas that are predicting the immolation of the entire planet, not to mention creating the circumstances for individual immolations from ETOH. Even Dostoevsky would have been impressed, I dare say, with Mr. Peters' phraseology. He made my day! br> -- Kent Lyon br> College Station, Texas /p>

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