Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:32:17 -0600
Reply-To: bhs73@SPYMAC.COM
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Mark Edwards <bhs73@SPYMAC.COM>
Subject: Re: Westfalia Pop-Top Screws - Call It a Sclew
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0410011536590.17864-100000@oola>
>oK,
> HOw about we limit this to one week. I'm voting for Kerry because of
>what has happened to the logging in upper part of PA.....
I would vote that we ban such topics completely, just like we did with
guns. There is no way to reign it in, no way it would ever not spill over
into a second, third, and more days. In fact, I would rather see firearms
talk going around, rather than having to put up with everyone's rant about
who hates who more, and who they think will be honest and can "fix
America" in four years all by themself. Its a stupid topic, its
inflammatory, and I can only speak for myself, but I don't appreciate
having put forth so much effort in NOT responding and stating my own
views, which would avail all of us absolutely nothing.
Some of us are like alchoholics on subjects like this, and its not easy to
stay 'sober' when someone pours a drink all over us. :-)
It especially irritates me because just as in the NFL and the NBA, the
instigator is hardly ever called for a penalty or a foul, its the person
who "fights back" that gets the brunt of the grief from everyone else here
if one chooses to express an opposing POV.
I don't think it has any place in a forum such as this, and it ought not
be tolerated. As much as I don't like to burden others, this is exactly
what a moderator or list owner is for, so either Jim, or whomever he
designates in his absence, has to speak up, or it will become open season.
Surely the next month is not going to trigger a lot of emotions and
attitudes. There are plenty of lists and groups where one can go to scream
day and night along with others who seem to have the time to do so.
Can we really afford to have our archives filled with rhetoric, flames, OT
opinions, and the drivel that always results from someone dropping the
political bomb on us?
I won't expand on who I will vote for and why, but I can say that I would
vote to put politics off the Vanagon list.
Mark.
One of the many "dumb-ass consumers"
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