Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:01:52 -0800
Reply-To: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
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From: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Subject: Re: NO POLITICS ON THE LIST was: Crowded at the polls today
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I found nothing offensive about the posts at all. I am simply
stating along with the list admin that this is not the place for posts
like this.
Period and nothing more.
David
Marshall
VW Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure Rider
http://www.hasenwerk.ca
On Tue, November 4, 2008 10:02, Loren
Busch wrote:
>
> Well here is a vote for Al, I found
nothing offensive in his post. And
> David, if you did, then why
did you re-send Als post with your message?
>
> On Tue,
Nov 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM, David Marshall
>
<mailinglist@fastforward.ca>wrote:
>
>> Ya
know... I'm gonna go into a rant here....
>>
>>
<RANT>
>> I can go to cnn.com or news.google.com and get
all the news about the US
>> election. The Canadian election
came and went and not a peep on the
>> list - nor would I
expect it to be on this list.
>>
>> Politics, sex
>> and religion are not conversions for mixed company nor the
Vanagon
>> list...
>> unless there is a polling
station in your Vanagon I and most others
>> don't
>> want to hear about it.
>> </RANT>
>>
>> David Marshall
>> VW Adventure Driver
and BMW Adventure Rider
>>
>>
http://www.hasenwerk.ca
>>
>> On Tue, November 4,
2008 06:47, Al
>> Knoll wrote:
>> >
>>
> It's going to be crowded at the polls.
>> There'll be a
lot of people
>> > you don't know there. Some will be
>> there to vote and some to
>> >
>> >
help others vote but
>> another group will be there too.
They're quiet.
>> > You hardly
>> notice them
there in booth with you.
>> >
>> > With names
like
>> Smith, Jones, Brown, Gonzales, Nakamoto, Chan,
Begay,
>> > and others
>> they stand there with
you. They
>> >
>> > wear odd clothing.
>> Some have three cornered hats, some have rags
>>
> around their feet,
>> others are dressed in tattered
and
>> >
>> > faded, blue or
>>
grey uniforms. Some wear the baggy stripes of
>> >
prisoners, some
>> have tiger stripe fatigues, they're all
with you
>> >
>> >
>> there in the
voting booth.
>> >
>> > They've stood before
in
>> places as close as the bridge at Concord or
>>
> the angle at
>> Gettysburg or in places as far away as
>> >
>> > Belleau Wood,
>> Bastogne,
Iwo Jima, Chosin Reservoir, Ia Drang, Khe
>> > Sahn,
>> Mogadishu, Fallujah and others. They're truck
>>
>
>> >
>> drivers, nurses, mechanics, pilots,
rebels, cooks, clerks, riflemen,
>> > artillerymen, tank
commanders, rangers, and patriots.
>> >
>> >
They're standing with you today as they stood for you in places
>> and
>> > times far away to be sure you excercise
your freedom
>> >
>> > and responsibility to
vote.
>> >
>> > You'll
>> not see
them, but they're there just the same, watching while
>>
>
>> you make your mark on history. Vote today.
>> >
>>
>
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