JohnH wrote:
On 16 Dec 2005 20:24:32 -0800, wrote:
JohnH wrote:
On 16 Dec 2005 18:30:05 -0800, wrote:
JohnH wrote:
The vote was 53 to 47. Seven short of the 60 needed. "Soundly defeated" indeed.
ROTFLMAO........if memory serves me well, a national vote decided by
the same percentage, just thirteen months ago, was a "Rout!" a
"Mandate" a "Total Repudiation of Moderates and Liberals".........
"Vindication for Bush, Limbaugh, and the Conservative Agenda," "An
overhwelming stamp of approval for the war in Iraq"......... yada,
yada, yada
funny how standards change, :-)
There you are! Why didn't you address my question New Year's resolutions?
I don't recall the words 'rout', 'total repudiation', 'vindication', 'overwhelming' being used.
Could you show me?
--
John Herring
"Rout": columnist Randall Nunn, American Daily, one of a bunch in the
search engine
"Repudiation": The results are a repudiation of Kerry, the first
Catholic nominated for president since 1960. Kerry's support of
abortion rights and embryonic stem-cell ...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nation ...
ics/2002084916_catholic08.html , one of a bunch in the search engine.
I'll let you sleuth out vindication and overwhelming. Easily done.
Sorry, but I didn't see your question about the New Year's resolutions.
There are too many posts to read them all, especially since most of
them are just volleys in the name calling and pig piling wars.
Yes, it's the name-calling and pig-piling that should be stopped. Wayne suggested that it might be
part of a New Year's resolution. Sounds like a pretty good idea.
As to the rest, I guess you're right - standards change!
--
John Herring
May your Christmas be Spectacular!
...and your New Year even Better!
The only way for name calling and "side-choosing" (aka pig piling) to
stop will be for each one of us to consciously avoid participating in
it and by attempting to ignore those who do.
I see little hope of this ever happening in rec.boats. Our most
prolific poster freely admits that he enjoys stirring up the "right
wing trash", and he has a whole crew of people who spend entire
weekends hovering over their keyboards waiting for him to post anything
at all so they can call him a "liar", (and worse).
There is so little boating content here, as a direct result of the
abuses by Harry, Smithers, Gould, NOYB, Hertvik, Herring, Basskisser,
Bert, Jack Goff, JPS, and of course the reanimated Skipper that the
group is irretrievably in the toilet. Most of the folks in the above
list are off topic at least 90% of the time. When "Harry Krause is
a.............." threads get 200 or 300 posts and a boating thread gets
2 or 3, trying to maintain any facade that this is a boating group is
certainly ridiculous.was the last time a new personality showed up in
the group (aside from one of Smithers' 1000 aliases) and stayed for
more than a couple of days? What does that tell us about what the group
has become? Even scarier, what does that tell us about those of us who
seem to flourish in the daily exchange of crappy personal remarks and
the endless resurrection of old fights based on something (or the
misrepresentation of something) that was posted, in many cases, several
years ago?
As long as Harry's hobby is stirring up his fan club, and as long as
there are a dozen people here for no other reason than to pitch Harry a
bunch of crap everyday, the NG is toast. It would take a group of
adults to break the cycle. It doesn't even take 100 percent
participation- but the first step would probably have to involve
certain individuals reaching decisions that their behavior in the group
will be determined by their own conscious choices rather than by
involuntary reactions to something posted by some "commie, pinko
liberal" or "conservatrash".