JimH wrote:

Neither posts were meant to be inflammatory or political. Unfortunately,
some chose to make them so, including you. Some also chose to get into the
gutter with name calling and other personal attacks.


Neither post had a damn thing to do with boating. Do you really think
that opening a thread denigrating the Kennedy family and referencing
scandals that go back over 30 years isn't just waving a red flag in
front of a bull?



No one can control how folks choose to react to posts Chuck. The
politicalization of the posts, as well as the name calling and personal
attacks were all from others. Direct your anger towards those who took the
posts south Chuck because it was not either of us. ;-)


So let me get this straight. "Blame the bull for charging. All I did
was wave this red flag a little bit. Who could possibly have predicted
what the reaction of the bull would be"?

Stick to boating, Jim. There are hundreds of sites where you can GD the
Kennedy family
or express some moral outrage about some politician or another (from
either side) receiving special privileges, and where that material
would be welcome.

Lest you failed to notice in the past: The reason to avoid inflammatory
threads in the NG is because the snarking and bitching doesn't confine
itself to the threads titled "Liberals are all traitors" or
"Conservatives would sell their mothers if the price were high enough."
The crap fights leak out into the on-topic threads. Great piles of
festering dung in the OT threads attract a swarm of people (who shall
remain individually unnamed) to this group who seem to go completely
away when we stay on topic. The people in this swarm have little or no
interest in boating, but they don't mind jumping into a boating related
thread to continue the naming and flaming if they see a post from
individual X or individual Y- and they thereby infect even the on-topic
threads with their hateful nonsense.

So, the next time you feel compelled to say "something" ask yourself if
the NG is better off today than it was a couple of days ago, and
whether there just might be some connection between the waving of red
flags and a lot of raging bull.