Chuck,

You are of course correct; this is a bit of a troll.

I came to the group when I started working on my Crestliner and got
very bummed out by all the political crap spewed on a regular basis. I
rose to the bait on several threads and became one of the regular
polluters of the group.

It is one thing to cut and paste the political drivel; I worked though
what had to happen and it really did help ME understand what I was
thinking about the issues. Sending your kids off to war can do things
like that to you.

During that time I made a dozen or so verifiable predictions about how
this war adventuring and financial recklessness would all turn out.

When I realized that I was not learning anything new about the issues I
stopped. Since then, I have tried to exercise restraint and only
respond to posts where I actually know something about the topic and
that it truly boating related.

This poll thing happened to be one of the predictions and I succumbed
to the "I told you so" thing. On the plus side, there are only about 10
or so OT issues predictions left to verify; and I will try to be strong
but it's hard when you are proved right like that.

Sorry.


Mark Browne