On 9 Aug 2006 05:16:46 -0700, "basskisser" wrote:


Jack Goff wrote:
On 8 Aug 2006 06:01:20 -0700, "basskisser" wrote:


Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
James Lileks (lileks.com) - today's The Bleat.

"In the end, most Americans simply don't care what happens to the
Middle East aside from Israel. They'd like the region to be free;
they're happy when everyone gets to vote. They don't give a fig about
Libya but it would be nice if Egypt was safe, what with all those
museums and the like. They'd be perfectly fine if every nation in the
Middle East was like France - open, free, stable, great vacation
destinations, full of politicians and intellectuals who didn't like
the US but confined the rhetoric to tart epigrams or unreadable
academic polemics. It's the seething sectarian nutwad component that
makes people weary. The looped scripts, the Jew-slagging, the
misplaced blame, the unslakable aching sense of injustice over things
that happened 500 years ago. Okay, well, sorry about the Crusades. Now
you Persians apologize for Ionia and the war on the Greeks. C'mon.
C'monnn, ya knuckleheads. I knew Darius, and he was a Party. Animal.
But let's send it all to the big Bygone House and hug, for Mr.
Planet's sake! (Bill Murray for UN Secretary General. Seriously.)"

Coulnd't have put it better myself. :)

Sheriff Hertvick, Sheriff Hertvick, thars sumone apostin' off topic.....

Are you gettin' the feeling you're talking to no one, Kevin?

Are you getting the feeling that you are extremely ignorant for calling
me Kevin? Care to take the challenge? Put up, or shut up.

While we're on that subject, read and understand this:

There are events in a person's life which help to define them forever.
When you chose to send that email under Kevin Noble's name, you
defined yourself. It doesn't matter whether or not it was an honest
mistake and the addy was yours, or you actually deliberately chose
it, the event occurred. It was your own action that caused this, and
you must now live with the consequences.

You, now and forever more, will be known as Kevin on this NG. No
amount of blathering about some challenge will change that. No one
will ever take that challenge, as it's of no importance to us whether
or not you are really Kevin. YOU identified YOURSELF as Kevin, and
you are now Kevin. Like it or not.

Hey, think of it this way... even if it's not your real name, it's at
least as good a nick as basskisser, right?

So long, Kevin.