Folks, this newsgroup is rec.boats.cruising, not alt.politics.*.
Personally I've pretty much given up reading this group due to it's poor
signal to noise ratio. Many of those people who regularly chastise posts
which contain "spam" should look into the mirror and apply the same set of
rules to these completely off-topic discussions.

If you want to discuss politics, please take the discussion to an
appropriate newsgroup.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org