Carl, the people who post off topic politcal crap do so because they can not
have an intellegent conversation in a real political NG. There is nothing
you are going to say to stop these people, because by nature they are rude,
inconsiderate, self absorbed people. The only way to get rid of them is to
use filters or kill files to delete those individuals who are not worth
reading.

If you need any help setting up your filters do a search on Google and they
will show you how to set up your newsreader to remove the trash.


"Carl Craver" wrote in message
ink.net...
It seems that when someone post a complaint about
OT subjects, most everyone agrees that they have no place
here.
However, no one does anything to stop it.
All you posters who are guilty know who you are.
If you must post political topics, go to a political ng
to do so.
If you feel you must extend an already drawn out subject
by flaming someone, then email them direct. Better yet,
exchange phone numbers and you both could discuss things
real time.
Yes, I can activate filters to block most of the crap... but why should I
have to when this is a news group about boating?
When I filter my incoming posts I never know if
I may be missing something important.
Not all of us have broadband internet and every extra ot
post takes just that much longer to download.

OK...(stepping down off soap box) I'm finished.
Carl G. Craver

Lets find a few political news groups and make some boating posts!
KH


"John Smith" wrote in message
news:KEH4c.177$KO3.5229@attbi_s02...
Carl, the people who post off topic politcal crap do so because they can
not
have an intellegent conversation in a real political NG. There is nothing
you are going to say to stop these people, because by nature they are
rude,
inconsiderate, self absorbed people. The only way to get rid of them is
to
use filters or kill files to delete those individuals who are not worth
reading.

If you need any help setting up your filters do a search on Google and
they
will show you how to set up your newsreader to remove the trash.


"Carl Craver" wrote in message
ink.net...
It seems that when someone post a complaint about
OT subjects, most everyone agrees that they have no place
here.
However, no one does anything to stop it.
All you posters who are guilty know who you are.
If you must post political topics, go to a political ng
to do so.
If you feel you must extend an already drawn out subject
by flaming someone, then email them direct. Better yet,
exchange phone numbers and you both could discuss things
real time.
Yes, I can activate filters to block most of the crap... but why should
I
have to when this is a news group about boating?
When I filter my incoming posts I never know if
I may be missing something important.
Not all of us have broadband internet and every extra ot
post takes just that much longer to download.

OK...(stepping down off soap box) I'm finished.
Carl G. Craver

Agreed...

I am guilty as charged with occasionally fueling some of the OT threads. There
is not much to talk about during the winter months, so the NG gets bombarded
with all sorts of topics.

Before you or anyone looks down their nose at me or banishes me to the darkest
depths of hell, let me make a few points:

Yes, I have a boat. Yes, I go boating. I own a 1975 old trihull 17'
Mercruiser I/O. I am a freshwater boater on small lakes in Virginia.

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/boatyard.jpg

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/Ammonboat.jpg

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/165engine.jpg

Click on any link above to see a photo of me, my boat, my boat's engine,
etc....

I know I am probably blocked by a few people on this NG, so if somehow,
someway, this thread gets through to them, I wanted to publicly apologize for
any fuel I have added to flames and contributions to annoying OT threads.

{steps off another soapbox}

Butch Ammon

It's just as easy to block keywords in the subject headings as it is
posters. And it makes more sence too.

-W



"Butch Ammon" wrote in message

I know I am probably blocked by a few people on this NG, so if somehow,
someway, this thread gets through to them, I wanted to publicly apologize
for
any fuel I have added to flames and contributions to annoying OT threads.

Butch Ammon wrote in message
...
Yes, I have a boat. Yes, I go boating. I own a 1975 old trihull 17'
Mercruiser I/O. I am a freshwater boater on small lakes in Virginia.

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/boatyard.jpg

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/Ammonboat.jpg

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/165engine.jpg

Click on any link above to see a photo of me, my boat, my boat's engine,
etc....


How do we know that is really you...& that's your boat. Some down under
demons might have us believe you are using a friends boat etc etc...

Subject: Do we all agree???
From: "Don White"

Butch Ammon wrote in message
...
Yes, I have a boat. Yes, I go boating. I own a 1975 old trihull 17'
Mercruiser I/O. I am a freshwater boater on small lakes in Virginia.

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/boatyard.jpg

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/Ammonboat.jpg

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/165engine.jpg

Click on any link above to see a photo of me, my boat, my boat's engine,
etc....


How do we know that is really you...& that's your boat. Some down under
demons might have us believe you are using a friends boat etc etc...

Those of us who have been around here a while know Butch is who he says he is.

Capt. Bill

Butch Ammon wrote in message
...
Yes, I have a boat. Yes, I go boating. I own a 1975 old trihull 17'
Mercruiser I/O. I am a freshwater boater on small lakes in Virginia.

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/boatyard.jpg

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/Ammonboat.jpg

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/165engine.jpg

Click on any link above to see a photo of me, my boat, my boat's engine,
etc....


How do we know that is really you...& that's your boat. Some down under
demons might have us believe you are using a friends boat etc etc...


It's me and my wife together last year up at Lake Anna, VA. Look close and
you'll see my wife Margaret in the back of the boat peeking out from under the
roof. She was putting stuff back in the cooler when the photo was taken.
Besides, I can guarantee that the photo is me. Who else has the cajones enough
to show a photo with belly flab!

Butch Ammon
{Abs of steel.... NOT! Ha ha ha ha}

Don White wrote:
Butch Ammon wrote in message
...

Yes, I have a boat. Yes, I go boating. I own a 1975 old trihull 17'
Mercruiser I/O. I am a freshwater boater on small lakes in Virginia.

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/boatyard.jpg

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/Ammonboat.jpg

http://members.aol.com/ammonc/165engine.jpg

Click on any link above to see a photo of me, my boat, my boat's engine,
etc....



How do we know that is really you...& that's your boat. Some down under
demons might have us believe you are using a friends boat etc etc...


No not Butch Don because he's basically an honest bloke, but Harry???
not so in the past he's posted pics of other peoples' boats & claimed
them as his own he even stole a pic from a website & tried to pass it
off as his own, the latest?? the Parker? he knows the real owner I
suggest I'll even suggest the secrecy is because it's another illegal
perk by those union rip off merchants at his employer.

He's never "owned" a boat his father never took a small OB powered boat
across the atlantic in winter & got a fire tug welcome in NY, his father
was probably just a nice ordinary bloke like the rest of the fathers but
he never owned the biggest boat dealership in the US Nth East etc etc
etc what he did have was a liar for a son.

In other words Harry has priors & lots of them going way back he's an
established liar. The fact he is a stalker in real life makes him just
that much more objectionable & dangerous.

K

K. Smith wrote:


No not Butch Don because he's basically an honest bloke, but
Harry??? not so in the past he's posted pics of other peoples' boats &
claimed them as his own he even stole a pic from a website & tried to
pass it off as his own, the latest?? the Parker? he knows the real owner
I suggest I'll even suggest the secrecy is because it's another illegal
perk by those union rip off merchants at his employer.


Still on crack cocaine, eh, Ms. Smith?

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 06:43:23 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

K. Smith wrote:


No not Butch Don because he's basically an honest bloke, but
Harry??? not so in the past he's posted pics of other peoples' boats &
claimed them as his own he even stole a pic from a website & tried to
pass it off as his own, the latest?? the Parker? he knows the real owner
I suggest I'll even suggest the secrecy is because it's another illegal
perk by those union rip off merchants at his employer.


Still on crack cocaine, eh, Ms. Smith?

Harry, I missed your response to my questions.

John and his ilk are simple-minded konservatives, cannot think
abstractly, and see issues only in black or white terms. John is an
especially pathetic konservative, as he spent most of his adult life as
a federal employee sucking on the taxpayers' teat, and now works as a
teacher in the public school system, thus continuing his sucking on the
taxpayers' teat. You would think a konservative like John would disdain
a paycheck from the taxpayers. But that would require him to be able to
think in the abstract, and such thinking is not allowed those in the
military.

Harry, would the American Federation of Teachers or the National
Education Association (both pretty union oriented) consider your
comment (from one who works as a public relations contact for Ullico)
to be pro- or anti-teachers?

Let's send it to them for an opinion. What do you say?

John H



More bull**** from you, John? I have the greatest respect for public
school teachers, who work long hours under difficult conditions for, at
best, ordinary pay and benefits. You're not a real teacher; you're a
substitute teacher who has admitted more than once that on many of your
assignments, you don't teach at all, or even try to teach. You do
nothing more than babysit. You obviously missed the irony in my post;
the insult was aimed at you, not the teaching profession. You are a
self-proclaimed conservative and yet, for your living most of your life,
you have drawn your pay from the taxpayers, and thumbed your nose at
your job responsibilities.

If I lived in your town and were a whining slimeball like you, I'd
complain about you in a way that matters. But I'm not pondscum like you
are, and I'd never ever try to cause anyone job problems because of
their newsgroup political statements or leanings.

You're just living (barely) proof of how low your end of the political
spectrum has sunk.


Harry, I've said nothing in any of my posts of which I am ashamed. I
would not be upset if any of my posts were forwarded to the school
system for which I work.

You, on the other hand, make statements such as, "...works as a
teacher in the public school system, thus continuing his sucking on
the taxpayers' teat," and then state you have the greatest respect for
teachers. You state the latter only when put on the spot.

Your statement would be offensive to any teacher working in any public
school. Given your position, this attitude seems to be detrimental to
public school teachers. Why should it not be forwarded to the two
major teachers' union groups?

This attitude of mine has nothing to do with your political leanings.
It has to do with your denigration of a profession. You seem to think
that the calling of names and the denigration of an individual's
profession, or of an individual himself, are appropriate. I disagree,
and I think the AFT and NEA would feel likewise.

Slimeball? Pondscum? Simple minded? Teat suckers? Yes Harry, you are
great at calling names.

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!