[Rhodes22-list] Soap Boxes

[Mark Kaynor]

Steve,

Yeah, it's like they say - "Vote republican - it's easier than thinking" <g>

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Alm" <salm at mn.rr.com>
To: "Rhodes" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Soap Boxes


> You see, Bill?  This is exactly what I'm talking about...the repubs don't
> even know how to proof-read.  8-)
> Slim
>
> On 5/27/03 2:27 PM, "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Bill
> > Just try to overlook those dammmm democrats.  Thur
> > scientific analysis; it has been determined that they
> > are like they are due to a deformed gene.  May God
> > bless this country and overlook the democrats:-)
> > Steve
> >
> > PS - You just got to love the above:-)
> >
> > --- Bill Berner <bberner at optonline.net> wrote:
> >> I've been prompted to write by Brad's last couple of
> >> posts, especially
> >> "Rumsfeld apologizes"
> >>
> >> I started in to write a suggestion that the list
> >> charter be modified to ask
> >> that members be refrain from soap boxing their
> >> political positions.
> >>
> >> Then I realized that it would be asking for the
> >> group to curtail Freedom of
> >> Speech.
> >>
> >> So, I'm left with a conundrum.
> >>
> >> I am personally sick and tired of the inflammatory
> >> conservative claptrap
> >> that shows up here.  It's isn't always the substance
> >> that irks me so much,
> >> but the belligerance, sarcasm and school yard
> >> bullying quality of so many of
> >> the posts. I have rarely seen any acknowledgement
> >> that issues can be
> >> multifaceted and complicated.
> >>
> >> Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like all of the cannon
> >> fire comes from the
> >> starboard side, and I'm pretty tired of it.
> >>
> >> Chances are that I'll have to quit the list to
> >> resolve the issue, not a
> >> choice I easily make.  There has been some good
> >> company here, and lot's of
> >> good information.
> >>
> >> Curious to see responses, then I'll shut up and make
> >> a decision.
> >>
> >>
> >> Bill Berner
> >> 191 South Broadway
> >> Hastings on Hudson, NY  10706
> >>
> >> v 914 478 2896
> >> f 914 478 3856
> >> e BBerner at optonline.net
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> >> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On
> >> Behalf Of brad haslett
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:37 PM
> >> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> >> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Rumsfeld Apologizes
> >>
> >> May 26, 2003
> >> Rumsfeld Apologizes for Hyping Saddam Threat
> >> (2003-05-26) -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald
> >> Rumsfeld apologized to Senate Democrats today for
> >> pre-war "hyping" of the threat posed by Saddam
> >> Hussein's regime.
> >>
> >> "I'm sorry Senators Biden, Rockefeller, Byrd,
> >> Roberts
> >> and others," said a contrite Mr. Rumsfeld. "We
> >> overestimated the threat posed by a lunatic
> >> dictator,
> >> who hated the U.S. and Israel, and who paid rewards
> >> to
> >> families of Palestinian terrorists. In an age when
> >> two
> >> of the world's tallest buildings can be brought down
> >> with tools used by the stockboy at K-Mart, we should
> >> have demanded more concrete evidence of exotic
> >> weapons
> >> of mass destruction. Saddam was helpless as a kitten
> >> up a tree."
> >>
> >> Sen. Rockefeller, D-WV, said Congress must determine
> >> whether the administration "intentionally
> >> overestimated" Iraq's weapons program, or "just
> >> misread it. ... In either case it's a very bad
> >> outcome."
> >>
> >> Mr. Rumsfeld agreed, "What an awful outcome. We
> >> deeply
> >> regret freeing the Iraqi people from a murderous
> >> gang
> >> of thugs masquerading in the United Nations as a
> >> representative republic. We're sorry that the Iraqi
> >> people have discovered thousands of graves of their
> >> Saddam-murdered relatives. It's none of our business
> >> if people want to live like that."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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