[Rhodes22-list] what is list etiquette? Ignore That!

[brad haslett]

Rik,

The cruise was a hoot, maybe hooters!  It was our
first and we went with our neighbors.  Fan booked it
through an airline interline discount and we were able
to get our neighbors the same price.  They are very
nice people but somewhat food and wine snobs.  This
was a Carnival cruise that catered more to the Nascar
crowd.  I was very happy!  The evening meals were very
good by my slack standards and the daytime pool/bar
scene was, well, very good by my slack standards.  I'd
highly recommend one, especially as a getaway from the
frozen North in the middle of Winter.  Five days was
enough for me though, any longer and I'd have been
breaking-in on the bridge and asking for a turn at the
wheel.

Brad


--- Rik Sandberg <sanderico at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Brad,
> 
> Yeah, it seems it's busy all over. We have the same
> trouble. Like you (and Anne and some others) say
> though, with the weather being what it is down there
> this time of the year, we might not be missing much.
> Things always seem rosier when your just daydreaming
> about it, eh.
> 
> The cruise thing sounds like fun though. We've never
> done that.
> 
> Look at it this way..... working on your boat is
> also ... uh .... therapeutic????
> 
> Rik
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com>
> Sent: May 18, 2005 11:37 AM
> To: Rik Sandberg <sanderico at earthlink.net>, 
> 	The Rhodes 22 mail list
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] what is list etiquette?
> Ignore That!
> 
> Rik,
> 
> Quite frankly, not much, but not because of weather.
> 
> It's been beautiful here lately.  After beaching the
> boat on a sandbar in March and ripping the main in
> April, I've spent more time working on it than
> sailing. We went on a week cruise out of New Orleans
> to Mexico and that's been the most time on the water
> all Spring. Last weekend we attended my oldest son's
> graduation from the University of Arkansas and this
> weekend we're travelling to NYC for my
> sister-in-laws
> graduation from Fordham.  I have some time off in
> June
> between weeks of Memphis-Washington, DC runs and
> hope
> to get some sailing done.  Of course June is the
> beginning of our Summer humidity season here: temps
> in
> the low 90's and no wind.  Usually I just motor
> around
> until a thunderstorm hits and then revisit the
> lightning debate on the list.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> --- Rik Sandberg <sanderico at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > Brad,
> > 
> > Thanks for that. An excellent piece IMHO, I
> couldn't
> > agree more.
> > 
> > So, you getting any sailing done??
> > 
> > Rik
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com>
> > Sent: May 18, 2005 11:01 AM
> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> > <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] what is list
> etiquette?
> > Ignore That!
> > 
> > Ric,
> > 
> > I was responding to your post when my daughter put
> > her
> > elbow on the keyboard (I'm home all week playing
> Mr.
> > Mom.)  Ignore that first post.  At least she
> didn't
> > call 911 like she did when she was 1 1/2.  Those
> > cops
> > still think I'm lying.
> > 
> > Anyway, I've been too busy to make any pithy
> > political
> > comments but not to busy to read.  Here's an
> article
> > from today's Chicago Tribune.  Not only is it
> funny
> > in
> > its own way but dead on the money correct.  This
> is
> > neither left nor right folks, just a fastball
> > straight
> > down the middle.
> > 
> > Brad
> > "CoraShen"
> > 
> > 
> > Seeking sanity in the asylum
> > 
> >     
> >  
> > By Kathleen Parker
> > 
> > May 18, 2005
> > 
> > Reaction to an inaccurate Newsweek report that led
> > recently to rioting and death in Afghanistan
> > suggests
> > that hysteria is, indeed, contagious.
> > 
> > To briefly recap, Newsweek reported in a small
> blurb
> > May 9 that American interrogators at Guantanamo
> Bay
> > had flushed a Koran down a toilet in attempts to
> get
> > Muslim terror suspects to talk. Once the Newsweek
> > story was broadcast abroad, the usually reticent
> > hate-America crowd erupted in mass pique. Havoc
> > ensued. At least 15 Afghans died and many more
> were
> > injured.
> > 
> > All because of a story that may not have been
> true.
> > The "knowledgeable U.S. government source" who
> told
> > Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and John Barry about
> the
> > flushing apparently wasn't so knowledgeable. At
> the
> > risk of seeming insensitive, may I suggest that
> > c'est
> > la guerre and urge everyone to follow Dr. Lamaze's
> > always-useful advice: Breathe deeply and focus.
> > 
> > What we need here is a little perspective.
> > 
> > First, we all can agree that flushing a Koran down
> a
> > toilet, if physically possible, would be both
> > insensitive and rude, though Westerners generally
> > have
> > a higher tolerance threshold for such offenses.
> Put
> > it
> > this way: You could flush a Bible down the toilet
> in
> > front of Goober in Kabul, and it's unlikely that
> > Mayberry suddenly would be awash in blood.
> > 
> > Without disrespecting true believers of Islam, one
> > also could debate the relative miseries of seeing
> > our
> > favorite scripture disappear into the plumbing
> > versus,
> > say, watching airplanes fly into buildings,
> killing
> > thousands of innocents. Remember, these are
> > terrorist
> > suspects captured after 9/11, not kidnapped
> members
> > of
> > an Afghan boys choir.
> > 
> > The apparent Newsweek mistake was regrettable, but
> > we
> > should beware of allowing ourselves to mirror the
> > emotional reactions of people who were by no
> measure
> > justified in their response--even if the story had
> > been proven true.
> > 
> > The same people foaming over a reported act of
> > blasphemy didn't flinch while executing women for
> > stepping outside sans burqa. I'm afraid my moral
> > outrage in favor of the morally outrageous is
> tapped
> > out.
> > 
> > While the world was reacting in righteous
> > indignation
> > to the Newsweek report, another story was
> > circulating
> > about Turkish women in Germany being executed by
> > family members in "honor killings" sanctioned by
> > certain interpretations of the Koran. Their
> offense?
> > Acting like Western women. Or, in the pithy words
> of
> > a
> > 14-year-old Turkish boy who was justifying an
> > execution: "The whore lived like a German."
> > 
> 
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