[Rhodes22-list] Soap Boxes

[Steve Alm]

Hey Bill,
Remember that if the boat leans to the left, it's because you're on the
starboard tack... I have no idea what I mean by that but it sounds profound.
8-)  8-)

Please feel free to post your own soap boxing.  But if you use inflammatory
rhetoric such as "conservative claptrap" you're sinking to their level and
should expect more starboard cannon fire.

We who sit on the port rail are in the good company of most of the nation's
great thinkers who occupy most of the professorship positions at the
colleges and universities in this great country of ours, so take heart and
let fly!  Don't let that mean old Brad get your goat--don't get mad, get
even!  8-)   

What the republican party needs, for example, is just ONE good poet--the
poor suckers don't have any.  The great Minnesota thinker, Garrison Keilor,
has volunteered.  8-)

Roses are red, violet are blue,
Don't quit the list, Bill,
Lots of us think like you.

Slim

On 5/27/03 2:19 PM, "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
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> 
> -----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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