[CLUE-Talk] Traitors, Cowards, Scoundrels, and Intelligent Dissenters

[Randy Arabie]

Bill & anyone else who beleive's my discourse has become uncivil:

I appologize.  If declaring that, IMO, someone's objections is whining crosses
the line, then I will refrain from it in the future.

Allons Rouler!
        
Randy
http://www.arabie.org/

On Tuesday,  1 April 2003 at  1:03:33 -0800, bill ehlert <bill_ehlert_lists at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> **  please see note below.
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> --- Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at americanisp.net>
> wrote:
> > On 03-29 02:56, bill ehlert wrote:
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> > >     if we're gonna discuss the topic, at
> > least we could do it seriously
> > >     and usefully  --  in a way that helps us
> > understand how we got into
> > >     this and what it might mean for the
> > [near-term] future of the world,
> > >     rather than screeching at one another.
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> > Actually, I think this list has maintained a
> > very civil tone even when
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> **  i'm not so sure about that . . .
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> > Hey Randy, bite me with the "whining" crap, 
> okay? There's a difference
> > between objecting to something and whining. 
> That's another lovely tactic
> > employed all to often by folks like Rush or 
> Coulter - if they bitch
> > about Clinton, it's "intelligent discourse" or 
> "informing the public" if
> > someone complains about the Bush administration
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> it's "whining." 
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> **    . . . a goal to be striven for,
>     perhaps, even if not always attained.
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>     [ sorry, sean, just couldn't resist.
>     the devil made me do it this time, but
>     if i do it again, it's my fault. ]
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> > people (strongly) disagree - which is fairly
> > unusual, if you think about it.
> > Maybe it's because a lot of us meet up from
> > time to time, and don't want
> > these events devolving into fisticuffs. :) 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc at americanisp.net  
> > http://users.americanisp.net/~seanleblanc/
> > Get MLAC at:
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlac/
> > God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.