My friends and fellow listers, Yesterday I lashed back at Debra Shea in a fit of pique and said the following: > Debra you are forgetting that the eternal rule that the universe must run by is : To >each according to his needs. This is all part of Bush's New Five Year Plan. Im sure you agree with five year plans. Ill verify this with the Central Committee and make sure. marcel>>> To which Debra wrote back: "For the record, the private message I received from you yesterday is the last one I'll tolerate. " As such I feel compelled to don the sack cloth and ashes and state the following in the faintest of hope that she will read this: Oh Debra, please accept my apologies. I sincerely regret ever insinuating that you are a marxist with my references to five year plans. I cant imagine where I got that idea from. It couldnt have been from your posts. I know you are one of the most unassuming, level headed, and open minded of all the people on the entire list. Your tolerance of others ideas knows no bounds. So if you could possibly find it wihin the rock in your bosom to forgive me I just know I will sleep better at night hugging my Richard Nixon doll wearing my Ronald Reagan cap. You see I was abused earlier in my life. First of all I had parents who were cruel and made me eat vegetables and everything. They MADE me come home every night at THEIR predetermined time. I was forced to read almanacs and things loaded with factual information instead of having the benefit of getting to believe myths and legends as reality as you were blessed with. Oh how I used light incense to Wicca and cry myself to sleep at night as a child begging to be left at the day care center. My mother coldly refused. We used to be dragged unwilling to places like Yosemite, Disneyland, and the Reagan Library instead of places where I could really learn something usefull like NOW headquarters. Of course my parents were mean spirited. But then that was my sorry lot in life. Instead of telling me wonderful legends about Soviet Heroes they bored me to tears with readings from the Federalist Papers. So as a person who grew up under such debilitating circumstances I know, being the boundless empathetic person that you are you will find it within your Jupiter sized heart to exercise all those timetested liberal values of tolerance and compassion that you lecture us, errr, share with us all the time on the list and forgive me. I know you will immediately understand in the perpetual demonstration of mercy and forgiveness that you exemplify all the time on this list, even though i dont deserve it. So as to not cause you even a minute of effort in the midst of your busy day I have posted this to the list myself. Marcel the Contrite.
