Re: Oh, give me a $#%@#$! break

2003-02-02 Thread Bob Blakely
From: Mike Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] [skip] I think he's an idiot, It's one thing to preach this nonsense to your party zealots for which you no doubt receive much acclaim, but believing their own propaganda is what cost your party power, especially in the last congressional elections. I

Re: Oh, give me a $#%@#$! break

2003-02-02 Thread Keith Whaley
Well reasoned and fairly said, Bob. keith whaley Bob Blakely wrote: From: Mike Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] [skip] I think he's an idiot, It's one thing to preach this nonsense to your party zealots for which you no doubt receive much acclaim, but believing their own propaganda is what

Re: Oh, give me a $#%@#$! break

2003-02-02 Thread Fred
Would you guys ~please~ take your non-Pentax, non-photography arguments someplace else... Thanks. Fred

Re: Oh, give me a $#%@#$! break

2003-02-02 Thread Peter Alling
Mike I have at this time only one thing to say, Shut Up. At 11:42 PM 2/1/2003 -0600, you wrote: It was long. It was about your political opinions. You wrote it. That you felt that you were viciously attacked and had the right to defend yourself doesn't change those facts above. What you're

Oh, give me a $#%@#$! break

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Johnston
Well, it's your choice. I have a young son in the army who's already shipped out. I hope we don't see another Hanoi Jane (or Baghdad Mike) or some similar thing rise out of this bullshit to the peril of my son or others due to such idiocy. I watched fools like you help to cause the death of

That's It. I'm Gone. Was: Re: Oh, give me a $#%@#$! break

2003-02-01 Thread Ken Archer
The last two years have been nice (most of it anyway) but I have had enough. Cya. On Saturday 01 February 2003 10:17 pm, Mike Johnston wrote: Well, it's your choice. I have a young son in the army who's already shipped out. I hope we don't see another Hanoi Jane (or Baghdad Mike) or

Re: Oh, give me a $#%@#$! break

2003-02-01 Thread Robert Harris
Mike Johnston wrote: So they're about to blow the crap out of Baghdad. How the hell should I know why they're doing it? Oil? Politics? Warmongering? Too much saber-rattling to back down now? Can't find bin Laden and got to take it out on somebody? Christ, I have no idea. But whatever the reason

Re: Oh, give me a $#%@#$! break

2003-02-01 Thread Paul Stenquist
Robert Harris wrote: This list has gone to hell again, with the usual ranting and raving and anti-American nonsense from non-thinking know-nothings. And that's exactly what you posted. More anti-american nonsense from a non-thinking know-nothing. Mike couldn't BEAR the gun discussion. Poor

Re: Oh, give me a $#%@#$! break

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Johnston
And that's exactly what you posted. More anti-american nonsense from a non-thinking know-nothing. Mike couldn't BEAR the gun discussion. Poor baby. But all this mindless crap is okay, as long as it reflects one's own opinions. Oh, I can bear the gun discussions, Paul. What I can't bear is

Re: Oh, give me a $#%@#$! break

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Johnston
Mike Johnston wrote a lengthy political opinion piece. I did NOT write a lengthy political opinion piece. I defended myself against a bile-spewing, stupidly reasoned, invective-strewn post that referred to me as Baghdad Mike, called me a twit, and implied that I was somehow (?) endangering the

Re: Oh, give me a $#%@#$! break

2003-02-01 Thread ernreed2
Mike Johnston wrote a lengthy political opinion piece. I did NOT write a lengthy political opinion piece. I defended myself against a bile-spewing, stupidly reasoned, invective-strewn post that referred to me as Baghdad Mike, called me a twit, and implied that I was somehow (?)

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2003-02-01 Thread Mishka
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out — because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the