If I was unclear about the sign-up sheets at DFL Precinct Caucus Night, I
apologize, Jim. There really was nothing explicitly DFL about it, but I
can understand how someone might make an incorrect assumption. If I went
to a LWV event, I might be surprised to find they have Unisex Rest Rooms
(shouldn't that be Bisex, anyway?). I would have brought some SPIF sheets
to the Republican Caucus, too, but I was too afraid they'd treat me like a
Jehovah Witness on an ill-timed door-knock.
This isn't about dividing into Us and Them
("And after all we're only ordinary men...
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside ...")
but to divide us up into distinct individuals who can then be reassembled
into an advanced composite society. Didn't we tell you that either? There
are currently some impurities and inclusions (technically, we refer to
these as LPS, for Little Pieces of Shite) in the societal matrix which need
to be removed because they hinder cross-linking between reactive sites (You
and Me and Dennis), and our resistance to fracture, moisture uptake,
thermal cycling, and many other environmental/global conditions is not what
it could be. Do you want America to be a wimpy, Silly Putty thermoplastic
or a kick-ass thermoset? I think I know your answer, you Patriot, you!
The flask in America's lab, aka The Melting Pot, needs the temp turned up a
notch and a new kind of stir bar, because its contents are looking a little
chunky. Phase-separated, if you get my drift. If YOU are a nanoparticle,
you would do well to not agglomerate (glom) with your like particles but
rather spread out and strengthen the matrix. (How would you like it if
your dentist used old, crappy restorative on one half of your crown and the
new, state-of-the-art 3M stuff on the other half? The 3M stuff won't
fracture but the crown will still fail.) You can still maintain your
unique "culture," your "functionality," your "surface treatment," and will
find yourself bonded to (and, as we discover on the train, or will when we
get more trains, there are many types of bonds) all sort of funky
molecules, and the increase in your interfacial strength will make your
skin tingle, if not completely eliminate wrinkles and genital warts.
What was the question?
Oh, Dennis Tester. Where would I be without him? He is my manhole, my
catch basin, my access into the sewer of present-day conservative thought.
"Don't let me fall in, for Christ's sake! I see him! I think I can almost
reach him... Ew! He's all covered with ..." (Just kidding, Jokes With
Limey - there is a middle ground somewhere, I know it...I'll just stay out
here on the fringe while you guys sort it all out...)
AMH
Or, if you don't mind,
"Bond. Covalent Bond"
W007th St
Andrew M. Hine
Corporate Research Materials Laboratory
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St. Paul MN
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forum.org Chris Rybisky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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"St. Paul Issues Forum"
03/30/2005 07:50 <[email protected]>
AM Subject
Re: [StPaul] Dennis Tester
I agree with Chris. Speaking as a DFL'er I signed up because this is a St
Paul
issues list. There are DFL lists which folks can sign on for - one example
is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Any review of those lists will find
that
there are many different voices in the 'DFL' choir.
Agreeing that this is a Saint Paul issues list-- given the numbers in city
elections and state/national elections the preponderant view of this city
is
found in the diverse voices of the 'DFL choir'. Any randomly selected
group of
St Paul voices is going to have a significant DFL voice.
I believe that a good number of the new members of the group were
identified and recruited at 'DFL" ward caucuses. Perhaps we should cut Jim
a
little slack in his thought that this was a DFL list given our list's
recruitment methods.
John Sherman
On the marches of Como and the North End
Quoting Chris Rybisky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I don't understand why you would think this is a DFL
> list. It's called the "St. Paul Issues Forum" not the
> "DFL Issues Forum". I'm sure there must be DFL lists
> out there, but I think the point of this list is to
> discuss St. Paul issues - not just preach to the DFL
> choir.
>
> In order to "discuss" issues, there needs to be
> differences of opinion. If this list IS just a DFL
> list, that's news to me. Frankly by excluding
> different ideas there is really no point in discussing
> anything.
>
> Chris Rybisky
> Cathedral Hill
>
>
> --- Jim Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > When I was signed up for this, I was under the
> > understanding that this
> > was to be a DFL list.
> >
> > Why is he kept around? He's not a pet, unless you
> > like rattlesnakes,
> > and even if you do, rattlesnakes are dangerous to
> > the community at large.
> >
> > Don't fall for the "big tent" argument to keep a
> > freep on board, that's
> > called playing us like a fiddle.
> >
> > Dennis is obviously not DFL, and moreso, seems to
> > not even be an indy.
> > Dennis is a freep, plain and simple.
> >
> > This is not meant to be a personal attack, just a
> > statement of fact.
> > Why is he here? Am I wrong in thinking that this is
> > a DFL list? If I
> > am, please direct me to the proper DFL St. Paul
> > Issues list. Don't fall
> > for the "but you are supposed to be the 'big tent'
> > party" gambit, it's
> > the oldest RNC trick in the book to keep disruptive
> > operatives in the
> > "circle".
> >
> > His latest remarks concerning Native Americans are
> > interesting, and to
> > me were offensive, because although I went to school
> > with a large number
> > of people on and working for the Navajo Tribal
> > Council, I wouldn't
> > attend a Tribal or Inter-Tribal Pow-Wow, unless
> > outsiders were invited.
> > I don't think anyone on this list would be so
> > uncouth as to do such,
> > except maybe Dennis [if he thought he could spy on
> > them or disrupt them].
> >
> > I know this could be interpreted as a personal
> > attack, but I see it more
> > as a list security issue, and statement of fact,
> > based on observation. I
> > hope I'm not overstepping my bounds here, but at
> > this point, the question
> > does need to be asked.
> >
> > When I posted my intro here, I thought I was posting
> > to a DFL group what
> > amounted to an overview of my political resume. I
> > had no intention of that
> > being sent directly to an RNC operative's mailbox.
> >
> > I'll send this later, I have a press conference to
> > help do on the topic of
> > Tom Delay in four minutes.
> >
> > jim
> >
> > --
> > "Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat
> > to international security that exists today."
> > United Nations Secretary General
B.B.Ghali,
> > 1995
> >
>
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> > "The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves
> > a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual;
> > the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly
> > harmful freedom..." -- Benito Mussilini, 1932
> > http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/patriot2-hi.pdf
> > -- The GOP agrees
> >
> >
> >
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