[Vision2020] Visionless2020 (?)

[Art Deco aka W. Fox]

Donovan, et al,

I post news articles and commentary for a number of reasons.

Not everyone has subscriptions to the various news services.  Although many 
probably don't read the things I post, some do.  I receive many off-list replies 
and thank-yous for the information and questions about further sources.  [I 
sometimes get thank-yous and/or comments from some who disagree with almost 
everything I say and think I am the number one asshole.]

Part of my motivation is to encourage discussion with the issues these articles 
deal with without first imposing my own radical views.

Articles such as the one on the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes show interested 
readers the economic benefits of public investment in healthy, low environmental 
impact, family oriented recreation.  Some community members may start thinking 
about linking our local trails to the networks under construction/consideration 
thus providing more healthy recreational and economic opportunities for our 
community.

I posted the article on the very unfortunate high rate of mental illness found 
in returning vets from Iraq to publicize the need for us to lobby for the 
resources to make these vets as whole again as possible and not treat them like 
veterans of past wars, many of whom are ignored, very poorly treated, or seen as 
pariahs to be sequestered after they have served as our CIC has ordered.

The news/commentary posted on religious matters is intended to inform and 
generate discussion on the hypocrisy and other characteristics of selected 
religious professionals and/or organizations and about religious belief itself.

Sometimes I do comment on the issues raised by the posted articles if they 
generate discussion.  Many times it is not necessary to post opinions because 
others post lucid, well-written commentary on them.

Wayne

Art Deco  (Wayne Fox)
deco at moscow.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanarnold at hotmail.com>
To: <deco at moscow.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Visionless2020 (?)


| Mr Fox writes, "I didn't realize that subscribers to this list were the only
| ones in the world whose ideas merit consideration.  Please forgive my
| ignorance."
|
| I didn't realize that posting endless articles without any statement of
| opinion was consideration of  someone's opinion. To me it is just
| demonstrating your ability to attach files, and/or copy and paste. I would
| very much like to hear your opinions on the articles that you post and would
| appreciate you just providing a link to the article rather than posting it,
| especially ones with huge files that take up so much memory unnecessarily.
| Again, I know people have brains, why don't people share what is in them
| rather than just posting articles we have already read.
|
| Take Care,
|
| Donovan J Arnold
|
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