[Vision2020] City Council's selective compassion

[keely emerinemix]

After a quarter-century of studies in the Scriptures, agonizing prayer about 
the meaning of life and where I fit into it, doubts, triumphs, losses and 
victory, you can imagine how relieved I was to hear our new friend, 
Trinitarian Skylark Crabtree, announce that if you're not having fun, 
there's no real point to things.  Presumably that not only covers civic 
discourse, but all sorts of zany shenanigans as well.

Whew.  And I used to think life was so heavy ... I shall now rise from my 
sickbed and do something wacky and fun.  Maybe TP the neighbor's house or 
something; I so love it when the unenlightened get annoyed.  Thank God I've 
got my stash of NSA zoning stress balls.  They're fun to pitch at the dog 
when she's sleeping.

Note to self:  Call Anselm House to see if there are any new "Hooters" jokes 
out ... to think I've avoided them for all these years!  Wonder if Groucho 
Crabtree and Harpo Farris will give me some tips?  I guess I could be 
"Libbo" ...

So much merriment, so little time ... must get going ...

keely







From: "g. crabtree" <jampot at adelphia.net>
To: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
CC: Tom Hansen <idahotom at hotmail.com>, vision2020 at moscow.com,        
thansen at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] City Council's selective compassion
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:56:35 -0800

Mr. Chasuk,  You can't imagine how sorry I am that my answer did not live up 
to your rather lofty standards of "discourse." I have extremely low 
expectations with regard to Mr. Hansen And I don't know why his should be 
any different.

With regard to my brief answer to the question of allowing N.S.A. the right 
to have it's students and staff park downtown, I really don't see how it 
could confuse you. It strikes me as massively unfair to single them out for 
some kind of burdensome parking restriction. All businesses downtown us up 
parking to one degree or another. Restaurants, coffee shops, and apartments 
all require parking. I suspect that residents at the Moscow Hotel use up far 
more parking in the Jackson st. lot than the school does and there is still 
plenty of left over spaces.

I hope that this reply absolves me of the mantle of silliness, 
unreasonalility  and untruthfulness (awkward words, those) however,  games 
should be played by everyone. If you aren't having fun, what's the point.

Expansively, G.Crabtree


----- Original Message ----- From: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
To: "g. crabtree" <jampot at adelphia.net>
Cc: "Tom Hansen" <idahotom at hotmail.com>; <thansen at moscow.com>; 
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] City Council's selective compassion


On 12/13/05, g. crabtree <jampot at adelphia.net> wrote:

>   Just because you pose a question does not entitle you to an answer,

If discourse is to have any purpose, yes it does.  There is little
point in engaging in dialogue, after all, if one of the participants
ignores those questions that he finds inconvenient or bothersome to
answer.  As I imagine that you expect Mr. Hansen to treat you
equitably, shouldn't his expectations be likewise?

>and with the level of spin you put on your question, it fairly boggles the
>mind that you refer to it as "simple" but here goes. Yes, thanks for 
>asking.

Mr. Hansen didn't ask for a "simple" answer, he asked for a "straight"
one.  A "straight" answer is not necessarily brief.  In fact, your
answer is so brief (and contrary to reason) that I doubt its
truthfulness.  Your answer was therefore neither straight nor simple
(in that it confused rather than clarified).

Silly games should be played by children, not adults.  It would be
nice if more ostensible adults remembered this.

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