[Vision2020] filth from the Blog

Mon Dec 17 05:56:17 PST 2007

Arnold stated:

"Can you please explain to me why mass reproduce and spread things that you
think are filth? Why not leave it outside of Vision 2020? 

If you are on your way into your house, and you see dog poo on the sidewalk
in front of your house, do you bring it inside the house, show it to
everyone and say, 'See, is this filth.', or do you leave it alone unless
someone steps in it and gets it on the carpet in your house?"

Your analogy is fascinating, Arnold, and (may I add) appropriate.

No.  I doubt seriously that Keely would bring the dog poo into the house.
Nor do I believe that she would simply ignore it.  I believe that she would
do what she's been doing for so very long, either clean it up (as she and so
many others are attempting to do) or inform and warn people of its
existence.

After all, doesn't our community deserve to be relieved of such stench?

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007) 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Donovan Arnold
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 10:07 PM
To: keely emerinemix; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] filth from the Blog

Keely,

Can you please explain to me why mass reproduce and spread things that you
think are filth? Why not leave it outside of Vision 2020? 

If you are on your way into your house, and you see dog poo on the sidewalk
in front of your house, do you bring it inside the house, show it to
everyone and say, "See, is this filth.", or do you leave it alone unless
someone steps in it and gets it on the carpet in your house?

Seems to me, rather odd to behave in the way that you do. If I think
something doesn't have merit to be considered, I just leave it well enough
alone, not mass reproduce it and assist in the dissemination of the content.

Best,

Donovan

keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com> wrote:

Visionaires,

I truly hate to inject the grime of Dale Courtney's Right-Mind blog into a
pleasant holiday season, but I would direct you to his most recent entry, in
which he, quoting the Idaho Values Alliance spokesperson Bryan Fischer,
accuses Nancy Chaney and the Moscow City Council of planning to deliberately
violate the laws of the State of Idaho.  Word on the Blog has it that Nancy,
et al, is planning a full-scale f--- you to the hallowed Constitution of our
home state.  (She's like that, you know . . .)

What municipal malfeasance is Dale blathering about?   Well, parroting his
hero, the Values Alliance director Fischer, Dale says that the City
Council's consideration of domestic partner benefits is a direct and
orchestrated act of defiance against all that our State holds near and dear.
Because Idaho has outlawed same-sex marriage and the "domestic" benefits
thereof, the moral guardians of our State have determined that any attempt
to extend domestic-partner benefits to City employees is an attack on the
moral fibre and legal firmament of the State of Idaho -- nothing less, and
certainly nothing as bland as equality of rights under the law.

Goodness.  Why, next thing you know, the legislature might go all apostate
and actually decide to extend adequate funding to public schools.  It's too
damned scary to think about, if, indeed, the legislature thinks about it at
all.  Courtney's blog counts, of course, on his readers not thinking, and I
suppose that with a wink and crossed fingers behind his sweater-vested back,
he might hope that the legislature doesn't, either.

And that, my friends, is the sum of Courtney's moral outrage in the waning
days of 2007, a year marked with a bloodthirsty foreign policy,
unprecedented disgust on the part of its citizens toward government,
jingoistic anti-immigration language and the plummeting moral authority of a
nation once regarded as the world's beacon of freedom and morality.  I
suppose that I wouldn't have thought of my friend Nancy Chaney as the sole
vanguard or destroyer of the institution of marriage, but it's been a year
of surprises.  After all, I never would've thought that any one man's blog
could be the source of so much rampant idiocy and bigotry, and yet . . .
here we have it.

Keely

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