[Vision2020] love letters or a desperate cry for attention?

[Joe Campbell]

Gary: Do you forget your defence of No Whetherman (hah, hah)? I think  
it was, Names don't matter, arguments do!

Joe Campbell

On Apr 29, 2009, at 5:46 PM, "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>  
wrote:

> My Dearest Bertha,
>
> I get that you aren't interested in contributing to the discussion.
>
> I get that you are not swayed by my suave good looks and worldly  
> charm.
>
> I get that my powerful intellect and rapier wit bounce off you  
> seemingly unnoticed.
>
> In fact, I am coming to believe that you imagine you don't really  
> care for me at all. (wink, wink)
>
> All of these things I can understand.
>
> What I can't understand is why you are frightened of me.
>
> The waifish Ms. Lund delights in spitting in my eye.
>
> The diminutive Ms. Mix gleefully reads me the riot act.
>
> The delicate Ms. Hovey never hesitates to point out my failings as  
> she sees them.
>
> And all of them do it over their very own real life names.
>
> What could I have done to scare you into hiding?
>
> Many of my most vocal critics on this forum have actually spoken  
> with me face to face and emerged none the worse for wear.
>
> What could I have done to cause you to cower so?
>
> What horror could I have inflicted on you that leaves you with no  
> recourse but to hurl pitifully weak epithets from the safe harbor of  
> anonymity?
>
> Or could it be that you simply yearn to be noticed?
>
>
> g
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gray Tree Crab aka Big Bertha
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:17 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Habeas Corpus at Bagram
>
> The village locksmith said:
>
>
> "My goodness isn't the nascent little ambulance chaser cute when he  
> gets all up on his hind legs and brays about how others should be  
> ashamed?
>
> The reason that I don't "defend torture" is because that  I see no  
> compelling need to. As I've said before, I do not believe that  
> waterboarding is torture, I do not believe that the previous     
> administration had a policy promoting the use of torture, and  I  
> don't think that your pretending to be the arbiter of all that is  
> righteous, pure and holy necessitates my responding to every idle  
> quack and query that's directed my way.
>
> Now how's about you knock it off with the phony shame routine and  
> save it for closing arguments in kiddy court alright?"
>
>
> Before anyone criticizes the lonely    locksmith over this only  
> apparently puerile outburst, they need to understand the pressure he  
> is under.
>
> His business is so busy that he is constantly on edge.  In fact, it  
> is so busy that he may have to expand into the next door  
> laundromat.  As one of the area's leading entrepreneurs and  
> entrepreneurial philosophers, he is to be cheered for his daring and  
> incisive business acumen in these hard times.
>
> He is our leader.  Cut him some slack if he seems irrational and  
> childish.  He is going where few dare to go.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Gray Tree Crab aka "Big Bertha"
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