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

[Joe Campbell]

Does my calling someone a hypocrite require that I have never been  
one? There is a fallacy here.

But I will give you the point that Gary is entitled to say what he  
means, just as I was. I did not mean to suggest otherwise.

And I'll give you the point that I have had far worse posts than this  
one by Gary -- actually his was rather poetic, which I appreciated.

But to compare Big Bertha to Know Whether, Man (this is even funnier)  
is a bit of a stretch, no?

Joe Campbell

On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joe --
>
> No real criticism here, but: do you remember your attacks on No  
> Weatherman? Just saying: the reason this sort of thing has two sides  
> is that neither is required to police their own hypocrisy.
>
> -- ACS
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> 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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