[Vision2020] A Lesson for Viz Subscribers

Art Deco art.deco.studios at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 09:13:02 PST 2012


Rumelhart writes:

"The real take-away here is not the importance of hitting reply vs. reply
all, it's not to say stupid things in the first place."

Perhaps you should have sent this timely message earlier to all the former
and present Republican president wanna-bes.

w.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>wrote:

> The real take-away here is not the importance of hitting reply vs. reply
> all, it's not to say stupid things in the first place.
>
> Paul
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> *To:* Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 27, 2012 7:06 AM
>
> *Subject:* [Vision2020] A Lesson for Viz Subscribers
>
> Another politician learns the valuable lesson on the difference between
> the "reply" button and the "reply to all" button.
>
> Courtesy of WRAL (Raleigh, North Carolina) at:
>
> http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/blogpost/10649801/
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Cabarrus lawmaker calls for public hangings
>
> A Cabarrus County lawmaker wants to bring back public hangings in North
> Carolina as a deterrent to crime, and he says doctors who perform abortions
> should be in the line to the gallows.
>
> Republican Rep. Larry Pittman, who was appointed to the District 82 House
> seat in October, expressed his views in an email sent Wednesday to every
> member of the General Assembly.
>
> Pittman said he was disgusted by the actions of death row inmate Danny
> Robbie Hembree Jr., who recently sent a letter to The Gaston Gazette
> bragging about how easy life is in prison and that appeals would stall his
> execution for years.
>
> "We need to make the death penalty a real deterrent again by actually
> carrying it out. Every appeal that can be made should have to be made at
> one time, not in a serial manner," Pittman wrote in the email. "If
> murderers (and I would include abortionists, rapists, and kidnappers, as
> well) are actually executed, it will at least have the deterrent effect
> upon them. For my money, we should go back to public hangings, which would
> be more of a deterrent to others, as well."
>
> He confirmed to WRAL News on Thursday that he wrote the email but said he
> had intended to send it only to Rep. Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and not to
> every lawmaker. He said he was tired and accidentally hit "Reply All" on an
> email that Moore had sent to the General Assembly about Hembree.
>
> "I was filled with anger, disgust, and frustration, as well as a profound
> sense of grief for the family of the young woman he killed," Pittman said
> of Hembree. "I felt a need to 'vent' some of these feelings and intended to
> do so to him alone. In the process, I got a bit carried away and overstated
> my case. I am sure I am not the only one who has ever done that."
>
> He said he doesn't want his email turned into "a sideshow for political
> purposes" and said what Hembree said was more outrageous than his comments.
>
> "What I regret is that something I wrote as a personal note to a fellow
> member of the House has had the effect of taking the focus off of where it
> should be, which is the victim and her family and the need to provide them
> with justice," he said.
>
> Pittman's biography on the legislative website lists his profession as
> "pastor, shipping worker, company chaplain."
>
> ---------------
>
> Rep. Larry Pittman
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Seeya later, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Post Falls, Idaho
>
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
>
> - Unknown
>
>
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