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<DIV><FONT size=4>Joan, et al,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Since Dale is such a fan of V 2020, perhaps he will really
relish this post. In fact, I dedicate it to him.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>This post is best viewed with HTML mail (not plain text)
turned on. If you are offended by graphic material, stop reading now and
delete this post.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>The following <STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff
size=5><EM><U>completely fictional parody</U></EM></FONT></STRONG> was first
published in my (now syndicated) column <STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff
size=5><EM>Parsonic Parodies</EM></FONT></STRONG> which appears regularly on the
<EM><FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>Christ Church is a Cult</STRONG></FONT></EM>
website.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=4><STRONG>From: <EM>Parsonic Parodies,
Volume IX:</EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=6><STRONG>Things to Watch For!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Here are some <STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff
size=5>fabricated story lines</FONT></STRONG> to be developed in upcoming
episodes of the <STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=5>completely
fictional</FONT></STRONG> hit TV series <EM><STRONG><FONT size=5>Leave it to
Blogger</FONT></STRONG></EM>:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Christ Church Cult Master Douglas Wilson in his natural Eddie
Haskell persona attempts to persuade Blogger to withdraw his savings and
invest them in relandscaping Wilson's home for the glory of
God.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Splotch Blakey is caught unabashedly enjoying himself among
the normal population while relishing the treats at the <EM>New World
Cafe</EM>. He is sentenced by the Cult Master to secretly watch the city
parking lot to attempt to discover the identities of the handsome young men
from Potlatch that certain NSA coeds apparently find very</FONT><FONT
size=4> unboring, desirable, and whom they covertly date and relish.
Will Splotch discover who these Lotharios are? Will Splotch discover that
one of the young swains is already married with child? Will there
be issue from these hot relationships or has Onan been
ignored?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Cult Master Wilson suffers a near lethal (for those
around him) attack of flatulence after rumors surface that a well-known local
veteran newspaper columnist has submitted a short piece to <EM>The Reformed
Evangelical</EM> entitled "Christ Church Cult Attorney Greg Dickinson:
Sanctimonious Sinner and/or Self-Absorbed Cuckold?"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV></FONT><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Disenfranchised and disgruntled Christ Church women
research and file complaints over alleged asbestos and egregious ADA violations
at NSA, Logos, and Anselm House. Cult Master Wilson becomes very
worried that these complaints will eventually lead to other
knowledge becoming public, to wit, that breathable remnants of very
toxic chemicals from electronic equipment fires from the GTE occupancy
era still permeate materials in the NSA building. Wilson worries
that this disclosure will adversely affect enrollment and also could
force closure of the building.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Rumors circulate that Cult Mistress Nancy Wilson has
penned an article for <EM>Mighty Christian Fortitude</EM> magazine entitled
"Enduring the Pounding, Crushing, Smothering Beleaguerment of Sexual
Intercourse: A Christian Wife's Most Difficult, Most Sacred Duty."
Rumors further circulate that the authoress may not completely believe what she
has written in the last phrase. Could a very discrete
adventure be in the offing? Will the Cult Master suffer the same fate
as his attorney?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Cult Master Wilson is at first pleased that the local
franchise of a major national fast-food chain has renamed its new burger "The
Cult Master." The burger includes three beef patties, three sausage
patties, three slices of Swiss cheese, and six rashers of bacon all grilled,
and then deep fried in pork lard. Wilson is so complimented by this
"honor" that he ingests three at a sitting several times per week.
However, his euphoric elation turns to deep chagrin when he learns that the
burger name was actually suggested by a well-known public religious figure to
call attention to and to lampoon Wilson's widely reputed, very unchristian
gluttony.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>
<DIV><FONT size=4>The cult elders find themselves in a
tizzy over rumors that an article by NSA President Roy Atwood will soon be
jointly published by <EM>Crudinto/Adumpsta,</EM> <EM>New Age
Christianity, </EM>and<EM> Adventures of the Middle Aged</EM> entitled
"Coed Lolitas: God-Granted-Gift to Christian College
Presidents."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Cult Master Jr. Nate Wilson, world class scientist, solver of the Shroud of
Turin Mystery (soon to be a major movie), publishes an article in <EM>Vanguard
of Christian Science</EM> entitled "Unsuccessful Experiments Attempting to
Reduce the Frequency, Volume, Sonic
Impact, and Reeking-to-High-Heaven Attacks of Flatulence
Coming from Behind the Pulpit at Christ Church Services."</DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Dale "King of the Combovers" Courtney, official Christ Church
Cult spokesperson/security guard suffers an array of embarrassing, but not
unamusing injuries while attempting to impregnate his neighbor's
cat.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=joanopyr@earthlink.net href="mailto:joanopyr@earthlink.net">Joan
Opyr</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020 Moscow</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:11
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Dale has a
backbone? Where? Is that it wiggling in theRosauer's fish counter?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hello Ted,<BR><BR>First, I read the article you posted on
election fraud, Ted -- the one Dale took as evidence of your paranoia. I, too,
had hoped that it would stimulate discussion, but I didn't start the ball
rolling because I quite simply found the facts too grim. I'm no political
ostrich, as most here will attest, but good grief -- our last two presidential
elections have been profoundly depressing for the democrats (note the small
"d") among us. This will mark me forever as a geek, but there's a line in the
new Star Wars movie that just about sums it up: Padme, watching the galactic
republic devolve into a monarchy under the cover of endless war, remarks
something along the lines of "Thus dies Liberty, to a thunderous
applause."<BR><BR>Dale is disingenuous. He's manipulative. He's
unprofessional, discourteous, he is shallow and a wimp. Yes, a wimp. Despite
his claims to have acquired a backbone in the Navy, Dale chooses to "debate"
us not on Vision 2020, among the elbowing, jostling hoi-polloi, but from the
safe distance of his self-moderated weblog. There, Dale sets the agenda and
controls the discourse. He's never in danger of having his ass handed to him
on a plate, as are the active participants of Vision 2020, myself included.
This danger of being shown up, of being corrected, of having to admit to being
wrong, or losing an argument, or making a mistake is the reason why Doug
Wilson and Doug Jones, et al., left us in late 2003, the Winter of Their
Discontent. They found that they were losing too many arguments making too few
converts. Vision 2020 was not good hunting ground for lock-step
thinkers.<BR><BR>If you'll all excuse my language, Dale is a classic
chickenshit. He nitpicks from a safe distance, tossing little bits of gravel
at the big boys and girls. It's clear that he reads 2020 religiously, and then
posts like mad about what he encounters here, but he does this in the guise of
the tattle-tale tit. Dale nitpicks and runs away, living to pick another day.
Backbone my fanny. Dale snatched a tentacle off a passing jellyfish and
stuffed that wiggling length of slime down where his vertebrae ought to
be.<BR><BR>For all his faults (and they are many), Donovan, Dale's designated
Roy Cohn, remains on Vision 2020. He fawns all over Dale on right-mind.us
(have you considered a good tongue-scraping, Donovan? preferably with bleach?)
but he hasn't run away or hidden his ignorant belligerence behind Mama
Courtney's skirts.<BR><BR>Which isn't to say that I read Donovan's posts -- 15
per day and counting -- because I don't. I have other hobbies, like
breathing.<BR><BR>Joan Opyr/Auntie
Establishment<BR>www.joanopyr.com<BR><BR><BR><BR>On May 26, 2005, at 1:57 PM,
Tbertruss@aol.com wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>Hello Julie:<?/smaller><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>Anyone
on the web can go to:<?/smaller><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>http://vision2020.moscow.com<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>and
see the archives of Vision2020 which should have every Vision2020 post for
years back accessible.<?/smaller><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>Here
are the first two hits from a simple Google web search using my name "ted
moffett"<?/smaller><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><B><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>Ted<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily></B><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>
<B>Moffett</B> on Pacifism<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><B><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>...<?/smaller><?/fontfamily></B><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>
<B>Ted</B> <B>Moffett</B> on Pacifism. <B>Ted</B> <B>Moffett</B> writes:.
What amazes me, has always amazed<?/smaller><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>me,
since I was a teeny tiny person, is how this moral directive is so
<B>...</B><?/smaller><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>right-mind.us/archive/2004/11/04/560.aspx
- 43k - <?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>Cached<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>
-
<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>Similar pages<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>
<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><BR><BR><B><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>Ted<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily></B><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>
<B>Moffett's</B> Paranoia<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><B><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>...<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily></B><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>
<B>Ted</B> <B>Moffett's</B> Paranoia. <B>Ted</B> Moffet posted an article
called I smell a Rat.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><B><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>Ted<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily></B><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>,
how do you reply to Anne Applebaum's post about having faith in ATMs,
<B>...</B><?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>right-mind.us/archive/2004/11/17/678.aspx
- 42k - <?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>Cached<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>
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<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>Similar pages<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>
<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>As
you can see, both of these hits are from Dale's web site where he used
Vision2020 posts I authored to create or attempt to create discussion on his
site.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>I
can only conclude Dale is desperate to draw others to his site, so he must
steal controversy, as it were, from Vision2020.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>Below
is a forwarded Vision2020 post I sent recently about Dale Courtney's web
site that generated zero comments on the Vision2020 list. <?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>Subj:
<B>[Vision2020] Dale Courtney's Oversimplifications </B> <?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>Date:
5/21/2005 9:48:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time <?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>From:
<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>Tbertruss@aol.com<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>
<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>To:
<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>dmcourtn@moscow.com<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>,
<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>vision2020@moscow.com<?/smaller><?/color><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>
<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><I><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>Sent
from the Internet (Details)<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily></I><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>
<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>Mr.
Dale Courtney et. al.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>Shortly
after last fall's presidential election, I posted to V2020 an article about
the possibility of voting fraud and/or tampering. I consider this a
nonpartisan issue that anyone who cares in the slightest bit about the
integrity of the electoral process would wish to see explored and
exposed. I merely posted the article, without writing any text, just
signing my name.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>So
how does Dale Courtney respond? He places on his web site a post in
bold font announcing "Ted Moffett's Paranoia," suggesting that I respond to
another article about computer systems and paper trails.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>Regardless
of the facts and arguments on the issue of computerized voting, what kind of
morality is behind placing on a public web site a derogatory statement about
the psychology of someone you don't know who was merely making information
available about a critical issue? If Dale did not post the statement
in question, perhaps he needs to moderate the content on his website?
But my best guess is that this statement was authored by him.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>When
I first discovered this juvenile and rude conduct on his web site, I decided
to ignore it.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>But
today I found more nonsense on Mr. Courtney's web site. Apparently, he
feels a need to lump together under the words "left" and/or "lefty" a large
group of people with widely varying views on government. Dale wrote in
answer to a Joan Opry V2020 post:<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>"First,
I'm not Faul, or Stigmatta, or Fiat, or... That's not me. No need. I don't
play "hide-and-seek" games. I sign everything that's mine. 20 years in the
navy teaches one to have a backbone/spine. So don't assign the methods of
the Left (Ivan Brewski, Art Deco, JeanC, Captain Kirker, R2 Privacy, Shelly,
Tbertruss, DPQ, hayfields, LRR, Nebar, Wocsom, etc) onto someone who behaves
right (pun intended). Go look somewhere else for your bogeymen.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>As
I said previously, I do find it the height of hypocrisy that the Left
doesn't get bent out of shape when Lefties are anonymous. But let someone
they don't agree with try and be anonymous? Ah! The intolerance of the
Tolerant. I've come to expect nothing less."<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>First
off, Mr. Courtney, you need to follow the V2020 list more closely if you are
going to assume all those on the "left" are one group that marches in lock
step. Tom Hansen, no doubt in your mind one of those nefarious members
of the "left," once chided on V2020 yours truly for not signing a V2020
post. So in fact on V2020 a "lefty" chided a fellow "lefty" (this
designation is only in Mr. Courtney's mind, because I do not describe myself
as a "lefty" or a member of the "left") for not signing a V2020 post.
I argued once on V2020 that perhaps not signing a V2020 post with a "real"
name can in some cases be justified. Bill London, another individual I
suspect you would label "leftist," argued otherwise. <?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>I
have occasionally not signed a V2020 post when using my AOL e-mail address
"tbertruss," but I nearly always do. I am not trying to hide behind
"tbertruss." Everyone who follows V2020 knows that "Art Deco" is Wayne
Fox, and "Nebar" is Jasper Nance. The V2020 posts by these individuals
do not represent a deliberate attempt to hide their identity, as Dale
Courtney implied.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>"Faul,"
"Sigmatta" and "Fiat" were attempting to hide their identities from the
V2020 list, as far as I know.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>Who
is looking for "bogeymen," as Dale Courtney wrote in response to Joan
Opry? It seems Dale Courtney's stereotyping oversimplifying views of
this large and varied group of individuals he regards as being members of
the "left" qualify these "Lefty's" as his own "bogeymen."<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>Perhaps
Mr. Courtney is so enamored of marching in lock step utilizing a form of
"group think" that he projects this manner of thinking onto those he
imagines oppose him.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>I
will let the immortal words of Dale Courtney written to Joan Opry on Mr.
Courtney's web site express what I think about his statement "Ted Moffett's
Paranoia:" <?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>"So
instead of trying to project your bias and venom on someone you don't know,
why don't you go do something useful."
<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>Links
to the info on Dale Courtney's web site mentioned above:<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>http://right-mind.us/archive/2004/11/17/678.aspx<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>http://right-mind.us/archive/2005/01/27/1375.aspx<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><?smaller>http://right-mind.us/archive/2005/01/27/1377.aspx<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>---------------------------------------------------------<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000><?smaller>V2020
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