Ed,<br> <br> I too am overburdened by being excluded from the email list of such a prominent member of the community as Debi Smith. The burden is overwhelming. But one can truly understand why she would call us names, attack us personally, and remove us from her list because we resorted to expressing our opinions about those that attack us and our family members.<br> <br> The Liberal rules on Vision 2020 are simple and fair. If a liberal expresses an opinion, and attacks you or a member of your family, that is fine. If you attack back, respond, or explain yourself, you are resorting to mudslinging and personal attacks. <br> <br> That is the way Vision2020 works now, it is the way it has worked in the past, and it is the way it will work in the future. If you don't want your family, friends, or personhood attacked, you need to adopt their beliefs, it is that simple. I have seen wave after wave of moderates and conservatives come and go on this list, but
it is always the same bunch of liberal yahoos starting the fights with personal attacks, and then claiming the higher moral ground when the people respond. Believe it or not, I use to be a liberal, until I joined Vision 2020 2003. But I am sorry, there is no way I could join or support this bunch now. They are just out of the loop of reality and the most are the most self centered people I have ever engaged with. Most conservatives and moderates are smart enough to just walk away for Vision 2020. Others like myself, are not and just keep just firing back, in the hopes that something will be as offensive, pointless, divisive, discriminatory, closeminded, and hurtful to them, as they are to everyone else that dares express such an opinion contary to their own and visiting this serve-list. <br> <br> Vision 2020 is now just a pointless listserve for people with big mouths and little brains to express disgust in others that differ from them. Too bad, it could
have been something special. Now it is just the Ghetto of the Palouse. <br> <br> Best Regards,<br> <br> _DJA<br><br><b><i>Ed <ecooper@turbonet.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Debbie, and perhaps you won't get this because I'm "bozoed"...huh, she's even calling me a bozo as well as Mr. Ed--and she doesn't even know me--her loss. D, de, def, definately, her loss. </font></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Anyway, I, as well, have no interest in anything you say because you are so shallow; you call my dialogue BS and dismiss it a <font face="Times New Roman" size="3">"quasi-religious
rhetoric"...Well, I couldn't care less. Your hyphenated-last-name-was-plenty-to-alert-me-to-a-number-of-things-about-you, your philosophy, and your personality...<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">No thanks, </font></font></font></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">I can't believe men put up with women not taking their last name...what a crock! Another personification/manifestation of the modern feminazi movement</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Mr. Ed</font></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><a href="http://amren.com/">http://amren.com/</a></font></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>From:</b> <a title="debismith@moscow.com" href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com">debismith@moscow.com</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="kjajmix1@msn.com" href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</a> ; <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a> </div> <div
style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 18, 2006 7:17 AM</div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Vision2020] crossing the line</div> <div><br></div>Indeed, Keely. Exactly why I "bozo" filtered DJA. I have also now filtered Mr. Ed, ToeKnee, and <br>Dick. I'm not as able as you and Chas to attempt discourse with these folks. It just raises my <br>blood pressure and fuels their vitriolic responses.<br><br>I learned some time ago that reality can't penetrate the preconceptions of some people, nor <br>can information be evaluated rationally through anger, fear, and hate. It's even worse when <br>wrapped in a cloud of
quasi-religious rhetoric.<br><br>While most folks on V2020 can discuss expressed opinions (albeit angrily at times), and often <br>change their minds when given facts, a few are just unable to get past their own pile of BS long <br>enough to even recognize their own blind spots. DJA, Dick, ToeKnee, and Mr. Ed are among <br>those few. I often disagree with others, but find their writing at least interesting and sometimes <br>amusing. These four, however, are simply dreary, nasty, and repulsive. <br><br>Bozo filters are the best thing invented since call screening!<br><br>Debi Robinson-Smith<br><br><br><br>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a
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