<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Gary: Do you forget your defence of No Whetherman (hah, hah)? I think it was, Names don't matter, arguments do!<br><br>Joe Campbell</div><div><br>On Apr 29, 2009, at 5:46 PM, "g. crabtree" <<a href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com">jampot@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">My Dearest Bertha, </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I get that you aren't interested in contributing to
the discussion.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I get that you are not swayed by my suave good
looks and worldly charm.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I get that my powerful intellect and rapier wit
bounce off you seemingly unnoticed.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">In fact, I am coming to believe that
you imagine you don't really care for me at all. (wink,
wink)</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">All of these things I can understand.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">What I can't understand is why you are frightened
of me.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The waifish Ms. Lund delights in spitting in
my eye.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The diminutive Ms. Mix gleefully reads me the riot
act.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The delicate Ms. Hovey never hesitates to point out
my failings as she sees them.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">And all of them do it over their very own real life
names.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">What could I have done to scare you into
hiding?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Many of my most vocal critics on this forum have
actually spoken with me face to face and emerged none the worse for
wear.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">What could I have done to cause you to cower
so?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Or could it be that you simply yearn to be
noticed? </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">g</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="gray.treecrab.aka.big.bertha@gmail.com" href="mailto:gray.treecrab.aka.big.bertha@gmail.com">Gray Tree Crab aka Big
Bertha</a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a></a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:17
AM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Habeas Corpus at
Bagram</div>
<div><br></div><font style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif" size="2">The
village locksmith said:<br><br></font>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br>"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?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Now how's about you knock it off with the phony
shame routine and save it for closing arguments in kiddy court
alright?"<br><br><font size="2"><br><span style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif">Before anyone criticizes the lonely
locksmith over this only apparently puerile outburst, they need to understand
the pressure he is under.</span><br style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif"><br style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif">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.</span><br style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif"><br style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif">He is our leader. Cut him
some slack if he seems irrational and childish. He is going where few
dare to go.</span><br style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif"><br style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif"></font></font></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif"><font size="2"></font><br> </div>-- <br>Gray Tree Crab aka "Big Bertha"<br>
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