Hank (if I may),<br><br>Truth be told, I didn't "literally" mean you were an offensive idiot. Does that help? Why do you get to call me a "hippy" yet somehow I've crossed an unseen line by calling you an "offensive idiot"? I just don't get it. If you can explain the rules to me that might help. When people are offensive to liberals and progressives -- in this case calling folks "hippies" in an attempt to dismiss their views -- I get offensive right back. That is just human nature. Don't like it? Try NOT being offensive in the first place. Is that too much to ask? People will treat you how you treat them. There is no big mystery here.<br>
<br>Best, Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Henry D. "Hank" Johnston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hearseboy85@gmail.com">hearseboy85@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm glad to see I've raised the hackles of Moscow's
keyboard commandos here on Vision 2020!</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">While I'm no longer with RadioShack in Pullman (I
haven't been for over a year now) where I work should be of little concern to
anyone on this site. My columns are simply the exercising of my first
amendment rights to share my opinion with whatever twist of humor I desire.
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">For what its worth, I do live in Moscow with my
partner/husband Alex and am a Moscow/Latah county taxpayer.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">So whats that to you and your friends on your
mailing list Brett? Gonna send a lynch mob after me?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Also, Shirley Ringo was incorrect in assuming
that I'm a "republican" with "big business" leanings. Yes, I was a page in
the legislature (nearly 10 years ago) and <font face="Arial" size="2">I do have
a slightly different outlook about business in Moscow (and in general) than the
members of this forum.</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I do however pride myself on becoming quite
moderate with a slightly conservative slant in the past several years (compared
to my earlier writings) and, if you've been following my columns, I quite
publicly and brutally ripped the Latah County GOP a new one a couple months
ago. It was also in that column that resigned my membership from the Idaho
and Latah GOP's in favor of becoming an independent.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">If the readers of this forum want to take my
writings literally then so be it - I presume then there is nothing I could write
that wouldn't offend someone. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Rather than start firing off phrases like
"offensive idiot" I would much rather prefer that you step back and look at what
I write with a little bit of humor as Tom Hansen has - yes Tom, it must be a
hippie thing and no I don't understand. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm flattered that you care so much about me and
what I write</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Cheers!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Henry Johnston</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Columnist</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Moscow Pullman Daily News</font></div>
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