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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi Gary,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I didn't intend to imply that Moscow resembles Birmingham, Alabama. One need only walk down the street or go to Winco and realize that Moscow does not include more than a nominally diverse population. When seeing a person of color is a welcome surprise and noticeable because it is not ordinary – we should automatically recognize our locally limited experience with multiculturalism. None the less, I get all there is to know about breathing while brown or black in Moscow, and by extension the rest of Idaho.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hysterical, Gary? Please. Hysterical accurately describes the ignorant local tea party, Project Liberty, home schooling ninnies who think Faux News is an ethically professional news outlet, President Obama is going to take their guns away, and Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman are thoughtful, intelligent, politicos. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my remarks. Here is the connect-the-dots version (not for your sake since I do <u>know</u> you got what I was saying). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Whether one is in contemporary or historic Birmingham, Vichy, or Moscow, Idaho inherited economic privilege and educational access coupled with convenient entrée to power (mighty or miniscule) is the source of unearned privilege used by 2% of the population at the expense of the other 98%. In short, raising chickens in the back yard and hiking all the trails in back country Idaho <u>does not and will never</u> balance the equation of living off Mama (or Grampa's) money by wine sipping, cheese sniffing, name dropping, nanny employing, local latte sipping liberals. Masquerading as Louise Dickinson Rich (if you haven’t read <i>We Took to The Woods</i> please do. It is the real deal story of life in the backwoods of Maine in the late 1930s into the 2nd World War and it is one of my all time top ten books.) doesn’t make members of a pretentious, little clique genuine, interesting, or likable. It does <i>almost</i> make them precious (in an inappropriate kind of way). And herein lies the problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hobbies are not professions. Integrity is not a value which relies on a moral compass that vacillates between personal convenience and pseudo-toleration of jackasses with hate filled agendas. High school mean girls do become adult bullies – and we all know who they are. Genuine, committed Democratic organizations are inclusive, work to educate the public on issues, hold regular voter registration drives, celebrate equality, and support their candidates with money and volunteer labor – even in “technically” non-partisan races. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>While Doug Wilson et al are a spiritual and political blight on the community the crowd described at length in the previous paragraph are equally disgusting, if not as numerous. They willingly give Doug and his congregants cover and protection – and he plays these collaborating patsys like a skilled fisherman with a trout on a barbless hook. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>You know, Gary, I am not referring to hard working, intellectually honest folks who have genuine disagreements with me over everything from politics to religion. Good on them, they make me think and rethink – which is always a valuable process (at least for me). But, I am fed up to my hind teeth with the phony foolishness and whining oozing from the lethargic, lazy left in Moscow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Rose<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Gary Crabtree [mailto:moscowlocksmith@gmail.com] <br>Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 11:55 AM<br>To: Keely Emerine-Mix<br>Cc: Rosemary Huskey; vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Vision2020 Digest, Vol 89, Issue 72<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>"It angers me that, in the name of "liberalism" and "tolerance," the voices in Moscow who most want us to believe that they're opposed to racism, homophobia, sexism, and the rank classism that chokes this town remain silent when a racist, homophobic, masculinist hater of community and democracy announces plans to take it over."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Moscow as Birmingham circa 1955? Hysterical (in every sense)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>g<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>