<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>If only it weren't so painfully and ignorantly true, g.<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Nov 12, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Gary Crabtree <<a href="mailto:moscowlocksmith@gmail.com">moscowlocksmith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>"It angers me that, in the name of "liberalism" and "tolerance," the</span><br><span>voices in Moscow who most want us to believe that they're opposed to</span><br><span>racism, homophobia, sexism, and the rank classism that chokes this</span><br><span>town remain silent when a racist, homophobic, masculinist hater of</span><br><span>community and democracy announces plans to take it over."</span><br><span></span><br><span>Moscow as Birmingham circa 1955? Hysterical (in every sense)</span><br><span></span><br><span>g</span><br><span></span><br><span>On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Keely Emerine-Mix <<a href="mailto:siyocreo@live.com">siyocreo@live.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>I agree, Rose, with your disgust toward so many of Moscow's "liberals."</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>When bad judgment, tunnel vision, and a poor understanding of politics,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>coupled with an inability to anticipate, much less respond to, opposing</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>arguments, are all enshrined as virtues, you don't win elections. The</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>better mayoral candidate lost, and probably needn't have. But when the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>leaders of the Latah Democrats don't have to even feign astonishment that</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>there are people out there whose lives are radically different from theirs</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-- they really DON'T seem to get it, as I learned in 2005 during he school</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>bond election -- no one ought to be surprised.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'm dismayed by the all-white, all-male slate put up by the GMA, since, as</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Saundra pointed out, there are a number of "pro-business" women out there,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>just as Moscow likely has pro-business people of color. What really dismays</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>me, though, is that the Democrats don't seem to grasp the importance of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>reaching out and understanding the concerns of the business community -- or</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the people who support it. I don't blame Nancy Chaney for the loss, for</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>example, of Moscow's car dealerships, and I think it's unfair for others to.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>But a party run at the local level by people who can't grasp the reality</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>that subdivision dwellers do, in fact, consider themselves to be part of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>neighborhoods -- regardless of the sociological definition our academics</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>employ -- and who refuse to see the anti-business effect of Moscow's</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>poor-quality school buildings, and who laud themselves for their tolerance</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>of the utterly intolerable, is a party that won't just lose elections, but</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>lose the support of its community, which will rightly dismiss them as</span><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></body></html>