Bend Over, USA

(Greg Pavlov) wrote in news:3fd72d29.173589168
@news.cis.dfn.de:

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:21:42 GMT, Frank Church
wrote:


I just counted 86 alt.politics on my newsserver..

Gee, Frank, I just counted about 400 comp. groups
on *my* server, and these aren't even alt groups, but
that doesn't stop you from posting "geek" messages
here, does it ? And there have to be hundreds of
lonely hearts groups out in usenet land, but you're
still using this forum for your divorce stories, aren't
you ?

....it is true that most all of us at one time or another have posted OT
about one thing or another, but your whining leftwing posts come on a
more or less regular basis. And no, I don't talk politics when fishing
with roffians or anyone else for that matter. Since this is an
international forum it must be boring as hell for our friends who aren't
US citizens. It's the surest way to create hard feelings and who needs
that ****? Except you and a few others that seem to thrive on discord. I
will stick around and you can enjoy your stay in my bozo bin. EOT.

Frank Church
...who is not advocating censorship, just take your political **** to the
proper forum.

Frank Church wrote in
9.11:

(Greg Pavlov) wrote in
news:3fd72d29.173589168 @news.cis.dfn.de:

...it is true that most all of us at one time or another have
posted OT about one thing or another, but your whining leftwing
posts come on a more or less regular basis. And no, I don't talk
politics when fishing with roffians or anyone else for that
matter. Since this is an international forum it must be boring
as hell for our friends who aren't US citizens. It's the surest
way to create hard feelings and who needs that ****? Except you
and a few others that seem to thrive on discord. I will stick
around and you can enjoy your stay in my bozo bin. EOT.

Frank Church
..who is not advocating censorship, just take your political
**** to the proper forum.


Full Moon!

;-)

C'mon Frank, the political rants are *mostly* boring and
uninteresting thats what delete/mark as read/plonk files are for.
As you yourself and a recent email correspondent astutely noted, it
is nigh on impossible to change the views of those who have their
minds made up. I may be wrong (interpreting others' motives is
always dodgy), but I don't think Greg's original post was trying to
do that ... he was just looking for someone to share a bush bashing
session with. As it turns out he has been largely unsuccessful in
this thread .

I say *mostly* because certain diabolical acts touch us all. Also,
reading some of the OT posts (even the political ones) of the
regular roffians, like greg's original above, do give some small
insight into the poster.

Of course I may well feel differently if it was an Aus. dominated
group with local politics poke its ugly head up constantly ...

Steve (fair dinkum furriner, relatively speaking

"Stephen Welsh" wrote in message
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Frank Church wrote in
9.11:

....Of course I may well feel differently if it was an Aus.
dominated
group with local politics poke its ugly head up constantly ...

Is it possible I am the only person in this group sorely disappointed
that we aren't occasionally treated to internecine political squabbles
from other places? It is a very sad thing to contemplate that so few
are interested in the doings of the quaint folk in far away lands.

Steve (fair dinkum furriner, relatively speaking

Well sure, but then, who ain't?

Wolfgang

"Wolfgang" wrote in
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"Stephen Welsh" wrote in message
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Frank Church wrote in
9.11:

....Of course I may well feel differently if it was an Aus.
dominated
group with local politics poke its ugly head up constantly ...

Is it possible I am the only person in this group sorely
disappointed that we aren't occasionally treated to internecine
political squabbles from other places?

Yes. ;-)

You need a critical mass to have the blues start ...
I don't think there are enough quaint folk here of any
particular denomination to form that mass.

Steve

"Stephen Welsh" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in
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"Stephen Welsh" wrote in message
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Frank Church wrote in
9.11:

....Of course I may well feel differently if it was an Aus.
dominated
group with local politics poke its ugly head up constantly ...

Is it possible I am the only person in this group sorely
disappointed that we aren't occasionally treated to internecine
political squabbles from other places?

Yes. ;-)

Rats!

You need a critical mass to have the blues start ...
I don't think there are enough quaint folk here of any
particular denomination to form that mass.

Well, not to appear contentious or anything, but having met many a ROFFian
of considerable gravity, I maintain that any one of a great number of them
individually approaches critical mass regardless of peculiar political,
currency, or theological affiliation. Furthermore, as the Earth exhibits no
perturbations in it's orbit or rotation that cannot be accounted for by
traditional astronomic or geophysical causes, it seems altogether likely
that such grave ROFFians must be more or less equally distributed throughout
all hemispheres on the face of the globe.......you GOTTA have enough down
your way for a good set to from time to time. You just ain't tryin', mate.


Wolfgang

"Wolfgang" wrote in
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Well, not to appear contentious or anything, but having met many
a ROFFian of considerable gravity, I maintain that any one of a
great number of them individually approaches critical mass
regardless of peculiar political, currency, or theological
affiliation. Furthermore, as the Earth exhibits no
perturbations in it's orbit or rotation that cannot be accounted
for by traditional astronomic or geophysical causes, it seems
altogether likely that such grave ROFFians must be more or less
equally distributed throughout all hemispheres on the face of
the globe.......

*laugh*

While I agree that the distribution of _potential_ roffians is more
or less uniform across the globe, not all of them (in Aus. at
least) have availed themselves of the opportunity to become full
fledged roffians by accessing this place.

you GOTTA have enough down your way for a good
set to from time to time. You just ain't tryin', mate.



I could possibly draw some fire from New Zealand if you like ...

John Mitchell


Steve

"Stephen Welsh" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in
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I could possibly draw some fire from New Zealand if you like ...

John Mitchell

Who dat?

Wolfgang

On 11 Dec 2003 00:08:57 GMT, Stephen Welsh
wrote:



I could possibly draw some fire from New Zealand if you like ...

John Mitchell


Steve

That name is enough to flush one NZ lurker out. His heinious deeds are
too many to list and irrelevant to NH ROFFians. Hang, draw and
quartering should be brought back for special cases.
By the way Stephen it is rugby union not rugby league (that's like a
calling a Kiwi and Aussie) and it is largely confined to south
Auckland.
Having got that off my chest I can hear a trout calling me so I must
pick up my 5wt, some hare 'n' coppers and stroll down to the local
river.

Jim

"Frank Church" wrote in message
9.11...
(Greg Pavlov) wrote in news:3fd72d29.173589168
Snip Snip
"Since this is an
international forum it must be boring as hell for our friends who aren't
US citizens. It's the surest way to create hard feelings and who needs
that ****? Except you and a few others that seem to thrive on discord. I
will stick around and you can enjoy your stay in my bozo bin. EOT.

Frank Church
..who is not advocating censorship, just take your political **** to the
proper forum.

Frank,
With all due respect, the **** that Greg is referring to is not "politics" .
.. . its massive corruption at the highest levels of our government and is
treason or something very close to it. Secondly, I believe you are fairly
well disconnected if you believe that the mismanagement of US foreign
relations is not of concern internationally. Few other national governments,
and fewer foreign populations support the present Cowboy policies of our
un-elected government.

These are painful times for US patriots: The right-wing has lost all moral,
economic, or patriotic credibility. The left wing is immobilized by general
goofiness and the all out assault on civil liberties, and the center is
embarrassed that it was conned by an inept clown, who parroted all the
feel-good slogans. The corruption, the stealing, the betrayal of troops in
the field, the posturing of White House martinets, IS outrageous.

Our country will find its moral compass again and things will get corrected.
However, to complain right now that the occasional screams of outrage are
uncomfortable is akin to bitching about the smoke from a neighbor's burning
house.

Dave

"David Snedeker" wrote in
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My last post to anyone on this cluster****... my initial post was to
complain about turning roff into his private propaganda medium since there
are far more welcoming venues to post that stuff. It seems Muskie has taken
a break or crawled back under a rock someplace and it would be nice to get
away from this political blather. I hear it everyday on the radio, and see
it on the evening news and it would be nice to come to a place I enjoy, and
is very much a part of my life and not have to filter out or delete this
stuff. Base on the replies, I am in the minority on that score so I will
leave it at that. I still maintain that an OT post
in this forum is acceptable, those that don't pit people against one
another as these political rants always do. They have no place here.

Frank Church