For ~^beancounter~^

In an effort to figure out more about who you are, I did some
googling, and got a sense of your posting history, etc. I know I said
in another thread that I'm embarassed to be a member of the same
newsgroup as you, but I want to take that back. You've got a long
posting history here, and certainly not everything about you is as
repulsive as your political posts. I get the big picture....you're a
self-employed businessman, two daughters, raise llamas, like to
flyfish, live in a nice part of Colorado....its a pretty real profile
and all in all, you sound like a pretty reasonable guy. We've talked
online in the past and it was cordial and constructive.

But this vileness about Obama and the new administration is really out
of character, and you know that it has caused you grief in the past.
You probably let it bounce right off you, but if you're the type of
guy who likes to rile people up just to watch them spin, then that's a
pretty low form of character. Also, you have to be mature enough to
realize that your opinions on Obama ARE purely based on Islamophobia,
not on anything of real substance. If you know that and don't care,
than that's an even lower form of character.

I'm going to have to distinguish between to two sides of you; the
racially-biased, deliberately irritating, immature bigot; and the rest
of you, which seems like a fairly everyday kind of guy who I could
imagine sharing a beer with streamside.

I'm not the roff net-nanny, but I do try to get along with folks here
and I've been slipping out of character in the past few days with you.
I apologize and will try to refrain from this in the future, but I
implore you to do some soul-searching. I would hope that you would not
want to indoctrinate your daughters with that type of bigotry, nor
would you be especially proud to let them see you in that light. The
fact that several people over the years have identified this in you
gives the accusation more legitimacy.

I've travelled the world extensively, and can say without reservation
that the thing that makes America great is NOT that we are a well-
balanced, tolerant society, but that we ASPIRE to be one. You have a
personal choice here...work on yourself and your prejudices and be
treated as someone who is imperfect (as we all are) but aspiring to
improve (as intelligent people do), or else continue to be immature
and divisive, and slowly destroy relationships you have built here.

Myron