Oh, thank you so very much, for lumping me into some sort of "club", which you have now decided to trash and bash and slice away at with all sorts of spurious slander. I can't tell you just how very much I appreciate it. /sarcasm in the extreme
I'd happily refute all of the points of your highly emotional tirade, but frankly, your spleen venting isn't worthy of my time and attention.
The ONLY point I will correct and that for the benefit of lurkers and others who weren't reading FR during late '99 and all of 2000, is your completely erroneous statements about what FR used to be like. You weren't here, so you don't know what that time was really like. OTOH, you WERE here and engaged in the late part of the Libertarian wars. If you remember them as being all warm and fuzzy and civil, without nastiness, flame wars, stalking, etc., then your memories are completely contrary to the historical fact. What, you have now forgotten the nights of the ABSINTHE history lessons I gave and the garbage I took for doing so?
"If you remember them as being all warm and fuzzy and civil, without nastiness, flame wars, stalking, etc., then your memories are completely contrary to the historical fact."
You're kidding right? I thought Arator and his crowd where harmless little fuzz balls. I still remember Major Phlegm's opus to Arator...it still brings a tear to my eye.
I did not lump you in a club dear, but I know who they are as does almost anyone who dares criticize Bush over this issue (or any other). I courtesy pinged you.
You atta boyed Rokke for his customary dismissal of my views and I felt you deserved a courtesy ping since you has expressed interest in my exchange with Rokke ...someone with whom I have substantive disagreement.
The posts made about George Bush on this forum during those days are public record.
Folks today are banned for a fraction of that.
Warm and fuzzy was not a description I used. But Conservatism here used to trump Republicanism, of that there is no doubt.
And the very folks riding high scorched earth and high fiving one another while completely out of sync with any poll I've seen of the GOP base over dissent with Bush are almost precisely those who were ready to reject this joint over JR's Schiavo posture.
There will come another issue where you guys will not enjoy the cover you have now. You can bank on it. I hope we can all still be here to savor that moment..lol