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And you think that you have a life, Izzytheputz.

How are things going with OmSig? Do you think you'll get him over the pond for a little slap and tickle?

Too bad Frank didn't go, you three could have had a merry ole time.

(Ugh!)

I think you guys need to kiss and make up. Your constant fighting makes me sad.

But, seriously, I suspect you guys enjoy clobbering each other. That's why these online altercations last so long.

Its good to c u again, Bill.





David

It's good to see you, too, David!

Are you ready for more insults? Not from me, of course. (No, people, that doesn't mean I agree with all of his political views. It simply means that I appreciate interacting with any online personage who's friendly instead of being rude and antagonistic from the get-go as if his very honor is at stake. ) Of course, you are.

And now for the question of the hour: Have you ever noticed that more than a few "progressives," who have supported the gay rights movement for decades, often try to insult those with whom they disagree of engaging in homosexual acts? Doesn't this seem a bit inconsistent with their profession of tolerance?

Poor Frank gets clobbered by JTT and Setanta. I feel sorry for him.

My Better Half is also smarter than I am (although she would disagree). She's also more charming.



I swear, if I live to be a hundred years old, I'm going to chuckle every time I remember the phrase "terribly angry at all times about almost everything."



Thank you, kind sir! I've just about given up trying to have a serious discussion about any issue close to my heart in the message board of any website. I don't know why; but I eventually get mad, especially when I think the other poster has a completely closed mind and isn't even "listening." I'm certainly not that way in real life. Besides, what good does it do to win an online argument? Nothing really changes because of that. So, I think I'll have more fun as an Internet clown (although certainly without the finesse of certain A2K members).



Several years ago I suggested A2K to my sister (seven years older than I) because I thought she would be ideal for this forum. Her progressive credentials are impeccable. (As for me, if I expressed all of my social and political views, I would not be appreciated in either a liberal/progresive forum or a conservative forum because I do not fit the required norms -- uh, litmus tests -- of either side. ) But she refused to post here or in any other forum. I was puzzled until she told me why. She just doesn't dig all the flaming and name-calling. She prefers more dignified debate. She's even seen a blog on breeding dogs (which, I would think, would involve no controversy of the heated sort that one is sure to find here at A2K and any other message board devoted to political and social issues) degenerate into an insult-flinging frenzy. This is sad because my sister is very well-informed. She was even a veteran of the civil rights movement of the early 1960s. She was once even blacklisted by the John Birch Society (i.e., accused of being a Communist! )! I'm immensely proud of my sister for this very fact, among others.

Pew.



What a badly written run-on sentence!

What a witty rejoinder that was, it's hard to believe It took you only two days to come up with that.

It's because they're not progressive at all, they're just bigots.

It's also symptomatic of 40 year old virgin syndrome. I may be a friendless, charmless, late middle-aged virgin who still lives with his mum, but at least I'm not a queer.

Mine, Bill, better at everything except repair and carrying heavy objects

Thanks Wm, such encomium rare hereabout

I as official representative of the a2k patsies, pawns, and pigeons

That'sd what puzzles me about the politico. Evidently at a certain age you elect to become an A, in which case you subscribe to positions T, U, V, and W; or a B, when you're required adhering to W, X, Y, and Z

Please convey my felicitations

Does that mean that thay progress toward having strong opinions ?



FOR THE RECORD:
Candor moves me against obscuring in disingenuous silence
the fact that I 'd not have turned my back on my mother
and abandoned her in any spirit of independence. Both as an adult
and as a kid, I had all the freedom I cud desire without interference
(tho I did receive GOOD ADVICE from her).

Its been over 4O years since I lost my mom. I valued her.
My uncle, her elder brother, was of a different turn of mind.
He was born in 19OO. At age 12, he had a dispute qua proper
English table manners with his father, my English grandfather
from a place called: "Devon Shire", England, as a result whereof,
he became abruptly homeless; however, he had been born in NY,
during a year-long honeymoon; hence, by operation of law,
he was a natural born American citizen. He told me that he
boarded a ship and came to America. (Fortunately for both of us,
he did not elect to use the Titanic.) Starting from nothing,
by his own deft financial prowess, he became very wealthy.
About 15 years later the rest of the family, including my mom,
followed him to NY. Therefore, I became a natural born American citizen.
I owe that to his (anti-authoritarian) standing up for his beliefs.

After my family arrived in NY, he agreed to allow his widowed mom
to live with him, instead of with his semi-defenestrated sister,
whose husband did not fully welcome her.

Accordingly, she was elated, euphoric n exultant.

Dishonoring his word, he did not allow his mother, my elderly grandmother,
to move in with him; she was broken-hearted and died of a heart attack.
Some years later, I asked him about that; he said something about
(approximately) wanting more residential independence.
I was polite, but I thawt less of him for doing that; ignoble.

I supported my mom, who was crippled at age 9 as the result of
her successful defense of her sister, counter-attacking a violent predator
who was defenestrating my aunt.

Anyway, I felt a moral imperative to speak up against abandonment
of one 's mom. Most of the time, she deserves better than that.





David