Well it has been "good clean fun" gang. If you want me i am not hard to find. I am leaving the list. goodbye. Country Joe McDonald Jeffrey Blankfort wrote: > With all due respect, Joe, all that I have seen from you on this list, > pre-Horowitz, dealt with your desire to put up plaques to honor Vietnam > veterans. Maybe, before I got on the list, you had other comments about > other subjects pertaining to the 60s, but no one has been stopping you > from doing that but yourself. > > I sent one post to Horowitz yesterday, ending that thread on my end, but > I think you give him too much credit. And what about the Republican > Party would you like to preserve? > > I am only slightly less an activist today than I was in the 60s when I > was very active except that I am more concerned with local issues than I > was then. However, I find your suggestion that there is a Win/Win > solution to all problems no more realistic today than would have been if > advanced 35 years ago. > > Jeff Blankfort > > Joe McDonald wrote: > > > > Thanks for the backup Ted. I was thinking today of the 60's List and my > > predicament: to stay or unsubscribe and then a thought popped into my head > > which I will mention now since you brought up the radical Right. I think that > > David Horowitz has perhaps accomplished more than he dreamed of: The Radical > > Left is fragmented now into little esoteric ineffective groups that are mostly > > just flamers AND the Radical Right thanks to David and people like him have > > managed to almost totally destroy the Republican Party. So to his credit, and > > others who engage in his trap of trying to answer his rants, he, and others > > like him on the Left and the Right, have accomplished quite a lot. Dialogue is > > gone and just in-your-face non-negotiable rants and flame are left. > > > > We all know that our survival is in Win/Win solutions to all problems. With > > the flamers and ranters monopolizing all the air space and making > > non-negotiable demands this is impossible! > > > > I belong to another list where the moderator does not allow one bit of > > flaming. The minute it starts she cautions it to end and if it continues then: > > PEOPLE ARE KICKED OFF THE LIST! > > > > If this list is to survive there must be perimeters. Out and out provocative > > posts: Rants and Flames, cannot be allowed. Also really stupid posts that are > > misspelled and do not make sense cannot be allowed. This of course means that > > the moderator > > must READ all the posts and make the hard decisions that this kind of > > leadership demand: to post or not to post that is the question. For us members > > it is to subscribe or unsubscribe that is our question. > > > > But dammit! I was part of the 60's and think I have a right to be part of this > > list and participate in a way that does not get me so extremely disgusted and > > upset everyday. Even back in the day we made decisions like that. Certain > > people who did not pull their weight and just caused trouble were kicked out > > and the others had to "respect" where everyone was coming from...or at least > > make an effort to. This is not happening now. What we have is nothing less > > than tabloid sensationalistic BS dominated by a tiny handful of people. I am > > going to hang on here and see if anything positive can happen but if it does > > not happen soon I AM OUTTA HERE! > > > > Peace Out Country Joe McDonald > > -- "Ira Furor Brevis Est " - Anger is a brief madness country joe Home Pg <http://www.countryjoe.com> country joe's tribute to Florence Nightingale <http://www.countryjoe.com/nightingale> Berkeley Vietnam Veterans Memorial <http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Links/Comm/vvm> Rag Baby Online Magazine <http://www.ragbaby.com/magazine>
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