--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
>
>
> --- jacquesdebierue <jacquesdebierue@...>
wrote:
>
> > --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Terry Bowman"
> > <foolesgold@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Very Bush/Cheney way to look at things. I
guess
> > you've
> > > had a great last six + years.
> > >
> >
> > Terry, this space welcomes people of all
political
> > persuasions. Let's
> > not go off topic into political arguments
unless
> > politics comes into
> > play while discussing hardboiled or noir
literature.
>
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>
> Come on! Whether you like the present
administration
> or not, Terry's anology to Jim's posted attitude
is
> perfectly valid. The President has publicly stated
a
> very similar position to the one Jim takes.
Surely
> we're allowed to allude to reality occasionally in
our
> search for the ultimate hardboiled noir.
Yes, but we don't need this list to be Poisonville. I'm at
least as prone as the next hot-head to react Enthusiastically
to what I see as an undereducated statetment, but, as one
veteran RA member wrote me offlist, the occasional posturing
and gratuitous rudeness gets Real Tired, Real Quick...and
even, say, Bushites who love HB and such should be able to
read and contribute w/o feeling gratuitously insulted.
TM
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