On Monday 11 June 2018 09:09:30 William Morder wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2018 04:16:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 11 June 2018 04:54:57 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > This directly leads to the question: are polititians realy humans > > > or are in realty some kind of highly evolved parasite? > > > > I tend to think of most of them as parasites. They con us into > > electing them, then fatten up at the public trough, and usually > > stuff their pockets with lifetime pensions before we vote them out. > > By that performance, I'd call them a parasite. Most have never done > > a good days work in their lives. I can think of one or 2 exceptions, > > but that gets into personalities and is a heck of a good way to > > start a fight. This list is contentious enough w/o that. > > I believe that we all know what's really going on, 'nuff sed. We just > differ on interpretation, and on how to solve what's wrong. This world > is a lot weirder than the one that I grew up in, that's for sure. > That I can agree on with quite a few + votes. But then I was born in '34, and I can still call up the vision of my grandfather crying as he turned off the battery powered radio after listening to the 6 o-clock news the evening of Dec 7th 1941. Born in 1898 He'd lived thru one world war, and he knew this was day 1 of another, and many would die. Sitting down at the dinner table a few minutes later, it took him at least 5 minutes to say grace as he prayed for all those who would give the ultimate gift to our country. > Free software is a good way to go. I don't know if it really can make > the world a better place, but at least it seems inherently less > harmful. And if nothing else, it's a good diversion, and can open up > new opportunities for our pursuits and research and other work. > > So even if I might not agree with everything everybody says on the > mailing list, I still need to pick your brains. And mostly we're all > just trying to help one another. > Amen. > I think we can all agree on some kind of amorphous THAT. That's why > we're here, not politics or religion or anything dogmatic. None of us > wants to mess up a good thing. > > Bill Well said, Bill. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>