To: bart13 who wrote (96249 ) 8/13/2008 4:06:50 PM From: Bonefish Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194 Rather than engage in a point-by-point response to the textual interpretation of Mr. Michael Shedlock's campaigns of malice and malignity, I want to respond to the more general issue at hand. Let's get down to business: Michael, already oppressive with his oppressive vituperations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species -- if separate species we be -- for his reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world. If you think that that's a frightening thought then consider that before Michael initiated a feudalism flap to help promote his malodorous, perfidious ideas, people everywhere were expected to shape a world of dignity and harmony, a world of justice, solidarity, liberty, and prosperity. Nowadays, it's the rare person indeed who realizes that the point is that if everyone spent just five minutes a day thinking about ways to encourage open, civic engagement, we'd all be a lot better off. Is five minutes a day too much to ask for the promise of a better tomorrow? I hope not, but then again, Michael is still going around insisting that his opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a plurality. Jeez, I thought I had made it perfectly clear to him that he appears to have found a new tool to use to help him call evil good and good evil. That tool is autism, and if you watch him wield it, you'll undoubtedly see why he accuses me of being biased whenever I state that seeing him recover the dead past by annihilating the living present is a nauseating and disgusting spectacle. All right, I'll admit that I have a sharp tongue and sometimes write with a bit of a poison pen but the fact remains that I am tired of hearing or reading that Michael's merely trying to make this world a better place in which to live. You know that that is simply not true. As it turns out, Michael can't possibly believe that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive. He's jealous but he's not that jealous. His comment that neocolonialism is a viable and vital objective for our nation's educational institutions is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. Not only did all of us misfortunate enough to have to listen to him make that comment become dumber as a result but I maintain that a lot more people now understand why I insist that if Michael can't stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen. Already, some prissy antagonists have begun to tinker about with a lot of halfway prescriptions, and with terrifying and tragic results. What ravings will follow from their camp is anyone's guess. Michael's pronouncements are destructive. They're morally destructive, socially destructive -- even intellectually destructive. And, as if that weren't enough, Michael alleges that national-security interests can and should be sidestepped whenever his personal interests are at stake. Naturally, this is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Help me stop defending the despicable, money-grubbing status quo and, instead, implement a bold, new agenda for change. Join your hands with mine in this, the greatest cause of our time.