"A lot of conservatives are good at complaining about liberals but few actually show what is good
about being a conservative or capitalist."
Huh? Check out the Public Choice School of Economics at George Mason University, for starters. Or
the University of Chicago. On the other had the "School of Heads in the Sand" would simply hold that
anything they don't listen to, was never said.
Sorry, that was just too much to let pass.
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> > > > This Vandemann guy sounds like someone I should get to know. If it
> > > > turned out we agreed with one another (highly unlikely as I tend not
> > > > to agree with anyone about anything) we could maybe entirely take
over
> > > > a newsgroup and turn it into our own private post office for emails.
> > > > But if he is as flammable as I am, it is far more likely we would
have
> > > > a conflagration on our hands and burn the post office to the ground.
> > > > But, just for the record, "Just zis Guy, you know" is no sloucher in
> > > > the venom department himself.
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> > > > Ed Dolan - Minnesota
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> > > Ed, I am surprised that you have never seen the mess that this
> > > V*nd*m*n guy has made on the mountain bike and soc. newsgroup. I would
> > > certainly enjoy reading a flame war between him and you. He seems to
> > > be an environmentalist who believes that all humans should be
> > > eliminated from planet earth so that the wilderness can be
> > > preserved.He makes Tom Sherman look like a right wing conservative
> > > extremist. Since those newsgroups are already wrecked by his flaming,
> > > you would only make things better there.
> >
> > Joseph, I am fairly new to the computer and newsgroups and so I do not
> > know about this V*nd*m*n character. I am an extreme environmentalist
> > myself so it is possible that he and I would agree with one another.
> > However, we pigheaded and stubborn individuals will get into it with
> > one another despite our agreements. I actually get along better with
> > liberals even though I take issue with them. We conservatives are
> > deadly with one another. But I suppose an extreme environmentalist
> > could be classified as a liberal. I have never understood why
> > conservatives are not more defensive of the environment. We come from
> > the earth and we shall surely return to it. Dust to dust you know.
> >
> > But I have found a home here on ARBR. This group is like me - more or
> > less sane and civilized. Even though I lambaste everyone from time to
> > time I do respect the intelligence and maturity of everyone here. I
> > feel privileged to be a part of this group.
> >
> >
> > Ed Dolan - Minnesota
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> I do not think you would find any exchange with the V*nd*m*n character
> useful since he seems to be so far out on a limb that there is no
> chance to have a logical discussion with him. He has a lot of
> complaining about everything but no solutions to offer. He has a list
> of companies to boycott that include mountain bike retailers and
> electric vehicles but no answers on how to conserve the environment.
> This is what I find suspicious about his motives. He is not interested
> in getting anyone to ride their bikes instead of driving their cars.I
> am interested in solutions to bike problems that I can do something
> about. A lot of conservatives are good at complaining about liberals
> but few actually show what is good about being a conservative or
> capitalist. I enjoy finding my own solutions to problems like getting
> better lights for night riding, better weather protection and faster
> speed that I can easily implement and show to anyone else. I will not
> learn better fabrication techniques from someone like M*k* V*nd*m*n.
> He would be happy with humans only living in a prison Gulag with
> strict control by elitists like him. My big complaint is that a lot of
> bike riders I know would like to live in that Gulag.