Ferrari Mailing List: Re: OFF TOPIC - RE: Related to Business Banking

[Brian E. Buxton (BrianBuxton]

Dr. S,
I think it must be something in the water or the air, because both 
recent posts from Steve J and Dennis were a little "off" in my opinion.  
I would say that you paid your dues, so just sit back and enjoy the fact 
that anyone can spout off about pretty much anything, in ENGLISH no 
less, because of your contributions.  I know that Dennis has been 
married for a while so it makes a little more sense (??), but if I were 
Steve J and was recently married to a bautiful blonde, the last thing 
I'd be doing at 10pm was typing some huge ranting e-mail about a water 
cooler topic.  There has to be a better way to relieve stress than all 
of the recent insults and insinuations ...

Brian



BRIGANDBAR [at] aol.com wrote:

> Dennis:
>
> I have to say that since the days that I worked as a student in Barry  
> Goldwater's campaign, through the time that I slugged through the jungles of  
> Vietnam, to years of work in counter-terrorism no one has ever called me a  
> "Communist". Fascist once or twice, but never a Communist. I am sure you earned  the 
> right to do that by fighting in either the jungles with me, or in Somalia  and 
> a few other places, or in the desert country of the Middle East, or some  
> other diligent service to the country either first in the Cold War or  
> subsequently in the Middle East or in our struggle against terrorism and  terrorist 
> attacks upon U. S. interests. Maybe you will enlighten us on how and  when you 
> earned the right to attach that label on anyone. I know all about free  speech, 
> but there is also the responsibility to temper that right with sound  judgement 
> lest you become all that you seem to oppose.
>
> Frankly, I don't give a damn if the U.S. government runs the Postal  Service. 
> I just hate special interest contractors who profit at taxpayer's  expense. 
> Remember, it is not voluntary taxation. I'm not sure how  self-publishing 
> postage for packages differs from self-publishing stamps for  first class mail, but 
> I'll explore that possibility and if it is in fact a free  way to get postage 
> at my computer without paying Pitney Bowes or some other  company for the 
> privilege of saving the government and taxpayers the costs of  printing and 
> publishing stamps, etc. In the meantime perhaps you can perhaps  explain how 
> disagreeing with your interpretation of free enterprise makes me a  Communist? Nor 
> do I believe I am one of those Viva Cuba Libre. In fact when I  was out there 
> attempting to control the adverse effects of the Marialito  invasion of the 
> U.S. by Cuba I don't remember you participating in that  anti-Communist sparring 
> event either.
>
> And, you deliberately mischaracterize my comment that when the government,  
> for better or worse, decides with public ratification to provide a public  
> service it should not facilitate the creation of industries that piggy-back off  
> of that service and through a cooperative effort with the government agency  
> involved whether it is Haliburton or Pitney Bowes.
>
> But I sincerely appreciate your concern for fighting my brand of Communism  
> with great risk to your carpal tunnel processes. That is probably what true  
> American patriotism and the Minuteman spirit is really about.
>
> Dr. Steve  
>
> 1964 Rolls  Royce Silver Cloud III    1975 Pontiac GV Conv.
> 1980 MB  450SL                 1982 RR  Corniche
> 1988 Rolls Royce Silver  Spur         1994 F-350 Powerstroke  4x4          
> 1996  Bronco                                  2000 Lincoln Town Car
> 1995 Ferrari 348  Spyder                 2004 Excursion
> + Audrey's 3x MB's
>
> Dr. Stephen B. Spies, CES,  CFI
> Director, Forensic Sciences Laboratory
> Explosives Engineering  Technologies
>