Originally Posted By DlandJB Perhaps. It's entirely possible that this guy set up a scenario where the young "intended" would have share a bed with him. So what? Where's the crime here? >>>>>>>> This is such a chilling statement. Predatory behavior is wrong. Taking advantage of a subordinate and a family friend is wrong. It implies a person who is sexually immature, with no moral decency and no personal boundaries...and no respect for the younger man. It is harrassment.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip It is very possible that that good Senator was just searchin' for his lost shaker of salt and got confused. Or something like that.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Guess what Doug? I'm not the only one who feels this way. Matter of fact, believe it or not, I've even received private e-mails from people thanking me for being one of the few who will take this one on because others fear recriminations. Other than going on about how the guy should be ignored, calling me a whiner and no one cares about what personally bothers me, you haven't given the answer to my question, which asked possible good comes from making posts such as he does. I could not care less if he's an acquaintance of yours and you think he's a good guy. Practically every single one of his posts in WE are designed to denigrate and generalize about the political party he obviously holds in contempt. He's as transparent as can be. As others have said, if Pelosi screwed up, any congressman, senator, at least a national figure of some type, then have at. But it is always soley about Democrats, never Republicans, it's beyond flaming and as you've proven, can't be defended.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<It is very possible that that good Senator was just searchin' for his lost shaker of salt and got confused.>> I mean you have to admit that it would be pretty easy to confuse the two... <a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:VR3CTdIY7eerrM:http://www.foodsqueeze.com/blogimages/salt_and_pepper.jpg" target="_blank">http://images.google.com/image s?q=tbn:VR3CTdIY7eerrM:http://www.foodsqueeze.com/blogimages/salt_and_pepper.jpg</a> ;-)
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Then why are you invariably among the earlier to post on his topics if you're so gosh darned determined to not put up with it?<< Whoa! Watch your language! Where's the mods when you need them?
Originally Posted By DlandDug As I have said many times, discussions here are supposedly predicated on issues, not personalities. It doesn't matter how many people find another poster here distasteful. It is beside the point. If, for example, someone is fixated on articles about how Global Warming is man made, and posts them at every opportunity, another shouldn't immediately start complaining that they won't post anything that doesn't support their pet prejudice. Nor would I imagine that calling them one sided and indefensible would bring anything of substance to the boards. Again, if there is anything a poster is doing that is in violation of Community Standards, by all means point it out to the Mods. But this business of whining about someone simply on the basis that you don't like their one track, one note message is ridiculous.
Originally Posted By DlandJB I've even received private e-mails from people thanking me for being one of the few who will take this one on because others fear recriminations.>> Recriminations from whom? He's a poster like everyone else. If you have really reached your boiling point, take it up with the folks in charge.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Recriminations from whom? He's a poster like everyone else. If you have really reached your boiling point, take it up with the folks in charge." I'll let them surface and say something if they want. To paraphrase what I've been told privately would violate a confidence and open up an entirely new can of worms.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "As I have said many times, discussions here are supposedly predicated on issues, not personalities. It doesn't matter how many people find another poster here distasteful. It is beside the point." Nope. He makes himself the issue with his one track, one note message. And if you don't like my whinng, and nice going for the repeated name calling, take your own advice. Don't read me.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Well that's totally confusing...thanks!" In other words, if the people who have e-mailed me before want to say anything about what they fear could happen to them for saying something, they'll have to come on here and say it.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>And if you don't like my whinng...<< I've never seen your "whinng," nor do I want to. But thanks for getting back on topic.
Originally Posted By jonvn Recriminations? I don't care about recrminations. The posts by this guy are intellectually dishonest, and are filled with lies by ommission. They have been for years, and I've said that plainly enough and long enough. Before, it was only about Disney. Now it's about politics, too. When it was about Disney and certain people agreed with his viewpoint, it was just fine. Now that they don't, it's quite another story.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I've never seen your "whinng," nor do I want to. But thanks for getting back on topic." I've already admitted to being King of the Typos, so if you really have something personally against me, which this suggests, just say it. Doesn't bother me.
Originally Posted By DlandJB In other words, if the people who have e-mailed me before want to say anything about what they fear could happen to them for saying something, they'll have to come on here and say it.>>> I can't imagine what could happen to them for saying something, but ok.
Originally Posted By DlandJB Recriminations? I don't care about recrminations. >>>>>>>>>> Sorry, all I could think of was "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>...if you really have something personally against me, which this suggests, just say it.<< I am violating Community Standards and my own rules of engagement to address this directly. I have nothing personally against you. I seldom, if ever, take anything said on these boards personally. It is simply a place to engage in conversation and debate, sometimes heated and sometimes not. What baffles me is your somewhat singular animus against DarkBeer. I also find drive by linking annoying and counterproductive. They do not, however, violate any Community Standard. I find rather a lot of topics here annoying. I do not, however, feel it necessary to tell everyone how annoying I find them, how annoying the person who created them is, and assure others that everyone else finds them annoying as well. I simply ignore them. Now, about the topic at hand...
