[mythtv-users] OT: SCOTUS decision

[Phil Bridges]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:22 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 01:13:51PM -0500, Phil Bridges wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:08 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>> > On Mon, February 22, 2010 7:41 am, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> >> The difference is that we are moral nations, and we do not abandon our
>> >> moral standing lightly.
>> >
>> > I don't know about that.  A single attack, with a death toll of 3,000, was
>> > enough to get us to do it.  And give up some of our freedom, as well.  It
>> > was, in that respect, a highly efficient and effective act of terrorism.
>> >
>> > But that's just my opinion.  And according to U.S. politicians and the
>> > media I'm not a "real American" anyway, because I don't live in the South
>> > and believe in God.  So, you should probably dismiss what I think out of
>> > hand.
>> >
>>
>> Will you guys *please* take your off-topic blathering to private email
>> rather than subjecting all of the rest of us to your collective verbal
>> diarrhea?
>
>    The keywords "SCOTUS" and "OT" should be more than enough warning really.
>
>    Even mail clients "from the depths of time" will allow you to bypass this
> stuff quite easily. You make it sound like you're strapped in somewhere reading
> this stuff Clockwork Orange style.

Huh.  I thought "mythtv" was enough warning to *not* use this email
list for political discussion, especially when the list owner has
requested conversations stay on-topic.

If I wanted to sign up for an amateur-hour political talking
point-counterpoint mailing list, I would've signed up for one.