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From: Betty Rockswold <>
Subject: Re: Thinking 101 [Commander Hines]
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 17:29:08 -0600


AMEN!

Betty

"Túrin" wrote:
>
> Anthony J. Bryant wrote:
> >
> > Robert Lieblich wrote:
> >
> > > For God's sake, Hines, you must have shown some aptitude at some time in
> > > your miserable existence.
> >
> > Showing aptitude is, alas, not the same as achieving. The failed naval
> > officer, the failed academician, the failed family man.
> >
> > You're seeing someone acting out in anger and frustration at others who
> > have more than he, and he can't stand it. It's a pathology.
> >
> > > You were once an officer and a gentleman.
> >
> > Now, now. We only know the former, we have no evidence to the latter.
>
> I'm new to this group, but it seems every newsgroup has a whipping boy.
> The one poster that everyone feels perfectly justified in flaming. If
> he's that bad, gentlemen, killfile him and move on. It doesn't make
> *you* look good to lurkers, who come in to find everyone raking one guy
> over the coals.
>
> Túrin

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