MtO,
I am sorry to hear of your loss... I lost a few friends at the other end of that battle myself... one to the bullet from a cop's gun.
So I understand how it can personally affect us each in different ways.
Very few wars have casualties on only one side (those are called massacres)... would you be happy if only the other side suffered casualties?
I doubt any of your friends or mine perished over a doobie, or any amount of marijuana. It is the "big business drugs" that have blood on them, and it's our own governemt that perpetuates that issue... Iran/Contra cocaine sales in SoCal are a good example of that.
I fail to see the domino effect in the drug war, just like I didn't buy it in Vietnam. All journeys whether good or bad begin with a first step, each traveller knows his destination before he leaves, for the most part... I have yet to know a junkie who got hooked, because someone else continued to inject drugs into their system against their will!
And I have known a few who didn't ever do any of the stepping stone drugs.
I appreciate the efforts you and you compatriots made, when that car was abondoned at the customs terminal, and the efforts all law enforcement make to insure a safe place in which to live... but that has little or nothing to do with this site, or this issue.
As far as wishing everyone a Good Morning, I find it a kind and courteous thing to do... but it needs to be done in the proper place, we have the Fireside Forum for that type of thing...
I didn't mean to single you out, or make it seem I didn't approve of
what you do but
where you do it...
As a former Moderator on a site one of my biggest duties was to move threads and posts to the proper place.
I thought it was funny that suddenly Sly was worried about what posts belonged in what forums, when he invited his superior (mods work for the administration) to leave this one, for discussing what I do feel is about Varmints... after he had not only allowed yours to exist but, I think he participated in them.
The real reason I have a problem with these good morning threads is on the climbing site I participated in, the East coasters would get up four hours before the rest of us, and sometimes the thread had 100+ posts by the time my lunch break allowed me to participate... it's real easy for a lot of us to end up feeling left out, on a site that is supposed to be for all of us.
It turned into an east coast clique, much like the one we seem to be developing now...
I just didn't like the look of where that might go.
And that is why I don't participate in the good morning threads here, not because I feel I wouldn't be welcomed there... even though I personally doubt I am.
I will put you on the same "Handle with kidd gloves" list I have Sly and Seldom Ever (and a few others here) on, and I will try not to offend you, make jokes with you, or in any other way ruffle your feathers.
Let's just agree to disagree huh?
Jeff
