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From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:32:09 +0000
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On Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:02:23 -0500
jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:34:40 +0000, Martin Harran
> <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 09 Dec 2024 02:23:51 +0000, *Hemidactylus*
> ><ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >>Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:05:40 -0800, erik simpson
> >>> <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> On 11/17/24 9:25 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:13:43 -0800, erik simpson
> >>>>> <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> I'd like to propose a moratorium on political posts, as they are
> >>>>>> off-topic.  I see general agreement on the unsatisfactory state of
> >>>>>> affairs here in the US, but for now there's little anybody can do about it.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> You'd prefer it to be essentially a Ron O blog?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> That's what it's pretty well been this last while :(
> >>>>> 
> >>>> Ron's been standing clear of electoral politics.  In fact, if he's the 
> >>>> most prolific poster, good for him.
> >>>  
> >>> Sorry, I meant to reply to this but it slipped by me.
> >>> 
> >>> Just to be clear, I have no problem at all with Ron's posting on the
> >>> Dairy Flu - on the contrary, that is the sort of stuff that he excels
> >>> at and I find his contributions highly valuable even if focused mostly
> >>> on the USA as there will be an inevitable knock-on this side of the
> >>> Atlantic.
> >>> 
> >>> My point was that recently, he has really been the only poster here …
> >>> unless you want to consider JTEM as a useful poster!
> >>> 
> >>Ron scares the shit out of me on a regular basis and for that I thank him. 
> >>
> >>I don’t know if we’ve been able to rebound from the welcome demise of GG. 
> >>
> >>I do miss more frequent input from Lawyer Daggett and Burkhard. I think
> >>they had both used novaBBS as an alternative means. 
> >>
> >>Ron Dean has returned. That’s gotta be better than JTEM, right?
> >
> >So has MarkE. Coincidence?
> >
> >One way or another, hopefully they will generate a bit more activity
> >than has been here since the end of GG.
> 
> 
> You conflate smoke with substance.  Both MarkE and RDean are likely to
> provide the latest rounds of deja vu all over again, where they repost
> the same old arguments without acknowledging the answers they were

You are vindicated.

Also Martin Harran is reviving some historical debate about how Galileo was treated. 

> given before.  I suppose that's better than mindless trolls from J***
> enablers, but not by much.
> 
Mindlessness is in the eye of the beholder.

JTEM's "debating style" is quite off-putting. Looks like he has troubles and projects them on anyone responding.

At least David Dalton is out to improve the world, in his own curious way.

And I imagine I'm just seen as sniping from the sidelines.
Not much new to see here, move along.

US Electoral troubles are behind us; it's now all about the fallout (I hope not literally). </gloom>
-- 
Bah, and indeed, Humbug