[hutchibk]

Hi Rhonda - Nothing underhanded or devious intended by what I posted, so it wasn't snide. Snide in my book is an unregistered guest who demeans and mocks without showing their face. Rhonda, with my eyes, I have seen no posts here that have beat you up personally for posting anything. I consider your links and threads informative. It is perfectly fair and expected for folks to offer a dissenting opinion from the experts and from each other. My gosh, we don't all walk in lockstep. But unless I am missing something, I have not read where one person beat up on you at all. You however did fallaciously accuse me of something that I am compelled to respond to. I do not ever post my political views here, nor do I demean or mock. I have included in a post a time or two about how differing philosophies play into the health debate in my opinion, and I have posted my views about how devastating the trumped up and expedient "healthcare overhaul" will be in my opinion, but my posts never include derogatory words or opinions about ideologies, political parties, left vs right, liberal vs conservative, etc. I NEVER ever go there in this forum. You must be thinking of someone else. And as this is an archived forum, it is very easy for me to support myself on this point. There are some who bleed their politics whether or not they mean to, and others who strive to keep it reined in and appropriately undramatic and unemotional. I prefer and strive to be the latter here (perhaps not perfectly, I condede) and based on your above post I would guess you prefer to be the former. Also, it's very odd that you took my opinion of the NY Times well documented plagiarism and fabrications over the last several years as a personal attack on a political ideology in favor of a different news source's perceived political bias. Wow, that's quite an exaggerated stretch. I never mentioned bias, I mentioned plagiarism and fabrication. Be careful of reading into something with your own filters on... I don't put much stock in either, I gather my info from a multitude of sources. I just don't read the NYT much because I quit trusting it years ago for various reasons.

What a strange post my lady. But if you need me to be your punching bag, go for it. I don't get offended by anything... I can take it if it makes you feel better and helps you release some pent up energy. I hold absolutely no ill feelings toward you even if we disagree about something, so punch away. I'll duck when I can and just absorb all the other blows that I don't see coming.