On 04 Jun 2004 19:07:44 GMT, (ArtKramr) wrote:

From: Billy Beck

On 04 Jun 2004 16:48:14 GMT, (ArtKramr) wrote:

From: Ed Rasimus

What military service?

Art, you of all people should respect someone who earned a commission
in the USAF and completed AF pilot training, then went on to
operationally qualify in a single-seat/single-engine fighter and fly
it for four and a half years.

Did you serve that long?

Yeah you are right. I am ashamed of myself with my measly combat record of
50 missions over Germany being no match for the no-show Bush who hid in
Texas while the Nam war war raged. Mea Culpa. Mea Culpa.

I cannot *wait* until your rotten horse**** no longer appears in
this group, Kramer. Do you understand? I long for the day when
you're gone.

No bull****.

I'm very old. You won't have long to wait. Take joy in that fact.

No, I won't, and certainly not on *your* word. And it doesn't
have to come to that. It would suit my purposes if you only came to
your senses, but I know better than to wait for that. At this point,
I'd be satisfied to know that you'd taken up potting geraniums and
didn't have time for what you do around here.

Let me tell you something: your suvival of your ordeal was once a
big fat credit in my books, but you've long since traded that account
to a flat zero. You did it with your utterly ridiculous
pronouncements, *explicitly trading* on the credit of your experience,
as if that entitled you to strut what you think are you politics here.
The whole while -- and most amply illustrated in the latest round with
Ed -- you've been pleased to deliberately ignore *facts*, and, whether
you know it or not, that is the very essence of depravity.

It's been said that "Man is the only creature that can sink below
its nature."

You're living proof, right here in this newsgroup.

Nothing about it is "joy[ful]" to me, but I hold higher values
than that.


Billy

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