Putting the Boston Bombing in Perspective

[journey11]

Let me suggest Yahoo News then. Create a user account, read the headlines and opine to your heart's content in the comments section. It is a real free-for-all. People can vote your comments up or down and if you say something particularly stupid, the auto-moderator will conceal your comment from others while still allowing people who love to argue to view it at their discretion and flame on.

http://news.yahoo.com/

 

[Carol Dee]

Steve, it's clear that this has been a sore spot. Perhaps you could just not read threads whose title suggests that it will be a blood pressure lifter? I'd really, really hate for you to not be here sharing your wit, humor and garden wisdom.

Steve, I completely agree with Cane.

 

[Carol Dee]

Let me suggest Yahoo News then. Create a user account, read the headlines and opine to your heart's content in the comments section. It is a real free-for-all. People can vote your comments up or down and if you say something particularly stupid, the auto-moderator will conceal your comment from others while still allowing people who love to argue to view it at their discretion and flame on.

http://news.yahoo.com/

Great Idea Journey

 

[majorcatfish]

imho,
sorry to say this topic and others like have no room in a gardening forum. as journey11 said go to yahoo and post your heart's content on these subjects.

have been a administrator/ moderator on may forum boards over the years, any posts such as these where removed in a timely manor before members had a chance to you what i mean.
this thread falls under donts in the rules #4 trolling......

 

[OldGuy43]

It always amazes me that posting the truth in "Random Ramblings" is trolling, if the facts are contrary to popular opinion, or make you stop and think.

As for "when do I find time to garden?" How long does it take? I've already put most of the seeds in the soil. Do you sit and watch the corn grow?

 

[canesisters]

It's clear that this has been a sore spot.
Perhaps we could all just not read threads whose title suggests that it will be a blood pressure lifter?
I'd really, really hate for any of you to not be here sharing your wit, humor and garden wisdom.
Oldguy included.

 

[OldGuy43]

Thank you.

 

[majorcatfish]

YAWN...oh did you say something pertaining to gardening?

done with this thread..........

 

[seedcorn]

Major, understand where u r coming from. OG, understand posting topics under "random rumblings". Don't like a topic, voice your opinion (if u want to) then move on if you want to.

We do share a different view point from most of America, so I find it interesting the varying opinions. Some of us wouldn't make good neighbors to each other and some of us would. All of us have our own "hot buttons". As one poster put it we are a gardening family and some of us are that weird relative no one talks about.

On a personal note, I've learned things from some on here that I don't believe we could be friends but they did "learn" me.

 

[digitS']

. . . we are a gardening family and some of us are that weird relative no one talks about. . .

Seedcorn, I appreciate that thought. Since you mention a weird relative, and even tho' I have already mentioned her elsewhere, I will say something again about my grandmother.

She was raised in a Church of the Brethren family. They are an anabaptist group with the Quakers & Mennonites. She was an ardent pacifist. No one has ever asked me what my grandmother did in World War 2 but if they did, I'd have to say that she did everything possible to keep her children out of it. This is WW2 I'm talking about. You know: Pearl Harbor, fascism, all of that.

Mom said that you had to be very careful what you said to Grandma about the war and people just knew not to say anything about it. Including, not saying anything about her 3 youngest sons volunteered for the military. She opposed my mother marrying my dad. This was before the war. I have a wedding picture of Mom & Dad with him in his Army uniform. Mom became more like her mother, later. Maybe, Dad did too.

She was not passive about expressing herself but she was a pacifist. You would have no hope in H*ll of changing her mind by argument. Was she unpatriotic? I don't know. There are over 120,000 members of this church in the US and it is far smaller than the Quaker and Mennonite denominations. They are opposed to capital punishment; they are firmly behind gun control. Maybe pacifists should just be excluded from garden forums because, even together, they are only a minority. Do you want to spend your time on a gardening forum arguing with a pacifist? I think the common ground here is gardening.

Steve