Re: John Gear

[Joe Fockler <jfockler -at- IPHASE -dot- COM>]

John Gear writes:

+ For some reason jfockler sent the message below to my mailbox, probably in
+ error.  I'm sure he intended to send it to this list since he quotes from
+ the signature block I have used in posts on this list.  So I'm posting it
+ here for him.

+ Please don't flame him.  He appears confused; from his notes it seems that
+ my bone-deep conservatism appears like socialism and liberalism to him.  I
+ guess this is understandable.  Living in Dallas, the central axis of the
+ socialistic S&L bailout of the financial empires of the wealthy and home of
+ many fortunes founded on the oil depletion allowance, he's *surrounded* by a
+ lot of socialism and welfare --corporate-type.

+ "The same old fraternity boys, geezers in golf pants, cheese merchants,
+  cat stranglers, corporate shills, Bible beaters, swamp developers,
+  amateur cops, and old gasbags that we have known since time immemorial."
+                                --Garrison Keillor on the congressional
+                                 GOP  majority


Just wanted to say thank you to John for assuming this was intended
for the techwr-l list and posting this along with his rambling and
irrelevant comments. Apparently John is the self-appointed psychoanalyst
for the list. For obvious reasons, I did not post this to the list. Feel
free to send flames and comments to me.

I would like to point out that he probably meant "skin deep" conservatism
in his comments.

Remember John, that Garrison Keillor is a lifelong National Public Radio
figure. He's afraid that if the GOP cuts funding for NPR and the Corp. for
Public Broadcasting, he won't be able to earn a living off of the
taxpayers any longer. With the sale of Barney toys and Sesame Street
toys bringing in lots of cash, I doubt that PBS will take these programs
off the air.