OpieYates: thank you for backing me up, I could've sworn what I said was common sense to anyone that isn't a political hardliner...... nor was there any undeserved criticism in my post or any other of my posts for that matter. I'm a peace lovin' humanitarianist and animal lover beatik hippie......... but I have ZERO tolerance for divisive political behavior. Why am I harsh when it comes to politics ? Because the party-line and emotionally empty arguments are harmful to my children and future generations, that's why. When I see someone engaging in behavior that is counterproductive to the good of ALL society, I will use visceral terms and not-so-nice of a tone. That's going easy in my opinion, consdering whether it's right, left, up or down it's still divisive, and I want my child to inherit an IMPROVED environment, not one that is so bitter and political it's like holding a debating society in the rubble of our former country.

BTW, Tony Stewart has quite a 'tude on him, don't you get annoyed with him as well ? I'm a #3 (RIP) and #8 guy but won't short Tony's abilities.

Anyway, I will NEVER EVER EVER use kid gloves when it comes to jarring people out of their divisive behavior..... and I'm kind of confused about the excesss spare time comment but I work over 60 hours per week, many times through untreated physical symptoms, and built many networks over which your data is probably travelling right now. My point being, 553 posts or wherever my count is , when you consider it from my join date of april something 2002, a whopping 1 minute a day. Post once a day or a few every few days and the same thing will happen to your count..... what am I missing about the spare time comment ? Aren't YOU the one who has downtime right now anyway ? :P :P

I don't want to get into it with you because I want the best for you and all people, but if it irritates you to see me ride someone's case who's being a political hack, I am very sorry but I feel it would be irresponsible to STOP my campaign to ridicule divisive speech.

#8, Points champion, next year. If I can tolerate the fact that it's not Winston anymore, and is turning into a total yuppie sport. We'll see.