From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 15:24:16 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Candy Madigan" <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery

> At 11:57 PM 6/4/2005, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 6/4/2005 11:21:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >omni at omniphile.com writes:
> >
> > >>You live in a world of your own.  From here it looks like a  parallel
> > >>universe with only a few connections to  ours.
> >
> > >Which would make your telling me why I'm doing what I'm doing  even
more
> > >arrogant, since you would presumably know nothing of that other
universe.
> >
> >I dunno, I find it funny to watch people lost in
Cloud-Conservative-Land,
> >they're almost as entertaining as the Liberal Lotus Eaters.  Y'all spend
so
> >much time painting devil horns on the other side's campaign posters you
> >have no
> >time left for substantive debate.
>
> Amen!  I normally hang out with the fuzzy headed Liberals, and they are
> every bit as blind as the died in the wool Conservatives.  Both sides
make
> me mad for refusing to *think*.  Both sides make certain assumptions and
> stick to them come hell or high water and refuse to consider facts that
> challenge their cherished assumptions.  Neither the liberals or
> conservatives have it all right.  Both sides would benefit from opening
> their minds and allowing the possibility that the other might be right.

Liberals in general are far more open to new ideas and the notion that the
other side might have a good point than are conservatives, whose thinking
is, pretty much by definition, more rigid and closed.

--Ted White