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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

Lynda wrote:

> You said "in drought areas there is never enough water to wash away sodium 
> buildup" to which I responded "Drought areas don't have much to do with 
> alkaline vs. acidic."
>
> I never said that water didn't have anything to do with a soil's pH.
>
> The determining factors in your pH levels have to do with what is around and 
> what is left by water.
>
> As to your last paragraph, if you weren't so inclined to exaggeration, one 
> might be tempted to take you a bit more seriously.  Oh, and your severe case 
> of tunnel vision.  Seems to me, 'twould be you who routinely brings up 
> politics.  Case in point, your post a couple of days ago, complete once 
> again with your rants about the Clanton conspiracies.
>
>  
Why did you use your acidic dry soil as an example to attempt to bash me 
if you know so much?  Why didn't you just provide the right answer, that 
your soil never had much lime to start with?  See, it's more about 
trying to bash me, the "Rove operative" as you so hilariously 
proclaimed, not about illumination.

I came to this list with the sole intention of discussing farm life.  I 
found it to be a complete lie.  I'm sure you never counted on meeting a 
liberal with integrity.  But I have a tendency to destroy lies where I 
find them.

Isn't it fascinating, though, that you're always the person that 
answers, and only you, the policewoman of politics.  Years ago, when it 
was announced that the TV would soon flicker out, I waited an 
appropriate length of time, then placed a pebble into the water, with my 
posts on junior college fraud, waste, and abuse.  Surely there will be a 
replacement, I said to myself.  The only bottom dweller to rise to the 
occasion was, of course, you.  I had never heard from you before.  Most 
people will just agree to disagree, especially when they can't hope to 
know more about a topic than someone else.  You were proven wrong on 
every point of fact, and when that failed, the only recourse was to 
attack me personally.  Your need to dominate every such conversation 
points once again to your being no ordinary list member.

Conspiracy?  It's such an easy word to trivialize.  You're telling us 
that politicians have no motivation for covering their wrongdoing?  
Conspiracy theories are only ridiculous insofar as they are "vast", like 
Stalina's VRWC.  That's because it's improbable that so many people 
could be motivated independently in the same direction, let alone keep 
it a secret.  This, however, would be a very logical conspiracy on the 
part of two people whose entire lives were about to go down the tubes, 
not implausible at all.  As far as the Clantons are concerned, no one 
would consider hiring either as babysitters, or even dogcatchers, if one 
had really examined the evidence against them, and knew about all the 
mysterious deaths of people who knew too much.  Your favorite phrase is 
"connect the dots," isn't it?  Politicians don't need to be convicted 
beyond a reasonable doubt to be disqualified.  Just the hint of stench 
is enough for me.

Bill