Slab, I've been more than outspoken on this board and usually buck the trend on here when concerned with politics or the environment. Sure there have been times I've felt attacked, but you know, I prefer to have this board be open to all points of view and I believe it fosters THINKING. And what's wrong with that?

Even if it creates some short term animosity, I don't believe it'll ever result in the kind of consequences you are foreseeing. If anything, as I said before, it fosters a broadening sense of the world and differing viewpoints that exist.

So, you continue in your fight to slow the "downward spiral" and I'll continue to post on subjects that interest me and are of interest to the board.