Dear Mr. Gutpiles: Did you read all of my followup replys (appology for lack of sensativity, explainations, & attempt for mutual understanding)? My original obvious humor post mentioned the word whiskey only as a setup for a harmless JOKE. Most likely because some of my friends & I occassionally drink a little "JD" during social gatherings. The ONLY person on this entire thread that made any significant reference to "drunken Indian" was you! The ONLY person to use racial slurs in a derogatory manner was you; as if to suggest it's a bad thing to be a nigger, & worse to be a drunken Indian. Do you see a pattern here? And if the U.S. Gov. were to give the land back to the orignal occupants, (whether that be ancestors of nomadic Siberian Eskimos from just after the Iceage, or nomadic Japanese, or an Indian tribe your people took the land from), will you be better off?? I have a strong hunch you will have tunnel vision to see & hear things as you want to rather than how they really are. If not, please go back & reread my posts with an open mind toward better understanding. Then we can talk about something we have in common- the love & care for fishing. - Steve (Bob: is it time to end this thread?)

[This message has been edited by Backbouncer1 (edited 03-05-2000).]