Thanks Mary Ann for your wise words. I signed on to this list so that I might help my wife who has PD and the messages have turned viciously political. I rarely read them now since I can tell by the subject line what they are about. I hope the list can regroup and fulfill its intended mission. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Ann Ryan" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 5:02 AM Subject: Re: Where the buck stops > I have said it before and I will say it again. Political bashing does not > belong on this list. > > Do what you must to bring about stem cell research. Bring facts, figures > and people to do battle to achieve reform. > > But, for heaven sake, stop the tirade against Bush. It does nothing but > divide members of this list. Bush is not all that bad and everyone else in > this fight is not all that good. > > We are a nation at war. Men and women are dying in Iraq while serving their > country and they deserve our undivided loyalty. Iraq is in such a mess > that, if we pulled out now, millions would die in a civil war. The same > exact scenario happened in View Nam - when we pulled out 3 million > Cambodians died. It seems that folks forget that little fact - I don't want > to see history repeated. > > We are now involved in the greatest catastrophe the U.S.A. has ever > experienced. Once again, we need to unite to solve the problem. Dispersing > blame here, there and everywhere is no help at all - it only serves to > divide 'us' against 'them.' Except.....we are the 'us' and we are the > 'them.' > -------- > God bless > Mary Ann (CG Jamie 65/25) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn