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Wayne
(138.26.199.131) on 2/2/2009 - 1:14 p.m. says: ( 15 views
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Eliminating "political" posts from the main board. I am aware of a disdain for these types of threads in certain segments of the WHAB community. I have many times heard how I was not Auburn enough for allowing anything other than Auburn sports to be discussed. The fact remains since the very first day I started this board in 1994 I was posting these types of threads and encouraging discussion of these things. The hardest thing I have ever had to do in 15 years of running a message board is to police everyone's version of dumbassery . . .
The ever increasing posts reflect that Auburn sux in basketball, baseball and football, that we just inexplicably canned a successful coach for 5 and 19, that Bammer is supposedly wiping our ass in "recruiting", that the world is falling apart fiscally and borders on times not seen since the Great Depression, that we just elected a popular black President . . .
Perhaps Hobbes and Semper have a more firm grasp of dumbassery than I do or less patience with it . . . I am always curious as to what one thinks as one reads dumbassery . . . "Oh please I wish someone would stop me from reading this dumbassery . . . " Will a Scarlet Letter serve to protect or to draw?
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"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39 
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