<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>As if the insult that follows this remark is not enough, this single statement alone:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV>Brett Paasch wrote:<BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; ">I would oppose your reanimation. </SPAN></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Is utterly contemptible. I wrote Eugen offlist to say so. Call me whatever you want. But oppose my capability to attempt to return? Especially on a list where it is the intent - the heavily invested intent for some - of some/many members?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And for what is this opposition raised? Teleological or eschatological argument? Pattern versus thread? No. Presidential impeachment. One of the largest wastes of pixels out there. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've offered before that I thought this list was under attack in a manner like alt.syntax.tactical used to do back in the days before "threadjack" was a word. Fortunately we have people willing enough to derail the list without a conspiracy. If you want to plot impeachment, there are probably thousands of lists one can join. I'm sure one would even send you a t-shirt. Meanwhile, I want to know what everyone's SL names are, and talk about the talk.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>~ Bret </DIV><DIV>(with one 't' and considered saying "the original Bret" since I don't recall one being on here back when I joined the first time, but wouldn't want to insult the Bret Collective either. My rant is over, back to watching Blues Clues.)</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>