(Don Mihokovich) wrote in message om...
"Tim Hanke" wrote in message news
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(to Nick Bourbaki, who had responded to "Briarroot"):

(snip, snip, snip, snip) (snipped by Don Mihokovich)

http://www.timothyhanke.net/youdecide.htm
Tim Hanke

I wish this thread would die.

Has Don Mihokovich ignored the fact that his post was written in response to
a recent post (29 August 2003) in this thread by *Tim Hanke* himself?

I had written a post only to clarify my position in response to "Briarroot",
and my post hardly mentioned Tim Hanke at all. I did *not* criticise Tim
Hanke in *that post*, but then Tim Hanke decided to jump back into the thread
by writing his cited post (above), which includes a link to his website
page personally lampooning me and Mark Houlsby.

Evidently, at least as of 29 August 2003, Tim Hanke had not yet become tired
of making more personal attacks on me in this thread, "Tim Hanke's Cultural
Prejudice" (created and cross-posted to RGCM by Don Mihokovich). Accordingly,
Tim Hanke seems less anxious than Don Mihokovich about this thread's demise.

I'm sorry I started it.

Is Don Mihokovich also sorry that he has created threads evidently only for
the purposes of making personal or political attacks on Mark Houlsby and Noah
Roberts, neither of whom have any connection with USCF business or politics?

From what I've seen and heard so far, Tim's doing a great job under horrible
circumstances, and while his admissions of "cultural prejudce" during
the election may or may not have been politically correct, it doesn't
have much relevance any more, particually in these times when we need
action more than we need politics.

I do wish the USCF well, though whatever happens to the USCF will have no
effect on my enjoyment of chess. I could not care less about whatever Tim
Hanke does in or for USCF. I could not care less about whatever Tim Hanke
writes in RGCP as long as he leaves my name out of it. If Tim Hanke decides
to make another personal attack on me, however, then that does become an
issue for me. Does Don Mihokovich understand that?

I know that it's politically de rigueur for many, if not most, Americans to do
their utmost to deny, cover up, or excuse not only any "cultural prejudice",
but also any racism in the United States, particularly among the powerful,
such as the late Senator Strom Thurmond.

"The Legend of Strom's Remorse: a Washington lie is laid to rest"
by Timothy Noah (16 December 2002)

http://slate.msn.com/id/2075453/

"For many years, there's been a cherished Washington lie about Strom Thurmond.
The lie is that Thurmond, though once a leading segregationist, later renounced
that view as morally wrong. Trent Lott repeated that lie at his Dec. 13
press conference....It isn't just conservatives who believe this fairy tale
about sin, remorse, and redemption. The 'New York Times' buys into it too....

But there never was any such expression of remorse or plea for forgiveness.
Thurmond has never publicly repudiated his segregationist past...The legend
of Strom's Remorse was *invented*, by common unspoken consent within the
Beltway culture, in order to provide a plausible explanation why Thurmond
should continue to hold power and command at least marginal respectability
well past the time when history had condemned Thurmond's most significant
political contribution. Now that Thurmond is finally leaving Washington,
the lie serves no further purpose and will fade away."

--Timothy Noah (16 December 2002)

The posts have gone so far astray that the posters should strongly
consider changing the title and/or killing this thread.

Perhaps *Tim Hanke* should have considered that before he posted another
personal attack on me (and Mark Houlsby) in this thread on 29 August 2003.

Would it help kill this thread if we turned the discussion to the Mensa Model?

I shall "do my bit" here by *not* discussing the Prometheus Society model. :-)

Sorry Tim,

At least until the next USCF election campaign, perhaps. :-)

'Ah! child, you should read books which would teach you a little hypocrisy,
which would instruct you how to hide your thoughts a little better.'
--Henry Fielding (Tom Jones)

I am ready to quit writing in this thread if I am subjected to no more attacks.

--Nick