On Mon, 15 May 2006 22:56:36 GMT, mels...@aragorn.rgmhome.net (Robert

I don't want to be part of this NG but some of you keep inventing
things I've said.  You do let your self down in Texas (but there's
nothing wrong with Texas). I come from Yorkshire myself and it's just
a bit bigger than Texas and the stars at night are brighter. The basis
of my concept of good behaviour is hardly assumed, or personal, or
even an uncommon standard. I spoke of democracy, justice, fairplay,
evenhandedness. I spoke of John Wayne's characters. Some of the
world's greatest leaders (not least in the US) lived and died for
those values and you hypocrit talk of smugness and assumed
superiority.  Was this true of Rhooseveldt, Martion Luther King, JFK,
the Alamo heroes. They were never smug and their superiority over a
few people who posted in this thread was real.  How dare you compare
those people (not yourself) with the salt of the earth aforementioned.

The rest of what you said was ok as far as opinion goes, but really,
"assumed superiority" when talking in terms of democracy, justice,
fairplay, and evenhandedness.  I notice none of you had the courage to
actually address the points I made in each posting. Is that a weakness
that you betray> Is it a case of if you haven't an answer just lash
out anyway?  It looks like it.

You could leave it at this, or you could, if tou've got dry powder, go
over the points that I've made and try answering them without making
mistakes.  It might help if you lost some hostility and kept your feet
on the ground.  There hasn't been any heat on my side.

Sorry that I called him an oaf but he did invent stuff that I hadn't
said and he carefully avoided demolishing or even addressing the
points.  If he had kept his head it wouldn't have been necessary - in
fact he wouldn't have left himself wideopen.  All he had to do was
check what I had actually said and shoot it down with the facts or
shut up.

Colin