Final Word on Mike Vandeman and mountain biking from Ed Dolan

[EdwardDolan]

Time for me to move on. RBS was basically ruined by Mike Vandeman and also
by me due to our constant harping on a single topic, mountain biking on
single track trails. I am done discussing that topic. I am also done with
defending Mike Vandeman since I discovered that he is a brain dead liberal
know-nothing. If he can be that dumb on his politics, then he can’t be all
that smart on anything else. I will not bother to either support or oppose
him on his special topic, but he can damn well go to Hell along with all the
other brain dead liberal know-nothings. And that is what I will tell him if
he shows up on this newsgroup ever again.

RBS is now open to other discussions. If some of you want to go on and on
about mountain biking, I will let it pass. Truth to tell, the world is going
to Hell and there is nothing anyone can do to prevent it, least of all an
idiot like Mike Vandeman. The one thing he is for sure is a crank and a
crackpot. I have always known that from the beginning, but I cut him lots of
slack on that because of the nature of the special topic. But cranks and
crackpots do not live in the real world. They live in their own cockeyed
world and it is a waste of time to try to discuss anything with such types.

It is my hope that we can open this newsgroup to discussion for the purposes
for which the group was established, bicycles and recreation. Surely that is
a broad enough topic to engender lots of interest from a variety of folks
who like to bicycle. In short, let’s start over without any more drivel
about mountain biking and hiking trails.

Ed Dolan – Minnesota

[slto...@gmail.com]

Ed, you are being far to critical. The lefties are trying to convince everyone that they are some sort of majority. They aren't. And every time one of them goes off about their dream world of socialism, taught in virtually every college in this country now, they alienate more and more people. Did you catch that socialist woman being asked how she intended to pay for free college and free health care? She showed the most scrambled brains I've ever seen. So thinking people, and most are, grow more and more perturbed by the Democrat Party and the nutcakes they have become. Watch the next election in November - the party in power normally loses about 14 seats but I suspect that we will lose none this year though I doubt that we will gain any since the blue states are blue for a reason - they are holding their breaths.

[EdwardDolan]

Mike Vandeman was for open borders, yet he wanted to preserve the
environment in as pristine a condition as possible. When I pointed our to
him this contradiction. he came back with the idea that you could control
what people did no matter how crowded things got. I realized at that point
that I was talking to a crank and a crackpot.

What bothers me the most is that certain large sections of the nation seem
to be embarked on permanent liberal trajectory. The West Coast and the North
Eastern states come immediately to mind as well as most large cities. Thank
God for the middle of the country, especially the rural areas, which remain
Republican and conservative. It was a miracle that Trump won, but you can
see how the media and other mainline institutions are attempting to destroy
him. The culture of the nation has become liberal and I do not know if Trump
can turn things around. I suspect not.

Ed Dolan - Minnesota

[Tom Kunich]

The bicycle groups are all inhabited by normal people and normal people have a large percentage of cranks in them so Vandeman who is probably dead of old age or the effects of the covid-19 vaccine by now is just another member of the groups.

[pH]

On 2023-01-11, Tom Kunich <cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Heavens to Murgagroyd!

"Ed Dolan the Great" and Mike Vandeman(n)!

Pinch me, I must be dreaming......

I wonder if Vandemann is stilll alive.....?

pH

[EdwardDolan]

"Tom Kunich" wrote in message
news:66a4402e-630e-420f...@googlegroups.com...

> environment in as pristine a condition as possible. When I pointed out to
> him this contradiction, he came back with the idea that you could control

> what people did no matter how crowded things got. I realized at that point
> that I was talking to a crank and a crackpot.
>
> What bothers me the most is that certain large sections of the nation seem
> to be embarked on permanent liberal trajectory. The West Coast and the
> North
> Eastern states come immediately to mind as well as most large cities.
> Thank
> God for the middle of the country, especially the rural areas, which
> remain
> Republican and conservative. It was a miracle that Trump won, but you can
> see how the media and other mainline institutions are attempting to
> destroy
> him. The culture of the nation has become liberal and I do not know if
> Trump
> can turn things around. I suspect not.
>
> Ed Dolan - Minnesota

The bicycle groups are all inhabited by normal people and normal people have
a large percentage of cranks in them so Vandeman who is probably dead of old
age or the effects of the covid-19 vaccine by now is just another member of
the groups.

>>>>> Mike Vandeman and I petty much destroyed this news group. Tom Sherman
>>>>> and I destroyed other bicycle newsgroups. This was inevitable as there
>>>>> were no moderators or editors for the groups. You simply must have
>>>>> them. Otherwise, craziness prevails. And as you say, normal people
>>>>> will leave in flocks.

>>>>> If you will notice in the comments section to all news articles
>>>>> appearing on the Internet there are moderators who will delete a post
>>>>> for various reasons. This is of course a form of censorship, but quite
>>>>> necessary. Usenet was a free-for-all and that is what finally
>>>>> destroyed it.

>>>>> I think both Mike Vandeman and Tom Sherman simply wearied of the
>>>>> eternal conflict. Frankly I got tired of kicking ass myself. Usenet
>>>>> discussions not only needed a moderator, they also needed a director.
>>>>> It is good riddance to a type of forum which was impossible from the
>>>>> get-go. Nevertheless it lasted for a few years and was fun while it
>>>>> lasted. We should not mourn its passing.

>>>>> Ed Dolan - Minnesota