*** Didya have a question that required an answer Dale? ***

Dale wrote: Nope. I think I now know everything I need to know now. Ya know? I guess I'm just a little slower than most.

In reply:

I think you were simply off the board when it was verified for Pat by an unimpeachable source that I am distinctly not Kent.-)

Further, I only knew about Anthony because Kent and I had communicated privately a few times some months prior to Anthony's birth and Kent was kind enough to add me to a CC announcing he and Paula's joyous and miraculous news.

Despite this boards mistaken, &/or malicious, opinion(s) of Kent, it's my opinion he is exceptionally good people and the majority of the DBIS community lost a valuable contributor when he exercised his self respect by leaving here. I expect permanently.

Not unlike you, I followed suit immediately after your decision to depart the board last year, since it was and is true, that this often can be such a childishly vindictive place that formerly sapped my energy simply due to exasperation.

Unlike you, since my return, because I have been attempting to sound some of the same alarms as Kent's upcoming article in the new eJournal you mentioned, it has been suggested dismissively and derogatorially that I am Kent or Missy Richardson and perhaps a few others who visited the board and voiced their view that this Board is decidedly intolerant to the minority views which are generally designated as conservative.

Without reservation, I can assure you, when it comes to brains, it's a compliment to be likened to Kent. And I am not certain I would be as pleasant or hopeful is I had his considerable physical limitations. He may seem a bit immodest at times when blowing his own horn, but the man, whether you like his analysis of the available facts or not,

(which research includes much more verifiable information that IS NOT broadly published in the mass media or school books)

is intelligent to the extreme and decidedly not a nut. In fact, Kent is an American patriot - in my assessment anyhow.

I would be pleased to have a friend like Kent but the truth is we are merely occasional acquaitances.

I tell you this, out of respect to your former behaviour toward me, not your recent, excluding today.

BUT, I am curious as to what it is you, "think I now know everything I need to know now. Ya know?", because I don't know what ya mean by "Ya Know?". Please do enlighten me. Privately if preferable to your purposes.

WARNING TO THE WISE: get yourself a personal water purification system. Preferrably gravity fed like the Berkey system. I don't own stock, just a friendly word of advice.