When I referred to the current political hysteria, I was not calling you hysterical, but after that diatribe......

Jeez, Jim, did you really say that if the November elections do not go correctly, you would advocate and support dramatic political change? Political change comes either by ballot or bullet. Do you realize what you're saying?

Do you ever speculate as to why this board doesn't seem to grow beyond the same small group of regulars, and why new posters come and go, never to be heard from again?

Speaking for myself, I find the mindset on this board to be too radical and extreme for my blood. I argued with hippies in the 1960's and was glad when that nonsense finally came to an end. And now, 40 years later, I find myself arguing the same points again.

I am sure that neither you nor your posters will shed any tears at my departure, Jim, but I am going to book. This forum is not the Civil War discussion board I thought it was. I no longer wish to be associated with it.

Auf wiedersehn.