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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:32:09 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


> I had a radish, cucumber and three cheese brocolli spread sandwich on
> hard rye today at the local lunch emporium - $4.95 with half sour pickle
> spear and homemade kettle fried potato chips.


That's a Connecticut lunch. I really hate to say this, but it does
sound like it could be tasty.

D.Duck wrote:
> "hk" <payer33859 RemoveThis @mypacks.net> wrote in message
> news:fu2dnVH6z8lUhDPVnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
>>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:12:21 -0400, hk <payer33859 RemoveThis @mypacks.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:38:39 -0400, hk <payer33859 RemoveThis @mypacks.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't think one day of McCain's military experience is relevant to
>>>>>>>> the job he is seeking.
>>>>>>> You sure as hell did when Kerry was running.
>>>>>> Only in comparison to Bush's dangerous service with the Texas Air
>>>>>> National Guard, and Cheney and Rumsfeld's war mongering in the face of
>>>>>> non-service.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By itself, it has no relevance. What's relevant is having the smarts
>>>>>> to avoid wars or to find a way to extricate a country from an ongoing
>>>>>> war.
>>>>> So let me see if I understand you.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1 - By comparison, Kerry's military combat record was relevant becasue
>>>>> Bush never saw combat and thus was the superior candidate.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2 - Kerry had military combat experience and the VP and SecDef at that
>>>>> time didn't thus making him the superior candidate.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3 - Based on one and two, Kerry was the superior candidate because he
>>>>> had more military experience than the Administration had.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4 - It was relevant then, but not relevant now.
>>>>>
>>>>> I understand completely.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know some farmers who would love to hire you to fertilize their
>>>>> fields because their entire herd of cows aren't as full of what makes
>>>>> the grass grow green as you are.
>>>> Both Kerry and Bush used their military records in their campaigns.
>>>> Compared to Bush's holiday with the TANG, Kerry's "military" record was
>>>> real. Bush's was b.s. In choosing a POTUS, though, I don't think
>>>> either's military record was relevant. Cheney and Rumsfeld were simply
>>>> war mongerers, and compared to their non-experience, Kerry's service was
>>>> relevant.
>>>>
>>>> The point is, you really don't understand. Too abstract, I suppose.
>>> There's abstract and then there abstractly obtuse.
>>>
>>> You clearly specialize in the obtusely abstract.
>>
>> I also specialize in moderating a section of a discussion board that has
>> thousands of daily contributors. You?
>
> Let's see. Thousands of messages, that's at least 2000. Assume it takes an
> average of 15 seconds to "moderate" each message.
>
> 15 seconds X 2000 msgs = 30K seconds.
> 30K sec / 60 = 500 minutes
> 500 min / 60 = 8.3 hours
>
> How do you find time to fish?
>
>

The discussion board has several thousand new posts a day. It is a very
active board. There are subsections. There's a moderator for each
subsection. Therefore, there are a number of moderators. My subsection
averages 25 or so new or add-on posts a day, one of the slowest. But
that's because I am a relatively "new" mod, and "promotion" is based on
seniority. :>)

Anyway, it doesn't take long to read through them, and there ain't much
to moderate since posters like The Seven Little Schitts are banned for
life after their second snotty post. I do read through some other
subsections, though, out of my interest in their subject matter, and if
I find a snotty post, I kill it and send a copy to that subsection's
"mod." Lots of heated discussions, too, on many subject matters, but no
personal insults. Reggie, Herring, DK, BAR, Just Wait, Loggy, Mike, et
cetera, probably wouldn't last long enough to post twice.

I read another, much newer message board, but unfortunately the
moderators there don't do a very good job, and it was taken over by the
attack dogs. Last time I checked, it was averaging less than one post a
day on the entire message board.

Such is life.