Great post, Paul. As usual, you are right on the money. Being a free adult in a (mostly, if decreasingly so) free society means BOTH having the freedom to make choices, AND to receive the benefit of those choices if they were wise choices, OR to take the harm of poor choices if unwise decisions were made. (This is why the decision to start a family is so momentous.) The way you blow through pretentious euphemistic veneers covering illogical/indefensible positions is as much what I enjoy about your writing style as the actual content. Paul, semi-pollies and full- blown DWGIs dislike you IMHO because their BS gets blown away right then, with no polite cover being inappropriately extended for them to hide behind for even the rest of that thread. Keep on keeping on, please; you're saving lives.

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-- MinnesotaSmith (y2ksafeminnesota@hotmail.com), October 26, 1999.

I can't wait for Y2K to start screwing things up. I'm going to do a lot of laughing next year. If the pollys are rude enough to laugh and ridicule those who calmly and faithfully follow their instincts, then I am sure as hell rude enough to laugh my ass of when they start tripping out. This is gonna be fun!

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), November 14, 1999.

''The good news? You (and all the other pollyannas who have your head stuck in the sand) will stop consuming valuable resources, like air.'' - Steve Heller

The polly's will not die instantly in 15 days. They will slowly lose weight as they scrounge for food, but eat not enough to sustain life. After 90 days of slowly wasting away, they will get so weak, that they can no longer scrounge for food and then they slowly die. We have warned them, but they would not listen. So they will have to accept the consequenses for their stupidity.

-- bbb (bbb@bbb.com), December 12, 1999.

He's a real idiot and a menace to society. My only regret about his imminent awakening to reality is that I won't be able to see his face when he realizes that he was "dead wrong".

-- Steve Heller (stheller@koyote.com), December 15, 1999.

Ha ha, very funny. Now let's talk about you. I think you and the Unabomber are twins separated at birth. After all, you have the same attitude towards the rest of us "inferior" types.

-- Steve Heller (stheller@koyote.com), December 20, 1999.

Most who posted on this thread seem to be good people. A few are jerks...some wanting to gloat if they are right. Hope someone shoots you if you are that low on the 'humanity' scale...

Any so-called 'Pollies' like the one that posted up a few threads being a jerk...hope your ass gets shot off as well.

Like I said before...I'm tired of people like you. Do us a favor and eat your gun. The rest with compassion...God bless and best of luck that we are wrong and if not- remember your hearts and hold steady.

-- Satanta (EventHoriz@n.com), December 19, 1999.

They'll probably wait until Y2K starts to take its toll on the business world, the economy falls apart, and we go into a depression. Then they will be damn glad that they had the wisdom and foresight to be well prepared and self sufficient. Just like me.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 31, 1999.

As much as I really dislike their posts, I say keep them. They'll be handy to shove down their f*#@ing throats when the banks and markets have tanked and the JIT supply train is laying in the weeds on its side. And somehow I'm getting the feeling it won't have to be a "wait until March" kinda thing, either.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), January 05, 2000.

Amused, Vindicated, & Truthful Regards,

Andrew Raymond

-- Andrew Raymond (cousin@andy.ray), July 25, 2000

Answers

That WAS funny.

-- KoFE (your@town.USA), July 25, 2000.

I don't understand. These people seem to have been following their hearts, and the "pollies" were telling them they were wrong, right? And the 'Doomers" were saying the pollies would be sorry if they were wrong. I can understand that if they really believed what they believed. Andy Ray, In what instances did you change what your heart told you to do because of someone else telling you you were wrong? What if it was someone you didn't know? Why are you making fun of these people? I don't understand. Because they thought you might die? Do you think they weren't sincere in that thought? Just trying to understand. From my viewpoint, if someone were sincerely and from the heart believing some kind of doom was about to come upon them, I can't understand why you ridicule them? Do you ridicule your local church groups who believe in the apocolypse?

-- Bear In Mind (LingLing@the.zoo), July 25, 2000.

Do you know any church groups that would say "Do us a favor and eat your gun?"

-- (hmm@hmm.hmm), July 25, 2000.

Bear:

All I see are quotes here. If anything, they are making fun of themselves.

I think the key is that there isn't a word here about *why* things would fail. Instead, what you see is a fairly accurate sampling of the attitude encountered by those who *did* analyze the situation with anything approaching objectivity. Here we have people both self- righteously arrogant about their illusions, and gleeful at the prospective suffering of those who knew better.

These are *not* the words of cautious, "better safe than sorry" individuals. They weren't called bullies for nothing.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), July 25, 2000.

If Andrew Raymond justs posts quotations, and leaves off the personal commentary, he'll do just fine.

-- Zzzzzzzz (zzz@zz.zz), July 25, 2000.

Andrew Raymond,

Is it true that Andy Ray has mad-cow disease?

-- (nemesis@awol.com), July 26, 2000.

These people were hoping to see others in serious trouble, suffering so they could gloat at them and kick them when they were down. I believe if the circumstances had caused the melt down they presumes would happen, they would be doing just what they planned and looked forward to doing. Yet those of them who had the worse hopes for others are the ones who are whining over the "words" that are being said about them. What if, due to their being wrong, they were told to "eat their gun" or crawl and beg for food?

They'll be handy to shove down their f*#@ing throats when the banks and markets have tanked

Now that the opposite is true, why can't we "shove down their throats" what happened (or better yet, didn't)?

He's a real idiot and a menace to society. My only regret about his imminent awakening to reality is that I won't be able to see his face when he realizes that he was "dead wrong".

-- Steve Heller (stheller@koyote.com), December 15, 1999.

Yes, old "I never made predicitions, I made suggestions" Heller and the depth of his wishes for his fellow man.

I can't wait for Y2K to start screwing things up. I'm going to do a lot of laughing next year. If the pollys are rude enough to laugh and ridicule those who calmly and faithfully follow their instincts, then I am sure as hell rude enough to laugh my ass of when they start tripping out. This is gonna be fun!

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), November 14, 1999.

Just how much fun has it been?

Shouldn't those who were right be just as rude and laugh their asses off when you were proven wrong? If it was good enough for you to do it when thengs would have gotten bad, can't the "opposition" do the same thing you planned on doing when it went the other way?

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And where is minnisota smith today to accept the consequences of HIS words?

Being a free adult in a (mostly, if decreasingly so) free society means BOTH having the freedom to make choices, AND to receive the benefit of those choices if they were wise choices, OR to take the harm of poor choices if unwise decisions were made.

There were so many posts by doomers that showed nothing but hostility and hope for bad things to happen to "pollies". Why do so many of them still hold on to that hostility, even when the reason for it no longer exists?

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), July 26, 2000.

Who was it that said "Comedy is dead"? I can't remember......

Based on the above, he was obviously dead wrong.

Hawk, that was brilliant dude.......yet hillarious at the same time.

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), July 26, 2000.

As often as I feel like puking at the sight of another "Quotable", this one hits home with me. Thank you for posting it.

-- Bingo1 (howe9@shentel.net), July 26, 2000.

Thanks, "Cuz", it's nice to get my morning fix of quotable quotes -- with Andy Ray slacking off, your thread really is appreciated. And Cherri's moronic dribble was icing on the cake!

-- WD-40 (wd40@squeak.not), July 26, 2000.

Hey, LUBE JOB, are you getting help for your problems? If so, get a clue, change Psychiatrists.

-- cpr (buytexas@swbell.net), July 26, 2000.

CPR, bad enough that you are always making accusations of Y2K profitering, but don't you feel hypocritical pushing your Texax real estate biz -- "buyTexas", indeed, nice. Yet more evidence that you deliberately make Y2K optimists look bad...

-- WD-40 (wd40@squeak.not), July 26, 2000.