From: Rick McCallister
Message: 58676
Date: 2008-05-19
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallisterI'm sure it's a nice place. I was just jerking
> <gabaroo6958@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Careful Arnaud. He's a libertarian and he's from
> Nevada,
> > where you can buy nuclear weapons over the counter
> at the
> > Area 51 Gun and Bomb Exchange --just down the road
> from
> > the Ale-E-Inn. Where he's from they don't believe
> in guilt,
> > they just let God sort 'em out. It must have been
> all of
> > that nuclear testing and incestuous polygamy
> around there.
> > When you think of rural Nevada, you need to think
> of Clint
> > Eastwood with a suitcase bomb ;p
>
> I surely shouldn't respond to this and thereby lend
> credence
> to the idea that it matters where one comes from,
> but I just
> can't help trying to defend myself.
>
> I wasn't born in Pahrump and don't care for the town
> at all.
> As the youngest of my siblings and without children
> of my
> own, however, it has fallen on me to look after my
> elderly
> parents, who could not be dissuaded from moving here
> about
> seven years ago.
>
> Those places I've lived and loved most were Los
> Alamos in New
> Mexico, and San Francisco in California. So, if my
> beliefs
> and attitudes must be understood on the basis of
> place, then
> please let those places be the basis instead.
>
> David