This is for any and all who may have viewed the thread over the weekend, in which I lost my cool and acted like.....an asshole. I am a newbie, not only to this forum, but also to the whole world of online chat/message. I have a sharp tongue and a hair trigger. Thankfully, I am not Secretary of Defense.

I have already apologized privately to Seuss, and also to POAC for bringing vitriole into his site. He has graciously allowed me to hang around.

A couple of things I wanted to make clear: I had not intended to label all of you "assholes". I was speaking directly to Seuss there, and mistyped in anger. It's a good case for not typing in anger! Obviously, it would be assinine to call strangers assholes.

Also, I saw someone mention some "bizarre posting behavior" by me. This is because I seriously don't know what the hell I'm doing! I deleted a few of my posts because, when I read them rationally, they embarrassed me. I know that parts are quoted, but at least some of it has the chance of fading from memory. I also deleted my "intro" post. I didn't mean to send out my resume. I seriously thought that's what the site was asking for. None of it was bullshit, though. POAC called me a poseur and a fake. Not so. Just a dumbass.

Anyhow, I promise to "stay on my meds" (metaphorically). I mean you no harm......

Like I said, no worries. Glad you didn't split. Welcome back.

When you feel that adrenaline pumping, type it into word pad and walk away. When you come back, you'll probably discard it. It's like having a safety for the hair trigger.

I didnt see any of what's meant to have gone down, nice to have a newbie on board, I'm only new myself too.

hey, frog -
welcome to the forum!

About time you showed up! Welcome

great shot! is that yours?

Not a problem there Frogman.
My first day here, a couple of years ago, I got my ass banned.
Like you I was new to forums, even though I knew a bit about online chat. I ran side ways to the over zealous mods, and they kicked me off the forum. Afterwards TJ sent me a message and asked me to give it another try. Couple of years and a bazillion posts later, I'm still pissin people off!

You'll get the hang of it, and here's your first free hint.

This is text only. Nobody can see you, or hear you or read your mind. Never ever ever let then see you get angry. Anger is a weakness. You can get absolutely livid if you want, but DO NOT express that in your text, EVER! Not only will you accomplish much more, but it'll piss THEM off that they can't beat you at the game of text only Neener neener.

So go ahead and get on out there and have fun.

I'm not sure who said it first, but... "to each, their own."

Absolutely.

No, but after my pissy remark I wanted to show him I'm not really so bad. You did pretty good too, Seuss.

In your defense, Fabfrog, when you load up the asshole gun and let off a blast, in addition to the innocent, you're bound to hit a few guilty. Like seuss. And me.

Think no more about it Fabfrog. Happy to welcome you back!

You guys are the bomb.

And by the way - Seuss and I have put our heads together and proclaimed John Perkins a decent human. PLEASE read his books. They are a concise history of why the world, outside our borders and propaganda machines, has a perspective on us that doesn't match our own.

Did you know that we've tampered with and manipulated foreign sovereign governments?

Uh, yes sir we did.
Many of the guilty in the Central American debacle are now leaders in the Bush Government

A light just went on at the NSA.

just being facetious there. I'm here because you guys do know.

FYI: I'm pretty sure the NSA has been reading this forum for quite some time....

FYI, we know.
Though actually reading is debatable. More like the site gets constantly filtered for certain key words,
Like "BOMB".

gee, sky, why don't you repeat it for the newbie again?

I think we've said that DIRTY word BOMB quite enough.

thanx...
i was wondering how far you'd go...
what's your point?