Tom - ha ha. Maybe it was not you I wished to block? When you try to add someone as a 'foe' (which I believe sets to ignore), you get the message (in a slightly darker grey than background):

You cannot add administrators and moderators to your foes list.

Moderators includes anyone who is set up as a moderator on the threads, it seems, even if you don't subscribe or use them. But that tells me I can't block you or bbauska.

One problem with blocking people, as has become apparent, is that - unless you make it known - they won't realise that you are ignoring them.

Oh, and what Sass said. I think quite a few of us are guilty of various things on here. It is interesting that one of ricky's main 'crimes' is reading things that are not there into other people's posts, when that seemed to me to be exactly what a few were doing to his.

Let us try to be a little less bombastic, realising that few of us have been innocent in the past.

So long as we don't spend too long on Steely Dan. I can't get "Rikki don't lose that number" out of my head, and while I am indeed ambivalent on their greatness/awfulness, it's starting to become a persistent earworm.

We ALL fall victim to that "crime" from time to time and even when we do not, heck, it's real easy to misconstrue the written word when we can not read inflection and such. And me as a moderator, in name only since the forum change! I would love to help more as I used to do, but I just don't know what to do in these new 'digs'

get rid of that ear worm, try listening to "Hey Nineteen" or "Time out of Mind" ...new worm!

Danivon:

So long as we don't spend too long on Steely Dan. I can't get "Rikki don't lose that number" out of my head, and while I am indeed ambivalent on their greatness/awfulness, it's starting to become a persistent earworm.

Yes, that title and melody crossed my mind too when Steely Dan was mentioned in conjunction with our kerfuffle. I like the final verse lyrics:

You tell yourself you're not my kind
But you don't even know your mind
And you could have a change of heart

I think it's normal that people with whom we disagree annoy us more that those with whom we agree. However, style matters too. Freeman's posts do not bother me at all. Ricky's posts do. I couldn't tell you who of those too is more liberal and who is more conservative. I know that I have faults too.

I can't believe that no one is talking about the sequester. That's been dominating the news for a few weeks over here. The ideological divide is very steep. Maybe we all know what others are thinking and haven't bothered to post.

"Are you reelin' in the years
Stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears
Have you had enough of mine"

"Are you reelin' in the years
Stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears
Have you had enough of mine"

"Are you reelin' in the years
Stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears
Have you had enough of mine"

'Are you reelin' in the years
Stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears
Have you had enough of mine"

The sequester is a bit boring really. Playing politics with the deficit and cuts etc is so 2011

so far it seems to be playing to the Republicans advantage. The President refused to make budget cuts, then he was forced to back off his claims of doom and gloom if it went through. The Republicans have also done well explaining they would prefer different cuts but cuts had to be made and it seems to be playing well to the public (so far)
The Republicans still refuse to accept any sort of tax increase and that is not playing well, heaven forbid if any party would play the middle ground and call for modest cuts as well as modest tax increases (if only on the most wealthy even?)

But so far the tables seem to have turned on the President who used to have more support, that opinion can swing back to his side yet, we shall see.

Modest tax increases and modest cuts, Tom? Taxes on the wealthy? Are you a socialist, Tom?

I hijacked the hijacked thread.

Didn't we just raise tax rates past the Clinton rates on January 1st?

Here's a fun twitter feed on government waste.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sequesterthis

See, most think I'm a rabid right wing nut-job! While I do not think it is the only answer or maybe even a real good option at this time, I do know this is what most Americans want and I do know we have to get our financial house in order. The problem is too heavy a tax load on the wealthy will cause problems yet the simplistic Democrat calls to play Robin Hood only goes so far and while it plays to the masses, it really is not the best answer, but YES, if I were a Republican politician in Washington, I would support modest tax increases on the wealthy, I would want to try and make them temporary if possible (like that would ever happen?)

Today's polar extremes pit Republicans wanting real cuts in spending vs Democrats wanting tax increases on the rich, I do tend to side with the Republican side but am not at one of those extremes knowing the best position is somewhere between those two poles.