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Birgitte Jensen <bjensen4@juno.com> wrote:
>
>     Jim, since you seem to want to "talk this out" on-list, I'm gonna
>make an exception and reply  to what looks to me like an invitation to
>one of those "flame wars".

There's no flame here, bj -- only ice.  If you're gonna talk to me
at all, it WILL be on the list.  I learned some time ago to not trust
you with private communications because you consistently misread,
misinterpret and twist my words.  Why would you think I'd trust you
off-list when you seemingly can't or won't understand my public posts?
As my grandmother taught me:
"Burned once, shame on you; burned twice, shame on me."

You might (or might not) want to remember that your "room4everyone" post
was nothing less than an unprovoked and totally baseless attack on what
I wrote.  That was the second unprovoked attack on your part.  

As for you being a ranger, my grandmother taught me that "If it talks
like a duck, and walks like a duck, and looks like a duck - it's
probably a duck".  Similarly - "If it talks like a ranger ............"

Probability aside --- I WILL take you at your word - that you are
NOT a ranger.  In part, because I really don't care,  and in part
because it really doesn't matter - as long as you don't try to assume
the authority of a ranger in your conversations on this list.  And
don't tell me you haven't done that - I'm sure we can find those
posts in the archives.

Now a question - if you are not and never have been a ranger, by what
knowledge or authority do you "reassure" anyone about the actions or
intent of "rangers"?  And how would you know anything about the
"communications" either within or between the different agencies?

Finally, you wrote:
>    I'm not "cranked up" as you so nicely put it. I'm confused, hurt, -
>and offended.       bj

I've been snookered by experts, so you're not good enough to confuse me,
and I won't allow you the power to hurt me.  But I DO get offended when
someone's trying to play mind-games with me or with those I care about.
I care about the people on this list - and I am well and truly offended.

The rest of your post wasn't worth my time to answer - I have better
things to do with my life than shovel garbage.  

Jim

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