From: jnichel@no_spamby-tor.com   
      
   On 5/7/2011 11:38 PM, Max C. Webster III wrote:   
   > "Dr. Charles Dutton" done said:   
   >   
   >> "Artisan" wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Is this newsgroup for the music of the power-pop trio, or the big fat guy   
   on   
   >>> talk radio?   
   >>>   
   >>> Just saying... with all the fascist talk here, people appear to think this   
   >>> newsgroup is about Limbaugh.   
   >>   
   >> Yes, there are quite a few right wing nut jobs here. About 90% of the NG.   
   >> Better to just find a better forum.   
   >   
   >   
   > From the time of Neil's tragedies, this forum ceased to be so much a Rush   
   forum   
   > as it was a forum for Rush fans. Rush was the thing we had in common, but   
   > since everything had been talked about a bazillion times over, we started   
   > talking about other things. Prof was said AMR was primarily about two   
   things:   
   > 1) A conversation amongst Rush fans, just not necessarily about Rush, and 2)   
   > ignoring Libby.   
   >   
   > Since we weren't all Rush all the time, and there were forums that catered to   
   > those who wanted that, we became the red-headed stepchild of Rush groups, and   
   > quite frankly, we liked it like that. Stereotypical Rush fans kinda scare   
   us.   
   >   
   > When facebook took off, and we realized we could do the same thing there we   
   > were doing here, but with pictures and other gewgaws, AMR started circling   
   the   
   > drain. We're still here, checking in from time to time, but it's most the   
   > schizophrenic ranting of Libby or the bombastic political rants of a few   
   > maladjusted nuts.   
   >   
   > So yes, this for is for the "power-pop trio," not the "big fat guy," but   
   don't   
   > expect to read to much about either here. It's mostly noise these days.   
   >   
   > Sadder still to watch it die than never to have known it . . .   
   >   
      
   I'm still trying to process the fact that 90% of us are "right wing nut   
   jobs".   
      
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