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   Message 15,355 of 17,262   
   Tom Horne to Moderator   
   Re: The Weather Undergrond [telecom]   
   29 Aug 20 17:50:14   
   
   From: hornetd.remove-this@and-this-too.gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, August 29, 2020 at 2:06:00 PM UTC-4, Moderator wrote:   
   > I could, I suppose, get used to the "forecaster" blathering along about   
   > the dire consequences of not buying the soap that his boss is selling   
   > instead of the soap that the other guys are selling. I just don't want   
   > to. I'm fed up with the constant, unending, insufferable torrent of   
   > fearmongering and fear-based marketing and fear-based electioneering   
   > that have taken up every megabyte of my Internet feed for the past four   
   > years, and I want the weather forecaster to tell me about the weather -   
   > and then shut up.   
      
   Bill,   
      
   You don't want much do you? You're just another apostate sinner that   
   has yet to confess that Profit IS God. COWTOW to the all holy PROFIT   
   ... you blasphemer! PROFIT!   
      
   ---   
   Tom Horne   
      
   ***** Moderator's Note *****   
      
   I asked the author if he was sure this was intended for publi-   
   cation. He told me to use it if I chose, and I told him that he   
   has graduated from well-meaning senior citizen to crazy old coot.   
      
   Bill Horne   
   Moderator   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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