From: cd@notformail.com   
      
   On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:00:03 -0800, john larkin    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:00:06 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 25/12/2025 5:44 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   >>> Gentlemen,   
   >>>   
   >>> It's 'that' time of year again and we've had some heated debates on   
   >>> this group over the last 12 months, both from those who want to   
   >>> explore different views and those who would rather shut them down at   
   >>> any price. As a Christian conservative and a libertarian, I fall into   
   >>> the former category of course, and bear no ill will to anyone here. So   
   >>> a very happy Christmas to *all* our contributors here, of whatever   
   >>> religious persuasion they may be, or none at all for that matter! And   
   >>> have a happy and prosperous New Year.   
   >>>   
   >>> Your pal,   
   >>   
   >>Cursitor Doom may think that he is a Christian conservative and a   
   >>liberation (which happen to inconsistent ideologies) but the depressing   
   >>reality is that he is a gullible sucker for the kind of propaganda that   
   >>autocratic psychopaths (like Trump and Putin) dish out.   
   >   
   >Thank you for the lovely Christmas spirit.   
      
   It was Bill and his fellow countryman Phil Alison who are responsible   
   for me adopting the "Gentlemen" prefix to all my original posts here,   
   in the hope that they'd both observe the implied wish that trolls were   
   not welcome to respond. Sadly, it hasn't worked. In any event, I'd   
   have thought Bill would have his time taken up elsewhere at this   
   season of the year playing the pantomime villain at some local theatre   
   in Sydney. A role for which he is, of course, perfectly suited.   
      
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