From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:01:11 +0000, Cursitor Doom    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>John Larkin   
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   He trashes everyone, even when it makes no sense. He must be very   
   unhappy.   
      
      
   John Larkin   
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