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You don't _know_ me; you've never met me or spent any time in
>conversation and yet _you_ can parse my comment to conclude that I am
>a bigot; well _I_ can just as easily parse your statement to conclude
>that you are a bloviating buffoon, but _I_ wont.
>It was just such ad hominem assaults  combined with my illness that
>caused me to pull back from this group some 6 months ago.I see _now_
>that was the right decision.
>you have _no_ idea of how badly that idiot butchered this house; don't
>know his name or race, don't really care> What I _do_ know is that as
>an engineer he was a FOOL who endangered the residents with the
>upstairs bath. 2X4 laid on the flat instead of vertically, sheathed
>with 3/8" bead board , then  covered with 1/2" plywood a claw foot tub
>was in place: and the whole room racked, the floor where the tub was
>drops 3" in the space of 4 feet. Its a bleeding miracle that the floor
>didn't give way with someone in the tub.
>The kitchen sink is no better.
>Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen

Bigot or not, it's a blatantly bigoted term, and the appropriate thing
to do is to apologize for its use.

-- 
Josh

[Truly] I say to you, [...] angel [...] power will be able to see that [...]
these to whom [...] holy generations [...]. After Jesus said this, he departed.

- The Gospel of Judas
                                      
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