Magenta:

There's a big Green contingent here in WA.  "Rhetoric" is basically the art
of argument (I've considered a graduate degree in "Composition and
Rhetoric").  As for being called someone who deals in rhetoric...I think it
proves that you have a brain and use it.  Good for you.

I am privileged to know an educated, enlightened conservative who is FROM
Texas.  Some of them can think.  I hope not too many of those on the
listserv make comments about heroes...my adoptive father is mine, and I'm
protective of him.

Keep in touch...nice to meet you. :)

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: Magenta Raine <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: Addressing an ad-hominm and asking for welcome...


> In a message dated 5/18/03 6:58:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > What an ad-hominim attack.  I won't pretend to know you, or Magenta, or
=
> > what's going on in TX...but I DO know what it takes to attack a person,
=
> > and not her ideas. Please forgive me if your comments in this case =
> > strike me as less than profound, and even a bit mean.
> >
>
>   Thanks, Scott, I appreciate your comments.  I have my ways of dealing
with
> Ken Barber's barbs.
> I am a liberal, and have never hidden that fact. Several days ago Ken
called
> me a liberal democrat dealing in rhetoric. I was surprised at the name
> calling, but after stewing about it for a few hours, I said, you know
what?
> That is what I am, (I don't know about the rhetoric part) and I am not
> ashamed to be a liberal. I don't know if I'm a democrat anymore, I left
the
> party disgusted. I am now a green party member. (oooohh even worse! LOL!)
>
> Scott, let me introduce myself. I am 47 years young,  quad athetoid CP,
plus
> the attending arthritis and disc disease that seems to find many of us
CP-ers
> in our 30's. I also have fibromyalgia, a pain syndrome.
> I am a writer, consultant, desktop publisher, and now I've been appointed
by
> Mayor Brown to be on the Oakland Mayor's commission on people with
> disabilities.  I'm divorced, no human children, but have two cats, and
three
> dedicated assistants that come to my place to help me out about 5 hours a
> day.
>
> Mag (short for magenta, my favorite color.)
>
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> I am available to do writing, editing, reporting, designing jobs,
including
> business cards, etc. I am also a disability rights activist.
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