On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:53:01 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 12:17:53 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:


And then I'm saying, it's not easy following what parts of the
libertarian
idea you really buy into. It's like Euell Gibbons used to say about pine
trees: Some parts are edible.

I have trouble following your being a Republican (or is it RINO?),
too, Ed, so don't feel like the Lone Ranger.

Again, my Republican affiliation is based on NJ's state politics. In fact,
you'll read about it in _Richochet_ sooner or later. I was one of the guys
that the state NRA affiliate asked to become a delegate to my county
Republican convention. But I was already opposed to what was going on in
Democratic politics in New Jersey and I had switched my registration in
the
early '80s, in order to vote for some Repubs who favored revamping
welfare.

Whassa "Ricochet"? NRA blurb?

It's the book we were talking about: _Richochet: Confessions of a Gun
Lobbyist_, by Richard Feldman (former NRA lobbyist). He worked mostly in the
Northeast at the same time I was active in gun issues.

Oh, THAT _Ricochet_! blush My head's not quite back together after
the trip to CA. I must have absorbed some of that wine via my empathic
senses 'cuz my memory has been shot ever since then.

--
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized
anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt