Jackie, you're quite right that this is the same "old ground" you so eloquently re-introduced in your "personal plea" thread. The recent events may make it all the more important that for our political threads, we all be re-sensitized to the concerns you expressed there.

I too have no objection, in these extraordinary times, to "political" posts as such. I pray they be expressed with civility that brings us together, not with a vehemence that drives us apart.

TEd, I personally have had no problem with your posts, probably because in large part I happen to agree with them. But I fear that some of my own posts may have been so expressed as to offend at least some others on the board. and for that I too apologize.