Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:12:00 -0400
From: Chris Kohut <chriskayak@earthlink.net>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Jet Ski ban in US Nation
Did it occur to anyone else also, that this entire exercise was a fool's mission? An
idiotic example of preaching to the choir? What, pray, results were you expecting
from a biadarka list on the incendiary topic of jet skis? And precisely what
influence on public policy would a USA today poll have? Have we any cross over wave
runner users in our midst? Come on....'fess up. Closet jet skiers, who proudly
display their baidarkas on their car tops yet park their damnable wave runners behind
house? Yes.....I see that hand..... Make your way forward while the choir sings "
Just as I am"...... Good thing we're not Calvinists, huh? (for the uninitiated,
calvinists don't give altar calls--either you is 'o you isn't)
' Chris
Ranald Gault wrote:
> > curerent tally: 58.6 for the ban vs. 41.3 against the ban, with something over
> > 4,000 votes counted so far. GO VOTE!
>
> Okay, I'm writing from Canada so I've no particular right to offer an opinion
> in this matter, but I don't see why this poll is being taken seriously. The
> question as posed on the website leads to such ambiguity in interpreting the
> result that surely no legislative body would consider it to be meaningful.
> Besides, " Jet Skis and other personal watercraft" not only implicitly includes
> such benign boats as are discussed in this group, but the tender dinghies hanging
> off the sterns of yachts belonging to corrupt (oops! sorry, sorry) politicians and
> other astronomically wealthy and influential patricians. What are the chances of
> such a poll being taken seriously? It's simply stupid. In fact, I'd rank it
> right down there with the last Quebec referendum question.
>
> [The writer subsequently embarked on a brief career as a lightning arrestor.]