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1.    As to the hat -- everyone is right.
    It makes sense to cover your neck while working in the yard or being on the beach.
    You have to wear you hat backwards to fit under the catcher's mask.
    I have worn my hat backward in a speed boat to keep from losing it.
    But one day I (the respected county assessor) wore a hat backwards in the county building and got a very long double take from one of the sheriff's investigative officers.  It seems I had unknowingly identified myself as a gang banger.  So, while there are lots of reasons to wear your hat backwards, there are also lots of reasons not to.

2.    As to the evolutionary curve -- maybe that is the best argument against evolution as the origin of mankind.  Now we need to understand that and live up to our potential.

3.    As to racists -- it takes a special kind of racist to see racism where none exists.

4.    As to this being better than television -- that is not hard at all.  A blank wall would be better than television and better for you.  Genealogy would be even better.

5.    As to Virginia genealogy -- I too love my Virginia ancestors and appreciate the things they went through to put my family in a situation of freedom.  It concerns me to see us sell off that freedom and our Constitutional government without even recognizing what we are doing.  

Claude Richards
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Hobbs<about:blank> 
  To: [log in to unmask]<about:blank> 
  Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 3:19 AM
  Subject: Re: Update on 1833 Census- degrading comments


  I cannot wait to see someone's (anyone's) response to this post, which, 
  written with no hint of hatred and certainly no rush to judgment poses a 
  valid question in its last sentence. In a stroke of intuitive genius the 
  writer, one "Tree Mother," may have answered her own question in its 
  first two words.

  I love this list. Erudite posts seem to indicate a membership far ahead 
  of the evolutionary curve until disagreement breaks out, proving that 
  the curve is actually a U-turn.

  Please keep this (or any) thread going: it's better than television.

  Bill Hobbs


  Poldi Tonin wrote:
  > Well, everyone who objects to those who wear their hats on backward had best
  > refrain from
  > any thoughts of visiting or moving to Texas and other places in Deep South.
  > All the boys and men seem to wear their gimme hats on backwards. And don't
  > watch baseball where the Catcher wears his hat on backwards. That will
  > really irk the gentle sensitivities of some on this list.
  >
  > Even I wear my gimme hat on backwards when working in the yard. Keeps the
  > sun off neck and keeps hair from falling in eyes.
  >
  > Fern is a Racist and revealed herself in that she was uncontrollably
  > compelled to make her holier-than-thou remarks about Mr. Obama  during his
  > private vacation time in Hawaii.
  >
  > I know racist when I see, hear or smell one.
  >
  > Jesus Christ, what will it take to end this abiding hatred in America?
  >
  > Tree Mother

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