Confine politics and flame wars to this thread, please.
Dale
That was only a matter of time. All the coaxing in the world couldn’t get the fluters to post in the whistle forum…
How’s that for flaming? 
I don’t think there’s nearly as much bile over here as over there.
Of course, I could be proven wrong.
Stuart
The political thread at the whistle forum has far proven to favor discourse over bile. We primadonnas probably can’t stomach such level-headedness. Hence our own muck-pit. 
I doubt it will gather in excess of 230 pages, though! 
Mary
I don’t know … it seems like a lot of whistle folks are getting flutes lately …
Who knows where things could go from there?
Thanks, Dale. It’s a tougher job to separate fluteaholics and politics than I thought, but someone’s gotta do it.
I’m workin’ on it. I’m workin’ on it!!!
Jeez.
Ah, longer posts? Get Jim to help?
Denny
I fear we shall have to settle for quantity over quality if we wish to compete in post-count volume. But we are players of flutes. Volume is already ours. So…
This thread is a bit disappointing. Whence acrimony and partisan jingoism? sigh
Criminy Dale, just start another forum.
I haven’t been to the whistle board in ages because of all the OT garbage.
Doc
LOL!!! 
Here’s the funniest thing in that site, though (IMHO):
Americans must be able to trust the facts in political ads.
Isn’t the whistle political/religious thread where the American Olympic post writing team do their practice ?
I am gobsmacked at the enormous length of the posts. If they have to read and write so much it will, I trust, keep them all out of mischief !
Diebold voting machines
Cast your Presidential pre-election vote here:
Thanks David , Ein grosses JA, ein kleines NEIN…
“When I explan why there are poor who have no food they call me a Marxist.”
What’s interesting is that all of these posts get saved indefinitely.
It’s all there, searchable, and it goes back for years.
Some of these threads, including some that preceded
even the current incarnation of the board, are
extraordinary. We actually went through Anselm’s
Proof at one point, with mathematicians and logicians
weighing in. I sometimes go back to read this
stuff, for my own edification.
If, Andrew, you
wish to read a previous effort concerning the philosophy
of time, search for ‘Vanished Like The Snow,’
which in the middle went into the nature of evil,
then returned to time. Began and ended with
a poem, too.
"Vanished like the snow " made very good reading.
Thanks!
Another thread, perhaps for another day,
is ‘For Jim Stone: Proof that Unicorns Exist.’
Here please start 13 posts down, one by me
that says the great granddaddy of proofs of
God’s existence is Anselm’s Proof,
and then presents the argument.
If you start sooner it won’t make
much sense. Of course you may know
Anselm’s Proof already.
I laughed 'til I cried. (Unfortunately, given the state of things, that didn’t take too long.)
This isn’t totally OT: if you check the new political cartoon at http://www.jibjab.com, you’ll see there is a flute/fife tie-in in the end.