jack drawbridge
jackandpat.d at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 16:12:56 CST 2013
Well said Tina, I agree. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Tina Norris Fields < tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote: > I may be being very sensitive at this moment, dealing daily as I am with > my father's really bad health. But, I am really uncomfortable with anybody > attacking a list member. I am especially uncomfortable when the person > being attacked is someone I regard as a personal friend. If I fail to > stand up for him I fail to meet my own moral standards. > > So. . . please do not attack my friend John Colby, a man who has given > many hours of kind willingness to share what he has learned, or invented, > with all of us. I learn valuable treasure from JC every time he publishes > or posts a new lesson. Whenever I have asked him directly for assistance, > he has done his best to assist me. What more are we truly to ask of one > another in this list? We share our knowledge and help each other with > Access development issues. I am very grateful for this list and for the > people on it. I really do not want to fight with anyone, and I don't want > to witness a fight. I simply cannot honorably stand by and allow one > colleague to attack another. > > Tina > > Tina Norris Fields > tinanfields at torchlake.com > 231-322-2787 > > > On 2/25/2013 11:51 PM, Kenneth Ismert wrote: > >> Ladies and gents: >> >> Rarely does a member's reply merit parody, but this one does. Remember >> kids, everything in " " is an actual Colby quote! >> >> ** BEGIN PARODY ** >> >> Board member Colby announced his do nothing agenda to his throngs of >> change >> deniers, "because I don't care." >> >> He continued addressing his adoring crowd on the subject of change: "But I >> am not going to do it. And waiting for me to do it is an automatic death >> knell." >> >> One of his followers fairly swooned, saying you can't get less leadership >> from a bump on a log. >> >> Colby finished with a rousing summary, indicating his lack of compunction >> about his utter apathy: "'I am not Catholic' as I like to tell my wife. I >> don't do guilt." >> >> ** END PARODY ** >> >> Now seriously. I haven't heard a clearer expression of dereliction of duty >> from a board officer, ever. Unforced, I must add. By any moral sense, he >> is >> unfit for his office. >> >> Therefore, I call on you, sir, to resign. >> > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >