Semantics. Raise, charge, whatever.... bottom line is R & P has $2m more for maintenance of GGP

huh?

a private company is expropriating a third of GGP for almost two weeks, kicking out the public of GGP for almost two weeks, and intentionally misleading people by calling `paying fees' `raising money' and you shrug your shoulders and say `what me worry?'

$2mill is not in the bank yet.

Plus, R&P spent $1.2 on the buffalo paddock last year: So one has to wonder if there is more of a managerial crisis than financial crisis

<<You are welcome to do as you see fit. Be prepared to pay the prices for the choices you make in Life.>>

[[MIssing tones and context aside its pretty hard to see how thats not a passive aggresive threat. I might add a pretty lame and petty one at that. just some friendly advice, you should understand making threats which could never be folowed through on only serves to weaken what ever valid points may have preceded it. In the end noone is intimidated and you end up looking kind of like a tool ]]

Wasn't intended to be any kind of a threat. It's a bit if Life Wisdom that I didn't learn until long after I was alledgedly an "adult". It was pubished by Ann Landers. "Life often puts prices on the choices we make. Sometimes the best thing to do is to pay up gracefully" After reading and re-reading it, I've come to believe that Life always puts prices on the choices we make - it's just that sometimes the price is easier to pay than other times.

It's no more of a threat than one's belief in Karma.

"As far as the spam thing goes i hear ya on that one but I think she was tryin to bring up an issue that she obviously cared about."

Agreed, but that's why people can make new tribes here. I believe that hijacking an existing tribe isn't appropriate. I am just passionate enough about The Dead to join this tribe and to participate in it. IDGAFF about APE trying to profit from a temporary venue and I think that property rights issues need to be resolved in courts (not by public sentiment).


"The first time I read it I had the same feeling as you but after thinking about it I relized who am I to tell someone what they can and cant talk about"

I'm too much of a libertarian to try to prohibit speach. Also, I was initially unsure about whether the post was appropriate, which is why I sought additional information about it before raising an objection. Even my objection was pacific - intentionally phrased as a suggestion, rather than as a authoritarian prohibition (I'll leave authoritarian prohibition to the Moderator). The point is that you don't have to tell people what to do or what to not do, yet you still can speak up and say what you like and don't like.


"Its not like she was offering us canada pharmacy discounts or a product garunteed to help us meet horny lcal singles or provide an extra 2 inches for our cocks."

If you are trying Reduction to Absurdity, I will point out to you that further or other Reduction to Absurdity will counter your reasoning.


"She just wanted to talk about public spaces being used for private profits."

As a topic, this would be more appropriate to a Property Rights tribe, or to a Fascist Metropolitan Governments tribe, or an Abuses of Power tribe. As far as I can tell, Deadheads Unite! is not about public spaces or about private profits.


"A public place the dead have used many times. So all in all its not that far off topic"

I've attended a couple of shows at the Polo Field and the concert in support of Proposition M in the meadow. It's probably why I asked if the APE event was going to be a Dead show. I was hoping for a positive answer, and willing to reminisce about those other shows I've seen, in order to further contribute to this tribe. It's frustrating to me to find out that someone's abusing this tribe in order to recruit me into their political agenda.