Huh?? Is this some type of cognitive leap? How did we get from the "ho"
thingy to this? I guess the fact that your momma is a "ho" has had an
effect or your ability to reason.

Josef Stalin

Yes. Use your filters or take it elsewhere.

This newsgroup is about the people (who belong) here, cancer patients, loved
ones, carers.
Casual or accidental mention of political leaders sometimes happens.
Debates (about them) no.
Stem cell is not debated here. It's experimental and political. "If it's
more about medicine, then post to sci.med.diseases.cancer".  Experimental
should be posted to sci.med.diseases.cancer (unless a patient, or loved one,
is seriously considering such and asks about one).
If a political leader were to show up here for support and/or information
(which is highly unlikely), he/she would be told to leave his/her political
hat at the door. And would be treated like everyone else here (no more
attention than the "regular" person).  If an ex-patient showed up (who has
since joined politics) and wanted to start a political debate or political
call to arms, he or she would be told to announce (from time to time) the
newsgroup where he/she could be found to discuss it, ie take the discussion
elsewhere. (and not crosspost)
This newsgroup is not about activism nor research. Activists have been
discouraged from posting about such here.
One person persistently posts about a smoking /political issue. The answer
is to not reply and/or plonk him. That's been a "working fromula".
The other person you may be referring to is, by far, more of a supporter
(posts) than the no smoking issue.  As long as it stays that way, her
occasional post about (continuing) the patient's efforts, will be
over-looked.
If it's in someone's signature, delete the signature and address the
cancer/support issue.
If too many people start putting politics in their signatures, they'll be
told to go somewhere else or stop their siggies.
I don't recall, in recent years, political calls to arms (but one, Canadian,
who was told to stop) from other countries here.
So the answer is, if a political name shows up on a post, plonk it or go
somewhere else (announce the newsgroup (here, not crossposted), if others
here want to go there as well) to debate the issue(s).
If you have more questions, please ask.
J

Although  you are trying (without success, David) a "political" issue,
it is a moral issue.  The Edwardses used Elizabeth's "illness" in 2004
as a campaign issue, and now here they are again for 2008.  Listen,
Elizabeth Edwards complained just 2 weeks ago about how she was soooo
tired of seeing her name and face on tv, radio, magazines and the
newspaper.  But she continues on the campaign trail?  Sounds like she
doth protesteth wayyyy too much.

and another thing.  They came out with this announcement 1 month ago
or so that her  disease had progressed.  And John Edwards had said
before that that if it got ANY worse he would not run.  Oh, and
"luckily" Elizabeth "convinced" him to continue to run?  Sounds all
too convenient to me!  All so she can be first lady?  Well, I am glad
she has all of you snowed by the "commonality"!  It don't wash, just
does not wash!

I am a democrat, and plan on voting for the Democratic Party in 2008.
But ONLY if John Edwards is NOT on the ticket.  He did a TERRIBLE job
for us here in NC as our US Senator - abandoning the office and his
votes on critical matters just so he could run as VP.  And, as fine of
a man as John Kerry is, John Kerry could not win with the albatross
that the vacuous John Edwards is!

Hope you understand now 'schooly'.

On Apr 16, 3:08 pm, sauteedshr...@yahoo.com wrote:

Whatever you vainly imagine they lied about cannot possibly meet the
level of the mountain of lies perpetrated by the Bush-Cheney machine.
They should be tarred, and feathered, and then hung for treason.

Hello people of alt.support.cancer and possibly alt.support.stop-smoking
You've been very good at ignoring this off-topic thread.

Here's the instructions on how to block, delete, ignore this thread.

<http://www.hyphenologist.co.uk/killfile/killfilefaqhtm.htm>
The above instructions may be the long way or not cover all newsreader
software.
Important: when viewing the message.

To ignore a message thread using Mozilla software:
  1. Select a message in the thread.
  2. Open the Message menu, and choose Ignore Thread. Mozilla Mail &
Newsgroups marks all messages in the thread as read, and new replies posted
to the thread will appear as read."

To ignore a message thread using Netscape reader:
Right-mouse click, then select "ignore Thread" K

To ignore a message thread using Outlook Express
When you're viewing one of the messages, hold the CTRL key and press T will
mark the thread as "read"
(or CTRL and press Q, will delete the post)

Thunderbird:
clicking on the offending post, go to "message" then to "create rule from
message"
Set on "match any of the following", then it has one rule already set.
Once you are viewing a message in the thread you want to killfile, select
the Message menu and look at the bottom options[Kill Thread] [Ignore Thread]
and [Watch
Thread]-- note the K and I and W shortcuts.  You have to be viewing the message

for this to work.  So CTRL and K may "kill" the topic, on your newsgroup.

<Ctrl-K> or <Ctrl-I> may be useful when using Forte Agent

If I haven't covered your newsreader, look at the web page (above) or F1-help
in your software, under "Newsgroups" probably has shortcuts and/or
instructions.
J