Hi Roger:

You've started an interesting thread that has turned on the "politics light" here at JPF. IMHO, it all began with Toby when he got "into it" with the darling of the liberal world, the Dixie Chick's lead singer, Ms. Maines. He was all for supporting the troops, all she could do was run down the President. The escalation continued and both parties probably did more harm to themselves than good. If I had to pick a side (and I'd prefer not to do so) it would have to be Toby. I don't like everything he does but he stood his ground on this one and I admired that.

The tragedy regarding the "Chicks" is that they could have sung into infinity if they had just left politics out of their repertoire. These gals had so many great songs and appear to have disappeared from the musical Radar lately.

After all is said and done, I hope we can keep it "civil" here at JPF. We are here for music, not politics, aren't we?

Dave