I apologize if I offended you about doing it “publicly”...I just don’t like to do things “secretly”...
I hope you read what I said, totally....because it wasn’t just aimed at you.
I know what a great contributor you are to this thread..and I felt last week you were above and beyond your usual.
I don’t think YOU or anyone else posts on this thread to get awarded. I think if any of us felt that were true...the awards would have stopped long ago.
No...you don’t have to feel “grateful” if you don’t want to, that is also a good thing about these awards. One can enjoy them and enjoy seeing what happens each week..or, one can ignore them. Freedom of choice and opinion.
This thread is about the last bastion of that here...IMHO
I tell you what, this isn’t my web site, and I only start the thread, but to some very small part I hope I have a say in some things. I’d like to think we can always agree about the big stuff, and argue well and fairly about the small stuff.
If it ever gets to be a personality contest in judging these awards I’d ask y’all to stop them. So far, that has been far from what has happened. I appreciate someone who can judge something the best even if they don’t agree but rather because the thinking and expressing is clear, concise and supported. Kabar does that for sure.
But we don’t need the bickering nor the personalities and especially no cliques of friends and dittos this or that and whatnot. Too much of that went on on those horrible Guilliani threads. I think Free Republic is worse off for that. Here we’ve kept above that.
Thank you everyone!