[Sally'sConcerns]

We have two posters who've brought Terri Schiavo to this thread and another who has interjected aborted babies.

This thread was about neither! It was about a horse many of us admired.

In the future I'll feel free, based upon your shining examples, to post to the threads you're discussing, something completely off topic as you three have done here.

This is not an abortio thread and it is not a Terri Schiavo thread. It is a Barbaro thread.

[najida]

Well,
Fair is fair.

Next Anti-abortion or TS thread, I'm posting horse pictures! Lots of them! ;)

[shhrubbery!]

This is not an abortio thread and it is not a Terri Schiavo thread. It is a Barbaro thread.

When the New York Times waxes elegiac over a horse, I think it's relevant to point out that the New York Times does NOT wax elegiac over, say,
(1) medal of honor winners in Iraq
(2) aborted babies and
(3) Terri Schiavo.

Don't get me wrong, I shed some tears over Barbaro myself.

But since when are FReepers compelled to sing the same repetitive lament on a thread? Or to refrain from drawing analogies? Or to refrain from taking a larger perspective on such an event -such as this national outpouring of grief over one horse?

I think it's a tad sanctimonious to demand that others can't comment on the bigger picture simply because the topic was a sad one. What some call "hijacking" a thread, others might call insight into the topic. (And it's not "hijacking" to make a single comment.) I say let the free ideas flow.

[teenyelliott]

Perhaps I'll throw in a bit about illegal immigration, just for good measure.

I need to leave this thread, before my head explodes.