Yes, I'm starting more threads for help, and helping others with requests, using all the powers of research granted to me. Maybe if we just STOP arguing and be friends we can all enjoy the music. One of the most important events in the history of Irelands was when the ard ri Brian Boru realized that he could never free Ireland by driving out all the Viking invaders--but to make peace with them and live in harmony would strengthen and unite the country more than endless years of warfare. It's applicable here. We can forget our differences, we all have our own concepts of what this site should be, and I believe a COMBINED entity of ALL our concepts will make The Mudcat Cafe open and acceptable to all. Here is a song, by The Oak Ridge Boys, that maybe we can all learn something from.

A smile never goes out of style
So brighten up the one that you wear
Let it shine
And you just might find

You'll lighten up the load that you bear.

You know with all the trouble and sorrow in the world
It seems like the least we can do
Just take that smile into the street
And share it with everybody you meet.

Everyday I want to shake somebody's hand
Everyday I want make somebody know that thinks they can
Yes they can
Everyday I want to try
To show my brothers and sisters that I want to help them
Along the way
Everyday, Everyday.

You know a kind word
Never goes unheard
But too often goes unsaid
And on the tongue
Of the old and the young
Gets swallowed up with pride instead.

You know with all the trouble and sorrow in the world
It seems like the least we can do
Just take that kind word into the street
If they're lost I want to show them the sunshine
If they look tossed I want to throw them a lifeline
I want the reach out my hand a hand to hold
Oh yeah, and let 'em know there's a light
Down at the end of the road.


--Mbo