Ya know lads, I have been watching this thread since its first incarnation, two generations ago. Ya want hope, I'll give it to you. Just go back and read this thing from the beginning. I jumped in on the first one, and have stayed out since, preferring to listen to you all struggle with these issues. You are a caring, questioning lot of Bards struggling with issues that more people ought to be struggling with. I have watched you go from respectful exchange of views/opinions to outright fisticuffs and back again. And why? It seems to me that it is because you choose not to just lay back and say what will be will be. Instead you choose to debate it, beat it, struggle with it, and try to make it better. And you make the world better, even it just a little. A friend of mine was at breakfast in a B & B in Galway. The proprietor inquired what the lads had done the night before. My friend replied that they had been sitting around trying to solve the problems of the world. The proprietor replied, "I thought I noticed a difference this morning".

After reading through these threads, Ya know, I think I feel a difference.

Mick