Roger - You have lightning reflexes and are ready to defend yourself immediately! Do you spend all of your time in front of the computer, prowling the fodors website, just waiting to pounce? Do you have a job? Do you have a life? Why do you spend so much time and energy posting messages? Is eveyone fed up with your "jump-down-their-throat"/dogmatic tactic that they refuse to have a true conversation with you? <BR> <BR>Indeed, I would call you "snide" and I would also call you boderline "nasty". Take these insults for example: <BR> <BR>"The bunch of my detractors seem to have the brain capacity of Rosie O'Donnell" <BR>and, <BR>"Mary, you are a scoundrel. Where in any of my posts do I write anything that is remotely racist? People who hurl nasty insults without backing them up are scoundrels and dishonest." <BR> <BR>Your comment about Rosie O'Donnell was certainly backed up and thought out! And the sweeping generalizations about people who hurl nasty comments, are right on target (this is sarcasm - not easily translated onto a computer screen, I might add). <BR> <BR>Anyways, you are entitled to your opinion. I just question why you insist on posting here - it is not a suitable place (this is a travel website). <BR> <BR>I also wonder how you could complain about paying taxes to the Smithsonian Institution to fund a museum that is built to teach people about an event in history. Do you not want anybody (specifically Americans, which you have already insulted as being a waste of time and energy to spend educating) to learn about the Holocaust? Why not? <BR> <BR>Would your tax money be better spent on other things - i.e. financing the construction of more nuclear weapons? <BR>Or, maybe all museums, historical points, cultural places should remain 100% AMERICAN, as you so strongly put it. That way we wouldn't have to deal with any other culture, race or nationality! Ha! (sarcasm) <BR> <BR>(Actually, I am not encouraging you to post reponses to these questions, I am merely thinking out loud. I would rather not hear your responses, thank you very much) <BR> <BR>I would hardly compare the posters insults towards you to those of Sen. McCarthy. Isn't that an exaggeration? Or, maybe you think that they are staging a politcal witch-hunt with you as their target! <BR> <BR>I guess it is your natural response to think that eveyone is against you. I think that you have dug your own grave here and most everyone who reads your comments will find something in them that rubs them the wrong way. It is unfortunate that there are people like you (educated and passionate) that remain close-minded and that still insist on posting his bigotry on a website such as this. <BR> <BR>I must get off the Internet now and go back to the real world where I can talk with real people! <BR> <BR>(On a brighter note - maybe you are stranded on a desert island with no form of entertainment but a laptop and a modem? I hope so....) <BR> <BR>Jane <BR>