| Tom Klem 2004-12-28, 5:47 pm |
| Eric is a hater.
Plain and simple. He is one of the folks who helped to destroy another man's
business through governance gotchas and the imprimatur of the USCF. We
really don't need folks who hate working at the national HQ of USCF.
Why is the Subject line Re: minimization of the USCF? I can't find that
Subjec line anywhere else on this newsgroup. It makes it look as if that
subject were being top ended for some purpose or other.
--
Tom Klem
"If they say, 'It ain't about sex ... it's about sex', if they say, 'It's
not about the money ... it's about the money'"
---The Honorable Senator Dale Bumpers, Senate Impeachment trial of Bill
Clinton.
"Parrthenon" <parrthenon@cs.com> wrote in message
news:20041228040715.06298.00002234@mb-m18.news.cs.com...
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> < Don't expect Johnsonpride to admit he's a trough-feeder. And Lord knows
he is
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> a trough-feeder. > -- Neil Brennen
>
> But Eric did work hard at the Federation. My opinion is that the job was
his
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> life. A calling of a kind.
>
> All I am saying is how infinitely REFRESHING it would be if Eric
were to
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> write: "I started out against the move to Crossville. Then I realized
that the
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> Federation would be losing nearly its entire experienced staff. My life
was
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> working in the interstices of organized chess, and the truth is that I
want
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> that job back. Which is why I am now showing my loyalty to the powers
that
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> be. Entre nous, I have also learned that many people considered me rigid,
and
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> my most secret thought is that they are right. I promise that if the
> Federation permits me to return, I will work hard to remove that flaw from
my
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> managerial thinking and conduct. I will cease seeking to find reasons to
> justify my decisions. If my original reasons are clearly wrong, I will
> immediately reconsider a given issue."
>
> For at least some of us who knew Eric in the early-to-mid 1990s,
the
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> above seems as obvious as the sun at high noon on a clear, dulcet summer's
day.
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>
> ________________________________________________________________
> "FIDE has made its decision. Players who refuse to be drug tested will not
be
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> able to play chess." -- Dr. Press, co-founder of the FIDE Medical
Commission.
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