Re: RC: Conflict of Interest/note to Truman

[Tivers@aol.com]

Kat,

Your post is an excellent example of how to use foot-stomping rage to make a 
mountain out of a molehill. The sport has its problems, as does every sport. 
As it becomes more professionally conducted, many of these problems will 
disappear--and others will probably take their place. But all problems can 
eventually resolved.

Getting all worked up over very minor situations suggests that you are either 
a very unhappy person or that you have an unreasonable, fixated agenda. 
Either way, running headlong into brick walls is not the solution. And if 
you're not a part of the solution, then you're a part of the problem.  

The incidents you cite are part of the history of the sport. Things are 
getting better. Still not perfection, but better. If you dwell on past 
imperfections and turn them into your own personal religion, you doom 
yourself to perpetual misery. If you feel your personal goal in life is to 
foment dissent and aggitation with some kind of "movement" mentality, so be 
it--but I can tell you that screaming at the top of your lungs like a stuck 
pig that "the sky is falling" is slowly becoming passe in the modern world. 

To Truman: the fellow who took me to his home in the UAE was a Colonel in the 
UAE Air Force.  Wing commander flying Mirages at the time, now flying F-16s. 
Was an ally in the Gulf War.   

Tom Ivers, President
Equine Racing Systems, Inc.
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