Thank you Frodo.
No we did not discuss this to death. There was a death of sorts, but no discussion. You rudely demanded I post other peoples articles to save you from having to google anything yourself, so I did with a little bit of chagrin because that is not how I like to debate. Then you snapped back at me, somehow belittling me for not linking the sites, even though you didn't want to google it yourself. I made a claim. You dismissed it. I said "look it up, it's easy to do". You said "I don't have to look it up,". I said "OK, I hate to do it, but here are some articles, all copied and pasted so you don't have to waste your time on the rest of the net. Then you said I had no point because I did not provide links so you could go read the article yourself. But if you wanted to read the articles yourself, you could have typed the topic into your google sidebar... It's a strange argument. I did not see the part where you proved me wrong either. Please do, I enjoy that more than name calling.
Two of the three quotes has the paper in them. The first was Associated Press. The third was NY Times I think, and dated too. Look them up if you think I made them up. Oh, you don't like to look stuff up.
Then you had the petty last word, and closed the discussion. A slight personal overuse of the moderation powers, if you ask me. But then again, no one asked me.
I am only trying to show how you look from over here. Please don't act like you "won" that argument. Arguments are not about winning, they are about learning (first person to try to win loses?). I don't think of this as a competition.
I still stand by the things I said about Obama. I think I have been more than patient with how you decide to treat me. The burden of proof trap certainly doesn't stand here, as we are talking about objective, black and white fact. Either his administration is from 3 think tanks, or it is not. I tried to show it was, because you thought I was just making it up. Hopefully we can figure out where we stand, because I hate to fight, it pains me. But I am a fickle human sometimes, and you offended me.
There. I said it. Can I start apologizing yet?
Thanks,
-Pip
Sigh (I wish I wasn't so mean sometimes...)
-Pip
No we did not discuss this to death. There was a death of sorts, but no discussion. You rudely demanded I post other peoples articles to save you from having to google anything yourself, so I did with a little bit of chagrin because that is not how I like to debate. Then you snapped back at me, somehow belittling me for not linking the sites, even though you didn't want to google it yourself. I made a claim. You dismissed it. I said "look it up, it's easy to do". You said "I don't have to look it up,". I said "OK, I hate to do it, but here are some articles, all copied and pasted so you don't have to waste your time on the rest of the net. Then you said I had no point because I did not provide links so you could go read the article yourself. But if you wanted to read the articles yourself, you could have typed the topic into your google sidebar... It's a strange argument. I did not see the part where you proved me wrong either. Please do, I enjoy that more than name calling.
Two of the three quotes has the paper in them. The first was Associated Press. The third was NY Times I think, and dated too. Look them up if you think I made them up. Oh, you don't like to look stuff up.
Then you had the petty last word, and closed the discussion. A slight personal overuse of the moderation powers, if you ask me. But then again, no one asked me.
I am only trying to show how you look from over here. Please don't act like you "won" that argument. Arguments are not about winning, they are about learning (first person to try to win loses?). I don't think of this as a competition.
I still stand by the things I said about Obama. I think I have been more than patient with how you decide to treat me. The burden of proof trap certainly doesn't stand here, as we are talking about objective, black and white fact. Either his administration is from 3 think tanks, or it is not. I tried to show it was, because you thought I was just making it up. Hopefully we can figure out where we stand, because I hate to fight, it pains me. But I am a fickle human sometimes, and you offended me.
There. I said it. Can I start apologizing yet?
Thanks,
-Pip
Sigh (I wish I wasn't so mean sometimes...)
-Pip
