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Posted on 03/19/2006 6:29:28 AM PST by thousand dollar hamburger
I agree.
I don't know if you read my post, but the issues raised are legitimate.
However, using a thread title like this and they using sarcasm to make the points only gets the thread moving in a direction of flaming and unproductive attack/defense of the post, not the issues raised.
All of these points can be made on threads in a manner that elicits debate of the issues, not a useless thread that avoids the real issue and just attacks the member.
The issues raised are legit--the method used was wrong since the member should have known honest debate would not be here with the twisting title.
See my # 61.
It can't be the issues raised, as they are legit. I am sure the reason for the banning was the twisting of the title.
Yes, they are legitimate issues but the post was ambiguous at best and that is dangerous ground for a new member. If you had been the author of it I wouldn't doubt your meaning.
Also,I've no doubt that had you written it you would have had at least one comment somewhere down thread.
Argue those points away, if you can?
The greatest what?
As you would have also.
Sarcasm in itself is not bad, nor is hyperbole. However, if you are not giving facts in an honest (preferably sourced) manner, and if the title of the thread is twisted, then you are not going to get an honest debate.
Look at a few of Peggy Noonan's latest articles, e.g. She has been very hard on Bush's policies, but she writes her article in an honest manner. She would never use sarcasm in a TITLE of an article, but uses it in the body to help make specific points.
The ex-member could have raised all these points and the thread could have been an excellent debate, if it was just written in style that showed respect to those who have different views. A twisted title with no attempt to seek an honest debate not going to go anywhere.
Shoulda named yersef thousand dollar ratburger.
Here is another example of how to do it right.
Look at conservative George Will's latest column:
TITLE: Bleakness in Baghdad
First sentence: "At this moment, one of the most dangerous since World War II, America's perils are exacerbated by the travails of a president indiscriminately despised by Democrats and increasingly disregarded by Republicans. What should he do?"
END EXCERPT
Now, Will did not use as his title "BLISS IN BAGHDAD" then twist it into his crticism. Of course, Will also wrote a body of an article with supporting opinion.
This ex-member could have attemtped to write a good article that criticizes the Bush poloicies--the ex-member chose not to. You and I both would have done it differently, maybe not in the mold of a Noonan or Will, but an honest attempt for an honest debate about Bush policies that we see as anti-conservative.
ZOT!
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are.
I mean rock-hard, dehydrated bone crushingly stupid.
Stupid so stupid that it has gone beyond the stupid that we know into a whole different
dimension of stupid.
You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid.
A stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed.
Stupid that has become so dense that no intellect can escape.
Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid.
You have just emitted more stupid in one post than all of the stupid our entire galaxy emits in a year.
Quasar stupid.
Nothing else in our universe can really be this stupid.
Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid.
Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the
laws of physics as we know them.
An genuine epiphany of stupid.
After this, you may not hear from me again for a while.
I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant statements and
half baked comments, or any of the rest of your drivel.
The only things worse than your logic are your manners.
I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything. Your attempts at logical construction were pathetic.
I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective...
Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success.
True, these are rudimentary skills that most people take for granted and have an easy time of mastering.
But we sometimes forget that there are challenged persons in this world who find these things more difficult.
If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post.
It just wouldn't have been right. Sort of like parking in a handicaped space.
I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, logical, and social struggles
that seem to be placing such a demand on you.
Please call them INVADERS and don't compare them to people who are legal aliens!
President Bush has been great on most things except for our border.
He has been great on the war on terrorists.
But on the border he is a gross failure.
He acted fast and correct on the 3,000+ people murdered at the world trade center.
He ignores the many rapes, murders and robberies which might be larger than the murders and money loss at the world trade center.
More Americans are abducted on the border of Mexico than in Iraq!
Start building the fence.
It should be made a felony for Criminals who overstay their visas and Invaders.
I believe we should give amnesty to these poor CRIMINALS or INVADERS.
This should be a 2 week amnesty to get the heck out of our Country.
The ones who ignore this amnesty should be buried in a tent city jail and fined $10,000 or buried elsewhere.
All aiders and abettors of these CRIMINALS or INVADERS should get 1 year in a tent city jail and a $10,000 fine for each CRIMINAL aided.
Those in government should be the first ones charged.
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Did you get IB4TZ?
Que?
Terry, what do you think of this poster?
You can't be bringing such a weak take here...this is the Big Leagues, Mothaf...
Oh yes, George has a message for you
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