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To: Sherman Logan
ROTFLMAO!

Lost in your own “statistical proof” are you?
Has it occured to you by now that your “other post” to me proved my original point, and negated your strawman argument?

Just raising the bar on credibility, as you raised(lowered) the bar of statistics by now including "Central America" in what you originally touted as potential numbers of "Mexican" illegal aliens. And just as an aside, Jim doesn't tolerate outed trolls for long on this site. Not that you are officially outed yet...and I may even be wrong in deeming you a troll.

117 posted on 10/08/2008 6:02:41 PM PDT by sarasmom (McCain is in the tank for Obama.)
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To: sarasmom
Feel free to bring me to Jim's attention. All I have done is request documentation of rather extravagant claims. If doing so constitutes trolldom (trollness?), I will cheerfully accept Jim's verdict.

You apparently don't realize that making such claims, when you are unable to produce proof, damages your credibility (and mine, and FR’s) on all related issues.

Offhand, I can think of few things more conservative than demanding actual proof before accepting someone else’s assertion that something is a fact. It's notable that nobody has posted any such evidence.

Do you realize how stupid it makes us look when you claim a photo of a large crowd of people as evidence that there are 20M to 40M illegal aliens in this country? I realize there is a large number, far too many. But a photo of a crowd, regardless of how large, has absolutely no validity for actually determining the number.

Possibly my scientific background is getting in the way. Show me a aerial photo of a forest, and I will be glad to agree there are a lot of trees in the picture.

Argue from the photo that this means there are 40M board feet of lumber available for cutting in America, and I will point out that the photo is not relevant to the discussion.

A lot of people on this thread apparently do not understand the difference between a qualitative statement: a whole bunch, a great many, a s**tload; and an actual number, which is quantitative and based on something other than someone’s opinion.

127 posted on 10/08/2008 6:36:10 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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