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The assumption was all yours.
Was it suggestive? Maybe. But I offered no theories as you had asserted.
A little harsh to be calling me a weasel and a child for your mistake.
I had no idea what had happened to Brian. One day he was here. The next day he was gone.
I haven't had the chance to communicate with him since I noticed that.
Thanks for filling in the blanks on that, btw.
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It's really really sad Zap, so much time wasted attempting to debate something merely on semantics and context. Firstly socialism is a subject that every person with a standard education (high school) has at least been exposed to. So when talked about especially in a politics forum it is considered as common knowledge. The argument you were trying to make about gaps in education doesn't hold water so it doesn't really matter how much you poor into it. It just won't work, just because someone may not have recall of it doesn't mean they weren't educated on it. Now I'm writing this as I sit here so I may get something wrong or over talk the subject if so, oops, but at any rate, you are trying to make arguments out of nothing and hence you are trying to defend a fort made of wax paper. And the more you defend an incorrect stance the dumber you look.
As for SITA well what can I say, I may have over talked, but bottom line there was it was transparent what your end goal was with your line of questioning and with the a simple yes would do, and then go on as you did, that is doing nothing but trying to make an argument and then you blatantly tried to lead the argument to where you wanted it to be....
At the first of this I said Water Boarding wasn't torture.....after reading the front part Geneva Convention as it pertains to prisoner treatment. It's clear that it would be considered a violation. But one has to admit when you compare it the commonly assumed practices of torture water boarding doesn't show up on the list. At least not in the norm.
And you can't condemn and criminalize an entire operation or procedure simply because there is a possibility that it may be a mistake on one. If you want to follow that theology then a hell of a lot more medical patients will be dieing as medicine is practiced on percentages and guesses. It's an inexact science at best.
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Remember Ferre?
Ferre opposed you. He's no longer a mod here.
In fact, he can't post in the political forums anymore, nor can he even see them.
He had some really good posts too.
Brian used to be a mod here too. Hasn't he disagreed with you a few times here?
I wonder what happened to him. Hmmmmm.
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As for this statement, if you weren't implying innuendo behind what happened I don't know what you were doing, it was more than suggestive in my view, you leaded with the Ferre statement and then immediately followed with the above what else was it supposed to mean?