One could almost do a ‘reality’ television series based on it, if it weren’t for that ever-present business of trotting out ‘Global Thermonuclear War’ if we—the US—don’t support efforts providing push-up bras to women who refuse breast augmentation in Pango-Pango.

“a variety of pseudoscience: the behavior of highly biased ’sneering scoffers’ who try to legitimize their prejudice by donning the mantle of science and proper skepticism. They claim to support reason/logic while in fact filling their arguments with plenty of ad-hominems, straw-man, poisoning-the-well, and numerous other emotion-enflaming fallacies and debating tactics.” — Steven B. Krivit, The Rebirth of Cold Fusion: Real Science, Real Hope, Real Energy, ISBN-13: 978-0976054580, Pacific Oaks Press (October 1, 2004) p.143

An interesting concept. It correlates well with another batch of ‘Flat-Earthers’ I’ve been contending with of late. Their position being that the AMA is ‘all’ and no logic or proofs, even those they can prove themselves in the safety-of-their-own-home, will sway them.

Thanks!

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Science is 'Truth'. Do not be mislead by facts.]

There is a difference between skepticism and pseudo-skepticism.

Chuck, you should go investigate that difference. — Ratatosk

In what context?

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. -- Thomas Jefferson]

P.S. Actually, in many ways, I think I’m beyond both.

Chuck, you should go investigate that difference.

reading comprehension is not your forte..
I never said I was in the 18th, I said an employee of mine was…
nice way to degrade your comrades though… — Artie

Could well be. It’s been a hell of a week here.

[Note: A long story involving a battle to the—possible forthcoming— death of my Mother-In-Law; very aggressive squamous carcinoma of the neck and mouth.

We thought we had the upper hand in the fight, but the last few days have seen a turn for the worse.

Imagine a 155mm round impacting in the company CP. And YES, one can get a bit 'angry' about losing a fight for someone's life. Sorry for venting against you.]

I sincerely apologize for my reading failures.

[Note: Additionally, I doubt if The One can raise the dead. Nor can he even fix the medical care industry problem. It's considerably more complex than most politicians are willing to admit to. And it has SERIOUS problems in the realm of the hospitals and doctors themselves. Not to forget the priesthood of the AMA having a monopoly on who gets to practice medicine. It's akin to the Spanish Inquisition. But that's a discussion for another thread.]

RE: The One

so everyone who supports ‘the one’, as you put it, is a ‘loser’? — Artie

Maybe. Rather, I see it as history repeating itself. Something to do with the Roman Republic and how it became the Roman Empire. Sorry about that, but I’m currently reading Livy’s account of early Roman history, and I see a lot of parallels between what happened then and what’s happening now.

RE: Living in Hell

enjoy the little corner of hell you’ve constructed for yourself…I’m sure it will only heat up after 11/4/08…the day ‘the one’ ascends to his rightful position…wacko — Artie

You know….

….you almost had me ‘fooled’ with your righteous talk about hating the ‘divisions’ in this country. But here you go, proving that you’re not the solution. Rather, you’re the proverbial problem.

So now I’m dehumanized as “wacko”. How the hell do YOU expect to ‘bridge’ the divide using THAT sort of talk? Eh?

’nuff said.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Win, lose or draw, every people gets the governance it deserves.]

I don’t expect you to believe anything that opposes the world inside your head, ie, don’t let reality intrude into your fine mania/delusion…

you seem angry and lonely…hell bent on impressing a bunch of internet phantoms…sad, yet pathetic…

so everyone who supports ‘the one’, as you put it, is a ‘loser’?
that does not seem like the position of a ‘winner’…so be it…

now, I’ll return to watching ‘red belt’ (pretty good so far) with the lovely Jamie, who is cleaning out stuff from the recent move…she just showed me a program/ticket stub from a jazz concert we went to on 11/14/92…headlined G washington jr., F hubbard, art farmer, and others..amazing show, we’re going to the last of the series next sat., hate to see it end after 30 years or so…all things must pass…

enjoy the little corner of hell you’ve constructed for yourself…
I’m sure it will only heat up after 11/4/08…the day ‘the one’ ascends to his rightful position…wacko

comparing obama to pol pot or hitler? that is exactly the kind of BS I’m talking about…accomplishes nothing, but divides us more… — Arthur

…but everyone is eligible for compare and contrast evaluation.

It’s all part of ‘debate’. And I just saw a commercial from The One saying something similar about McCain….i.e., that US can’t afford McCain. Albeit, he didn’t offer anywhere near as much information about ‘compare and contrast’.

In the long run US all lose with shoddy logic. And you, and The One, offer US only shoddy logic.

Sorry if you can’t quite grasp that. REALLY sorry.

As for consideration that I’m an ‘ass’, you’re welcome to your opinion. And I regret having to drag this out, but…

….any officer who is sent to XVIII Airborne Corps from the 82d Airborne Division had to REALLY tromp on their wank in order to be sent to THAT limbo. I know because I saw one officer from 1-508 sent to that dead-end after he was picked up for a DUI.

It took us two days to find him after he became one of the ‘disappeared’.

So you wound up in XVIII Airborne Corps?

What on EARTH did you screw up to end up there?

And you expect ME to believe that YOU have a solid grip on reality? Without ‘prejudice’?

More tomorrow….

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[The Truth will out....]

P.S. As I said earlier, I suspected you had ‘issues’. Now you drag them out into the open for public review.

And, if YOU support The One, I can only point to you as an example of why that is the most stupid think in the world for US to do.

division vs debate…one is a stalemate, one promotes advance…
1/2 the country hates the other 1/2, not good..
‘movement’ away from this…good
the ’surge’, I guess when you pay both sides off, you’ll have ‘peace’…until you stop paying…then one side will exterminate the other…now THAT will be a day of reckoning…

as far as ‘my time’ coming, I’m not sure what that means…are you one of those ‘gawds gonna get you guys’? If you mean I’ll have a rush of ‘regrets’ as I slip into the void…I’ll keep my shoes, you keep yours…lol

re: mensa, it wasn’t envy, it was their lack of performance…they could not perform meaningful work, they felt being ’smart’ was enough…

it’s the intellectual equivilent of hair plugs or a gold plated chain…
if you are secure in your intellect, you don’t need the validation of a ‘club’…to each their own…

I’ve ‘learned’ one thing…why the folks around here consider you an ‘ass’ it probably has to do with your tendency to play jr. shrink, which is very telling unto itself…
‘kook, heal thyself’…I wouldn’t worry to much about others, you have plenty to focus on…or perhaps that’s the problem, introspection is too painful…see a ‘real doc’, they have pills for that I hear