"With you the tires are squeeling under the force of thousands of horsepower but nothing is moving.. All I see is alot of smoke coming from you."

quote Originally posted by Toddster: OK, I'm going to do you a HUGE favor and assume you are joking because NOBODY can be that dumb. Ha Ha Ha, good one!

I'm not quite sure how to say this in a way you would understand so I have decided to make is simple as possible.

Uhhh... DUH??

I happen to agree with Jazzman on this one and see your Ad Hominem.

Care to up the stakes or just fold like a house of cards?

Now please, acquiesce.

"07-03-2004 03:28 PM"

You spent two hours in the middle of the day from 1:28 pm to 3:28 pm on a beautiful Saturday, one day before a National Holiday, typing a ranting post on a chat site?

Did it occur to you that Ed has a life and might have been celebrating America's birthday with friends and family this weekend?

What the hell is it with people using this "get a life" trash.

I mean, does it ever occure to anyone using this lame ASSesment that they are not the only people on theis planet with "a life". Just because you don't agree with someone, it just seems to be an easy way to cop out.

It is probably one of the lamest most arrogant statements anyone could make, as if the one you disagree with should not even be breating YOUR "rare air."

Guess what? The "get a life" comment is actually 180 degrees from the true reality and it is the arrogant, nazi like user that needs to get a life.
Not everyone shares the same values in life and quite franky they have no desire to be as arrogant as the user of that statemet.

Ya made me laugh Todd but this "get a life" comment disapoints me.

Oh well.... people suck and mean people suck even more.

Ed(I'm Back) is berating Ed(Hering) for not replying to his post immediately as if THAT should be some sort of priority in his life despite the fact that he is probably enjoying his vacation and not hanging around his computer. It's easy for small minded people with nothing better to do to belittle and berate someone behind their back...cowardly too.

I am reminded of the scene in "Catch me if you can" when Tom Hanks says to Leonardo DiCaprio, "The reason your calling me on Christmas is that you have no one else to call"!

I merely point it out.

And now, YOU have pointed out your opinion too. Anything more to say?

There he goes, calling people "nazis" again.

So you spent two hours compiling another hugely long post. You totally ignored what I said near the end of my previous post, regarding what I was actually trying to accomplish, and you littered your two-hour bloviation with personal insults. What was that term you liked to apply...? Oh, yes, AD HOMINEM . Hmm. So: you accuse me of trying to use the fallacy of ad hominem, yet you litter your posts with insults. Why are you not trying to impeach my assertion that your posts are way, way too long, and that you really ought to learn how to use the quote boxes? Eh? I realize that with all that now-useless legal stuff cluttering up your massive brain, learning how to add {quote} and {/quote} before and after your quoted material is probably beyond you, but I'm sure you can master it if you try. (Obviously you must substitute [ for { and ] for }.)

Let's see how long that one was, shall we?

HOLY CRAP that was the longest one yet! Five pages, 2010 words!

TOE-MAY-TOE, TOE-MAH-TOE. You're just bandying semantics.

Citing European leaders as "proof" that Bush is a skunk is not convincing. I couldn't care less if the Europeans like us.

As you said above, you wanted me to provide evidence, not opinion, yet you offer opinion as "evidence"--and only later acknowledge it as opinion.

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In any event, I want to see your "evidence" for THESE charges:

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Here's my first post in this thread:

You reacted quite negatively to an OPINION, didn't you? My original post spoke directly to the point that a) you write with excessive verbosity, and b) that you don't bother to use quote tags. Nearly every time you've responded to any of my posts--save your first response--you've written multiple-page posts consisting of thousands of words, and by your own admission your last 5-page bloviation took you two hours to compile. THE LENGTH OF YOUR POSTS WAS THE POINT I WAS SPEAKING TO.

The fact that I believe your posts to be 90% wrong, half-true, or irrelevant is my opinion; and because of the inconsiderate way you format your dissertations, I see no point to reading them. If I wanted to read 5 pages of boring crap I'd go to the library and check out a book on the US tax code.

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But, here is a test for you. Let's see how you respond to this sample of positive economic data:

Okay? This comes right from the Bureau of Labor Statistics--the US Federal Government--citing four months of job growth, right there. You cited June's lower job growth as evidence that the economy was bad. In fact, however, fluctuations in job growth are to be expected, no matter what the overall trend is; and in this case, the overall trend is GROWTH not DECLINE. Employment is INCREASING, not DECREASING.

Here's more: