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A truly excellent rebuttal. Well done!

I don't understand how you could read it any other way.

I'm not asking for an answer, whether I would agree with it or not; I'm asking for a more structurally coherent piece of argumentative writing. I wasn't comparing Marx to Von Mises. I was comparing the behaviour of acolytes.

Thanks, Bitsy. As usual, your sane voice.

I think so too...very abrupt, without A leading satisfactorily to B. (Also, a strange kind of "What would the Master think" stuff about Mises, not unlike the way some scholars reflexively genuflect to Father Marx.

Hell, even the CIA has now admitted that those opposed to the Iraq War were in fact correct. (Yes, you read that correctly. It's about time the Iraq War lunatics admitted this basic fact! )

This alone would have sufficed. And yet you go on: Ha! Best passage of the day, hands down.

I take no pleasure from your reading difficulties. Slightly more from your allegation of bigotry, although the desperation that underlines it makes me feel vaguely compassionate. (You'll need to look that word up.) But your attempts at deflection! Now they're worth a little smile, surely.

A pretty poor attempt at deflection. To you, the Democrats treat black people like children. Therefore, you believe that black people must prefer that, since they keep voting Democrat. Ditto with the Jewish population. If you object to your own views, there's a simple remedy. It's also interesting that a Canadian who considers himself neither a Democrat nor a Republican is "confused."

Uh...your stated disagreement--stated in this thread--that the state should not be in any way "involved" in these matters. Have you forgotten your own point? Lucky you.

You think I'm a Democrat? I barely know where to begin correcting you, as on many other topics.

On the contrary, you know full well it wasn't about her "$9.00 a month." Of course you know this. I understand the disagreement with her; but I don't get why you're playing childish games about the subject.

Wait no more. I'm only addressing your logic. Which, to be fair, explains why you're getting confused.

Here's three I found in a couple of seconds. All far-left lies, no doubt! http://thesolomonproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Jewish-American-Voting-Behavior-July-20121.pdf http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574402591116901498.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews

The little joke, such as it is, is quite clear by now, in case you were concerned anyone could have missed it. But you don't seriously believe it has anything to do with Fluke's own pocketbook...do you?

That the majority votes Democrat...and has for a long time? the overwhelming majority, in fact? You can't be serious. That's common knowledge. The diaspora Jewish people are extremely liberal. Conservatives have fallen all over themselves trying to figure that one out. Two prominent Jewish conservatives (that I know of) have written extensively on the subject. If anything, Jewish support has become more aligned with the Democrats, not less (unless their Obama vote was a slight deviation, which is a possibility). I can certainly cite the stats for you, if you wish...but I'm surprised that such a deep thinker as a reactionary troll has remained unaware of one of the enigmas of modern American politics.

Oh, it's your lens, not mine, thankfully. You see, I don't think black and Jewish people are like children, being misled and remaining unaware. If you can't follow my logic, at least try to follow your own.

Trolling isn't necessarily crazy, but it is mean-spirited and generally amounts to some type of dishonesty.

Here's what you wrote: Now, certainly I implied the first point (actually stated it outright, not implied). But I never implied that there is a consensus on catastrophe. Although, helpfully, I did ponder exactly the opposite. So--assuming we're both conversing in English--my "implication" was of scientific consensus on human influence on climate change. And you certainly take umbrage with the claim.

It's your implication, not mine. I observe and report.

Virtually every ant you see is female. New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual region in North America. The lower-end Hyundai sedans tend to have rust problems.

Um, you also raised the issue that climate change might not be affected by human beings at all...a genuine scientific opinion, but a radical fringe one. But as I said, you sometimes disagree with yourself on this point. Still, you raised it, not me.

So your point to which I responded was utterly and completely useless? A rare concession.

Wow, a lot of space devoted to one of the most trivial issues so far on this campaign. Unless Obama forgot his flag pin again....that almost destroyed America.

If such math matters, you would of course recognize that, finally, Obama does, explicitly, have experience as President...unlike Romney...who has zero!