"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
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In article ,
Paul E. Schoen wrote:
Melinda seems like a very narrow-minded and unhappy person who reads only
enough to find something to criticize, and then concentrates all of her
limited mental capacity on that,

So, do you think calling me stupid makes you more credible
or less credible?

Your response just proves my point.

Paul and Muttley

On 16 May 2008 15:55:38 -0400, (Melinda Shore) wrote:

In article ,
Paul E. Schoen wrote:
Melinda seems like a very narrow-minded and unhappy person who reads only
enough to find something to criticize, and then concentrates all of her
limited mental capacity on that,

So, do you think calling me stupid makes you more credible
or less credible?

Here, I'll take that ball and run with it.

Yes, *I* think you're stupid (Schoen can speak for himself), too, in
spite of having all those "smart genes" you like to brag about.

And here's why.

Because you apparently *intentionally* shut yourself off from half or
more of the world's body of knowledge, opinions, and ideas.

You apparently label information as being "right-wing" and
"left-wing", and if it's considered "right-wing," or is uttered by
someone you consider to be the right of (say) Marx (or, Heaven forbid,
a Roman Catholic), you automatically reject it, and won't even listen
to it. Not because it might be wrong (which it certainly could be),
but simply because it's "right-wing."

And *that* makes you stupid.

Really, really stupid.

No one here would gain more from reading Jonah Goldberg's great book,
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From
Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, than you would.
http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascis.../dp/0385511841

But you'll never read it, of course, because it would shatter too many
of the myths that you hold so dear.

And that's why you'll remain stupid, too.
--
Handsome "Jack" Morrison

"Two substantive political issues are the federal budget deficit and the war
in Iraq. Now, if you're electing Democrats to control government spending, then
you're marrying Angelina Jolie for her brains. This leaves the Democrats with
one real issue: Iraq. And so far the best that any Democratic presidential candidate
has been able to manage with Iraq is to make what I think of as the high school sex
promise: I will pull out in time, honest dear." P.J. O'Rourke

In article ,
"Handsome \"Jack\" Morrison" wrote:

(or, Heaven forbid,
a Roman Catholic),

I'll pretty much discount anything said that is in keeping with Roman
Catholic beliefs! HTH!

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

In article ,
Paul E. Schoen wrote:
Your response just proves my point.

I don't think so. Like Jack, you just pull insults out at
random without actually trying to make sure they're actually
applicable and without trying to construct a coherent
argument around them.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:50:38 -0400, Janet Boss
wrote:

In article ,
"Handsome \"Jack\" Morrison" wrote:

(or, Heaven forbid,
a Roman Catholic),

I'll pretty much discount anything said that is in keeping with Roman
Catholic beliefs! HTH!

Spoken just like a founding member of Los Tres Bimbos!

No Roman Catholicism, no Western Civilization.

I always assumed that you were stupid, Janet, but I didn't realize
that you were a bigot, too.

spit

--
Handsome "Jack" Morrison

"Two substantive political issues are the federal budget deficit and the war
in Iraq. Now, if you're electing Democrats to control government spending, then
you're marrying Angelina Jolie for her brains. This leaves the Democrats with
one real issue: Iraq. And so far the best that any Democratic presidential candidate
has been able to manage with Iraq is to make what I think of as the high school sex
promise: I will pull out in time, honest dear." P.J. O'Rourke

On 16 May 2008 16:51:54 -0400, (Melinda Shore) wrote:

In article ,
Paul E. Schoen wrote:
Your response just proves my point.

I don't think so. Like Jack, you just pull insults out at
random

Not true!

I never select them at random!

I have categories, sub-categories, and sub-sub-categories of insults
that I keep filed under certain names. And I SELECT each insult with
great care and affection, making sure that it's appropriate to the
application.

For example, under your name, (the main category) I have insults like
ugly, scrawny, stupid, moron, asshole, ignorant, commie pinko, bigot,
racist, anti-Catholic, carpet-muncher, petty, pseudo-intellectual,
mean-spirited, harpie, scold, termagant, and **** listed.

I won't tell you what I have listed in the sub-categories, or the
sub-sub-categories, because I may need them someday.

without actually trying to make sure they're actually
applicable

Oh, I think even Funk & Wagnalls would find them "applicable."

As would anyone who's ever known you for longer than 5 minutes.

spit

--
Handsome "Jack" Morrison

"Two substantive political issues are the federal budget deficit and the war
in Iraq. Now, if you're electing Democrats to control government spending, then
you're marrying Angelina Jolie for her brains. This leaves the Democrats with
one real issue: Iraq. And so far the best that any Democratic presidential candidate
has been able to manage with Iraq is to make what I think of as the high school sex
promise: I will pull out in time, honest dear." P.J. O'Rourke

Handsome Jack Morrison wrote:
On Fri, 16 May 2008 04:08:12 +0000 (UTC), Mark Shaw
wrote:
"Handsome \"Jack\" Morrison" wrote:

Hitler was an atheist.
Actually, no.

Actually, yes, he was, but I can imagine how inconvenient that idea
might be for a practicing atheist like yourself to acknowledge:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925124/posts

There is significant evidence to the contrary, from what Hitler
himself said:
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_hitler.html

Not that it matters to me whether Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao
and Pol Pot were atheists. Atheist, religious, doesn't matter.
Jerks and monsters come in all flavors.

We can also find plenty of religious monsters who made the world
a much worse place. If you think that knowing that Stalin was an
atheist makes atheists cringe, it should make you cringe when you
read about the deeds of some of the Roman Catholic Popes and
Inquisitors.

FurPaw


--
The plural of anecdote is not proof.

To reply, unleash the dogs

"Handsome "Jack" Morrison" wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:00:11 -0400, "tiny dancer"
wrote:

[...]
As for 'calling names' can we say a HUGE PKB to that one.

Yes, we can. Which is why Melinda will one day be inducted into the
Chutzpah Hall of Fame, which is located somewhere (I hear) in the
state of New York, of course.

Yes, it's takes world-class chutzpah for someone whose basic modus
operandi in life is name-calling, to whine about someone else's, eh?


I think you can add *bloody hypocrite* to your 'melinda category'.



snipped


While "Jack" is of course a world leader in name-calling, he's also
been inducted into the Bullshit Detector Hall of Fame (located in
beautiful St. Louis, Missouri, right next to the Bowling Hall of Fame
building, just three blocks from the Arch and next door to Tony's
Restaurant, where the Beef Wellington is to die for).

Congratulations, Jack! ;-]

Why thank you, TD.


I hope a nice dinner is included in that induction.




I shouldn't get all the credit though, because it's not really a
learned behavior. To be a world-class bullshit detector, one must have
been born with the right genes. I was detecting bullshit from the very
moment my little feets first hit the ground.

So all the thanks really should go to my beloved parents, may they
rest in peace.

But I went forth and multiplied, as instructed, so the world will
remain safe from bullshitters like Melinda and her ilk for years and
years to come.


And so the world will remain safe from the harpette's and future harpies.
Thank goodness they didn't go forth and multiply.


td

In article ,
"Handsome \"Jack\" Morrison" wrote:


No Roman Catholicism, no Western Civilization.

I always assumed that you were stupid, Janet, but I didn't realize
that you were a bigot, too.

The Roman Catholic church has some pretty bizarre crap that gets spewed.
And why exactly is the Pope speshul?

Many of the biggest bigots I've met are RC's.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

In article ,
Janet Boss wrote:
Many of the biggest bigots I've met are RC's.

We love the Catholic Workers! The Roman Catholic mission to
convert the Jews, and the reinstitution of Tridentine Mass,
not so much (but hey, at least they stopped calling us
"perfidious" - there's some progress, at least). But the
Catholic Workers do a lot of good and represent, I think,
among the best expressions of faith through works I've seen.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community