Ah yes the old "Ad Hominem" snake rears it's ugly head again----It's the old "fall back" position isn't it Steve?
Perception - instead of ranting and raving against individual contributors (did anyone say "ad hominem"?) you might post a link to Daniels' site from which you quote.
"Yugoslavia was entirely populated by choirboys compared to the Mesopotamian tribes - Sunni, Shia, Kurdish, Turkmen, and on and on; . . . ."
Helen, that's the most chilling thought to date.
HofT wrote:Perception - instead of ranting and raving against individual contributors (did anyone say "ad hominem"?) you might post a link to Daniels' site from which you quote.
You don't recognize an "ad hominem" when you see it???????
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ASHINGTON, March 5 — Following is the transcript from remarks by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell today to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, as recorded by Federal News Service Inc
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Perception - indeed I do, just as I notice illiteracy in those who write "it's" for "its"; I'm just too polite to comment directly on a lapsus calami by a fellow participant <G>
"OUR WAY OF LIFE-----AS MISERABLE AND IMMORAL AS MANY OF THE POSTERS ON THIS THREAD SEEM TO THINK."
polemic, inflamatory, needless and simply wrong.
HofT wrote:Perception - indeed I do, just as I notice illiteracy in those who write "it's" for "its"; I'm just too polite to comment directly on a lapsus calami by a fellow participant <G>
Congratulations ----- your criticism of me above exposes you for what you really are. Have a nice day.
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the
idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
To all you anti-war folks
This thread had turned into a support group for the anti-war crowd and I grew weary of all the back slapping, hand wringing, and the hysterical doom and gloom-----so here I am to brighten your day.
Can't stay long though because I'm needed in my real life of being a grandpa-----I suggest some of you need to get a life.
I support President Bush and the war plan as it currently stands.
As to the idle commentary of someone who can't or won't read whatever he's commenting on: a very considerable body of work demonstrates that expression invariably containing a "lapsus linguae" or "lapsus calami" [the Romans had no keyboards, so we'll just have to use their word for "pen"] can only originate with a disordered brain.
Paranoid fantasies of being criticized when nothing of the sort ever occurred would tend to confirm the brain disorder diagnosis; hope it's nothing incurable, like Alzheimers, and wish a speedy recovery and a good day to all <G>
perception wrote:Ah yes the old "Ad Hominem" snake rears it's ugly head again----It's the old "fall back" position isn't it Steve?
It didn't seem fair to attack Charlie Daniel's arguments, they were so weak and pathetic.
HofT wrote:
Paranoid fantasies of being criticized when nothing of the sort ever occurred would tend to confirm the brain disorder diagnosis; hope it's nothing incurable, like Alzheimers, and wish a speedy recovery and a good day to all <G>
We will have to start calling you Hotpen or some such
[/QUOTE]As to the idle commentary of someone who can't or won't read whatever he's commenting on: a very considerable body of work demonstrates that expression invariably containing a "lapsus linguae" or "lapsus calami" [the Romans had no keyboards, so we'll just have to use their word for "pen"] can only originate with a disordered brain.
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HofT, it might have been a little less inflammatory -- or more charitable, at least -- to use "lapsus dextera." :wink:
I disagree with you that the freedoms that we enjoy from our constitution are based only on a piece of paper and are meaningless unless backed up by force, unless you mean that we need the police to protect sign-wavers from other sign-wavers. Yes, we need a police force to maintain the public order. But you seemed to be saying, in effect, that a democratic system of government could not be maintained in a country without a standing army.
Charlie Daniels is an entertainer similar to the "Hollywood Celebs" he was addressing. What is more relevant than one entertainer criticizing another entertainer-----bottom line is----it's not like they are real people. Hollywood celebs have a highly distorted sense of perception as to their relative importance in the "scheme of things". This could be due to their highly inflated egos, living in protected enclaves, driven by chaufeurs in luxury limos, or DRUGS.
Percy
I certainly think he was doing something when he wrote that piece.
Helen
How about acer confervefacio facere?
Hoft and Steve
You people seem a bit depressed today----perhaps your serotonin level is a bit low----best have it checked
Huh? How about "creating a hostile discussion?? Help me out here.