And you use this source in the first place, opting for a cite that was basically a game of telephone throughout Central Asia, because…?
Rush is Canadian and Beck is a Scientologist. I trust neither.
Are any of the 50 people “faggy”?
Xt is a good little soldier. When authority speaks to him he listens and he believes. We have argued a few times. Once was the stupid isea he clings to that gas prices are all about supply and demand. He never had the ability to grast how stupid that was. I am sure he still believes it. Of course his proof was word for word repetition of the Shell Oil site. Thats where I would go for unbiased truth.
He jumped all over Paulson and the financial thieves who looted the country should be given total unreviewable access to the US treasury. They were NBAs dontcha know. They are expert bankers. They are the only ones qualified to fix what they did. How dumb was that? MBA in banking industry at major bank=thief.
Then he prides himself on his spelling and punctuation. He would have been the envy of a steno pool 25 years ago. But he has no ideas. he simply sucks up to authority like a private in the army.
His strength. He is very inventive and nasty . He insults like a teenager while slapping himself on the back for what he sees is winning debate. I feel sorry for someone who is so rude, aggressive and childish. I do believe he is over 20 years old. He may still become an adult. Then we can all talk like adults.
Nah, just kinda sissies.
gonzo, did the concept of “charging interest” ever sink in?
This is simply beyond comment. It is perfect, just as it is.
I have fevered visions of Michael Jordan with a pocket protector and a green eyeshade.
Hold me.
Regards,
Shodan
Considering the original writer is so slanted, full of BS and has an appalling agenda, I found it quite amusing as I think was the original intent.
As for pit worthy… FAIL
Typical gonzo. Paulson was a stand out football player, not basketball player. Sheesh.
You obviously don’t know me well. But then, why should you? You’d actually have to be able to both read what I write AND understand it. This is, sadly, beyond your capabilities. Not that my positions are all THAT hard to follow, mind…just that you have the capacity to understand a nuanced stance is on par with belly lint trying to read Shakespeare. While it’s possible that a million monkeys could reproduce the works of the great bard, given enough type writers and enough time, a million Gonzo’s (one shudders to even contemplate such a horrible possibility) would not be able to bang out the collected works of Mad Magazine, regardless of the resources give them. Hell, they’d be hard pressed to get out the collected works of Sarah Palin…
Uhuh…just like your grasp of adding and subtracting, or your ability to understand why ‘faggy’ might be offensive to some. But you keep telling yourself that you are right and just about everyone else is wrong! It’s worked for you so far after all…
It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad that you basically have no idea what my position on any of these subjects you are referring too actually is. It’s even more sad that you think you won those debates…or that you were even able to grasp EITHER side of what was being discussed. What IS funny is that even those nominally on your ‘side’ probably shudder every time they see you come in to ‘help’ with the debate…
Too funny. I’m sure most 'dopers would be fascinated that I’m such a stickler for spelling(!!) and punctuation(!!!)…and that I pride myself on it! :p:p:p
As for sucking up to authority…again, too funny. You really have about as much insight into my own positions and stances on, well, just about anything, as you do on the subjects of the debates you clearly thought you ‘won’. While I doubt most 'dopers actually like me or enjoy my posts, I also doubt that most (with a few exceptions) think I’m lock step with ‘authority’, whatever that means.
I assume this is supposed to say that my strength is that I’m inventive and nasty. To wit…well, I try.
I’d say that calling me a teenager is nearly as ironic as 'luci talking about poster arrogance. As for the other…the difference between us is I’m not in it to win, nor do I delude myself that I have done so. I’m in it to see others view points and to test my own assumptions and world view to see where the flaws are. You on the other hand are incapable of even understanding what is being said, let alone of trying to test your own assumptions and world view. You ALREADY know that you are always ‘right’. Hell, I’ve seen threads with page after page of posters from all the spectrum of the political rainbow try to beat into your thick skull the fact that ‘faggy’ is an insult to some, or basic math that most of us learned when we were in grade school.
I feel sorry for you that you are so stupid. You can’t do anything about it, after all…we all get what we are born with, and some of us receive ‘gifts’ while others get the shaft. I really do feel for you that you got the shaft when chance was giving out the mental abilities. 
I feel contempt for you though that you are so ignorant, that you wallow in that ignorance and use it like a club, and that you are so unwilling to even try to remedy that. This board is about fighting ignorance and, basically, you sully it by being a member. I’ve never said that about anyone before…even Der Trihs brings something to the board, and while I think he’s a nutball sometimes (ok, a LOT of the time), he’s an INTELLIGENT nutball, and far from ignorant. I can’t think of any poster who is as basically worthless as you are to this board or this community. Were it in my power you’d be the one poster I’d absolutely ban from ever even viewing this board again. Lucky for you, it’s not in my power.
-XT
Don’t even think about it!
I think of gonzo as sort of a mascot. Cheetah to our Tarzan, sort of - just not as bright.
Of course, what do I know - I don’t have an NHL.
Regards,
Shodan
It’s funnier if you picture Shaq instead of Jordan. Although if it were Larry Bird, it might seem oddly appropriate.
I’m still waiting for his cite that pistols weren’t in common use in the 18th century.
But I guess I should let it go; he’s pretty much stopped making the claim.
Or perhaps he found out the current status of Michael Bellesiles within the scholastic community.
Not that you are a stickler. Like when you spelled caveat, caviot. I did not bother bringing it up. I thought about explaining how every thing you said should be rejected because of it. But then I thought better of it. Perhaps some day mature decisions will come to you, although I see no evidence of it yet.
Well, that’s mighty big of you Gonz ole buddy. I appreciate not going all Language Nazi on me and all. However, if it really bothers you when I spell caveat incorrectly, feel free to ding me on it. I won’t mind…
-XT
I doubt that. But we were debating something else and bringing up that not only would have been bad manners but it was off the subject and a big distraction.
I have cut you slack many other times because poisoning the well is not debate but propagandizing. You had one response that made me laugh out loud it was so stupid. My son asked what was funny. I told him. he said why don’t you jump all over him for it because thats what he would do to you. I explained that I am not him. I am not like him. I am debating global warming. It would be poor manners and childish. We adults are trying to discuss global warming not whether XT is having another bad moment.
Damn…you managed to blow up my new industrial Straight Dope Irony Meter 2010(tm, arr)!! Going to need to go to some kind of quantum computing nano-tech device now to keep up with stuff like that…
-XT
Now that’s just sick.
Do it again!
Regards,
Shodan, NBA, PTA, BYOB
Note of course Xt would be defended by someone like SHODAN . Thats the kind of reasonable person you need to defend you. You are far better going it alone.
XT needs to be defended from you in much the same way that your average adult needs to be defended from a teething puppy.
scratches head Well…leaving aside whether I need to be ‘defended’ by anyone, I have to ask you (not that I expect a reply, mind…or, if you DO reply, not that I expect a coherent reply)…who are you talking too? Or who do you THINK you are talking too? Who do you suppose is reading your pearls of wisdom, nodding their heads sagely and saying ‘Yeah…got him with THAT one Gonzo! You my hero…beam’?
The other thing that strikes me is…well, how is Shodan (or SHODAN I guess) defending me there? It looks to me like he’s responding to Lord Ashtar’s post there, and for all I can tell he doesn’t even know I’m posting in this thread for all the ‘defense’ he’s given me. Mind, I’m militantly unsurprised by your continued inability to read what someone other than you is posting…you’ve certainly demonstrated numerous times that you are incapable of both reading and understanding not only other posters but also the web sites in your own drive by links. Still, one is curious…well, and I’m breathlessly waiting for your next non-sequitur post on some bizarre new tangent…
-XT