What the?!
Oh, someone closed the thread but ****tomndebb ****reopened, back to GD.
I don’t know, I hate to pile on adaher. He’s a pleasant enough fellow and seems quite sincere. He’s like the little boy who happily digs through a pile of horse manure, convinced that there must be a pony in there. So his beliefs require an alternate reality at times. I still enjoy his posts. I would a thousand times rather have adaher as a friend than bricker. Or OMG, whom I am convinced is not actually black at all. Or Sam Stone, who believes that libertarian bullshit. At least the bullshit that adaher believes is actually serious policy.
If a plane flew into the Pentagon, the Pentagon would have come crashing down, just like the twin towers supposedly did. Did you ever think of that? No. Obviously not. Even if the Pentagon didn’t collapse entirely, there would be a big hole where the plane went in? Did you think of that? Well, there isn’t a hole. Look at the Pentagon. It’s fine. The fake damage used to justify invading Iraq was just for show, and fixed way too easily.
The above was satire. Please do not take is seriously. Unless you are one of them.
I would agree with you **BobLibDem **but the Nazi jab and his reliance on racist and birther sources tells the that as a Latino with liberal leanings I would not be a friend of him.
I think his gift is more along the lines of “special” rather than “unique”.
I liked when he insisted that Reagan was right about trees causing pollution – that apparently the Smokey Mountains are the result of pine tar or something, and it’s destroying the ozone layer. No matter how many cites people gave him to the contrary. :dubious:
I don’t think he reads the cites. I once linked to Walmart’s corporate site as the source of the number of employees at Sam’s Club and he said it was an unreliable source.
Smoky. No “e.” 
He was right about that.
Thus shattering an otherwise perfect record.
Now that I have more time I have to say that indeed more examples were noticed by me regarding Sam.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15261481&postcount=191
Inside a post that I did not agree on the whole, there was a certifiable howler, that was not acknowledged by Sam.
It is clear that affirming that “one reason is that CO2 isn’t a pollutant” is a very misleading thing to believe and it was clear that Sam was using that bit to support the position that many Republicans have on the issue.
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It was bollocks too**, and one can notice that an honest acknowledging of that error should had lead to criticism of the ones in congress that continue to push that myth. Alas, the partisanship overcomes the science here. There was no admission of that error.
And then in the same thread another example, he was not aware of the similarity of the ACA with the Republican Health care proposal of the 90’s. And yes, Republicans did recommend a mandate.
It was like seeing a football radio announcer claiming expertise and good knowledge on the sport only to find that he was not aware that waiting for a fifth quarter was a joke that his buddies told him after there was winner in regulation time, and they find him still sitting on the booth 15 minutes after the game was over.
And I’m I’m rarely wrong in the political threads. It’s simply a difference of opinion, but most people would rather say I’m wrong rather than we disagree.
No, you’re pretty much always wrong in political threads. My guess is that you don’t put much thought into any particular assertion, but there may be other, better explanations.
It took me five years to get him to admit to being wrong about the Bushes and the NASA budget.
The more I look back at it, the more adaher looks like a sideshow compared to the crafty, weasely, deceitful asshole that Sam Stone was.
I agree with what Little Nemo and BobLibDem are saying about adaher. He is a harmless amusement and someone I could probably be friends with, or see on a somewhat occasional basis and have a fun discussion. I think adaher starts every day by opening up Fox Nation and The Drudge Report, and so forth, and listens to Rush and Hannity every day on the radio and tv. I think he comes and posts his “findings” and “his” opinions and they are almost always wrong.
He is pretty much the king of wrong though. Almost always undeniably wrong. He disappeared for months and months after Romney lost the election after he told us time and time again that the polls were all wrong and Romney was going to win because the turn out models were all wrong. I’m surprised he ever came back. But when he did, I did not let him have it easy, and he took it in stride, and continues to post here. So he’s mostly ok in my book.
I certainly do not dislike him in the way I dislike Bricker or Clothahump. But even Clothahump is right about the whole religion thing. And at least Bricker is right about legal issues all of the time.
He kind of reminds me of Karl Rove, sketching out how McCain could still win just before they came in and told him Obama had taken Ohio.
I find his efforts at gymnastic rationalization entertaining. He’s just smart enough to make them (or at least parrot them) but apparently not smart enough to see how empty they are.
Are you saying he is stuck in a fractured timeline?
You don’t get it. Susanann lived through the 70s - she doesn’t need some snot nosed jack posted on an internet site telling her pants were legal then.
(Link is to my personal favorite Susanann post of all time.)
Differing opinions are one thing. But basing your opinions on “facts” that aren’t true is another.
By listening to RW media, you have a cartoon view of reality, and your opinions are as a result distorted.
For instance, it is a fact that the vast majority of the climate scientists on Earth think that global warming is happening. It is your opinion that you can see holes in their logic, even though you certainly aren’t educated enough to understand the issues.
Disappointed that no-one’s mentioned me so far, I’m a pretty objectionable character.