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Pat_B - Re: Old saying in my family, Gome...
No kidding, but then again they aren't smart enough to see that they are being used for clicks. When they come around and begin an acidic dialogue like that, I just keep beating on them like a rented mule. Some catch on, . . . but most don't.
posted by
gomedome
on August 5, 2008 at 2:27 PM
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FineYoungSinger - it is a sick comedy and for a number of other reasons
as well.
These people just don't seem to be able to see the level of hatred they harbor for anyone they cannot get to agree with their limited worldviews. It's as if they truly expect to be able to construct a world where everyone believes as they do and everyone else will be happy to suffer their disdain until they come around to their way of thinking. If there is one commonality amongst every last one of these wannabe messiah jokers, it is that the beliefs of a great deal of the world's population are completely ignored.
posted by
gomedome
on August 5, 2008 at 2:24 PM
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spinner - I know this may be asking too much of you but for a brief moment
try to examine why you think I should endure your drivel?
You stopped in here to refute a point I made but all you have done is introduce irrelevant issues while accelerating the degeneration of dialogue. Do you even remember what the initial point was? You have an opinion that everything in the mainstream media is a lie (if I have deciphered your gibberish properly), that is irrelevant to anything that I have said here. As for the rest of your comment; isn't it amazing how people that don't share your beliefs all think that they are so smart . . . do you see a pattern emerging in whom you reserve your disdain for? . . . probably not. Maybe getting back to basics might be a better approach; the next time you try to fart and chew gum . . . wear a diaper.
posted by
gomedome
on August 5, 2008 at 2:15 PM
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Old saying in my family, Gome...
It's pointless to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
posted by
Pat_B
on August 5, 2008 at 1:54 PM
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Re: Luz_Briar - Re: try not to waste too much angry energy on it
beating a dumb puppy with a newspaper does not stop the carpet floods, but caging the dog works wonders. Sadly, the only cage we have at our disposal here on Blogit is the block feature, and that just doesn't seem to work.
You know, it's like some sick comedy where a person can't stop trying to grab the electrified blowpop over and over ad infinitum despite getting repeatedly shocked.
Even a dumb puppy learns its boundaries after one shock.
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on August 5, 2008 at 1:22 PM
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nana nana boo boo Did I spell that right or is it wright, did I spell that rong. whale I mean well, Who is avoiding the subject now, The problem GOMER, is this your so damn smart everybody is wrong unless they agree with you. I have seen people on your comments page make plenty of sense not just to me but to others also but to you they are just babbling morons, that believe in invisible fairy tale Gods that speak to them from a fairy tale heaven blah blah blah. Why don't you write about something you know to be the truth, because as of now you are just like the rest of us you can't prove a damn thing or at least you have not yet. Until you can prove that your IQ is above your shoe size, give it a break. PS I"M not out to hurt anyone's feeling or hark on there religion. WOW!!! Your top shelf man, don't let nobody pull the wool over your eye's dude. I love you man!!!!!
posted by
spinner
on August 5, 2008 at 1:22 PM
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spinner - I have to agree with you there, you are the authority on what
someone with half a brain would see and what a fool would know.
Unfortunately, those of us who must plod through life with "whole" brains just don't have your insight.
posted by
gomedome
on August 5, 2008 at 9:59 AM
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pat gome
whole hole how gives a care, who's changing the subject, what the hell does grammar got to do with it, not a damn thing. What I am trying to say is this if you two smart people would open your eyes and listen. any fool knows you tube can be as much full of chit as the national news. The truth is this the national new is not suppose to be but it is. typo mistake poor grammar call it what you want, there is another truth here any one with half a brain can see, that the crap you write, well the hole thing is full of wholes ha ha. except for half wit's like patty cake B. PLease!
posted by
spinner
on August 5, 2008 at 8:47 AM
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Pat_B - Re: i delight in incongruities that prove muddled thinking...
Judging by the general level of grammer and spelling used in previous comments, the use of the word "hole" in the place of "whole" may or may not be a typo. But this is what I get sometimes. Attempts by people that are incapable of constructing a sentence let alone a cohesive contention, arguing things that are mostly irrelevant to anything I have ever stated. There is probably a point being made in the two comments left by that blogger but your guess is as good as mine what that might be.
posted by
gomedome
on August 5, 2008 at 6:52 AM
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i delight in incongruities that prove muddled thinking...
I came to comment on your blog, Gome but read other comments first, to find one of my toys: "is it not true that one can be honest and not tell the hole truth Grass hopper?"
This sentence is a nit-picker's delight on so many levels. The first is logic: Q) Is it not true that one can be honest and not tell the (whole) truth... A) No. If you don't tell the whole truth you're not being honest. One drop of deception is all it takes to poison the soup.
And then there's the "hole truth." Hole -- as in a hole in a bucket or a hole in the fabric of an argument -- the hole truth. I know, I know, it's probably just a typo. But it's on the web so it must be reliable... or not. 
posted by
Pat_B
on August 5, 2008 at 6:10 AM
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Talion_ - that is true but his canons are filled with water balloons
More annoying than anything else. Mark my word, the points I am making will never be addressed except with things that are irrelevant.
posted by
gomedome
on August 4, 2008 at 8:44 PM
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spinner - that doesn't work either
Changing the focus of your argument is the same as avoiding the issue. One more time, I've only made one clear point in this post that you are attempting to take issue with and that is this: YouTube.com is not a credible source of reference. Anything taken from that site as some form of truth must be confirmed as being valid from other sources. It is that simple, if you cannot refute this, save us both the time by sticking to things that you fully understand.
posted by
gomedome
on August 4, 2008 at 8:38 PM
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gomedome
At least this guy comes straight at you blasting both barrels. No hiding behind flowery language and thinly-veiled innuendo like the good Captain. Gotta at least respect him a little for that.
posted by
Talion_
on August 4, 2008 at 8:34 PM
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is it not true that one can be honest and not tell the hole truth Grass hopper?
posted by
spinner
on August 4, 2008 at 8:26 PM
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spinner - get your arguments strait - I did not even imply that I felt big
money does not influence mainstream media, of course it does.
I am saying very bluntly that YouTube.com is not mainstream media. The two cannot be confused. One has no checks and balances while the other has numerous checks and balances, no matter how bogus you may think these all to be. Mainstream media is controlled by money, absolutely, but it also has a filtering process to keep it at least semi-honest. YouTube.com has no filtering process for validity of content whatsoever.
In the future, if you want to present arguments, try to stay on the same page.
posted by
gomedome
on August 4, 2008 at 7:34 PM
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Gome
do you not think that national news is not controlled by big money. come on man.
posted by
spinner
on August 4, 2008 at 7:15 PM
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Luz_Briar - Re: try not to waste too much angry energy on it
That's not the case here, I'm just beating a dumb puppy that won't stop peeing on the carpet with a newspaper.
posted by
gomedome
on August 4, 2008 at 4:59 PM
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spinner - if you think that the national news and YouTube.com are similar
in regards to their inherent credibility checks and balances, I fell very badly for you.
posted by
gomedome
on August 4, 2008 at 4:58 PM
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yes your right not just any body can put something on national news programs but truly no one controls that.
posted by
spinner
on August 4, 2008 at 4:55 PM
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try not to waste too much angry energy on it
it's just not worth your time, gomedome
posted by
Luz_Briar
on August 4, 2008 at 4:39 PM
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