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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (59270)4/14/2008 10:06:47 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh  Read Replies (2) of 542213
 
going by the true meaning of the word, can you prove scientifically that there is 'hysteria' involved, as that is, afterall...

hysteria

Main Entry: hys·te·ria
Pronunciation: \his-'ter-e-?, -'tir-\
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from English hysteric, adjective, from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos, from hystera womb; from the Greek notion that hysteria was peculiar to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus
Date: 1801
1 : a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions
2 : behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess

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or is the word used as it sounds like it is and is so often... for hyberbole to discredit someone as... neurotic. and at least is refreshing to see the word used directed at a man. that is rare. which i am sure you not unaware of. but then... maybe gore is just behaving like a... hysterical woman? and why is it hysterical? is there scientific proof that there is no foundation for warming, regardless of cause? is there any foundation for saying that gore exhibits any signs of neurosis or unmanageable fear?

and i tend to say far right. or radical right. or fundamentalist right. shall i switch to ... do i need to alliterate? raskolly right sounds almost fun. hateful spiteful stupid and deranged right. how's that?

ya never know when the 'loon' amongst you might turn out to be right about something.

but y'all keep on with your supposedly non-insulting terms. i am sure there are plenty who will tee-hee-hee right along with you. you dismiss your own views as unimportant and perhaps misguided, not simply wrong, when you resort to such appellations for differing views. but regardless of the reason, there will be a change in the weather. there always has been and there always will be. i seem to recall... a mini-ice-age. not that i was alive then. so we plan or we pretend the world today is always as it was just yesterday. like 'ground hog day'. but i don't think you looney, bearbobcat. sorry you consider me to be such. reckon i will have to drag my battered ego up off the ground and go on, tho. i will say i find it pathetic that people need to resort to such terms and i reckon look at their own neighbors and say 'loon' when the person ain't ever done anyone any harm.
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