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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SI Bob who wrote (434909)	7/28/2003 6:21:08 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Respond to of 769667

Well said, thank you.

To: SI Bob who wrote (434909)	7/28/2003 11:54:31 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

If you don't know why I used so many ways to use stupid and bring in political agenda then you donot know me yet. They are a test in a manner of speaking. But mostly in that I thought I knew you, political agenda was another way of implying stupid. Think about it.... "LOL" to that is an informative reply. As I said in past posts, the message tells a lot about the messenger when it's a reply to a message that was intended to test. Whenever I can I word a reply with several intents. Based upon your past actions it is clear I don't know you and I still really don't know the policy in your mind. There is a nuance(s) that is very ambiguous to me. I suggested my perception of what are real personal attacks vs the normal freedom to tell another you think they are stupid or dumb or dishonest. Now if there is a reasonalble man's logic that the assumptions on honesty are correct then honesty is reasonable to question about another poster. But ignorance, stupidity and idiot in all non vulgar terms is not a real personal attack. And calling another person stupid or ignorant and being wrong just showw that poster making that statement is stupid. Family, religion, race, sexual inclination are personal, I also don't do nationalities but that's just me. I'm American and Americans are the nationality and one must be kind to all the other sad inferior nationalities. I don't go there and I don't think anyone should. Second, folks who post with make believe names also are not really real people and post without the discipline of posting in a public forum. Speaking in one's own name conveys a restriction of what one will say. That's a consideration to me. I have no problem with banning any vulgar language even implied with acronym or missing letters. The reasonable man judgement should prevail. That additional restriction could be an authority given to the moderator of a thread for them to post in the header or not. The problem with that is that your work load may become one pain in the ass. Or you could if technically possible give a thread creator the option of converting a thread to a moderated thread. Thare are individuals who have posted on this thread as well as I for thousands of posts. There are individuals who don't like me and I just don't know why....:-) There are several who post here who post just plaim dumb over and over and over. There are a few who are flat out habitual liars. I take a long time before I use the term liar, except in cases where the lie I see is a clear libel.