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To: Lane3 who wrote (26638)	8/16/2006 8:44:28 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541387

We don't take nutty sounding people seriously, at least I don't. That doesn't mean that they aren't right in what they say, but it sure taints credibility. That sums up perfectly why this is a closely moderated thread, LOL. Though whenever I turn off Ignore and go skimming other threads, I rarely learn anything I hadn't heard from a partisan source many times before. It does seem funny that BDS didn't become a fashionable term until Bush's poll numbers started down the ski slope.

To: Lane3 who wrote (26638)	8/16/2006 9:38:04 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541387

Ah, about Krugman, then, we are in serious disagreement mode. We'll just have to do the proverbial agree to disagree. He is "flappy,"--I think I'll appropriate that word from you, with your permission, in the sense that he sometimes "flutters ineffectively" when he talks. That is his body flutters around for no apparent rhetorical purpose. No doubt, however, the rhythms are dictated by some inner logic. But to repeat myself, to let the style turn off reading him carefully, so you don't consider his arguments--forget, for the moment, whether you come to agree with them, just to consider--is a mistake. They are well worth pondering, hashing and rehashing, before deciding whether to agree or disagree. I'm generally, as you know, in the agree spot on the floor; but I've certainly disagreed. On occasion.