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How can you declare a Fatwa against something you are not supposed to be doing to begin with?
These Fataws are like a damn hobby now. |
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We have to go back, Kate!
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This what you posted in an earlier thread : Quote:
I've known a lot of very intelligent and worthy dyslexics who might disagree with you on that score. Not to mention a lot EFL students. |
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I am saying that such a poor, inattentive writer cannot hope for respect from good writers in that regard. I remarked on that as just one more defect in a terrible array of things wrong. Tw's manifest desire is to be taken as some kind of sage fount of wisdom. Well, absolutely not. I haven't met a leftist I would account truly wise in all my fifty years. What I have seen are dingdongs, communists' dupes, cranks, and one or two outright crazies, in the company of frauds like Ward Churchill, who is now a few months away from being fired from UC Boulder for academic fraud and misconduct.
You have no hope of prevailing in this dispute, Dana. I know good and I know bad, and I know when they are presented to me. I don't buy shoddy intellectual goods.
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Having different viewpoints not always results in being unwise, especially when supported with facts. Then again, it has always been the tactics of the anti-lefties to kill the messenger...
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The lefties try the identical tactic, and too often succeed.
I'm convinced the right-of-center has the real brains. Then too, National Review, Commentary, and the World Jewish Review could persuade anyone of that.
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And did you really just say that the NRO has the real brains? Or is that sarcasm not coming across the Intarnetwebs?
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As any sarcasm about NR or NRO's intellectual power is completely unjustified and practiced therefore only by the pseudosophisticated and the mendacious, none, of course, was intended.
They tend to pass tests of wisdom when it comes to foreign policy. Try testing it yourself.
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I've only read their domestic coverage, which is laughable, at best.
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I do not find it laughable, but considerably better than that. One thing I do expect of NR is that it will, above all else, articulate a point of view that is Roman Catholic and conservative. The Catholicism tends to show up in occasional explicit Mariolatry and that they dislike abortion -- hardly surprising. Their support of an assertive (sometimes emphasized) foreign policy will probably continue long after the semiretired William F. Buckley is in the ground. I don't entirely agree with them all the time, but then who would? The world just isn't that dully uniform. However, they are too smart for the wise to dismiss. The foolish may follow their own headstrong course, straight into a wall.
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Webster's Third doesn't have an entry for "mushmouthed;" Webster's New Universal Unabridged does. You could always look it up. I came across it in a Barnes & Noble yesterday evening, and well, what did I see... I'd say the points you raised in the post I've quoted you from haven't held up any too well. I know what I'm doing; if you don't, best you sit back and watch. Also, some dang fool who doesn't like Urbane Guerrilla very much will be moved to squawk to the effect of "you're still on this?" -- many dang fools don't like me, true -- but I'm just tying up a loose end.
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"When war, like the one now in Iraq, threatens the fate of humanity, it is even more urgent for us to proclaim, with a firm and decisive voice, that only peace is the way of building a more just and caring society," he said. The Pope, in a speech to employees of Catholic television station Telepace, added: "Violence and weapons can never resolve the problems of man." The Pope led the Vatican in a diplomatic campaign to avert war, putting the Holy See on a collision course with Washington and its backers in the Iraq campaign.
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When has there been a Pope in the last sixty to one hundred years who understood when it was time to go to war?
Griff, wrt teaching grandmothers to suck eggs: surely you can recognize metaphor?
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Have you been in a coma or something? You are replying to a post I wrote three or four months ago.
It just took him that long to think of a snappy reply !!!
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