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Ken Davey 04-12-2003 03:10 AM

OT The Wolf - where do you stand?
 
The Wolf wrote:
> On 12/03/2003 4:53 AM, in article
> , "Michel Boucher"
> > opined:
>
>> The Wolf > wrote in news:BBF2AE6C.4724C%
>> :
>>
>>>> The point is, I believe, that is there is neutral position (at
>>>> least in NA/Euro politics) where opinions pro one thing are
>>>> cancelled out by others that are anti something similar. For
>>>> example, I oppose abortion not because I am religious (I am not)
>>>> but because I believe that judges are not competent to evaluate
>>>> the definition of life.
>>>
>>> But as a canadian you DO believe judges are competent enough to
>>> allow sodomites to legally marry.

>>

<snip excellent answer>
>
> Why do you have to compose a ****ing 800 page novel to answer a simple
> question? I fell asleep one quarter of the way through your post.
>
> Please edit HEAVILY and repost.


Ah yes, one of the joys of running a new machine - the re-building of my
killfile.
Welcome to it wolfie.

Ken.



The Wolf 04-12-2003 05:59 AM

OT The Wolf - where do you stand?
 
On 12/03/2003 7:10 PM, in article
, "Ken Davey"
> opined:

> The Wolf wrote:
>> On 12/03/2003 4:53 AM, in article
>> , "Michel Boucher"
>> > opined:
>>
>>> The Wolf > wrote in news:BBF2AE6C.4724C%
>>> :
>>>
>>>>> The point is, I believe, that is there is neutral position (at
>>>>> least in NA/Euro politics) where opinions pro one thing are
>>>>> cancelled out by others that are anti something similar. For
>>>>> example, I oppose abortion not because I am religious (I am not)
>>>>> but because I believe that judges are not competent to evaluate
>>>>> the definition of life.
>>>>
>>>> But as a canadian you DO believe judges are competent enough to
>>>> allow sodomites to legally marry.
>>>

> <snip excellent answer>
>>
>> Why do you have to compose a ****ing 800 page novel to answer a simple
>> question? I fell asleep one quarter of the way through your post.
>>
>> Please edit HEAVILY and repost.

>
> Ah yes, one of the joys of running a new machine - the re-building of my
> killfile.
> Welcome to it wolfie.
>
> Ken.
>
>

That's what all you libs do, stick your head in the sand when you get your
ass kicked in honest debate.


Greg Zywicki 04-12-2003 01:46 PM

OT The Wolf - where do you stand?
 
Michel Boucher > wrote in message >. ..
> Pan Ohco > wrote in
> :
>
> >>consider yourself an unconventional middle-of-the-roader (unlike
> >>Pan Ohco...bwahaha!).

> >
> > Michel, I also was suprised to see that I was a middle of the
> > roader. But did you ever think that,that means that you, and
> > others that rant about what I say, are definately off center.

>
> I do not rant about what you say, no matter how you see it. And I
> never wanted to be centre. That is much too whitebread for my taste.
>


I don't know about Pan, but I do _not_ qualify as whitebread. That
was my point about ten posts ago.

And I don't believe that you hold the beliefs you do merely as a
styled pose (which is what the whitebread comment would first lead me
to believe.)

In fact, I'm begining to wonder if that test is more a measure of
extremety of expression than extrememty of belief. I keep a highly
moderate tone when I speak, write, and answer questions. It's an
engineering mindset, probably. I didn't find too many "Strongly
agree/disagree" questions.

Greg Zywicki

Michel Boucher 05-12-2003 12:35 AM

OT The Wolf - where do you stand?
 
(Greg Zywicki) wrote in
m:

> In fact, I'm begining to wonder if that test is more a measure of
> extremety of expression than extrememty of belief. I keep a
> highly moderate tone when I speak, write, and answer questions.
> It's an engineering mindset, probably.


It pretty closely reflected where I place myself on those scales,
although the left-right scale was only geared to test issues USAians
are reasonably expected to have opinions on, which seriously limited
the field of potential questions. Let's just say it put on the
correct side of the fence, at the farthestmost extremity and given
the questions, that's a pretty fair result. Had I shown up as a
middle-of-the-roader, I would not only have been muito offended, but
I also would have known the test was a fake.

--
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened
are always interesting to me, because as we know,
there are known knowns, there are things we know
we know. We also know there are known unknowns;
that is to say we know there are some things we
do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns
- the ones we don't know we don't know."

Donald Rumsfeld
2003 Recipient Foot in Mouth Award

blake murphy 05-12-2003 02:49 PM

OT The Wolf - where do you stand?
 
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:45:33 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>The Wolf wrote:
>
>>
>> >>
>> >> What is waster? Some kind of *******ized French?
>> >
>> > It was obviously a typo. I suppose we could all go back and check your
>> > spelling
>> > errors, like "Woe Vs. Wade", or the atrocious grammar exhibited in everything
>> > you
>> > post.
>> >
>> >
>> >

>> I do spell check everything. Woe is a word, that's the problem. BUT, at
>> least you understood what I was trying to say.

>
>Waster is also a word that passed through spell check, but I have never hears of a
>legal case "Woe Vs. Wade".
>

actually, 'woe v. wade' seems apposite.

your pal,
blake


Michel Boucher 05-12-2003 03:00 PM

OT The Wolf - where do you stand?
 
blake murphy > wrote in
:

>>Waster is also a word that passed through spell check, but I have
>>never hears of a legal case "Woe Vs. Wade".
>>

> actually, 'woe v. wade' seems apposite.


Not to mention alliterative. Who knew The could be so sensitive ;-)

--
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened
are always interesting to me, because as we know,
there are known knowns, there are things we know
we know. We also know there are known unknowns;
that is to say we know there are some things we
do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns
- the ones we don't know we don't know."

Donald Rumsfeld
2003 Recipient Foot in Mouth Award

Greg Zywicki 05-12-2003 06:16 PM

OT The Wolf - where do you stand?
 
Michel Boucher > wrote in message >. ..

> left-right scale was only geared to test issues USAians
> are reasonably expected to have opinions on, which seriously limited
> the field of potential questions.


I don't remember many of the questions. Were they all of national
scope, or are you questioning the average USAian interest in foreign
affairs?

Greg Zywicki

Michel Boucher 05-12-2003 06:18 PM

OT The Wolf - where do you stand?
 
(Greg Zywicki) wrote in
om:

> Michel Boucher > wrote in message
> >. ..
>
>> left-right scale was only geared to test issues USAians
>> are reasonably expected to have opinions on, which seriously
>> limited the field of potential questions.

>
> I don't remember many of the questions. Were they all of national
> scope, or are you questioning the average USAian interest in
> foreign affairs?


One does not question the obvious :-)

No, actually it was my definite impression affter taking it that the
questions would probably not be as important to someone from Eastern
Europe of parts of Asia, not, to mentionm Africa, South America...

--
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened
are always interesting to me, because as we know,
there are known knowns, there are things we know
we know. We also know there are known unknowns;
that is to say we know there are some things we
do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns
- the ones we don't know we don't know."

Donald Rumsfeld
2003 Recipient Foot in Mouth Award


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