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Originally Posted by ottopilot
dc_dux, if this is in reference to me, I apologize because I left the house for several hours (computer on)....
These are the questions I asked:
Is this forum the appropriate place to establish such a soapbox (idealogical spam)?
What are reasonable solutions or alternatives?
Should these questions be raised elsewhere?
....[*]I'm letting the moderators know that I understand how this thread may not be appropriate for politics, and that I am cool if they move it or shut it down. What do you think, should this be discussed elsewhere?[/LIST]
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Otto.....My comments about persons who participate in a thread discussion but then choose not to continue if/when a post of theirs is questioned for credibility was a general observation with one particular person in mind (not you).
As to the questions raised, I already answered indirectly (see #5).
I would just let the thread play out at this point.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
dc I have only so many hours in the day. I say my peace and sometimes respond but if I responded to every liberal who decided I was wrong about something on this forum it would be a full time job and fruitless. As a habit I've ignored some posts as by not reading so I don't feel the need to respond. Since I know I'm pissing into the wind here anyways, I don't feel too bad about it either. There are certain posters I do always read, as they often have something interesting and perhaps not typical to say, but that list has gotten smaller and smaller since I joined tfp....
As for poking the cages, sometimes its fun to point out some follies on the other side, even if I know it will get the expected response. When someone says 'hey remember the troops on Christmas' and you KNOW how it will end before the first response, there is a problem....
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Ustwo....I have to say I find this response a bit disengenuous....particularly in light of your active participation in this forum at various times of the day and night and the fact that the volume of posts here has not been overwhelming in numbers lately. It seems to me to be a convenient cop-out
("I'm too busy to reply to every post") when you dont care to respond to a post that challenges your position or sources.
In any case, I'm still interested in your response to my direct questions to you in the
Interesting Climate Model thread since it is a topic in which you have expressed interest. You suggest others here only represent an extremist position. You might review your own posts and honestly acknowlege that most of your links represent the other extreme.
But its cool if you dont want to reply to my post about reasonable proposals to address the US' 25% contribution of the world's CO2 emisisons...it just reaffirms my belief that you have no real interest in discussing moderate solutions, but would rather continue the battle of the extremes.
I must admit that my response to your post in the
1000 Attorneys thread was a poke at your cage....since your post was a baseless misrepresentation of the facts....something which you seem to attribute only to the far left
