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  Re: Ron Paul: idiot then, idiot now
 
(...) Wow, both of my most favorite Daves are *still* active in Lugnet/dabate. How wonderful is that? :-) Cheers mates, Selçuk (4 years ago, 25-Mar-20, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: Ron Paul: idiot then, idiot now
 
(...) I would just leave the customary 'yep', but posting won't allow that I've changed or modified my thoughts on a great many issues and stuff over the years since we were all hard-core posting all the time in O.T-D. But what fundamentally hasn't (...) (4 years ago, 24-Mar-20, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Ron Paul: idiot then, idiot now
 
<https://www.newswee...1584916232 Read here.> At a time when all non-idiots worldwide are taking action to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, a certain chorus of career idiots happily spreads false information to create the idiot illusion (...) (4 years ago, 23-Mar-20, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Well....
 
Because I recently got into an extremely brief discussion with a good friend on Twitter (Hi Lar++), I've paused to consider my 'beliefs' (for lack of a better term). Starting here, oh so many years ago, I've had to re-evaluate my conceptions and (...) (4 years ago, 9-Jan-20, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: CEOs Profit from Layoffs, Pension Shortfalls, and Tax Dodges
 
(...) Bump, because all of a sudden it seems relevant for some reason. (9 years ago, 24-Sep-15, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: Fair and Balanced, as always.
 
(...) IKR So much has changed since LUGNET came online. I'd like to debate you, but I'm afraid that we see eye to eye on a lot these days. VERY AFRAID. (URL) JOHN (11 years ago, 13-Nov-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: Fair and Balanced, as always.
 
(...) It's been so quiet in here for so long that I felt like I had no one else to talk to. Dave! (11 years ago, 13-Nov-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: Fair and Balanced, as always.
 
(...) Are you engaging a debate with a worthy adversary, namely yourself, Dave!? JOHN (11 years ago, 13-Nov-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: Fair and Balanced, as always.
 
(...) So... Since Dan Rather was fired for going on-air with false information about Bush, when can we expect CBS to fire Lara Logan for going on-air with false information about Obama, specifically about Benghazi? (11 years ago, 13-Nov-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: So now a change of opinion...
 
(...) Wow--we agree. Nice Dave K (11 years ago, 6-Feb-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: So now a change of opinion...
 
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote: (snip) (...) Works for me, with one modification. Lift "sovereign immunity". You're an agent of the government, and you misuse a gun? ... you can be found *personally* liable so it's not just the (...) (11 years ago, 6-Feb-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)  
 
  So now a change of opinion...
 
Because I really have been thinking lots about this lately... As an aside (and before I begin) we actually did not drive through the states ON PURPOSE to get to the NovaLUG show in New Brunswick JUST because of your gun issues down there. So here it (...) (11 years ago, 5-Feb-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: We'll just wave...
 
(...) How regulated are automobiles? how insured? How licenced? And we're now comparing accidents to mass murder?? When was the last time a guy took out a school full of kids with a car?? I haven't seen that headline. Shit happens and 26 people are (...) (11 years ago, 28-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: We'll just wave...
 
(...) Not where I was going at all--you jumped there. No fallacy. We must do something rational, proven and/or educated. I've demonstrated that other countries, other scenarios, other well-educated persons, have 'done something' and these (...) (11 years ago, 28-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: We'll just wave...
 
(...) Y'know what else sucks? Firefighters responding to a house fire getting shot at in Rochester, New York. So instead of putting out the fire and saving a home for a family, 1 (maybe 2) firefighters are in the hospital from gunshot wounds, and at (...) (11 years ago, 24-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: We'll just wave...
 
(...) Are you sure of that? As you are making an assertation which cannot be proven. If it was me, I'd just follow the logic of it, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear (...) (11 years ago, 22-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: We'll just wave...
 
(...) Roger that... Note: We're *already* not happy. NDAA sucks. (11 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: We'll just wave...
 
(...) On a completely different note, I miss this. Life changes and moves on but lugnet was good times that I'm sad seem to be history. This is just a good throwback to what once was Anywho as usual you're not changing my mind and I'm not changing (...) (11 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: We'll just wave...
 
(...) I was just thinkin' the same thing!!! KIDDING. (11 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: We'll just wave...
 
(...) Logical fallacy alert... "We must do SOMETHING!!!!" "THIS is 'something'" ... "therefore we must do THIS" Often, the right thing to do is, "nothing", that is, don't change the system as a whole in response to a minor upset. Also, I am reminded (...) (11 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)


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