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Dateline Grand Rapids, MI... The Bush team must have thought this was a pretty safe photo op for their fearless leader... Calvin College is among the most christian institutions in one of the most solidly conservative/republican areas in the entire (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Doh! Apparently I've lost my bearings once again. How embearassing! Truly a kodiak moment. Dave! (hereby abandoning the grizzly remains of my argument) FUT ot.pun, alas! (20 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I suspect you might be right about that: (from (URL) ) "Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher. " ...so, unless he was WAY ahead of his time, probably not a big 'nethead... (...) I think you're (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You and DaveE have already pegged this correctly; the listed strategies are tailored for "winning the audience" rather than "persuading one's opponent." I'm not very well versed in Schopenhauer, but I have the vague sense that he didn't use (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: "This is a lickspittle Republican committee, acting on the wishes of George W Bush"
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(...) (URL) The Score:> Gorgeous George Galloway 1 Lickspittle Republican Senator 0 (URL) The truth(?):> "The US was not only aware of Iraqi oil sales which violated UN sanctions and provided the bulk of the illicit money Saddam Hussein obtained (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Ah... #3! Very good! No, seriously, I think elsewhere on the page it is asserted that the entire material is an acknowledgedly poor translation from the original German. (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ROSCO (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Exactly! Which is why I think many of them do get used here! When I read this list I was reminded of your "debate card" of a few years back, and I was doing a little scoring in my head as to who among the regulars here used how many. (1) 1 - (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) To a certain extent, I think I've used: 1, 4, 9, 16, 20, 25, 32, 33 Of course, as regards #1, I'm usually an advocate of testing the extremes of any given theory. Hence, I'll typically show the extremes of my *own* propositions as well, to (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Thirty - Eight Ways to Win an Argument from Schopenhauer's "The Art of Controversy" (URL) via a link from (URL) ... surely one of the most clever URL choices out there! (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Typical Senator: "I'm all for cutting waste! ..."
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(...) Of course, the gov't could free up a bunch of military dollars if they'd abandon the ill-conceived, ill-designed, ill-executed, and ill-befitting-the-modern-world Missile Defense System. After that, the gov't could abandon the policy of (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"...But don't close my state's pork farms, er, bases!" (URL) love it! (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm. What excuse do white guys have for owning guns? I'm not sure that the state of law enforcement in 1962/3 Alabama justifies gun ownership in 2005… especially given the number of gun thefts and juvenile shootings in the USA. Scott A (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Protests too much
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(...) The USA gave him WMD. That is a fact. (...) None of which supports the USA's Foreign Policy with respect to those nations & regions. (...) See the bottom of (URL) this post>. (...) Do you care to expend on that? There is plenty of proof that (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Not so much law as it is being integrated into the base curriculum in a few states. Mostly southern right now, but if the trend continues.... (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Is that actually law in some states? That seems a little over the top. Note that kids in several European countries are "forced" to learn English in school. And I also had to learn French in school, although I remember very little of it now. (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) <SNIP> (...) Gotta love how languages change. Geno meaning race as in Genus Thus Human = Human Just my take. (...) Yeah, from some capitalist pig, whether that pig was from US, China, Japan, Russia who knows. (...) Meddling in Central America, (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:IGDy1E.ynu@lugnet.com... (...) He is probably trying to tell you that your country is/was ruled by idiots with no morals, and that they should be terminated. I think I have to agree on that. /J (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Okay, I admit the Pope was thrown in for good measure (not that he isn't getting smeared by other lefties as a Nazi). What were you trying to say??? What was your point? Merely smear by innuendo? What's your point? What's your point? JOHN (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) "to defended" Way to proofread, YahooNews. The least they could have done was throw a (sic) in there. Leaving aside your utterly outrageous and scandalous suggestion that the local authorities might not have been entirely trustworthy, I have (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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