[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Andrew Weiss]

On Sep 25, 2004, at 1:18 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>
> You know Andrew, I really wish you would take the time to learn WTF
> you are talking about.  You are sort of the Carly Fiorina of this
> list.
>
> You quote one highly-biased article on Harvard Political Review,
> written by professors who are all Democrats, in support of your
> argument.  It is an editorial.  My original post contained facts, not
> feelings or suppositions.
>
Your original post contained zero facts as far as I am concerned ...  
you had no bibliographic sources to back up your statements.  This post  
has some... but your original did not.  What I attempted to do was  
merely get one link to support each supposition..  You make the  
supposition that because Southern Democrats still identify their racist  
asses as democrats that we are all that way or the modern party  
platform contains these goals... its the same exact thing people were  
doing by pointing to Republicans as nazis based on the actions and  
views of a few.  I took personal offense to the stylings of your  
posting.  It was an attack rather than a "they are all that way  
posting"... you simply stooped to that level.

Oh and while we're stooping FUCK YOU Patrick.

Carly my ass.

> It was only signed into law AFTER it passed the House and the Senate.
> You don't seem to be aware of "how a bill becomes a law".  Facts is
>
Shut up asshole I am very aware of how law works and how bills become  
law.  The point is the major champions of the bill were democrats.   
Just because there were moderate democrats (most often in the racist  
Southern camp as holdovers) against it including Mr. Gore doesn't mean  
all democrats are against civil rights and all republicans are for nor  
does it mean most republicans are touchy feely and want to help and we  
(as meaning myself and other democrats by registration) are rat  
bastards.  You wanted emotion sir you have it.  These kinds of things  
don't cover up the stench of Oren Hatch, Strom Thurmond, or Trent Lott.  
  Sure there are assholes on both party sides of the fence... you can't  
pretend the republican party is an official champion of the downtrodden  
with that inflamatory one sided bullet point list.


>> Hearsay.
>
> A sophomoric, off-the-cuff response made with no research, you
> obviously didn't even give it a Google.
>
Yes I gave it a google... excuse me for not posting the links... I  
didn't think they proved the case one way or the other.

But here ya go:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/16/ 
hillary.book.response.02/ (against)
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/7/17/214214 (for)
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/07/17/trail_mix/  
(against)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnists/tmoran/tm15.htm  
(against -- opinion piece)

It's all one set of people's words against another.

> Multiple people have confirmed it.

Multiple people have denied it.
>
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> Really, I wonder if you aren't some berserker Lisp-based AI hooked up
> to this list, and somewhere a grad student is sniggering over your
> mind-spooge, but still getting A's from his prof... that would explain
> your ability to find web articles to tangentially support one point
> but your inability to do research *before* you post.

Again.. sod off Patrick.

Andrew