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Mr. Luddite

On 10/13/2014 8:55 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:00:00 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/13/2014 2:28 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 10/13/14 2:08 PM, Boating All Out wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 13:17:32 -0500, Boating All Out
wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:22:02 -0500, Boating All Out
wrote:

**** Turkey too.

**** NATO too? Putin will like that.

Who said anything about NATO?
The context of that comment was "Who gives a **** about Turkey?"
You do understand it's a Muslim country, don't you?
What's that punk Putin got to to do with any of this?
You guys seem to be afraid of him.
A great man once said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Turkey is a member of NATO. It is just a fact.

A flounder is a flatfish that lays in the sand at the bottom of the sea.
Fact.

Turkey is not a Muslim country. The majority of its citizens are Muslim,
but it is a secular nation. The majority of the citizens of the United
States are Christians, but the United States also is a secular nation.

Of course, to know that about Turkey, you'd have to have read some
history, and, as we all know, history is a liberal arts field of study,
and therefore of no interest to Greg Fretwell.

Don't know about that. I've learned more about the history of the
Middle East reading his posts than I ever learned in college.

Debating here should be a college course, at least if you want to use
facts..

I know a lot more than I did a few years ago too.
I will be honest, most of it is on the internet, if you are willing to
dig a little deeper than wikipedia and the top 10 hits on google

Sometimes I spend a half hour or more or reading to write a paragraph
because you get crucified if you are wrong.
I write it off to intellectual curiosity and it doesn't cost me a
dime.

The Internet is amazing. It floors me to think of how we used to do
research on a subject.

In some ways it was better though. Spending hours in the library was a
great way to meet girls.