On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:26:16 -0400, wf3h wrote:
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 15:08:22 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:
"wf3h" wrote in message ...
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:43:57 -0400, wrote:
So you agree the real unemployment rate is a lot worse than the
numbers. I think that is what the OP was going for.
nope. what i said was that you're too stupid to understand how it's
measured and so is he
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I am "stupid" because I posed a legitimate question?
no. you're stupid because you expect the metrology to change so that
bush looks better and the
black
president looks worse
Not counting those who have given up looking, even though employable, is
dishonest and
totally misleading to the public
maybe so. but obama didnt change the method of measurement.
Well, I think there are stupid people here, along with racist/fascist
ones. But, I don't think Eisboch is one, at least I don't see any
direct evidence of it. He's certainly nowhere near the level of
crazy/stupid of some (that sounds like I'm saying he is crazy/stupid
on some level, but I couldn't figure out how to phrase it properly).
:-)
I believe there are rational people on the right (not on the far
right, however, or even the extreme left - like Earth Firsters who are
off the deep end). A conversation/debate is possible in that
situation. As long as both sides recognize that there are facts and
made up facts, then it's possible.
The extremes on both sides tend to promote or invoke violence or
hatred to "prove" something or to "solve" something. That's just wrong
in a civil society. I'm not equating the two extremes. The right is
far more likely to do nasty things, but there is a left element that
exists. To deny that would be irrational.
It's pretty easy to make a factual error. Maddow's recent one about
Limbaugh. The issue is whether or not one is willing to be corrected
and to admit the error. It's hard to argue that Maddow doesn't have a
left-leaning agenda, but it's also impossible for a rational person to
think that Limbaugh has anything but his own self-interest in mind,
and he's willing to lie and/or distort the truth to support himself.
He would never admit a factual error.
Sorry for the rant.
