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KMAN March 7th 05 08:51 PM


"BCITORGB" wrote in message
oups.com...
Tink says:
==============
I hate having a person laboring under the burden of a false assumption.
I suspected that your assumptions were false, based on the apparent
fact, that you presented little support for making those assumptions.
============

Tink, isn't that what I said? I repeat: I clearly made a false
assumption about JC being kind, loving and forgiving. Thanks to you,
and your refeences to scripture, I have been disabused of such faulty
notions.

Tink says:
=============
You can see clearly now that your assumption was incorrect, and your
conclusions based on those assumptions are at best currently
unsupported, and at worst, totally false.
================

Too right, Tink!

I can see clearly now that your JC would never support such crazy,
left-wing, notions as help to the poor, medical aid to those unable to
pay for it, humane treatment of criminals, respect for those with
differing sexual orientations, and a host of other leftie projects.

You have knocked silly notions of a kind and caring prophet right out
of my head.

Tink says:
======================
You are probably in the position that until you can present supportable
assumptions, that you can not make any correct and supportable
conclusions about the above discussion.
===================

Tink, I'm really not sure what you're trying to say here.

Can I make supportable conclusion? Well, sure. IF I can assume that you
know what you're talking about when you quote scripture, then I have
supportable assumption. Don't I? (You do know what you're talking
about, right?) So, based on YOUR supportable assumptions, I draw my
conclusions about the nature of JC. Based on what you've said, I
conclude that he's not a very charitable or forgiving guy. Thus, not a
guy I'd like to emulate. That's the conclusion you wanted me to reach,
wasn't it?

frtzw906


I think you are being too subtle.



Tinkerntom March 7th 05 09:03 PM


BCITORGB wrote:
Tink says:
==============
I hate having a person laboring under the burden of a false

assumption.
I suspected that your assumptions were false, based on the apparent
fact, that you presented little support for making those assumptions.
============

Tink, isn't that what I said? I repeat: I clearly made a false
assumption about JC being kind, loving and forgiving. Thanks to you,
and your refeences to scripture, I have been disabused of such faulty
notions.

Tink says:
=============
You can see clearly now that your assumption was incorrect, and your
conclusions based on those assumptions are at best currently
unsupported, and at worst, totally false.
================

Too right, Tink!

I can see clearly now that your JC would never support such crazy,
left-wing, notions as help to the poor, medical aid to those unable

to
pay for it, humane treatment of criminals, respect for those with
differing sexual orientations, and a host of other leftie projects.

You have knocked silly notions of a kind and caring prophet right out
of my head.

Tink says:
======================
You are probably in the position that until you can present

supportable
assumptions, that you can not make any correct and supportable
conclusions about the above discussion.
===================

Tink, I'm really not sure what you're trying to say here.

Can I make supportable conclusion? Well, sure. IF I can assume that

you
know what you're talking about when you quote scripture, then I have
supportable assumption. Don't I? (You do know what you're talking
about, right?) So, based on YOUR supportable assumptions, I draw my
conclusions about the nature of JC. Based on what you've said, I
conclude that he's not a very charitable or forgiving guy. Thus, not

a
guy I'd like to emulate. That's the conclusion you wanted me to

reach,
wasn't it?

frtzw906


See you demonstrate that you are not qualified to jump to any valid
conclusions, unless you by accident land on one. You tell me, you are
the stat man, what are the chances of landing on a valid conclusion
when you jump blind folded, in the dark, and your launch pad is
nonexistant. You have no knowledge of what the valid conclusion would
look like if you landed on it, and all invalid landings would leave you
even more disoriented. And the number of valid landing spots is
miniscule in comparison to all the invalid ones. I am not so good at
crunching numbers, would you please do the honors? TnT


Tinkerntom March 7th 05 09:08 PM


bearsbuddy wrote:
"BCITORGB" wrote in message
oups.com...
Tink says:
==============
I hate having a person laboring under the burden of a false

assumption.
I suspected that your assumptions were false, based on the apparent
fact, that you presented little support for making those

assumptions.
============

Tink, isn't that what I said? I repeat: I clearly made a false
assumption about JC being kind, loving and forgiving. Thanks to

you,
and your refeences to scripture, I have been disabused of such

faulty
notions.

Tink says:
=============
You can see clearly now that your assumption was incorrect, and

your
conclusions based on those assumptions are at best currently
unsupported, and at worst, totally false.
================

Too right, Tink!

I can see clearly now that your JC would never support such crazy,
left-wing, notions as help to the poor, medical aid to those unable

to
pay for it, humane treatment of criminals, respect for those with
differing sexual orientations, and a host of other leftie projects.

You have knocked silly notions of a kind and caring prophet right

out
of my head.

Tink says:
======================
You are probably in the position that until you can present

supportable
assumptions, that you can not make any correct and supportable
conclusions about the above discussion.
===================

Tink, I'm really not sure what you're trying to say here.

Can I make supportable conclusion? Well, sure. IF I can assume that

you
know what you're talking about when you quote scripture, then I

have
supportable assumption. Don't I? (You do know what you're talking
about, right?) So, based on YOUR supportable assumptions, I draw my
conclusions about the nature of JC. Based on what you've said, I
conclude that he's not a very charitable or forgiving guy. Thus,

not a
guy I'd like to emulate. That's the conclusion you wanted me to

reach,
wasn't it?

frtzw906


We must have attended the same schools, cause I came to the same

conclusions
as yourself, after reading Tinker's posts.

Mark --Hopefully, most christians aren't reading Tinker's OT version

of the
NT--


Possibly you did, same data, same conclusion, same credentials,
indicate same limited processing function of alternative data or
conclusions, and limit of credentials. TnT


BCITORGB March 7th 05 09:17 PM

bearsbuddy say:
================
Mark --Hopefully, most christians aren't reading Tinker's OT version
of the
NT
==================

I'm not a christian, so is it safe for me to accept Tinker's version?
I'm sorely in need of guidance in these affairs.

frtzw906


BCITORGB March 7th 05 09:18 PM

Wesiser says:
===============
So why is it that many Canadians are objecting to the draconian gun
laws in
Canada? Why is it that BC is opting out of the gun registration scheme,
which is WAY over budget and is flatly unsuccessful?
=================

There you have your answer embedded in your question: "which is WAY
over budget"

frtzw906


BCITORGB March 7th 05 09:22 PM

Weiser says:
================
I've been carrying a concealed handgun almost every day of my
life for more than 20 years, and I haven't shot anybody yet.
======================

And when you do, what will your lame defense be? "Whoops! I made a
mistake."

frtzw906


Tinkerntom March 7th 05 09:24 PM


BCITORGB wrote:
Tink says:
==============
I hate having a person laboring under the burden of a false

assumption.
I suspected that your assumptions were false, based on the apparent
fact, that you presented little support for making those assumptions.
============

Tink, isn't that what I said? I repeat: I clearly made a false
assumption about JC being kind, loving and forgiving. Thanks to you,
and your refeences to scripture, I have been disabused of such faulty
notions.


I was not disagreeing with you at all, in fact confirming your
observation of your apparently false assumption.

Tink says:
=============
You can see clearly now that your assumption was incorrect, and your
conclusions based on those assumptions are at best currently
unsupported, and at worst, totally false.
================

Too right, Tink!

I can see clearly now that your JC would never support such crazy,
left-wing, notions as help to the poor, medical aid to those unable

to
pay for it, humane treatment of criminals, respect for those with
differing sexual orientations, and a host of other leftie projects.


Now there you go again making assumptions and jumping to conclusions
with the blinders of choice on. If you choose to see only limited data
and/or distort the data you have chosen to use, it should not be a
surprise if you jump to the wrong conclusion!

You have knocked silly notions of a kind and caring prophet right out
of my head.


Good, the silly notions you had, were definitely silly, though I
suspect that there are a lot of other silly ones that remain. We will
have to work on them another time!

e
Tink says:
======================
You are probably in the position that until you can present

supportable
assumptions, that you can not make any correct and supportable
conclusions about the above discussion.
===================

Tink, I'm really not sure what you're trying to say here.

Can I make supportable conclusion? Well, sure. IF I can assume that

you
know what you're talking about when you quote scripture, then I have
supportable assumption. Don't I? (You do know what you're talking
about, right?) So, based on YOUR supportable assumptions, I draw my
conclusions about the nature of JC. Based on what you've said, I
conclude that he's not a very charitable or forgiving guy. Thus, not

a
guy I'd like to emulate. That's the conclusion you wanted me to

reach,
wasn't it?

frtzw906


The problem with your logic, is depending on me to know what I am
talking about. To provide a basis of support for your position,
support your own position, and then you will have something to show me,
that you may be able to make logical and supportable conclusions from.
Otherwise, I could be blowing smoke up your ass, and you would not know
the difference, nor able to come to any supportable conclusion
yourself.

Respectfully TnT


BCITORGB March 7th 05 09:28 PM

Weiser says:
================
....what IS for everybody is the right to CHOOSE to be armed, or not to
be armed. That is something that NO ONE has a right to deny them, ever.

=================

You're contradicting yourself. Not too many days ago you asserted that
there is no "right" for gays to marry gays. You were quite clear in
stating that it was up to the state to make such decisions.

So, how exactly is this behavior -- the carrying of guns -- a "higher"
right that NO ONE (I'm assuming, not even the state) has the right to
deny? Either the state has the right to govern behaviors or it doesn't.
Which is it Scott?

frtzw906


rick March 7th 05 09:29 PM


"Michael Daly" wrote in message
...
On 6-Mar-2005, "rick" wrote:

No, the numbers are from the Canadian health system.


Bull**** - no attribution is given for the source of the
numbers.
That is why they are unsubstantiated.

==============
Keep dreaming. maybe someday you'll even believe your nonsense.




Mike




BCITORGB March 7th 05 09:32 PM

Weiser says:
============
But I take my duty to myself and my fellow citizens seriously, so I
choose
to be inconvenienced in order that I am prepared to step up and defend
the
defenseless should it be necessary.
=============

OK. OK. OK. You're very good! There I was, taking all this gun talk
seriously, and then you end with a sentence like that! Too funny! NO
ONE but a comedian could make a statement like that. You ARE funny!
"...to defend the defenseless...." LOL ROTFL!!!!!!

frtzw906


rick March 7th 05 09:35 PM


"KMAN" wrote in message
.. .

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"KMAN" wrote in message
...
in article
t, rick at
wrote on 3/6/05 11:08 PM:


"KMAN" wrote in message
...
in article
et, rick
at
wrote on 3/6/05 9:12 PM:


snip..

as stupid and ignorant as
ever, but
it's not your fault I didn't work the question very well.
So,
unlike you, I
did not take the scumbag route and refuse to apologize.
==================
LOL No, you dishonestly took the route of apologizing to
soembody else, not to me.

It was an apology to you, but apparently you were confused
about that.
===================
LOL In a post to somebody else, and never addressing me.
OK, if
that's your definition of an honest apology, so be it,
liarman.
You still seem to be claiming that no one dies waiting for
treatment though.

It could happen in any health care system. When my wife got
sick in Miami
with kidney stones and was writhing in agony with an as yet
undiagnosed
problem, she was initially refused treatment because the
administrator could
not get through on the phone to the insurance company.

I haven't seen any evidence that makes me long for a
different type of
health care system. Every Canadian knows that there are
problems with
certain types of specialized tests and providing service to
remote areas. We
all want to improve those situations and there is a national
will to do so.

============================
Willful ignorance.


Will to do better. Ignorance infers not knowing about the
problems involved, and I do.

snip tired old crap

You, on the other hand, have made a deliberate false
accusation.
================
No, I have not.

You claimed
that I said no one in Canada ever waits for treatment. I
never
said that.
You are a liar and a scumbag and a coward for continuing
to
insist that I
did.
=====================\\\
Yes, you did, and I showed you where and how, liarman

You showed part of a quote where I said "No one is waiting
for
treatment"
which was a response to your babble about a particular
group of
people in
Newfoundland.
======================
that's what you claimed, liarman.

I have not lied about anything.

This is the only reference you have made in support of your
false
accusation:

====

in article , KMAN at
wrote on 2/20/05 2:14 PM:

in article
t, rick at
wrote on 2/20/05 1:18 PM:

Another strawman, I see. We aren't talking about their
'convenience', we're talking about the convenience of the
medical
systam. When that 'poor' person arrives at a medical
facility in
need, then yes, I'm saying that they will not wait 2 1/2
years
for treatment.

No one is waiting for treatment. It's about a specific type
of scan in a
specific geographic area and the waiting is for
non-emergencies.

====

As we've already reviewed a dozen times, in the above I'm
responding to your
interpretation of the article about Newfoundland and your
assertion that the
people in the story were waiting 2 1/2 years for treatment.
Whether you
agree with what I said or not (and what I said is supported
by one of the
doctors quoted in the article) clearly I am not making a
statement that no
one in Canada ever has to wait for treatment.

======================
No, fool. That post was prior to this one. This one is about
your ignorant claims that because a poor person in the US may
not be able to get to the doctor right away, then they are
'waiting' for treatment. I pointed out that it wasn't the
convenience of the system that is making them wait, as in
Canada, but their own. You then proceeded to claim that NO one
is waiting for treatment in Canada.


Where did I say that? Quit being so obscure. If I said "no one
is waiting for treatment in Canada" post that quote with the
full context so it can be explored.

=========================
LOL YOU just posted the context fool. Your statement was not in
the post about the boy in newfoundland.
It was in response by me to your nonsense about 'poor' people in
the US not getting TO the hospital for treatment.
I appropratly showed you that their convenince in getting to the
doctor does not equate with the systematic wait for treatment
recieved by mnay Canadains. THAT is where you made you ignorant
statement about no one waiting for treatment in Canada, liarman.
You did not make it at the time I posted the link about the boyi
Nfld.



You've just spent several days insisting that my quote about
Newfoundland proved your case, now you are dropping that (duh)
and moving on to some other accusation. Have some guts. Stop
being a scumbag. You were wrong, just apologize and move on.
But now, you are too big of a scumbag and a coward.
====================

No, fool. I'm not. You are the one that is keeping this going so
that you don't have to answer about the rest of your stupidity
and lies.

snip same old crap




rick March 7th 05 09:37 PM


"KMAN" wrote in message
.. .

"rick" wrote in message
nk.net...

snip boring old crap

restore relevent post that you would like to go away...
I am not making a
statement that no
one in Canada ever has to wait for treatment.

======================
No, fool. That post was prior to this one. This one is about
your ignorant claims that because a poor person in the US may not
be able to get to the doctor right away, then they are 'waiting'
for treatment. I pointed out that it wasn't the convenience of
the system that is making them wait, as in Canada, but their own.
You then proceeded to claim that NO one is waiting for treatment
in Canada. Youlied then, and you are lying now about your lie.
You have already admitted that this was in error. So, why not
move on and refute that people are dying in these wait lines that
you now agree too.


This is the only reference you have made to anything I have
said on the
subject, and yet you continue to lie about it and insist that I
claimed no
one in Canada ever waits for treatment.

Stop being a scumbag and apologize. You know I never said any
such thing,
nor do I believe any such thing.

========================
No need for me to. You made the statement, and have now admitted
it was wrong. I have accepted that you made a mistake and moved
on. You however seem to be stuck on the small details while
ignoring the fcat that people still die waiting for treatment.


Stop being a scumbag and apologize. You know I never said any
such thing,
nor do I believe any such thing.

========================
No need for me to. You made the statement, and have now
admitted it was wrong.


end restore...



I never stated that no one in Canada is waiting for treatment,
and thus I have not admitted it was wrong, because I never said
it, nor do I believe it.

====================
Yes, you did, and you now admit that people do. You've been
proven a liar, again...






rick March 7th 05 09:37 PM


"KMAN" wrote in message
.. .

"rick" wrote in message
k.net...

snip boring old crap

restore snip that you would like to go away...
I am not making a
statement that no
one in Canada ever has to wait for treatment.

======================
No, fool. That post was prior to this one. This one is about
your ignorant claims that because a poor person in the US may not
be able to get to the doctor right away, then they are 'waiting'
for treatment. I pointed out that it wasn't the convenience of
the system that is making them wait, as in Canada, but their own.
You then proceeded to claim that NO one is waiting for treatment
in Canada. Youlied then, and you are lying now about your lie.
You have already admitted that this was in error. So, why not
move on and refute that people are dying in these wait lines that
you now agree too.


This is the only reference you have made to anything I have
said on the
subject, and yet you continue to lie about it and insist that I
claimed no
one in Canada ever waits for treatment.

Stop being a scumbag and apologize. You know I never said any
such thing,
nor do I believe any such thing.

========================
No need for me to. You made the statement, and have now admitted
it was wrong. I have accepted that you made a mistake and moved
on. You however seem to be stuck on the small details while
ignoring the fcat that people still die waiting for treatment.
end restore...



Stop being a scumbag and apologize. You know I never said any
such thing,
nor do I believe any such thing.

================
No need, you lied and have retracked your lie. I have
accepted that.


I have not lied about anything.

This is the only reference you have made in support of your
false
accusation:

====

in article , KMAN at
wrote on 2/20/05 2:14 PM:

in article
t, rick at
wrote on 2/20/05 1:18 PM:

Another strawman, I see. We aren't talking about their
'convenience', we're talking about the convenience of the
medical
systam. When that 'poor' person arrives at a medical facility
in
need, then yes, I'm saying that they will not wait 2 1/2 years
for treatment.


No one is waiting for treatment. It's about a specific type of
scan in a
specific geographic area and the waiting is for
non-emergencies.

====

As we've already reviewed a dozen times, in the above I'm
responding to your
interpretation of the article about Newfoundland and your
assertion that the
people in the story were waiting 2 1/2 years for treatment.
Whether you
agree with what I said or not (and what I said is supported by
one of the
doctors quoted in the article) clearly I am not making a
statement that no
one in Canada ever has to wait for treatment.

This is the only reference you have made to anything I have
said on the
subject, and yet you continue to lie about it and insist that I
claimed no
one in Canada ever waits for treatment.

Stop being a scumbag and apologize. You know I never said any
such thing,
nor do I believe any such thing.





BCITORGB March 7th 05 09:37 PM

Tink says:
===========
You have no knowledge of what the valid conclusion would
look like if you landed on it, and all invalid landings would leave you
even more disoriented. And the number of valid landing spots is
miniscule in comparison to all the invalid ones.
===============

Hmmmmm..... You provided me with evidence of a guy who shows no
foregiveness, love, or caring but primarily vengence on the topic of
capital punishment. What conclusion would you like me to come to?

Where I come from, those who advocate murder are not nice. You said JC
would be in favor of murder. Pray tell, what conclusions should I draw?

Perhaps you need to give me more evidence.

frtzw906


bearsbuddy March 7th 05 09:38 PM


"BCITORGB" wrote in message
oups.com...
bearsbuddy say:
================
Mark --Hopefully, most christians aren't reading Tinker's OT version
of the
NT
==================

I'm not a christian, so is it safe for me to accept Tinker's version?


As I am an avowed agnostic, my best guess is NO!

I'm sorely in need of guidance in these affairs.


You'd be much better off seekin' advice and *consent* from a Voodoo Witch
Doctor than from Tinker's Damn, IMMHO.

Is there a Voodoo Witch Doctor in the House, besides TnT, I mean?!

© 2005 Mark --neither leader, nor follower, just someone mingling in
between--TM


frtzw906





Tinkerntom March 7th 05 09:41 PM


Scott Weiser wrote:
A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 3/4/05 10:14 PM:

A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 3/1/05 5:36 PM:

A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

There are lots of communities in the world where no one has a

gun. And
amazingly, no one gets shot there!

Prove it. Show me one community that you can certify does not

have a gun
in
it, and then show me how you can prevent a gun from being

brought into
that
community from outside.

I never said some whackjob like yourself couldn't bring a gun

into a place
with no guns.

Thanks for admitting that your utopian argument is nonsense.

I'm not making a utopian argument.

Of course you are, you're just too ignorant to understand it. And

you're
trying to evade the issue as well. You said,"There are lots of

communities
in the world where no one has a gun. And amazingly, no one gets

shot there!"

You were challenged to supply even ONE example of such a utopian

community.

Sigh. What I'm really talking about is communities that don't have

the type
of nutty gun culture that gets hearts pumping for freaks like you.


Nice attempt at backpedaling.

I've
lived in Ottawa most of my life and never seen a gun that did not

belong to
a member of a police force.


Just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean they don=B9t exist. In

fact,
gun ownership in Canada is quite high on a per-capita basis.

Have people been shot here? Yes. Is it uncommon?
Also Yes.


Well, there you go. It's not the guns, it's the people.

Would be safer if gun loving was a more popular part of our
culture? Not.


Would you be more unsafe? No. Would the individuals who ARE shot by
criminals be safer if they were allowed to carry a gun to defend

themselves?
Probably, but the point is that it is immoral for YOU to disarm THEM

because
YOU are afraid of guns.

Nobody moves away from here because they think they'd be safer
somewhere where guns were more prevalent. You'd have to be totally

insane to
think like that.


So why is it that many Canadians are objecting to the draconian gun

laws in
Canada? Why is it that BC is opting out of the gun registration

scheme,
which is WAY over budget and is flatly unsuccessful?


You were unable to do so. Your implicit thesis is that if a

community
doesn't have guns in it, nobody will be shot. The first failure in

your
logic is the fallacious presumption that just because a community

does not
have a gun in it NOW, it will never have a gun in it. Your second

failure is
in assuming that the only way people can be injured, killed or

victimized by
violent criminals is with a gun. Even in Japan, where guns are

tightly
restricted, people still get killed. Sometimes with butcher

knives, or
swords or any number of other weapons...and sometimes with guns.


Mhmm.

How does that happen, pray tell? How is it that guns are used in

Japan to
commit crimes? Japan has very strict laws forbidding private

ownership of
guns, particularly handguns, and yet handgun crimes still

occur...and the
number is rising.

How can that be? Can you explain this dichotomy?


For one thing, it's so damned easy to pick up a gun in the USA! You

can buy
a wicked assault weapon like you are buying a pack of gum.


That is a flat-out lie. It's entirely untrue, and you know it.

And then smuggle
it into a country like Japan where the people choose not to worship

guns
like they are the second coming of jesus christ.


Do you have any evidence that Americans are smuggling guns into

Japan? No? I
didn't think so. In fact, it's Japanese who are smuggling guns into

Japan,
and Englishmen who are smuggling guns into Britain, and Australians

who are
smuggling guns into Australia. And to debunk your claim in advance,

no, most
of those guns are not smuggled directly from the US, many of them

aren't
even manufactured in the US.

But you still fail to explain how it is that your Utopian ideal is

not being
met even in Japan.


Thinking that everyone having a gun is the path to non-violence

is beyond
utopian, it is evidence of a sick mind.

Thinking that the path to non-violence can be walked without a gun

is
evidence of a sick mind. Unless you LIKE being a martyr to

non-violence like
Gandhi. If that's what works for you, fine.


Geezus you are a loser.


And you're an ignorant ****wit.

You think Gandhi was some sort of wimp, wherease
some asshole with a basement full of assault weapons is hot ****?


No, I just think that I'm not going to turn the other cheek, and I'm

going
to defend myself using reasonable and necessary physical force when

it's
required.

You should note that Gandhi was killed with a gun, and that even

though
Britain is not in control of India anymore, there is a wealth of

guns, not
to mention nuclear weapons, in India at the moment, and that

non-violence
hasn't gone very far in dealing with Pakistan.

Peace through superior firepower is even recognized in India, which

is why
they have an army armed with firearms, among other weapons.

Me, I'll achieve peace through
superior firepower. There's a lot of violent people out there

hiding in the
bushes alongside your path. Best of luck with your journey.


ROFL.

The myth of the violent stranger in the bush.

That's not who is going to kill you.


That's who kills most of the people in the world.

You and your big rack of guns are more likely to get turned on a

member of
your own family


Not true. This is more HCI claptrap that has been long disproven.

- or on yourself.


That would be my right, now wouldn't it?

Or you'll put a big hole in some person
you've mistaken for an attacker because you are so damned eager to

have your
chance to be a hero gunslinger.


I doubt it. I've been carrying a concealed handgun almost every day

of my
life for more than 20 years, and I haven't shot anybody yet. Nor do

the
vast, vast majority of people who choose to be legally armed. The

"blood
running in the gutters" hysteria you parrot simply doesn't happen

where
concealed carry is made lawful.

Still, I'll take the chance, and I'll take responsibility for every

round
I'm forced to fire. Nobody said it was easy or that carrying a gun

should be
taken lightly. Mostly it's a pain in the ass. Guns are weighty, and

bulky,
and they seriously constrain your wardrobe choices, even in the heat

of
summer. You have to manage your gun carefully *every second* of the

day when
you're in public. Take it off at lunch or at the gym and forget it

*just
once* and you'll be in deep doo doo with the police. No, it's not for
everybody by any means. But what IS for everybody is the right to

CHOOSE to
be armed, or not to be armed. That is something that NO ONE has a

right to
deny them, ever.

But I take my duty to myself and my fellow citizens seriously, so I

choose
to be inconvenienced in order that I am prepared to step up and

defend the
defenseless should it be necessary.
--
Regards,
Scott Weiser

"I love the Internet, I no longer have to depend on
friends, family and co-workers, I can annoy people WORLDWIDE!" TM

=A9 2005 Scott Weiser


Scott did you see this article over the weekend. I realize it is in a
"suspect" source, Fox News, but I found it interesting none the less
and to your current point.

http://tinyurl.com/7xs53

I suppose if a person really wanted to read it, they might get some
interesting data, if they are interested in data, not just the normal
party line! TnT


rick March 7th 05 09:42 PM


"Mark H. Bowen" wrote in message
.. .

"rick" wrote in message news:xYWWd.3533

No, fool. That post was prior to this one. This one is about
your ignorant claims that because a poor person in the US may
not be able to get to the doctor right away, then they are
'waiting' for treatment. I pointed out that it wasn't the
convenience of the system that is making them wait, as in
Canada, but their own. You then proceeded to claim that NO one
is waiting for treatment in Canada. Youlied then, and you are
lying now about your lie. You have already admitted that this
was in error. So, why not move on and refute that people are
dying in these wait lines that you now agree too.


Rick,

Is it your position that Americans don't die while waiting for
health care, because of the convenience of the U.S. healthcare
system?

======================
Another mind-numbed jingoistic chest-thumper?
No. I have stated that the US system has many many faults.
My entry into this 'discussion' was prompted by the deliberate
lies that kman made about no one dying while waiting for
treatment in Canada. I have made no claims about any system
being better, or worse than any other.



If healthcare is convenient, yet unaffordable, is it still not
worthless?

=====================
I don't know anyone that doesn't get healthcare, so I guess
you'l, have to ask someone else.
Again, I have not promoted, or defended any health care system
over any other.



Mark




BCITORGB March 7th 05 10:02 PM

Tink says:
===============
Possibly you did, same data, same conclusion, same credentials,
indicate same limited processing function of alternative data or
conclusions, and limit of credentials.
===================

No. No. No. Tink, now you're falling into the denigration thing. I was
hoping to keep this at the level of a discussion (not a debate). We
don't need winners or losers, we just need to explore the topic.

Based on our exploration, with you providing the biblical background, I
drew my conclusions about the nature of JC. In light of your
interpretation of his take on capital punishment, I saw JC in a less
than positive light.

Since then, you've admonished me several times for jumping to
conclusions, not having data, and I don't know what all. All you need
to do, if this is to be a discussion, is explain to me how I somehow
got hold of the wrong end of the stick.

frtzw906


bearsbuddy March 7th 05 10:03 PM


"Tinkerntom" wrote in message
ups.com...


Scott did you see this article over the weekend. I realize it is in a
"suspect" source, Fox News, but I found it interesting none the less
and to your current point.

http://tinyurl.com/7xs53

I suppose if a person really wanted to read it, they might get some
interesting data, if they are interested in data, not just the normal
party line! TnT

This was not a Fox News article, it was a commentary, by a very suspect
source. Leave it to Faux News to present such.
John Lott is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the
author of The Bias Against Guns (Regnery 2003) and More Guns, Less Crime
(University of Chicago Press 2000).



Mark --and the so-called data was of no interest to this hunter/gun owner--



KMAN March 7th 05 10:14 PM


"Scott Weiser" wrote in message
...
A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 3/4/05 10:14 PM:

A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 3/1/05 5:36 PM:

A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

There are lots of communities in the world where no one has a gun.
And
amazingly, no one gets shot there!

Prove it. Show me one community that you can certify does not have a
gun
in
it, and then show me how you can prevent a gun from being brought
into
that
community from outside.

I never said some whackjob like yourself couldn't bring a gun into a
place
with no guns.

Thanks for admitting that your utopian argument is nonsense.

I'm not making a utopian argument.

Of course you are, you're just too ignorant to understand it. And you're
trying to evade the issue as well. You said,"There are lots of
communities
in the world where no one has a gun. And amazingly, no one gets shot
there!"

You were challenged to supply even ONE example of such a utopian
community.


Sigh. What I'm really talking about is communities that don't have the
type
of nutty gun culture that gets hearts pumping for freaks like you.


Nice attempt at backpedaling.


Call it what you want. There's probably an island somewhere with people who
don't have any guns. But that's not what I was wanting to talk about.

I've
lived in Ottawa most of my life and never seen a gun that did not belong
to
a member of a police force.


Just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean they donąt exist. In fact,
gun ownership in Canada is quite high on a per-capita basis.


I know they exist.

This is my point, it is not a gun culture.

Have people been shot here? Yes. Is it uncommon?
Also Yes.


Well, there you go. It's not the guns, it's the people.


There'd have been less people shot without the guns.

But at least you don't have many people here who think that they need to own
an assault weapon or that the "right" to own an assault weapon is more
important than the right to not have your neighbourhood shot up with
semi-automatic fire.

Would be safer if gun loving was a more popular part of our
culture? Not.


Would you be more unsafe?


Yes, most definitely.

Would the individuals who ARE shot by
criminals be safer if they were allowed to carry a gun to defend
themselves?


No, and other innocent people would be dead.

Probably, but the point is that it is immoral for YOU to disarm THEM
because
YOU are afraid of guns.


?

Nobody moves away from here because they think they'd be safer
somewhere where guns were more prevalent. You'd have to be totally insane
to
think like that.


So why is it that many Canadians are objecting to the draconian gun laws
in
Canada?


You just finished saying that gun ownership in Canada is quite high. How
does that mesh with draconian gun laws?

Why is it that BC is opting out of the gun registration scheme,
which is WAY over budget and is flatly unsuccessful?


Because a bunch of incompetent bureacrats were given the job, and the fact
that it was a gun registry that they messed up has little to do with why
people are ****ed off. They are ****ed off because they fouled it up and
spent way to much. If the car registry system worked that badly, we'd be
just as ****ed off.

You were unable to do so. Your implicit thesis is that if a community
doesn't have guns in it, nobody will be shot. The first failure in your
logic is the fallacious presumption that just because a community does
not
have a gun in it NOW, it will never have a gun in it. Your second
failure is
in assuming that the only way people can be injured, killed or
victimized by
violent criminals is with a gun. Even in Japan, where guns are tightly
restricted, people still get killed. Sometimes with butcher knives, or
swords or any number of other weapons...and sometimes with guns.


Mhmm.

How does that happen, pray tell? How is it that guns are used in Japan
to
commit crimes? Japan has very strict laws forbidding private ownership
of
guns, particularly handguns, and yet handgun crimes still occur...and
the
number is rising.

How can that be? Can you explain this dichotomy?


For one thing, it's so damned easy to pick up a gun in the USA! You can
buy
a wicked assault weapon like you are buying a pack of gum.


That is a flat-out lie. It's entirely untrue, and you know it.


What's so hard about acquiring an assault weapon in the USA?

And then smuggle
it into a country like Japan where the people choose not to worship guns
like they are the second coming of jesus christ.


Do you have any evidence that Americans are smuggling guns into Japan?


That's not what I said.

No? I
didn't think so. In fact, it's Japanese who are smuggling guns into Japan,
and Englishmen who are smuggling guns into Britain, and Australians who
are
smuggling guns into Australia. And to debunk your claim in advance, no,
most
of those guns are not smuggled directly from the US, many of them aren't
even manufactured in the US.


And many are.

But you still fail to explain how it is that your Utopian ideal is not
being
met even in Japan.


I don't have a Utopian ideal.

I like to live in a place where people don't get shot. I happen to believe
that a place where people don't associate their love of guns with their love
of life is a safer place to be.

Thinking that everyone having a gun is the path to non-violence is
beyond
utopian, it is evidence of a sick mind.

Thinking that the path to non-violence can be walked without a gun is
evidence of a sick mind. Unless you LIKE being a martyr to non-violence
like
Gandhi. If that's what works for you, fine.


Geezus you are a loser.


And you're an ignorant ****wit.


Good thing there's no such thing as being offensive, or I might be offended,
LOL.

You think Gandhi was some sort of wimp, wherease
some asshole with a basement full of assault weapons is hot ****?


No, I just think that I'm not going to turn the other cheek, and I'm going
to defend myself using reasonable and necessary physical force when it's
required.


Yup, and every moron with a cache of assault weapons in that special hole in
the floorboards thinks they are capable of deciding what is resonable and
necessary and when it is required, but what actually happens is children,
wives, and husbands end up dead in their own house, shot by a member of
their own family.

You should note that Gandhi was killed with a gun, and that even though
Britain is not in control of India anymore, there is a wealth of guns, not
to mention nuclear weapons, in India at the moment, and that non-violence
hasn't gone very far in dealing with Pakistan.


Uh.

And to you this is an argument for a stronger gun culture?

Peace through superior firepower is even recognized in India, which is why
they have an army armed with firearms, among other weapons.


Why are you pointing out that India has an armed forces? They have from
moment one.

Me, I'll achieve peace through
superior firepower. There's a lot of violent people out there hiding in
the
bushes alongside your path. Best of luck with your journey.


ROFL.

The myth of the violent stranger in the bush.

That's not who is going to kill you.


That's who kills most of the people in the world.


Actually, it isn't. It's a relative or other person that is known to you.

But you sit down there in your safe room with your cache of weapons waiting
for the stranger to pop out of the bush.

You and your big rack of guns are more likely to get turned on a member
of
your own family


Not true. This is more HCI claptrap that has been long disproven.


You keep waiting for the stranger then. Hopefully you won't be unlucky and
go your whole life without having to blast someone. I bet you'd die very
unhappy.

- or on yourself.


That would be my right, now wouldn't it?


Oh, and I wouldn't be surprised if you exercise it one day.

Or you'll put a big hole in some person
you've mistaken for an attacker because you are so damned eager to have
your
chance to be a hero gunslinger.


I doubt it. I've been carrying a concealed handgun almost every day of my
life for more than 20 years, and I haven't shot anybody yet.


I haven't shot anybody either! And I didn't have to carry a gun around for
20 years. Cool!

Nor do the
vast, vast majority of people who choose to be legally armed. The "blood
running in the gutters" hysteria you parrot simply doesn't happen where
concealed carry is made lawful.

Still, I'll take the chance, and I'll take responsibility for every round
I'm forced to fire. Nobody said it was easy or that carrying a gun should
be
taken lightly. Mostly it's a pain in the ass. Guns are weighty, and bulky,
and they seriously constrain your wardrobe choices, even in the heat of
summer. You have to manage your gun carefully *every second* of the day
when
you're in public.


Mhm. And most people don't seem capable of managing a credit card or even
keep their shoes tied. It makes me more than a little nervous that they are
carrying around concealed weapons.

Take it off at lunch or at the gym and forget it *just
once* and you'll be in deep doo doo with the police. No, it's not for
everybody by any means. But what IS for everybody is the right to CHOOSE
to
be armed, or not to be armed. That is something that NO ONE has a right to
deny them, ever.


I disagree.

But I take my duty to myself and my fellow citizens seriously, so I choose
to be inconvenienced in order that I am prepared to step up and defend the
defenseless should it be necessary.


You take delusions of grandeur seriously, which is what a big part of
weapons ownership seems to be about.



KMAN March 7th 05 10:15 PM


"BCITORGB" wrote in message
oups.com...
Weiser says:
================
...what IS for everybody is the right to CHOOSE to be armed, or not to
be armed. That is something that NO ONE has a right to deny them, ever.

=================

You're contradicting yourself. Not too many days ago you asserted that
there is no "right" for gays to marry gays. You were quite clear in
stating that it was up to the state to make such decisions.

So, how exactly is this behavior -- the carrying of guns -- a "higher"
right that NO ONE (I'm assuming, not even the state) has the right to
deny? Either the state has the right to govern behaviors or it doesn't.
Which is it Scott?

frtzw906


That's what it all comes down to for gun nuts. The right to carry a gun is
more important than ANYTHING.



KMAN March 7th 05 10:17 PM


"rick" wrote in message
nk.net...

"KMAN" wrote in message
.. .

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"KMAN" wrote in message
...
in article t, rick at
wrote on 3/6/05 11:08 PM:


"KMAN" wrote in message
...
in article
et, rick at
wrote on 3/6/05 9:12 PM:


snip..

as stupid and ignorant as
ever, but
it's not your fault I didn't work the question very well. So,
unlike you, I
did not take the scumbag route and refuse to apologize.
==================
LOL No, you dishonestly took the route of apologizing to
soembody else, not to me.

It was an apology to you, but apparently you were confused
about that.
===================
LOL In a post to somebody else, and never addressing me. OK, if
that's your definition of an honest apology, so be it, liarman.
You still seem to be claiming that no one dies waiting for
treatment though.

It could happen in any health care system. When my wife got sick in
Miami
with kidney stones and was writhing in agony with an as yet undiagnosed
problem, she was initially refused treatment because the administrator
could
not get through on the phone to the insurance company.

I haven't seen any evidence that makes me long for a different type of
health care system. Every Canadian knows that there are problems with
certain types of specialized tests and providing service to remote
areas. We
all want to improve those situations and there is a national will to do
so.
============================
Willful ignorance.


Will to do better. Ignorance infers not knowing about the problems
involved, and I do.

snip tired old crap

You, on the other hand, have made a deliberate false
accusation.
================
No, I have not.

You claimed
that I said no one in Canada ever waits for treatment. I
never
said that.
You are a liar and a scumbag and a coward for continuing to
insist that I
did.
=====================\\\
Yes, you did, and I showed you where and how, liarman

You showed part of a quote where I said "No one is waiting for
treatment"
which was a response to your babble about a particular group of
people in
Newfoundland.
======================
that's what you claimed, liarman.

I have not lied about anything.

This is the only reference you have made in support of your false
accusation:

====

in article , KMAN at
wrote on 2/20/05 2:14 PM:

in article t, rick
at
wrote on 2/20/05 1:18 PM:

Another strawman, I see. We aren't talking about their
'convenience', we're talking about the convenience of the medical
systam. When that 'poor' person arrives at a medical facility in
need, then yes, I'm saying that they will not wait 2 1/2 years
for treatment.

No one is waiting for treatment. It's about a specific type of scan in
a
specific geographic area and the waiting is for non-emergencies.

====

As we've already reviewed a dozen times, in the above I'm responding to
your
interpretation of the article about Newfoundland and your assertion
that the
people in the story were waiting 2 1/2 years for treatment. Whether you
agree with what I said or not (and what I said is supported by one of
the
doctors quoted in the article) clearly I am not making a statement that
no
one in Canada ever has to wait for treatment.
======================
No, fool. That post was prior to this one. This one is about your
ignorant claims that because a poor person in the US may not be able to
get to the doctor right away, then they are 'waiting' for treatment. I
pointed out that it wasn't the convenience of the system that is making
them wait, as in Canada, but their own. You then proceeded to claim that
NO one is waiting for treatment in Canada.


Where did I say that? Quit being so obscure. If I said "no one is waiting
for treatment in Canada" post that quote with the full context so it can
be explored.

=========================
LOL YOU just posted the context fool.


Oh, I see, so you are only referring to the discussion about Newfoundland.

Thanks for finally confirming that this is all about your being a scumbag
and liar and deliberately making a false accusation and being unwilling to
admit it.



KMAN March 7th 05 10:18 PM


"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"KMAN" wrote in message
.. .

"rick" wrote in message
nk.net...

snip boring old crap

restore relevent post that you would like to go away...
I am not making a
statement that no
one in Canada ever has to wait for treatment.

======================
No, fool. That post was prior to this one. This one is about
your ignorant claims that because a poor person in the US may not
be able to get to the doctor right away, then they are 'waiting'
for treatment.


Or if they are denied treatment completely.



KMAN March 7th 05 10:18 PM


"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"KMAN" wrote in message
.. .

"rick" wrote in message
k.net...

snip boring old crap

restore snip that you would like to go away...
I am not making a
statement that no
one in Canada ever has to wait for treatment.

======================
No, fool. That post was prior to this one. This one is about
your ignorant claims that because a poor person in the US may not
be able to get to the doctor right away, then they are 'waiting'
for treatment.


Or if they are denied treatment completely.



KMAN March 7th 05 10:22 PM


"Tinkerntom" wrote in message
ups.com...

Scott Weiser wrote:
A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 3/4/05 10:14 PM:

A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 3/1/05 5:36 PM:

A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

There are lots of communities in the world where no one has a

gun. And
amazingly, no one gets shot there!

Prove it. Show me one community that you can certify does not

have a gun
in
it, and then show me how you can prevent a gun from being

brought into
that
community from outside.

I never said some whackjob like yourself couldn't bring a gun

into a place
with no guns.

Thanks for admitting that your utopian argument is nonsense.

I'm not making a utopian argument.

Of course you are, you're just too ignorant to understand it. And

you're
trying to evade the issue as well. You said,"There are lots of

communities
in the world where no one has a gun. And amazingly, no one gets

shot there!"

You were challenged to supply even ONE example of such a utopian

community.

Sigh. What I'm really talking about is communities that don't have

the type
of nutty gun culture that gets hearts pumping for freaks like you.


Nice attempt at backpedaling.

I've
lived in Ottawa most of my life and never seen a gun that did not

belong to
a member of a police force.


Just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean they donąt exist. In

fact,
gun ownership in Canada is quite high on a per-capita basis.

Have people been shot here? Yes. Is it uncommon?
Also Yes.


Well, there you go. It's not the guns, it's the people.

Would be safer if gun loving was a more popular part of our
culture? Not.


Would you be more unsafe? No. Would the individuals who ARE shot by
criminals be safer if they were allowed to carry a gun to defend

themselves?
Probably, but the point is that it is immoral for YOU to disarm THEM

because
YOU are afraid of guns.

Nobody moves away from here because they think they'd be safer
somewhere where guns were more prevalent. You'd have to be totally

insane to
think like that.


So why is it that many Canadians are objecting to the draconian gun

laws in
Canada? Why is it that BC is opting out of the gun registration

scheme,
which is WAY over budget and is flatly unsuccessful?


You were unable to do so. Your implicit thesis is that if a

community
doesn't have guns in it, nobody will be shot. The first failure in

your
logic is the fallacious presumption that just because a community

does not
have a gun in it NOW, it will never have a gun in it. Your second

failure is
in assuming that the only way people can be injured, killed or

victimized by
violent criminals is with a gun. Even in Japan, where guns are

tightly
restricted, people still get killed. Sometimes with butcher

knives, or
swords or any number of other weapons...and sometimes with guns.


Mhmm.

How does that happen, pray tell? How is it that guns are used in

Japan to
commit crimes? Japan has very strict laws forbidding private

ownership of
guns, particularly handguns, and yet handgun crimes still

occur...and the
number is rising.

How can that be? Can you explain this dichotomy?


For one thing, it's so damned easy to pick up a gun in the USA! You

can buy
a wicked assault weapon like you are buying a pack of gum.


That is a flat-out lie. It's entirely untrue, and you know it.

And then smuggle
it into a country like Japan where the people choose not to worship

guns
like they are the second coming of jesus christ.


Do you have any evidence that Americans are smuggling guns into

Japan? No? I
didn't think so. In fact, it's Japanese who are smuggling guns into

Japan,
and Englishmen who are smuggling guns into Britain, and Australians

who are
smuggling guns into Australia. And to debunk your claim in advance,

no, most
of those guns are not smuggled directly from the US, many of them

aren't
even manufactured in the US.

But you still fail to explain how it is that your Utopian ideal is

not being
met even in Japan.


Thinking that everyone having a gun is the path to non-violence

is beyond
utopian, it is evidence of a sick mind.

Thinking that the path to non-violence can be walked without a gun

is
evidence of a sick mind. Unless you LIKE being a martyr to

non-violence like
Gandhi. If that's what works for you, fine.


Geezus you are a loser.


And you're an ignorant ****wit.

You think Gandhi was some sort of wimp, wherease
some asshole with a basement full of assault weapons is hot ****?


No, I just think that I'm not going to turn the other cheek, and I'm

going
to defend myself using reasonable and necessary physical force when

it's
required.

You should note that Gandhi was killed with a gun, and that even

though
Britain is not in control of India anymore, there is a wealth of

guns, not
to mention nuclear weapons, in India at the moment, and that

non-violence
hasn't gone very far in dealing with Pakistan.

Peace through superior firepower is even recognized in India, which

is why
they have an army armed with firearms, among other weapons.

Me, I'll achieve peace through
superior firepower. There's a lot of violent people out there

hiding in the
bushes alongside your path. Best of luck with your journey.


ROFL.

The myth of the violent stranger in the bush.

That's not who is going to kill you.


That's who kills most of the people in the world.

You and your big rack of guns are more likely to get turned on a

member of
your own family


Not true. This is more HCI claptrap that has been long disproven.

- or on yourself.


That would be my right, now wouldn't it?

Or you'll put a big hole in some person
you've mistaken for an attacker because you are so damned eager to

have your
chance to be a hero gunslinger.


I doubt it. I've been carrying a concealed handgun almost every day

of my
life for more than 20 years, and I haven't shot anybody yet. Nor do

the
vast, vast majority of people who choose to be legally armed. The

"blood
running in the gutters" hysteria you parrot simply doesn't happen

where
concealed carry is made lawful.

Still, I'll take the chance, and I'll take responsibility for every

round
I'm forced to fire. Nobody said it was easy or that carrying a gun

should be
taken lightly. Mostly it's a pain in the ass. Guns are weighty, and

bulky,
and they seriously constrain your wardrobe choices, even in the heat

of
summer. You have to manage your gun carefully *every second* of the

day when
you're in public. Take it off at lunch or at the gym and forget it

*just
once* and you'll be in deep doo doo with the police. No, it's not for
everybody by any means. But what IS for everybody is the right to

CHOOSE to
be armed, or not to be armed. That is something that NO ONE has a

right to
deny them, ever.

But I take my duty to myself and my fellow citizens seriously, so I

choose
to be inconvenienced in order that I am prepared to step up and

defend the
defenseless should it be necessary.
--
Regards,
Scott Weiser

"I love the Internet, I no longer have to depend on
friends, family and co-workers, I can annoy people WORLDWIDE!" TM

© 2005 Scott Weiser


Scott did you see this article over the weekend. I realize it is in a
"suspect" source, Fox News, but I found it interesting none the less
and to your current point.

http://tinyurl.com/7xs53

I suppose if a person really wanted to read it, they might get some
interesting data, if they are interested in data, not just the normal
party line! TnT

===

The author is John Lott, a gun nut who is also the author of The Bias
Against Guns (Regnery 2003) and More Guns, Less Crime (University of Chicago
Press 2000).

Leave it to Fox to find someone who could turn a multiple victim public
shooting stemming from a custody dispute resulting in the murder of two
people and the wounding of four others into a pro-gun piece of claptrap.



bearsbuddy March 7th 05 10:28 PM


"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Mark H. Bowen" wrote in message
.. .
Rick,

Is it your position that Americans don't die while waiting for health
care, because of the convenience of the U.S. healthcare system?

======================
Another mind-numbed jingoistic chest-thumper?


Please enlighten me! Where exactly does jingoism come into play in my
question?

No. I have stated that the US system has many many faults.
My entry into this 'discussion' was prompted by the deliberate lies that
kman made about no one dying while waiting for treatment in Canada.


KMAN has stated on numerous occasions that he didn't assert that "no one
[is] dying while waiting for treatment in Canada."


If healthcare is convenient, yet unaffordable, is it still not worthless?

=====================
I don't know anyone that doesn't get healthcare, so I guess you'l, have to
ask someone else.


You don't have to know anyone, who does or doesn't get healthcare to answer
the question I asked.

Mark



rick March 7th 05 10:52 PM


"KMAN" wrote in message
. ..

"



snip



======================
that's what you claimed, liarman.

I have not lied about anything.

This is the only reference you have made in support of your
false
accusation:

====

in article , KMAN at
wrote on 2/20/05 2:14 PM:

in article
t, rick
at
wrote on 2/20/05 1:18 PM:

Another strawman, I see. We aren't talking about their
'convenience', we're talking about the convenience of the
medical
systam. When that 'poor' person arrives at a medical
facility in
need, then yes, I'm saying that they will not wait 2 1/2
years
for treatment.

No one is waiting for treatment. It's about a specific type
of scan in a
specific geographic area and the waiting is for
non-emergencies.

====

As we've already reviewed a dozen times, in the above I'm
responding to your
interpretation of the article about Newfoundland and your
assertion that the
people in the story were waiting 2 1/2 years for treatment.
Whether you
agree with what I said or not (and what I said is supported
by one of the
doctors quoted in the article) clearly I am not making a
statement that no
one in Canada ever has to wait for treatment.
======================
No, fool. That post was prior to this one. This one is
about your ignorant claims that because a poor person in the
US may not be able to get to the doctor right away, then
they are 'waiting' for treatment. I pointed out that it
wasn't the convenience of the system that is making them
wait, as in Canada, but their own. You then proceeded to
claim that NO one is waiting for treatment in Canada.

Where did I say that? Quit being so obscure. If I said "no
one is waiting for treatment in Canada" post that quote with
the full context so it can be explored.

=========================
LOL YOU just posted the context fool.


Oh, I see, so you are only referring to the discussion about
Newfoundland.

=====================
LOL You are that stupid, aren't you, liarman? No, the
discussion about Nfld was in a previous post.




Thanks for finally confirming that this is all about your being
a scumbag and liar and deliberately making a false accusation
and being unwilling to admit it. ==========================

ROTFLMAO Only a totally dishonest lair could come up with bit of
idiocy, liarman. Thanks for proving how much you HAVE to lie,
liarman..






rick March 7th 05 10:55 PM


"KMAN" wrote in message
. ..

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"KMAN" wrote in message
.. .

"rick" wrote in message
nk.net...

snip boring old crap

restore relevent post that you would like to go away...
I am not making a
statement that no
one in Canada ever has to wait for treatment.

======================
No, fool. That post was prior to this one. This one is about
your ignorant claims that because a poor person in the US may
not
be able to get to the doctor right away, then they are
'waiting'
for treatment.


Or if they are denied treatment completely.

=================
Maybe so, that wasn't the point of the postings now was it,
liarman? Where's your refutation of the facts I posted that
proved that people die waiting for treatment in Canada? Can't
quite keep on track, can you liarman? You are a proven liar,
many times now.







rick March 7th 05 10:59 PM


"KMAN" wrote in message
. ..

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"KMAN" wrote in message
.. .

"rick" wrote in message
k.net...

snip boring old crap

restore snip that you would like to go away...
I am not making a
statement that no
one in Canada ever has to wait for treatment.

======================
No, fool. That post was prior to this one. This one is about
your ignorant claims that because a poor person in the US may
not
be able to get to the doctor right away, then they are
'waiting'
for treatment.


Or if they are denied treatment completely.

======================
Nice strawman, liarman. All you have left is to devert attention
from your lies?
maybe they are, maybr=e they aren't. Problem for you is that
that wasn't the discussion. The discussion was YOUR lies about
nobody dieing from waiting in Canada. Why is it that you seem to
be unable to discuss your lies and willful ignorance?







rick March 7th 05 11:06 PM


"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
...

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Mark H. Bowen" wrote in
message
.. .
Rick,

Is it your position that Americans don't die while waiting
for health
care, because of the convenience of the U.S. healthcare
system?

======================
Another mind-numbed jingoistic chest-thumper?


Please enlighten me! Where exactly does jingoism come into
play in my
question?

No. I have stated that the US system has many many faults.
My entry into this 'discussion' was prompted by the deliberate
lies that
kman made about no one dying while waiting for treatment in
Canada.


KMAN has stated on numerous occasions that he didn't assert
that "no one
[is] dying while waiting for treatment in Canada."

=====================
No, that isn't what his latest assertion have been all about. I
suggest you read with a little more comprehension. He has been
asserting that he never claimed that no one is WAITING for
treatment in Canada. That was his second lie. His first one,
and one that he still hasn't retracted was that nobody dies while
waiting for treatment in Canada. maybe you can get him to admit
he lied about that too. Good luck though...




If healthcare is convenient, yet unaffordable, is it still
not worthless?

=====================
I don't know anyone that doesn't get healthcare, so I guess
you'l, have to
ask someone else.


You don't have to know anyone, who does or doesn't get
healthcare to answer the question I asked.

============================
Why? That wasn't in the discussion. It is but yet another
strawman to avoid the original posts that proved makn was, and is
lying. That you have to focus on other systems says you don't
have alot to defend in the Canadian system. If you could read
for comprehesion, I have stated in this thread several times that
the US system, as with many systems around the world have serious
problems. No where have I defended it. Now, if you would like
to discuss the lies presented here, go right ahead, but the
deversions aren't working...



Mark





rick March 7th 05 11:07 PM


"KMAN" wrote in message
. ..

"BCITORGB" wrote in message
oups.com...
Weiser says:
================
...what IS for everybody is the right to CHOOSE to be armed,
or not to
be armed. That is something that NO ONE has a right to deny
them, ever.

=================

You're contradicting yourself. Not too many days ago you
asserted that
there is no "right" for gays to marry gays. You were quite
clear in
stating that it was up to the state to make such decisions.

So, how exactly is this behavior -- the carrying of guns -- a
"higher"
right that NO ONE (I'm assuming, not even the state) has the
right to
deny? Either the state has the right to govern behaviors or it
doesn't.
Which is it Scott?

frtzw906


That's what it all comes down to for gun nuts. The right to
carry a gun is more important than ANYTHING.

==================
Except to you, your being a willfully ignorant liar is by far the
most inportant thing to you, eh liarman?







bearsbuddy March 7th 05 11:16 PM


"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...
Another mind-numbed jingoistic chest-thumper?


Please enlighten me! Where exactly does jingoism come into play in my
question?


You never addressed the above, why not?

No. I have stated that the US system has many many faults.
My entry into this 'discussion' was prompted by the deliberate lies that
kman made about no one dying while waiting for treatment in Canada.


KMAN has stated on numerous occasions that he didn't assert that "no one
[is] dying while waiting for treatment in Canada."

=====================
No, that isn't what his latest assertion have been all about. I suggest
you read with a little more comprehension. He has been asserting that he
never claimed that no one is WAITING for treatment in Canada. That was
his second lie. His first one, and one that he still hasn't retracted was
that nobody dies while waiting for treatment in Canada. maybe you can get
him to admit he lied about that too. Good luck though...


Please direct me to the thread and I will address his "lies," as you call
them.


Why?


Because I am not arguing anyones point. I merely asked a question that you
find impossible to answer.

That wasn't in the discussion. It is but yet another strawman to avoid the
original posts that proved makn was, and is lying. That you have to focus
on other systems says you don't have alot to defend in the Canadian system.
If you could read for comprehesion, I have stated in this thread several
times that the US system, as with many systems around the world have
serious problems. No where have I defended it. Now, if you would like to
discuss the lies presented here, go right ahead, but the deversions aren't
working...


Are you seeing Boogymen under you bed?

Mark




bearsbuddy March 7th 05 11:20 PM


"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

Exactly, how old are you rick?

"liarman"? Please!

Mark



rick March 7th 05 11:34 PM


"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
...

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...
Another mind-numbed jingoistic chest-thumper?

Please enlighten me! Where exactly does jingoism come into
play in my
question?


You never addressed the above, why not?

No. I have stated that the US system has many many faults.
My entry into this 'discussion' was prompted by the
deliberate lies that
kman made about no one dying while waiting for treatment in
Canada.

KMAN has stated on numerous occasions that he didn't assert
that "no one
[is] dying while waiting for treatment in Canada."

=====================
No, that isn't what his latest assertion have been all about.
I suggest you read with a little more comprehension. He has
been asserting that he never claimed that no one is WAITING
for treatment in Canada. That was his second lie. His first
one, and one that he still hasn't retracted was that nobody
dies while waiting for treatment in Canada. maybe you can get
him to admit he lied about that too. Good luck though...


Please direct me to the thread and I will address his "lies,"
as you call them.

========================
You're in the thread.




Why?


Because I am not arguing anyones point. I merely asked a
question that you find impossible to answer.

=================
No, I don't.


That wasn't in the discussion. It is but yet another strawman
to avoid the original posts that proved makn was, and is lying.
That you have to focus on other systems says you don't have
alot to defend in the Canadian system. If you could read for
comprehesion, I have stated in this thread several times that
the US system, as with many systems around the world have
serious problems. No where have I defended it. Now, if you
would like to discuss the lies presented here, go right ahead,
but the deversions aren't working...


Are you seeing Boogymen under you bed?

====================
Why, are you? Projecting your problems of comprehension?



Mark






rick March 7th 05 11:35 PM


"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
...

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

Exactly, how old are you rick?

"liarman"? Please!

======================
Yes, please ask him to replace his lies.



Mark




bearsbuddy March 7th 05 11:38 PM


"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

Please enlighten me! Where exactly does jingoism come into play in my
question?


You never addressed the above, why not?


You ought not use words that you aren't familiar with. It make you look
uneducated.

Mark



rick March 8th 05 12:18 AM


"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
...

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

Please enlighten me! Where exactly does jingoism come into
play in my
question?

You never addressed the above, why not?


You ought not use words that you aren't familiar with. It make
you look uneducated.

======================
LOL I see you are just as dishonest in your snipping, eh? Looks
to me like you cannot discuss what I said, so why bother with
yours? You can pretend to be asking a real question, but since
you have snipped out everything around it, without annotating
your snips, it just makes you look foolish and dishonest.





Mark




bearsbuddy March 8th 05 12:33 AM


"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
...

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

Please enlighten me! Where exactly does jingoism come into play in
my
question?

You never addressed the above, why not?


You ought not use words that you aren't familiar with. It make you look
uneducated.

======================
LOL I see you are just as dishonest in your snipping, eh? Looks to me
like you cannot discuss what I said, so why bother with yours? You can
pretend to be asking a real question, but since you have snipped out
everything around it, without annotating your snips, it just makes you
look foolish and dishonest.


Your mommy makes you go to bed without dinner quite often, I take it.

Mark --she should take you 'puter away for a while--



rick March 8th 05 01:00 AM


"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
...

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
...

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

Please enlighten me! Where exactly does jingoism come
into play in my
question?

You never addressed the above, why not?

You ought not use words that you aren't familiar with. It
make you look uneducated.

======================
LOL I see you are just as dishonest in your snipping, eh?
Looks to me like you cannot discuss what I said, so why bother
with yours? You can pretend to be asking a real question, but
since you have snipped out everything around it, without
annotating your snips, it just makes you look foolish and
dishonest.


Your mommy makes you go to bed without dinner quite often, I
take it.

========================
I see you still have nothing to say. Can't quite stay on track,
eh?



Mark --she should take you 'puter away for a while--





KMAN March 8th 05 03:58 AM

in article et, rick at
wrote on 3/7/05 6:06 PM:


"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
...

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Mark H. Bowen" wrote in
message
.. .
Rick,

Is it your position that Americans don't die while waiting
for health
care, because of the convenience of the U.S. healthcare
system?
======================
Another mind-numbed jingoistic chest-thumper?


Please enlighten me! Where exactly does jingoism come into
play in my
question?

No. I have stated that the US system has many many faults.
My entry into this 'discussion' was prompted by the deliberate
lies that
kman made about no one dying while waiting for treatment in
Canada.


KMAN has stated on numerous occasions that he didn't assert
that "no one
[is] dying while waiting for treatment in Canada."

=====================
No, that isn't what his latest assertion have been all about. I
suggest you read with a little more comprehension. He has been
asserting that he never claimed that no one is WAITING for
treatment in Canada.


Which is correct. I never did. The only quote you have posted from me was
made in response to your interpretation of a story about people in
Newfoundland waiting for a specific type of test while under a doctor's
care. Whether my interpretation of that story is correct or not, we know
what it does not say: that no one in Canada is waiting for treatment. Since
it is obvious that everyone in every health care system has to wait for
treatment (that's why they have waiting rooms) I neither said, nor believe,
that no one in Canada is waiting.

You know I never said any such thing. You are making a deliberate false
accusation, and you are a scumbag and coward for continuing to do so.





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