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Beech,
Take a deep breath and calm down. All this anger is bad for your health.
'Public Servant',
Although I'm certain you delight in fancying yourself a master button pusher and something of an agent provocateur on these boards, you will be saddened to learn you are neither, at least where I'm concerned. You have never angered me, nor do I think you could even if you tried-- oh wait, you really ARE trying, aren't you?
Quote:I've picked on you enough today... I usually prefer more constructive posts, but sometimes it's just too fun getting Beech riled up. Hope you don't take it personally.
Well, regardless, your efforts to date to 'rile me up' have been ineffective to say the least.
Perhaps a more accurate description of your activity with regard to this post would be:
"In an effort to bolster my own self-esteem, I've waded into an argument of which I know very little, latched onto a bit of personal info of someone of whom I know nothing, and extrapolated a false hypothesis in an effort to discredit that someone with whom I disagree."
Do you render opinions of polygraph charts with equal zeal towards ignoring anything but your own personal feelings?
Quote:I'm not sure what difference further describing your father demographically would make. I do know that you made reference to military service and NRA because you thought it would win favor and thus prevent any insults directed at your father.
Sigh. Go back and read past posts made by the user 'The_Breeze'. He makes repeated claims of military service, hints at being a member of the NRA, and somehow wishes us to leap to the absurd conclusion that such affiliations make his unresearched opinions on the scientific validity of the polygraph more credible than mine. Tagging on my father's life experience was half joke, half sincere attempt to see 'The_Breeze' stick to the issue at hand rather than digress into ad hominem attacks as is his usual m.o. (oh, sorry to use a 'police term' there breeze).
Quote:And for discussion of your use of the term "wholey-discredited", please go to the thread on the NAS report. You may want to re-read the Executive Summary and also remember I am a specific issue proponent.
I see. Have you brough your opinions to your superiors? Or do you just keep on pluggin' away with the CQT, playing both sides of the issue, snug in your insular world as you criticise your bread & butter here?