[eDebate] ans Stannard

[Andy Ellis]

if you have the quick turn of a phrase to explain it all can you tell me why
wtc7 fell?

On 6/30/06, Michael Korcok <mmk_savant at hotmail.com> wrote:

>

> i'll make you a deal:  we all just shut up and debate.  how about that?

>

> it is way too much to hope that you would be an educator/debate coach who

> teaches folks to argue, develops their critical thinking skills, and shows

> them how to research public issues without also being an old communist who

> uses debate to recruit the young to your particular fringe ideology.  Matt,

> you wouldn't stand for it if it was the religious right recruiting like

> this but that is precisely what you are doing.  it is just creepy.  and

> icky.  but it is just bullshit to claim that I am also being an

> ideologue because i RESPOND to heapings of far-left garbage.

>

> so i extend my hand in this peace offering:  let's make edebate and debate an

> ideology-free zone.  or at least more of an ideology-free zone.  deal?

>

> the little stuff:

>

> 1) "complete lack of original thinking"

>

> unh unh. not true.  never true.  won't ever be so.  i am the mighty mighty

> generator of the clarifying phrase, the thought that makes it all make

> sense, the difference that makes a difference.  always was.  always will

> be.  you just stand there all "whut?"

>

> 2) "any kind of human sensitivity"

>

> well... this is a known issue and we are working on a technical fix.  we

> should have a patch out soon.  Korcok 2.0

> we promise.  keep checking your e-mail.

>

> and if this is your clevah pitch to try to enroll me in one of your

> Sensitivity-Awareness-Retraining Seminars hosted at one of those Gulags you

> all are famous for, well, no thank you.  communism killed 100 million of its

> own citizens in the last century and i am the insensitive one?

>

> and here is a preview of the progress that has been made so far toward a

> more sensitive me:

>

> every day about 155,000 people die in this wicked wicked world.  I weep

> for each and every one of them.  True, it is only about 4 milliseconds of

> weeping per person, but that still amounts to 10 minutes of crying every

> single day.  you are thinking: "4 milliseconds!  what a jerk!"  but I point

> out that is orders of magnitude more sensitivity than your almost exactly 0

> emotiveness.  who is the insensitive one now?

>

> and the anti-war left focuses on the 2 Americans who die in Iraq every day

> (2/155,000=.000013) in an attempt to use their deaths for their own

> political purposes.  instead of honoring these men and women for their

> service to America, the far left desecrates them, their deaths made even

> less than .000013 of the terrible daily total.

>

> 3) "ashamed by your alignment with a party full of culturally conservative

> religious people"

>

> not aligned to the Republican Party in any way:  registered independent.

> I am ashamed of many things, including agreeing to go to the prom with

> Heidi 27 years ago then trying to back out but going anyway, but I am not

> ashamed of whatever it is you are talking about.

> and some of my best friends are culturally conservative religious people.

> I tend to like them as much as or more than culturally liberal irreligious

> people.

> i really do work hard to accept each person on their own terms:  hell, I

> even like you.  not as much as that weird poem you posted a few days ago

> which made me think "what the hell is with Stannard?  It reads like he is

> coming down Brokeback Mountain or something..."  I don't like you that

> way, but I like you.

>

> 4) "you obviously think you're smarter than them."

>

> you are kidding, right?

> i think i am smarter than everyone.

> well...  maybe a couple folks out there are almost as bright as i am...

> maybe... almost...

>

> 5) "control and influence you've never really had in any other part of

> your life."

>

> i am not the one recruiting activists to my ideology:  i am the one

> mocking those trying to organize for radical change because the world is

> so wicked they can't stand it!  and the only frikkin chaos in my life at the

> moment consists of not knowing if the seller will make sufficient

> concessions so we can close the deal on Bakersfield's Most Expensive Condo

> Ever Sold.  decide already, damn you!

>

> 6) "the most circular polemic of Coulter or Hannity."

>

> dude, you are obsessed with Ann Coulter.  NOT HEALTHY.

> both of them impress me as religious fanatics so whenever they talk to

> religious themes, i give them first this finger then this one while snarling

> at their images.  always leaves me wondering how otherwise impressive

> persons can go so wrong.

>

> but Hannity is quite good at the cross-ex and I enjoy watching him take

> apart twerps.  hey, i take entertainment where i can get it.

> Ann Coulter is just great at holding her own in the face of a withering

> attack.  and NOTHING in this world the left hates more than a smart woman of

> the right:  they ALWAYS do EVERYTHING they can to DESTROY them.  even worse

> than how the left treats african-americans of the right.  and you gotta

> respect her game.

>

> 7) "a hurtful tone that is so very different from the gentleness behind

> your eyes."

>

> another Brokeback moment, Matt?  /wink /wink

> but yeah, the new sensitivity patch includes an upgrade to that area

> behind my eyes.  makes it more gentle-looking than before.

>

> yes, i wish the jihad and the insurgency would stop trying to destroy

> their and their neighbors' futures.

>

> 8) "By all means, call us names if it makes you feel better."

>

> such love!  makes me all weepy.  of course you are cutting into my 10

> designated minutes of human sensitivity.

>

> like i started...  how about we all just shut up and debate?

>

> Michael Korcok

>

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