Okay guys, your point is taken. Upset with his confrontation of the hoax poster, Standards, you took something he said, exaggerated it to make a point, then ganged up to go the distance with it. I think it's expended enough pages now.
Come on, Jeffrey, I'm just getting started!! This is the most fun I've had this week!! I just cleared my evening calendar to carry this on for, at least, 50 more pages!!
When the government needs to take an action that will be unpopular or even damaging to its reputation, it will often use a ruse to shield itself from any connection to the act it has in fact perpetrated.
The term used for such a ruse is “Plausible deniability”
I believe we have seen this twice in this thread from my good friend from the left coast.
It's the right coast. I'm presently facing the south.
My dear Sis., clever name-calling happens here on NotofWorks Friends Forum about every 5 posts, in case you haven't noticed.
True. I don't like it, and when I've done it, I've been wrong. To that end, I'm sorry I asked if you were "brain dead."
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No, I owe no apology to "Standards." He's not even real. He's a caricature of an ultra-con and posts under several IDs, including "Proudparent." I've apologized many times on this forum and I have no problem doing so when I'm wrong or have been offensive. That's not the case here.
Fair enough. I wasn't aware that Standards was a spoof i.d.
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If however, I inadvertently offended you here, I apologize. (yep)
Nope, not personally offended, but I appreciate the effort. I just think you should relax and stop feeling like you have to defend against every offensive or potentially offensive statement that's made.
It's been a fun conversation, and it was ALL my bizness.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
So you wasted time reading to the end, and didn't feel personally rewarded?
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road