And posted a letter to the editor of the Manitowoc Herald Times decrying hypocritical "liberal logic." The author sounds like a third grader, so we have to assume Dr. Lasee chose to post his words verbatim instead of spinning the issue himself because of the advanced nature of the rhetoric.
Apparently Mr. Brilliant's goal was to set ideas next to each other that, like the very premise of 'liberal logic' itself, are in direct contradiction one to another. For example, the first one is: "That the innocent unborn don't have a right to life but a guilty condemned person does." In the context of the letter, this one actually comes off quite sharply.
The next is "That gun-free zones would work if bad guys would read the sign." Of course, in dude's intro he states that "I suppose it's irresponsible for teachers (or commercial airline pilots) to have access to firearms. Liberal logic escapes me, although that in itself is an oxymoron." So he wants teachers (and potentially pilots) to have guns, but he thinks it's idiotic for liberals to believe that gun-free zones will actually stop people from packing heat? Say we give a teacher a gun for school, though, and then he/she takes it to a rock concert with a gun-free zone sign. Liberals are now both being ridiculed for trying to keep the gun from being there with the sign, and for trying to keep the gun out of the teacher's hand in the first place. But we don't want guns there.
Maybe Lasee's new tactic is to create these unpossible little puzzles that don't make any sense in order to confuse Dr. Nugz and I who are making a good-faith effort to figure out what the hell he's talking about. Let's check out the IM:
JP: trying to deal with lasee's post from yesterday
JP: it has me in mental knots
Dr. Nugz: Ahh, gotcha. He'll do that.
It's kind of effective: I feel like this post is running too long already from trying to reconcile the intro with point two, and there are like twelve points. Let me finish briefly:
"That terrorists don't exist but global warming is caused by human activity." Keeping in mind that dude is still trying to expose contradictions, we have to assume that there's some relationship (mutual exclusivity, theoretically) between belief in the existence of terrorists and global warming being caused by humans. Please, if you can figure out what in God's name that would mean, let us know.
"That Bill Clinton's personal life was none of our business, but a conservative Republican's life is subject to inspection." No, Larry Craig's wide stance is funny, while getting BJs as President is pedestrian.
"That you can negotiate peace with someone who wants to kill you." See, e.g., cease fire between X and Y.
"That a giant government help program like FEMA failed miserably but a giant government health care program will work." I think he's on to something here: FEMA didn't save New Orleans because the people there were black and there was a conservative government. There's still a conservative government, and the people who want the care are largely minorities. If the government didn't give a shit about Katrina, why would you think they'd give a shit about your health, when they're demographically-similar groups? Here, our Author really plays up the effect of conservative racism on public regulation.
Whew. In case anyone doesn't think this is hard work, this is hard work. Dr. Nugz and I were lamenting this post yesterday: Since our mission is to show why Frank is a duclod, we felt like this post really tested the limits of our ability to frame things in a light that made him look as stupid as possible. I couldn't even go through all the dumb things in there because it'd take forever and class is about over. This guy is good.
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I am amazed that, in spite of it all, you keep trying to craft coherent and rational responses to anything Lassie says. I don't think I'd have the strength.
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