She's a purebred champion boxer-lab mutt.

Now doggoneit, JL! There you go messing with Metro! You've just got to stop. Metro is a full-fledged future conservative.

Pssst. Ask me how I know.

OK. I'll tell you. He's intelligent. He laughs at all my jokes. AND, he once gave one of our most annoying posters the most devastatingly awesome cutdown I have seen on this forum in 3+ years.

He's just like a wild animal. You can't get close to him by making big sudden movements.

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. - Theodore Roosevelt

Nobody elected me leader yet.




Credibility comes from being right over and over again, until people know what will happen before it even plays out.


I can't help it if people want to insult me on this thread because of my confident nature. If they choose to do so, they should expect the same treatment in return.

Making statements about myself is not insulting somebody else, is it?

Other than responding to the personal attacks of others, which are TOD violations themselves, according to you, where have I attacked you, or anyone else?

I pointed out, in the nicest way possible, that you had the wrong gun listed on another thread. You called yourself an idiot when I was proven right. I said you were not an idiot, and gave you the benefit of the doubt. Is that playing nice?

When I stopped being attacked on this thread by all of these drive-by ad hominem attackers, I'll stop responding.

If you can show me another thread where I have not played nice, I'd be happy to consider your side of the argument.

Look, I have fast reflexes, and he snuck up behind me. He shouldn't startle me like that before I can read "Moderator" below his name, and pull my punches.

It would be very helpful if you Mods could all wear cowbells for a week or so, just until I get settled down.

I can only speak for myself when I say this, but I am not a drive-byer. In fact, I am more conservative than liberal, so as far as politics, I would welcome you. However, your approach to debate is not quite what we would like to see. You are new here and you talk only from the standpoint of someone who not only knows exactly what is going on, but also makes the rules. You don't. Not here.

It works both ways, by the by. When you stop responding in an arrogant, empty way, we will stop "attacking" you.

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I think America is finally ready for another president with polio.

Well then you need to go over to the election forum and read the 8 or so threads I have participated in over the last 24 hours.

The magic won't be happening here. This is just my hello thread.

Okay. I'll check it out. I'm not promising anything as far as reaction, though.

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I think America is finally ready for another president with polio.

I've already discussed the rules with my new favorite mod, and we have an understanding.

Just because I am new here, don't expect me to act like a newb.

My debating skills are not in doubt. If you want to see them, I suggest you leave this thread and venture out where the actual debating is happening.

Better yet, pick a topic, start a thread, and I'll personally give you a guided tour of my debating style.

You are justifying your breaking the rules and attacking me on this thread because you feel I am "arrogant" (aka: "self aggrandizing"). I didn't come after you, so until you figure me out, how about a truce?

So far as I know, I have not bet any twinkies on any political threads.... yet.

Truce it is.

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I think America is finally ready for another president with polio.

No body has to. We can all lead in our own way. No one has to appoint you a leader, it is something you are supposed to strive to be regardless.

Credibility also comes with respect. You could be right all the time never ever being wrong and could still have little credibility. I look forward to seeing you on the board more.

You are a smart person, but I have yet to see someone insult you before you insulted them our theirs.

Nope, that is cocky. Let your actions speak and not your mouth.



You have not attacked me, but you have attacked others in this thread.

Brother. I could really care less if you knew which weapon that was. And at that point your debating with me over what weapon it was, was like trying to box a blind man. Did you actually read the thread?

Brother, I am not attacking you. Just giving friendly advise.

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Do not take my messages as insults. They are not intended to be. Sometimes we can not see when we are misbehaving. That is why we have others there to let us know. It is called policing our own.

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Jones:- We're going to teach them climbing, abseiling, canoeing, archery, shooting...

Interviewer:- Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible isn't it?

Jones:- I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the range.

Interviewer:- Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?
You're equipping them to become violent killers.

Jones:- Well, you're equipped to be a prostitute but you're not one are you?