tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post6449442857765381991..comments2024-03-14T02:18:47.610-05:00Comments on TheRightRant: You don't tug on Superman's cape......Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235046826421680852noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-26861065434952032032016-01-28T14:14:24.417-06:002016-01-28T14:14:24.417-06:00Adapted from:
LOGIC 101: THE FALLACY OF GUILT BY A...Adapted from:<br /><b>LOGIC 101: THE FALLACY OF GUILT BY ASSOCIATION</b> (also known as bad company fallacy and company that you keep fallacy)<br /><br />By Alex Knapp<br /><br />The typical structure of an argument that incorporates the guilt-by-association fallacy is something along the lines of:<br />Source X provided information I.<br />Source X is bad (or believes bad things).<br />Therefore, information I is bad.<br /><br />A more real world example of this might be:<br />Social security is a state funded old age pension.<br />Nazis supported state funded old age pensions.<br />Therefore, social security is bad.<br /><br />Obviously, this argument is ridiculous. <br /><br />(“Fallacies are fake or deceptive arguments, arguments that prove nothing.”)Isaac A. Nussbaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16189301743811505796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-86611708542239233242016-01-28T12:03:20.484-06:002016-01-28T12:03:20.484-06:00I have no doubt an agency that can get Polonium 21...I have no doubt an agency that can get Polonium 210 into a guy's tea can provide lots of useful "information."Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-8819355001408300732016-01-28T05:59:53.230-06:002016-01-28T05:59:53.230-06:00Bill, Bill, Bill. You may feel like a fool, but it...Bill, Bill, Bill. You may feel like a fool, but it is not "for responding". It is a side effect of the blue pill. Spit that thing out, man, before it is too late!<br /><br /><b>FREEDOM! 19,900 IRAQI CIVILIANS KILLED IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS</b><br /><br />January 27, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - …that works out to about 28 dead every day.<br /><br />It is also an estimate, given that many areas of the country are not readily accessible, and because the death toll from the siege of Ramadi is not accounted for in the figures. More than 3.2 million Iraqis are internally displaced and/or homeless.<br /><br />Iraq is now an ungoverned, failed state, a killing field on the scale of genocide.<br /><br />At least 18,802 civilians were killed and 36,245 wounded in Iraq over the last 22 months, according to the UN’s Report on the Protection of Civilians in the Armed Conflict in Iraq. Another 3,206,736 Iraqis are internally displaced, including more than one million children. The study emphasizes that these are conservative estimates. The UN also is careful to note that the number of civilians killed by secondary effects of the violence, such as lack of access to food, water or medical care, is unknown. In many areas of Iraq schools are closed and basic infrastructure is not functioning.<br /><br />All that is in addition to the more than one million people already killed during the American occupation period.<br /><br />[…]<br /><br />(source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44048.htm)Isaac A. Nussbaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16189301743811505796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-58709834661073099232016-01-25T19:55:46.319-06:002016-01-25T19:55:46.319-06:00Isaac, in hindsight the wisdom of our Iraqi advent...Isaac, in hindsight the wisdom of our Iraqi adventure is debatable, that I'll admit. But given that nation-building, whether or not you agree with the policy of such, is a positive effort to rid Iraq of a bad dude and introduce democracy, I find it absurd to suggest that it was US policy to do all you say. <br /><br />Balkanization might be the best solution for Iraq, unless you are prepared to watch mass religious-based genocide on the news every night. Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01235046826421680852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-89935456617002283762016-01-25T14:04:38.229-06:002016-01-25T14:04:38.229-06:00Feeling like a fool for responding, but here goes:...Feeling like a fool for responding, but here goes:<br /><br />If we had indeed done any of those things, it would indeed be very bad. Good thing it's all anti-American, anti-Western dezinformatziya.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-72159346372870130812016-01-24T14:02:28.868-06:002016-01-24T14:02:28.868-06:00You are right, Bill. Saddam was a bad guy so it wa...You are right, Bill. Saddam was a bad guy so it was imperative that coalition forces destroy the Iraq economy, Balkanize the country, tear down infrastructure such as roads, running water and sewage treatment facilities, and maim and murder murder multiplied thousands of innocent civilians. And Saddam was ample justification for sending our military men and women home in body bags of fucked up in the head. What was I thinking? Thank you for bringing me up short. I had it coming.Isaac A. Nussbaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16189301743811505796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-12866579945370903022016-01-24T13:54:38.012-06:002016-01-24T13:54:38.012-06:00I forgot about Uday and Kusay (sp?). What ever hap...I forgot about Uday and Kusay (sp?). What ever happened to them? Taking eternal dirt naps I presume?Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01235046826421680852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-74533049026765193232016-01-24T10:12:34.917-06:002016-01-24T10:12:34.917-06:00Maybe the insurgent longed for the utopia of Sadda...Maybe the insurgent longed for the utopia of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. You know, when Michael Moore's kite flyers frolicked?<br /><br />The two sons from hell being groomed as successors may have been his heroes.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-67693532790403228112016-01-24T06:53:30.443-06:002016-01-24T06:53:30.443-06:00No, it sounded like he was just an insurgent. No, it sounded like he was just an insurgent. Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01235046826421680852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-18385931661039372532016-01-23T18:19:55.570-06:002016-01-23T18:19:55.570-06:00This Iraqi...
Was he an insurgent or was he a free...This Iraqi...<br /><b>Was he an insurgent</b> or was he a freedom fighter?<br /><b>Was he an insurgent</b> or was he resisting invaders of his homeland?<br /><b>Was he an insurgent</b> or was he giving the destroyers of his country a taste of their own medicine?<br /><b>Was he an insurgent</b> or was expressing his anger toward foreign nationals who have deprived his fellow countrymen of clean water and sewage facilities? <br /><b>Was he an insurgent</b> or was he paying back a foreign force members of which murdered a friend, family member or loved one?<br /><b>Was he an insurgent</b> or was he forced into being a resistance fighter because foreigners destroyed his country's economy and he no longer has a job?<br /><b>Was he an insurgent</b> or, between him and the sniper, was he the only one with a moral right to be shooting at anybody?<br /><br />Inquiring minds want to know.Isaac A. Nussbaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16189301743811505796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-48974016718696691172016-01-22T16:04:08.894-06:002016-01-22T16:04:08.894-06:00Dystopian, if it features that scene.Dystopian, if it features that scene.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-9491833431393596392016-01-22T15:00:06.462-06:002016-01-22T15:00:06.462-06:00Bill, there is a novel in you itching to get out!Bill, there is a novel in you itching to get out!Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-79372068977380588132016-01-22T13:02:25.693-06:002016-01-22T13:02:25.693-06:00I can imagine a similar inquiry in 1946. "Ah...I can imagine a similar inquiry in 1946. "Ah, Flt. Lt. Pemberton-Smythe, I see the plastic surgeons have repaired your burned face very well. But, old chap, this He-111 you shot down in 1940 presents a problem. The surviving crewman says you never flew alongside so they could read the 'No Trespassing' sign on the side of your Spitfire. Could be a war crime, old chap. What do you have to say?"Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-20741847329920979072016-01-22T11:38:03.878-06:002016-01-22T11:38:03.878-06:00They call it "lawfare." Quislings in ou...They call it "lawfare." Quislings in our midst.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-36431500126628461332016-01-22T11:35:44.284-06:002016-01-22T11:35:44.284-06:00I know Bill, it's like you watch Europe self-i...I know Bill, it's like you watch Europe self-immolate with eyes wide open and wonder, what are they thinking? Is anybody left sane on that continent?<br /><br />What is the mindset that compels a person to side with his own country's enemy? Possibly the same thing that causes Obama to reflexively blame Americans' hysterical Islamophobia for the San Bernardino attacks?<br /><br />I mean I know it's quisling dihimmitude, but I don't get it still. Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01235046826421680852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-37194736451696872392016-01-22T11:15:14.280-06:002016-01-22T11:15:14.280-06:00This story is sickening, Ed. Apparently, the gove...This story is sickening, Ed. Apparently, the government of the U.K. has set up a panel of leftist lawyers to go back years and second guess soldiers in combat. And this is the Conservative Party! If the commie who currently heads the Labor Party ever gets to be PM, look out.Billnoreply@blogger.com