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pleco
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 Posted - 09/03/2006 : 22:49:08 [Permalink]
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LOL - your initial post was:
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Godless is a powerful book. Coulter really blasts everything from liberals to Darwin's theory. She calls it unproven "bogus" science and has a lot of information to back it up.
Now, you are admitting (not in so many words, but it is very much implied from your last post) that she lied in the book, and are now trying to shift away from her and bringing in an unrelated topic.
Just be a man (or woman, whichever it is) and admit that this "powerful" book you have so much admiration for is not quite such the literary giant you were trying to make it out to be. |
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Posted - 09/03/2006 : 22:49:55 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by GK Paul
Bill Clinton lied under oath, and told other lies, and most liberals certainly were able to forgive him. Whether or not you forgive should not be dependent on whether or not you agree with a person's opinions.
Okay, so how many conservatives have forgiven Clinton?
No, the real point is that Coulter lies in order to make money and make herself famous. Nothing more. Clinton's lies certainly didn't make him any more famous, nor did they line his pockets (quite probably the opposite). This moderate social liberal and fiscal conservative will tell you that Clinton was a dumb-ass for lying under oath. Coulter's not being a dumb-ass when she lies, since, as you say, her book is "powerful." |
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GK Paul
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Posted - 09/03/2006 : 22:50:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
And you made another edit:quote:
Originally posted by GK Paul
...if you can't give donations to teacher's unions let me know where you got that info.
I already showed you that. If you have any evidence in support of your implied claim that a person can just hand over money to unions without being a member, please post it here.
What was the date and time of post where you showed evidence that you can't make donations to unions |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 09/03/2006 : 23:11:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by GK Paul
What was the date and time of post where you showed evidence that you can't make donations to unions
I didn't present such evidence. In this post, I asked you how I was supposed to be able to give money to the NEA without being an educator (you even quoted it in your subsequent post, without actually addressing that question).
Surely you're not going to hold me to a different standard of evidence than you hold yourself, are you? I couldn't find a "donate" button or anything else similar to it on the NEA's website, just like you couldn't find the word "abortion" on the NARAL's website. Although I'm sure I spent more time trying to find a way to give money to the NEA than you did trying to find "abortion" on the pro-choice site.
Heck, if I Google for "AFL-CIO donate," all I come up with is pages about donating to the AFL-CIO's charity work, like hurricane relief, and not how I can just give any union any spare cash I might have.
No, GK Paul, if you want to show that Coulter is correct that liberals are encouraged to "tithe" to teachers unions - any of them - you're going to have to provide evidence that people who aren't teachers can just give those unions money. Since you're the one defending Coulter's statement, the burden of proof is on you, not me.
And to keep these things on the page...
Things GK Paul has still failed to acknowledge:- Coulter's many documented lies,
- Coulter's current lies,
- Pelosi was talking about worshipping the Christian God, not liberalism,
- "Pro-Choice" activists use the word "abortion" often,
- Dembski was closely involved in Coulter's chapters on evolution,
- nobody can "tithe" to the NEA who isn't an educator, and
- abortion isn't a "sacrament."
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GK Paul
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Posted - 09/03/2006 : 23:39:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
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Originally posted by GK Paul
What was the date and time of post where you showed evidence that you can't make donations to unions
I didn't present such evidence. In this post, I asked you how I was supposed to be able to give money to the NEA without being an educator (you even quoted it in your subsequent post, without actually addressing that question).
Surely you're not going to hold me to a different standard of evidence than you hold yourself, are you? I couldn't find a "donate" button or anything else similar to it on the NEA's website, just like you couldn't find the word "abortion" on the NARAL's website. Although I'm sure I spent more time trying to find a way to give money to the NEA than you did trying to find "abortion" on the pro-choice site.
Heck, if I Google for "AFL-CIO donate," all I come up with is pages about donating to the AFL-CIO's charity work, like hurricane relief, and not how I can just give any union any spare cash I might have.
No, GK Paul, if you want to show that Coulter is correct that liberals are encouraged to "tithe" to teachers unions - any of them - you're going to have to provide evidence that people who aren't teachers can just give those unions money. Since you're the one defending Coulter's statement, the burden of proof is on you, not me.
And to keep these things on the page...
Things GK Paul has still failed to acknowledge:- Coulter's many documented lies,
- Coulter's current lies,
- Pelosi was talking about worshipping the Christian God, not liberalism,
- "Pro-Choice" activists use the word "abortion" often,
- Dembski was closely involved in Coulter's chapters on evolution,
- nobody can "tithe" to the NEA who isn't an educator, and
- abortion isn't a "sacrament."
I'll acknowledge Coulter has lied just like you, me, Clinton and probably everyone else in the forum. If nobody in this forum has lied in the past please come in and I will commend you. If you have lied in the past than you really shouldn't be getting on your high horse and be ranting about lies just because you don't like her opinions.
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Ghost_Skeptic
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Posted - 09/04/2006 : 00:12:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by GK Paul
Please list the mistakes in the works of the scientists Coulter quotes.
If Coulter lied in the past she was wrong, just like you were wrong when you lied in the past. If you have never lied in the past than I commend you.
But the fact that a person has told a deliberate or a unintentional falsehood does not mean that person is incapable of telling truths in the future. Also there is a saying it takes one to know one. If Coulter has various weaknesses maybe she has some special talent to spot certain negative behavior. Usually people with some special unusual talent have a weakness.
Others here who are more versed in how Creationists lie to support their arguments have provided examples and given you links. You were wondering why why she would use bad science and I explained why. The issue is not whether Ann Coulter, myself or Bill Clinton or Paul Martin or Stephen Harper have ever told a lie. The issue is that Ann Coulter's book is full of lies. Her "powerful" arguments are based on evidence that she made up. Apparently this means nothing to you. Apparently it is OK to lie (Ann Coulter), cheat and steal(Ken Lay) if you proclaim Christianity. Being a pathological lier is more than a weakness.
Does being a best seller make a book true - hell no - Kevin Trudeau's unmitigated horse manure is a best seller too. All it proves is that America has the most scientifically ignorant population of any industrialized country. As for America being prosperous because it is so Godly - Beskiptigal has provided a lot of information indicating American aren't so well off. Here and here is some more evidence. American prosperity is built on a house of cards - govenrment debt, corporate debt and private debt.
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GK Paul
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Posted - 09/04/2006 : 00:24:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
LOL - your initial post was:
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Godless is a powerful book. Coulter really blasts everything from liberals to Darwin's theory. She calls it unproven "bogus" science and has a lot of information to back it up.
Now, you are admitting (not in so many words, but it is very much implied from your last post) that she lied in the book, and are now trying to shift away from her and bringing in an unrelated topic.
Just be a man (or woman, whichever it is) and admit that this "powerful" book you have so much admiration for is not quite such the literary giant you were trying to make it out to be.
I didn't imply that Coulter lied in the book in my last post so I believe your last post was a falsehood. |
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Kil
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Posted - 09/04/2006 : 00:53:08 [Permalink]
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GK Paul:
Bill Clinton lied under oath, and told other lies, and most liberals certainly were able to forgive him. Whether or not you forgive should not be dependent on whether or not you agree with a person's opinions.
Okay dokey. I forgive Ann Coulter for being a pathological liar. I will still not buy one of her books because all of the evidence suggests that she will continue to be a pathological liar. And that is saying something because I own a lot of books by people I don't happen to agree with. The difference being, I believe those other writers came by and expressed their opinions honestly.
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Posted - 09/04/2006 : 01:33:11 [Permalink]
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Coulter -- I wonder...
She invested many years in training to be a constitutional lawyer and is even a member of the bar, or was the last time I heard. But instead of continuing to read the law, she writes drivvel. There's more money in drivvel, I suppose.
Re: these scientists of Dembski's; at last report there was some 600 of them on his list, all holding doctorates. Unfortumatly, all but a handful were not in biological fields. They were engineers, theologians, a couple of astronomers, mathmatitions, and so forth. And very few of them were named Steve.....
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 09/04/2006 : 04:58:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by GK Paul
I didn't imply that Coulter lied in the book in my last post so I believe your last post was a falsehood.
You have been provided evidence that she has lied a lot in the book Godless. Why why won't you acknowledge it?
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R.Wreck
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Posted - 09/04/2006 : 05:53:06 [Permalink]
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GK Paul:
For 9 pages now people have shown where Coulter's book is in error. For 9 pages, you have done nothing but the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "I CAN'T HEEEEAAAAARRRRR YOU!!!", and that just doesn't cut it. I was going to cut and paste some examples for you, but screw that. It's time for you to do a little work. Get up off your dead intellectual ass and go back and read the responses. All of them. Don't just "skip around". Pick one you disagree with and provide evidence as to why it is incorrect. Provide references. Anything less than that is just more snivelling on your part.
All that has shown so far is that Coulter's book is powerful in the same way as a truckload of  .
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pleco
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Posted - 09/04/2006 : 06:40:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by GK Paul
I didn't imply that Coulter lied in the book in my last post so I believe your last post was a falsehood.
Of course not:
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I'll acknowledge Coulter has lied just like you, me, Clinton and probably everyone else in the forum.
But here you are just saying she is human and has lied. You still will not acknowledge the specific lies in her "powerful" book.
But why did you try to bring up Clinton? Nevermind, don't answer, it will be a bunch of bullshit anyway.
It really is too bad you can't be honest. You make baby Jesus cry. |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 09/04/2006 : 07:12:06 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by GK Paul
I'll acknowledge Coulter has lied just like you, me, Clinton and probably everyone else in the forum.
But she's not lying like you, me, Clinton or anyone else. She's lying with a specific, long-term agenda in mind, and will continue to do so as long as her lies sell lots of books.quote:
If nobody in this forum has lied in the past please come in and I will commend you. If you have lied in the past than you really shouldn't be getting on your high horse and be ranting about lies just because you don't like her opinions.
Nobody is doing that. We are taking you, GK Paul, to task for considering Coulter's lies to be "powerful" and for defending Coulter's lies in the face of actual evidence. I wouldn't "rant" about Coulter's lies because I know full well it will do no good. But I gave you the benefit of a doubt that you're a rational person who would respond to a logical and supported argument. I guess I gave you too much credit, you being a teenager and all.
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Cuneiformist
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Posted - 09/04/2006 : 07:20:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by GK PaulI'll acknowledge Coulter has lied just like you, me, Clinton and probably everyone else in the forum. If nobody in this forum has lied in the past please come in and I will commend you. If you have lied in the past than you really shouldn't be getting on your high horse and be ranting about lies just because you don't like her opinions.
You are horribly confused. Let's take a step back. Coulter has written a number of books claiming that the conservative position is the correct one, while the liberal position is wrong. That she does so in such a way as to be obnoxious and hate-filled is not relevant, so I won't make that an issue.
Coulter's books are wildly popular, and Coulter is trotted out on radio and TV as a proponent of this argument.
Dupes like you come to this website and claim that Coulter's claims are "powerful".
That's where we stood at the start of this thread. You said that Coulter's book-- and thus the claims therein-- was "powerful." Focus here, because this is the issue: is Coulter's book powerful in its claims?
For 9 pages, now, we have shown time and again that the claims Coulter makes in her book Godless are entirely bogus. We have done so by showing that she makes things up, takes quotes out of context, and so on. In light of this, your argument regarding the "power" of Godless is weakened. Indeed, you have now conceeded that arguments are based on lies, and you must by extention must also be conceeding that her book isn't entirely powerful.
Her arguments are weak regardless of whether or not Clinton lied or we have ever lied. After all, we aren't writing books claiming one thing or another based on lies. But Coulter is doing that, and up until now, you've suggested that her arguments are powerful.
I hope now that you'll see that she is nothing but a charlatan who tells lies and spews vitrol all so that she can become rich.
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Kil
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Posted - 09/04/2006 : 09:54:23 [Permalink]
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Cune:
I hope now that you'll see that she is nothing but a charlatan who tells lies and spews vitrol all so that she can become rich.
From Media Matters.
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Coulter first came to national prominence as a legal correspondent and pundit for MSNBC, which fired her for insulting a Vietnam veteran. The conservative National Review dropped her column after she responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by stating that America should "invade their [terrorists'] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." In an interview with The New York Observer, Coulter stated that "[m]y only regret with [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building." USA Today also removed Coulter as a columnist covering the 2004 Democratic National Convention after she referred to the gathering as the "Spawn of Satan convention."
She couldn't even keep her job working for the National Review. It seems that even they have a passing regard for honesty and integrity. Oh, by the way, when they fired her she called the editorial staff “girly-boys.” Apparently, we can add self-hating female to her list of pathologies…
It occurs to me that Coulter is the equivalent, as mainstream talking heads and writers go, of the tabloid press mentality. She seems to be completely unencumbered by facts. She could easily replace Ed Anger of the Weekly World News if it weren't for the fact that he is a fictional character and a joke, and Coulter is real…
On the other hand, she is probably laughing all the way to the bank. After all, she has her fans as this thread demonstrates...
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