Recent content by darkdog

No, Italian. For some reason, Italian food makes me crave milk. But I agree, cookies and milk are awesome.

Tough to beat that. I once drank half a gallon of milk in one sitting. That's all I got.

Yes, please do take care of it. I hear it's important. So if we run into each other in real life, we'll have a root beer/hot chocolate summit. I can't find an emoticon for that, so how about... :dj:

:cheers: Although I don't drink, so that's a beer in your hand and a hot chocolate in mine. :)

I was referring to this:

Then I sincerely apologize. I took it as sarcastic. Thanks for the compliment.

Is this really necessary? I'm here to have a discussion. If you want to be blunt in a constructive way, have at it, but what's the point of saying things like this?

What wounds? I asked a question and she answered it. That's how these things work.

Thank you. Thank you for engaging with me in an intellectual shooting match and firing at me with your bullets of information. It really didn't hurt.

I can take it. I'm more interested in getting to the truth of the matter of whether the Patriot Act has been used as Jiro advocates. I'm assuming it hasn't, but I could be wrong. If you know of any incidents, please let me know.

Blatant strawman. I'm not talking about habeas corpus and I never asked if taking it away is a problem. I asked if the Patriot Act had been used against anyone merely for making political statements against the president. You still haven't answered that question. I meant persecute. Putting...

Has it ever been used to persecute critics of the President?

The Patriot Act does not authorize what Jiro advocates and to my knowledge has never been used for that. If you have any examples, please let me know.

No merit to the idea that ignoring due process now could have bad repercussions later? You're just going to wave that away with nothing more than your bald assertion? When did I ever say you can't express your opinion? You can express it all day and I can tell you it stinks. Let me put it...

This is nothing more than appeal to authority. Anyone commenting on economics or social matters is going to have disagreement from prominent thinkers on the other side. The existence of critics does not discredit anyone. I'm much more interested in the merits of an argument than the prizes...