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Your shifting your original premise, *again* Isaac Send a noteboard - 20/01/2011 08:24:18 PM
That WAS the original claim, you may recall; now we're debating who'd respond, which indicates we agree SOMEONE would. Saying, "local police would respond, not the Secret Service" rather misses my point that a prompt and serious response WOULD be made. I think it's implausible so say the Secret Service would simply notify others of a credible threat against a Congressman then leave it to them, but you seem to be disputing the details of my argument, not its import. Regardless, I didn't miss your statement that local law enforcement rather than the Secret Service would respond, I explicitly acknowledged it in full while disagreeing and you missed the acknowledgement.


YT posted a comment about posting a FB comment "Something should be done about China" and you said that if he replaced that with Congressmen the SS would show up at his door. I said that they never would. This is correct, your stance was not. There is no plausible scenario where the specific qualifier of congressmen would cause the SS to show up over a threat of that variety where that qualifier wouldn't make 'congressmen' irrelevant. It would save us both time if you would just admit you were wrong on this point. You said something that was factually incorrect, I replied with a short explanation "Probably never - the secret service does not guard congressmen" my statement is correct, not technically correct or usually correct, not 'debatable', its a simple fact and you're spinning around trying to change our points or something. Whatever the origin of your frustration, you wandered off on some tangent to make some point maybe, it does not change that your original statement is wrong and I corrected it and the last dozen messages have been me re-stating a fact while you blunder around trying to find some exception or rephrase. This began as nothing different from you saying the equivalent of "Try speeding past a FBI office, see how long before the FBI arrests you" and my replying 'probably never - they'd just call the cops' only even that's a stretch because in this scenario the crime at least actually took place under their nose. Why would the SS even be monitoring facebook for comments like "Something should be done about Rep John Johnson"?

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OK, I'm Officially Sick of the "Blood Libel" BS. - 16/01/2011 12:18:22 PM 1988 Views
Why are they calling it "blood libel"? - 16/01/2011 12:23:47 PM 850 Views
Because if the facts were as they represent them those words would be applicable. - 16/01/2011 12:49:22 PM 1027 Views
It's not entirely clear to me whether you're aware of this or not, but... - 16/01/2011 01:12:22 PM 1072 Views
That's why I said, "popularized". - 16/01/2011 01:46:52 PM 1023 Views
I think Alan Dershowitz dealt with this nonsense already - 16/01/2011 02:34:10 PM 1365 Views
Interesting. I didn't realize it was so wide-spread. - 16/01/2011 03:10:28 PM 924 Views
She wasn't even the first to use the term that week either - 16/01/2011 10:10:35 PM 927 Views
I don't know that "expert" has anything to do with it. - 16/01/2011 10:18:54 PM 955 Views
Re: I don't know that "expert" has anything to do with it. - 16/01/2011 11:30:38 PM 852 Views
Oh please don't you start to - 17/01/2011 02:34:43 PM 807 Views
I for one hadn't noticed it before. - 17/01/2011 10:25:57 PM 978 Views
it was used here and nobody commented - 17/01/2011 10:37:07 PM 867 Views
LOL, I totally forgot that got posted here - 17/01/2011 10:54:26 PM 919 Views
It's funny you should say that... - 18/01/2011 10:32:59 PM 951 Views
Re: It's funny you should say that... - 19/01/2011 03:29:52 PM 936 Views
It was permissible to ignore until it became a rallying cry. - 20/01/2011 04:27:23 PM 960 Views
A rallying cry is hardly illegal - 20/01/2011 05:32:45 PM 1013 Views
I never said it was. - 20/01/2011 06:59:39 PM 1144 Views
Oh, I noticed that one alright. - 18/01/2011 10:25:23 PM 791 Views
compared to the way similar terms are used? - 19/01/2011 06:58:02 PM 936 Views
I meant I hadn't seen it used in different contexts before. - 19/01/2011 07:35:00 PM 917 Views
Indeed, my response to Legolas references Wikipedias quotation of him. - 16/01/2011 10:24:09 PM 1004 Views
Re: Indeed, my response to Legolas references Wikipedias quotation of him. - 16/01/2011 11:09:21 PM 1033 Views
Again, Giffords specifically made the connection between Palins imagery and an attack on her. - 17/01/2011 12:53:08 AM 1171 Views
That means precisely nothing - 17/01/2011 03:59:07 PM 869 Views
It means everything. - 18/01/2011 08:34:55 PM 1138 Views
I'm trying to understand your logic - 19/01/2011 12:50:28 AM 743 Views
There are two points: - 19/01/2011 02:47:48 AM 931 Views
Re: It means everything. - 19/01/2011 05:55:02 PM 770 Views
That's simply illogical. - 20/01/2011 01:08:51 AM 1147 Views
the old step one steal underwear step three profit argument - 19/01/2011 06:01:14 PM 1024 Views
that is some twisted and bizarre logic - 17/01/2011 02:38:41 PM 968 Views
So I am a little confused on something... - 16/01/2011 02:38:59 PM 1025 Views
Palin putting Giffords district in the crosshairs and Giffords implying at the time she feared this - 16/01/2011 11:21:36 PM 1161 Views
If I understand what you are saying correctly... - 17/01/2011 07:07:56 AM 897 Views
I'm sorry you so badly misunderstand. - 17/01/2011 08:33:47 AM 907 Views
Re: I'm sorry you so badly misunderstand. - 17/01/2011 04:24:01 PM 960 Views
The Secret Service does guard Congressmen, just not all of them automatically. - 18/01/2011 09:13:39 PM 795 Views
No, they don't - 18/01/2011 10:19:34 PM 982 Views
Really? Cannoli says differently, and I believe he's right on that one. - 18/01/2011 10:50:51 PM 1063 Views
You seem to be reading what you want to from what I said - 19/01/2011 01:27:32 PM 911 Views
I read what you said & understood it as you restate here, hence I referenced local police (twice) - 20/01/2011 02:15:17 AM 948 Views
The problem here is your ignoring normal policing powers to concoct an absurdity - 20/01/2011 04:20:25 PM 996 Views
More absurd than the notion such incitement warrants no notice? - 20/01/2011 05:42:47 PM 1058 Views
Your shifting your original premise, *again* - 20/01/2011 08:24:18 PM 883 Views
No, you're simply missing the point of it. - 20/01/2011 11:09:57 PM 880 Views
There is no point - 21/01/2011 12:22:30 AM 927 Views
If I had no point I wouldn't bother, but fair enough. - 21/01/2011 01:20:32 AM 1176 Views
Uh...Last I checked conservatives didn't list the Communist Manifesto as a favourite book. - 16/01/2011 03:05:07 PM 1198 Views
You're awesome at missing points, aren't you? - 16/01/2011 07:26:30 PM 941 Views
where is the accountability for those committing slander? - 17/01/2011 02:52:40 PM 851 Views
Libs hate Mein Kampf and We the Living; conservatives hate the Communist Manifesto: He's neither. - 16/01/2011 10:06:02 PM 898 Views
conseartives hate Mein Kampf and liberals stil read the Communist Manifesto - 17/01/2011 02:57:22 PM 876 Views
That first line is says it all. - 18/01/2011 09:34:06 PM 959 Views
Nazis had more in common with communist then capitalist - 19/01/2011 04:10:09 PM 1066 Views
The founder of fascism called it "the merger of corporate and national power". - 20/01/2011 02:51:09 AM 949 Views
and that is supposed to mean something? - 20/01/2011 06:06:18 PM 988 Views
YOU are cherry picking. - 20/01/2011 07:50:21 PM 894 Views
It is to be expected that this site would be libtard central... - 16/01/2011 05:23:53 PM 1153 Views
See my reply to Dragonsoul above. - 16/01/2011 07:30:40 PM 1002 Views
Yeah, your first was better - 16/01/2011 09:48:58 PM 814 Views
Palin didn't really have anything to do with this, but it makes sense she's blamed. - 16/01/2011 10:19:51 PM 877 Views
Pretty much. - 16/01/2011 11:44:35 PM 960 Views
Did they ever catch the person(s) that vandalized Gifford's office? *NM* - 17/01/2011 03:30:36 AM 447 Views
politcal offices are vandalized on a regular basis *NM* - 17/01/2011 02:41:29 PM 407 Views
She only asked if they caught the guy, she didn't accuse anyone, Sarah. - 18/01/2011 11:27:18 PM 845 Views
OK Olberman when did I imply otherwise? *NM* - 19/01/2011 02:48:41 PM 458 Views
"Political offices are vandalized on a regular basis". - 20/01/2011 03:16:39 AM 1038 Views
Took you this long, huh? - 17/01/2011 01:53:31 PM 797 Views
I am sick of the desperate attempts of liberals to find a way to use a tragedy - 17/01/2011 02:31:18 PM 812 Views
I'm just curious. - 17/01/2011 03:23:47 PM 788 Views
Re: I'm just curious. - 17/01/2011 03:28:04 PM 931 Views
I always said I'd do that after Bush was re-elected. - 18/01/2011 11:52:45 PM 811 Views
like I said a matter of faith - 17/01/2011 04:27:51 PM 803 Views
I find it interesting... - 17/01/2011 05:31:54 PM 952 Views
I mention her looks solely because... - 20/01/2011 02:30:42 PM 821 Views
If slander, not mine, Giffords' (at least you don't err like Palin and say, "libel" ). - 18/01/2011 11:14:23 PM 1006 Views
mark you calendar today is the day Joel offically went around the bend into insanity - 19/01/2011 05:28:06 PM 812 Views
A mirror will show me who's to blame? On whom have I put a crosshairs? - 20/01/2011 03:23:43 AM 866 Views
so it is all a matter of faith for you - 20/01/2011 05:48:44 AM 816 Views
No, it's fairly straight forward logic. - 20/01/2011 03:25:56 PM 921 Views
sorry Joel but you haven't - 20/01/2011 03:29:49 PM 725 Views
It's there; in this thread alone people from both sides of the aisle have acknowledged that. - 20/01/2011 05:51:21 PM 819 Views
only in your does the connection exisit - 20/01/2011 06:39:35 PM 852 Views
No. - 20/01/2011 07:35:09 PM 931 Views
dude wake up - 20/01/2011 08:54:33 PM 1073 Views
So in your opinion... - 17/01/2011 05:27:58 PM 802 Views
How 'bout simply color coding them? - 18/01/2011 11:21:03 PM 850 Views
Why not just blame Giffords? - 17/01/2011 06:07:14 PM 1148 Views
Indeed, why not; Sarah Palin does. - 18/01/2011 06:58:01 PM 967 Views
The irony of this thread is not lost on me. - 19/01/2011 04:09:01 PM 990 Views
Exactly. *NM* - 19/01/2011 04:51:40 PM 496 Views
Bizarre thread for that Soapbox - 19/01/2011 05:17:58 PM 738 Views
You missed the point, obviously. - 19/01/2011 06:04:23 PM 847 Views
so you are saying it is the same old RAFO - 19/01/2011 06:47:24 PM 907 Views
The thread has admittedly degenerated - 19/01/2011 07:02:12 PM 764 Views
Check your NB. Noted you a response. *NM* - 19/01/2011 07:04:58 PM 477 Views
That I knew it would go this way is why I avoided looking closely for so long. - 19/01/2011 11:20:44 PM 995 Views
Hey, now. I have to step in. - 20/01/2011 04:44:49 PM 1017 Views
I'm just saying a significant link can be demonstrated. - 20/01/2011 07:07:27 PM 1070 Views
Re: OK, I'm Officially Sick of the "Blood Libel" BS. - 22/01/2011 05:49:44 PM 1003 Views

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