And you do? Once again you open your mouth without providing a link to a credible source..

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There are only three women in this world that mean anything to me and they are Karen, Krystal, Amanda..

Links? We don't need no stinking links.

Oh wait.......... I forgot...........WE the conservative Americans need links to prove our points. Liberal Canandians don't. my bad

I forgot about the double standard

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Where was the outcry from all these GOOD Muslims on September 12, 2001?

Gosh, does everything one knows- even things ya learned from high school and college textbooks- have to be provided with a "link"?

Is everything that is "linked" necessarily a creditable source? Is only a web page deemed favorable to our own individual points of view to be ordained as "creditable"?

Is one allowed to possess knowledge that we know to be purely factual which can be gleaned only from the printed page?

Are we becoming a nation of functional illiterates incapable of no thought/learning process greater than regurgitating other peoples' opinions which we've found a link to?
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"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes it's laws" Mayer Amschel Rothschild

This is THE BEST post you've ever made...LOL.

Now since I've complimented you, would you care to discuss "educated"...or knowledgable or the difference between "Truth and rumor",fact/opinion. I agree 100% with the "link" mindset, but there are practiced double standards and to "call" someone on it is expected, if not anticipated and applauded. Personally, I don't require, therefore don't feel pressured to provide...and have so stated to be chastised by a "practitioner of double standard" who wouldn't know truth if it slapped them...but, oh well. Proof is in the puddin'...cliche's are started for a reason...

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No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775

Easy answer: If I tell you something, it is the truth; if you hear something on the CB or in some bar, it is a rumor. (LOL) Seriously though, because I happen to be a nerdy bookworm type, I know facts. Since a good many of us (apparent from many of the posts right here on this forum) can barely read or write on an eighth grade level I would surmise that a good many folks are incapable of separating fact from opinion.

I'm sure you will agree that education, per se, cannot turn a non thinker into a thinker, and conversely, an intelligent person doesn't require a big falutin' degree to be a considered thinker.
I.E. A dumbassisadumbassisadumbass, and no amount of education is ever gonna change that simple fact.
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"Load the wagon boys, the mule's blind" Smokey Yunick

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes it's laws" Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Had a man tell me one time..."it's not the education that counts, but what you do with it"...having worked around and spent a considerable amount of time with a lot of "smart" people, as well as a lot of "educated" people I can discern the difference...education is not necessarily "book learning"...smart is not necessarily educated.

They can and do at times compliment one another. But "that" is becoming EXTREMELY rare.

Don't consider myself "nerdy" (though my kids might disagree at times), but I am "blessed" with a fair amount of "common sense" and skills of observation which affords me the opportunity to "common knowledge"...all of which are applicable to the environment we've been forced into by "the dumbing down" of the populace through MISREpresentation, REdefinition(s) outright lies, the blatant DISregard for "why we are" by "alleged knowledgable and professed educated" in their open denial of "Truth", which is NOT "opinion/rumor" nor perspective as those "thought processes" change. "Truth" is constant.

Hence "my" disdain for "the education SYSTEM", which is nothing more than a "rumor mill" disguised as a "center for learning" except in the rare case of a genetically blessed Individual who can and does recognize the obvious.

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No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775

I like opinions. I think everyone should have one and they should express it. I also don't expect a link with an opinion. However, I do have a problem when someone makes up #### then calls it FACT. I want proof. I also expect there to be no double standard. If your lil friend wants to demand links from everyone else then he needs to provide them himself.

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I don't have a problem with links...or not. I can discern "Truth" or look it up. In most cases "common sense" is the only requirement to debunk fallacy. Links are sometimes UNdeniable "fact"...sometimes they provide only ANOTHER opinion but are "published"...BD...that's what I'm referring to..."published opinion" is no more credible than "posted" opinion, IMNSHO ...

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No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775

And you're assuming that because he was Catholic he was a christian. Being a christian isn't a denomination, you know. The fact that your quote says he was agnostic spoke volumes to me. Some people who have attended church their whole lives don't have a clue what being a christian is. Yet by the same token you can never see the inside of a church and still be an effective christian. This is one of those great misconceptions people have about christianity. It's not a denomination (religion).

Correction: No, he wasn't raised "christian", he was raised Catholic. Big difference. I have had many robust debates with Catholics and they are like any religion with doctrines, they are flawed due to human error and many times miss the mark.

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