From: garrett@Ingres.COM (QUOTE OF THE YEAR)
Subject: Re: Harel posts a particularly clumsy lie.  (Was Re: "STRONG FAMILY VALUES" (III) (1))
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Date: 26 Aug 92 00:44:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.225925.3555@oracle.us.oracle.com>, mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes...
>In article <1992Aug20.221819.27302@pony.Ingres.COM> garrett@Ingres.COM (QUOTE OF THE YEAR) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug20.155755.10597@oracle.us.oracle.com>, mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes...
> 
>>>>We're Number One in percentage of population without health insurance.
> 
>>>>             ============================================
>>>>                 Percentage of population covered by
>>>>                  public health insurance, 1990(25)
>>>>             ============================================
> 
>>>I wonder how many of the people who read this article noticed the
>>>little word "public" in the caption here?  So hey, Harel, what's the
>>>point of the table?  Who cares where we rank in percentage of the
>>>population with PUBLIC health insurance?  
> 
>>>So hey, were you trying to mislead or did you just screw up?
> 
>>If you read the WHOLE article you would notice that this was a 
>>comparison of DEVELOPED countries.
> 
>GARRET!!! THE ISSUE IS PUBLIC INSURANCE VS. ANY INSURANCE, NOT
>DEVELOPED VS. UNDEVELOPED.
> 
I'm sorry I thought you remembered what you originally posted. You were
flaming the statistics because you didn't believe that a third world
country would have more people insured than America. I tried to explain
to you that third world countries were'nt included. Now that I've explained
the fact that you completely leaped over in your haste to flame me, is 
there anything else that I can explain to you?

>>>>                    COUNTRY      PERCENT  
> 
>>>>                    Australia      100    
>>>>                    Canada         100    
>>>....
>>>>                    United States   21  
> 
>>>>Sources: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris),
>>>>Health Data file, 1991: U.S.: National Center for Heath Statistics, Advance
>>>>Data, No. 201, June 18, 1991.
> 
>>>>"The main reason we're Number One in percentage of population without
>>>>health insurance...
> 
>>>Note that Harel posts no evidence for this.  He just lets us mislead
>>>ourselves by providing an irrelevant table.
> 
>>He posted the source! And the whole article. What do you want a term paper?
>>BTW, where are your sources?
> 
>My sources?  I don't need no steenking sources - I haven't made any
>claims that need sources to back them up... except for Harel's own
>post, of course, which clearly demonstrates his duplicity.
> 
Of course. I forgot you just wanted to flame someone. BTW, have you 
ever heard of alt.flame? That's were you should be posting.

>>>I'm not sure whether I should believe that you are stupid enough to
>>>post a lie this stupid or that you are stupid enough to actually
>>>believe this.
> 
>>Great comeback! Can't wait until you get down to some SERIOUS name
>>calling.
> 
>Well, which one do you think it is?  After all, the lie is rather
>dumb, don't you think?
> 
That depends. Who was was twisting the facts.

-Garrett
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