From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: Anti-choice vs. Pro-abortion
Date: 5 Sep 92 03:46:50 GMT
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Distribution: tx
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas

In article <1992Sep4.181353.8255@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>No, John, once again YOU are caught lying.  You'll note that what you
>claimed I said was NOT what was said.  I also note you didn't bother
>to include context.

Oh boy, I misquoted him.

Yeh, but I got the spirit of your quote CORRECT.  And you complain
about context, OK.  I'll give you some CONTEXT.

->In article <1992Aug26.162649.4866@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Squirming Fred) writes:
->>In article <21416@rpp386.lonestar.org> jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
->>>It says the same thing that
->>>your "I heard it on the radio/TV/grapevine."
->>Then you are a dishonest man (and a lousy grammarian -- that's not
->>even a sentence).

Happy now?  It still shows that you picked a grammar flame.  Strike two.

>>I'll give you a clue - I keep a LOT of old netnews.
>
>Why am I NOT surprised?  Geez, I wish *I* didn't have a life so I
>could spend my time keeping old netnews.

Uh, it doesn't take any of my time.  I've been administer a netnews site
for about 4 or 5 years now.  It takes no time because it is almost
completely automated.  For example, this is how I keep a copy of every
article I write:

% grep SAVE_LOCAL /usr/lib/news/sys
SAVE_LOCAL:all:L0:cat >> /usr/lib/news/local.art

Don't take me a bit of time.  Now, if you'd like, I'll start saving every
article YOU write the same way.  I've got plenty of CPU cycles to burn.
I think the total daily CPU usage on this machine runs about 30 minutes
per day.  I'm sure I could burn an hour or two collecting your articles.

>Yes, and like the remainder of your 'scorecard', it turns out that you
>simply lie to the scorekeeper.  If you weren't such a dishonest
>bastard, you'd stop trying to pick anecdotal data points and then
>claiming that they are representative.  If you weren't such a disonest
>bastard, you'd stop lying about and distorting what other people say.
>If you weren't such a dishonest bastard, perhaps you'd have a life and
>wouldn't be spending all your time selectively editing old netnews.

Lie to the scorekeeper?

Did you, or did you not, claim that there were few businesses in the
part of LA that suffered from the riots?  Was it not later pointed out
to you that many thousands of businesses were destroyed?  Was it not
later pointed out that many thousands of businesses in that same area
weren't destroyed?

Anecdotes?  Please, you've still not provided references for your
assertion during the "School Voucher" debate that businesses in poor
districts charge more and provide lower quality.  Your claim that the
cost of doing business in poor districts is higher has been disproved
several times.  Hell, I may take an unscientific poll of 4 stores and
come up with numbers that disprove your claims, but all you ever do is
say "I saw it on TV.  I heard it on the radio.  You have to believe
me.  I would never lie."
-- 
John F. Haugh II                   | "The US Government has the Midas Muffler
Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151            |  touch: everything they touch turns to
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