Daniel Peterson wrote:No "secret informant" was required to find it. Just a weird obsession and a lot of time and effort.
No... That one came via PM. It came on Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:13 pm. Here, take a look for yourself (obviously, I've edited out identifying information):
deleted by harmony: violation of Universal Rule #3. You put this back up again and I'll suspend you for a week, Scratch.
Doctor Scratch wrote:Clearly, the "wrongness" of all of this is what has contributed to you typing out thousands upon thousands of words in response.
Your attempts to defame me are innumerable,
I don't have to "attempt" anything. All I have to do is underscore your own words and behavior, rather like I did with your attack on Kishkumen right here on this thread. The best thing you could have done in that situation is apologize. But you opted to flip out instead. C'est la view.
ETA: I forgot to point out that my "intel" on who apparently put the kibbosh on Schryver's publication... That turned out to be right (as far as I know) as well.
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"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
Thanks for the informative input Analytics. What an even better reason for me not to read this book.
Man, given all the political threads and threads attacking other people Droopy has been starting, I'm surprised he hasn't swooped in to defend this work that is so sacred to paranoid reactionaries everywhere.
He must really know he's in for a butt-kicking if he attempts an argument, lol!
Gadianton wrote:Thanks for the informative input Analytics. What an even better reason for me not to read this book.
Man, given all the political threads and threads attacking other people Droopy has been starting, I'm surprised he hasn't swooped in to defend this work that is so sacred to paranoid reactionaries everywhere.
He must really know he's in for a butt-kicking if he attempts an argument, lol!
Oh you can bet the house he'll be here to defend Sowell. Just give him time.
I dedicated a threadto this nonsense a while back, but droopy was reduced to dismissing every authority I presented as some Liberal hack who probably works for moveon.org, huffingtonpost.com, or one of the many other left-leaning websites he is afraid of. That is all his response amounted to.
It pains me to say this Kevin, but you are right regarding Sowell. The Community Reinvestment Act had absolutely nothing to do with the housing crises--that fact is absolutely indisputable. The assertion that the CRA played a role in the housing crisis is just as indisputably false as the assertion that the facsimiles published in the Book of Abraham are a correct interpretation of Egyptian. When a professional economist (or Egyptologist) has the cajones to tell his readers something that he surely must know is certainly false, it shows how little regard he has for their intelligence.
Yes, and wasn't Sowell the same guy you corrected as to whether government can create wealth? I believe you emailed him and he conceded the point.
The CRA argument is hopelessly untenable, and yet if you pick up one of his books and flip to the index you'll find dozens of pages that talk about it. The CRA is a favorite punching bag by Right Wing know-nothings and the only reason they think the CRA is to blame is because of dishonest hacks like Sowell.
Right. You had an old buddy from Atlanta who now has a right-wing blog, and I got in a debate with him. I cornered him, and he wrote to Sowell for help, and Sowell conceded the point.
Claiming the CRA caused the financial crisis is like saying Procter and Gamble is a devil-worshipping corporation because of their (now-retired) logo. It’s like claiming that cigarettes don’t cause cancer.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
stemelbow wrote:I'm beginning to wonder what Scratch would be if Dr. Peterson just ignored him
I'd love it, stemelbow. I hope that he does this--that he vows to never respond to me, rather like what he does with Kevin Graham.
I don't know. Is there no solution? Scratch, do you recognize you may need some help?
Help in my pursuit of truth and justice? Sure! I'd be glad for some help, stem. You can start by condemning the needlessly vicious and agenda-driven attack on Kishkumen. Thanks in advance for your help!
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
It is perhaps fitting that the Trailerpark has become a forum for the proud and open glorification of ignorance.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Unfortunately, I have read this book. It sucked (for lack of a better word). My advice is that if you are the type of person who burns only two books a year, then burn this book twice.
And even more fitting still, especially given your political philosophy as you've expressed it thus far. You are a sterling and honest representative of your ideology.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Genius. I abhor book burnings, but I am willing to make an exception for this tripe.
And now the glorification of ignorance turns, as it always must, to the glorification of rank anti-intellectualism as a personal virtue.
You have outdone yourself here, Kish.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
What's the point of this post, exactly? I've seen you do this a number of times, Dan: you've apparently been reading Kishkumen's posts, and then you pop in to kick him in the teeth like this. I've lost track of the number of times you've done this to him. So what's the story? What's the origin of your personal vendetta against him? Are you pissed because he was the one who broke the news about Gee's and Roper's shenanigans at the Gold Plates seminar?
The point of the post, Scratch, as you perfectly well know, is that a few nights ago in the chat room, between the homosexual porn photos, pictures of temple garments, and streams of vulgar profanity emanating from most participants there, Gad asked my for ten books I thought every leftist should read, or have read, to round out their education and knowledge of the world and of those things of which they disapprove. Several of Sowell's books were in a multiple list I produced.
Burning all of them could get a bit expensive, I fear.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Kevin Graham wrote:Thomas Sowell is a professional liar who is only interested in serving far Right Wing extremism.
Sorry to be a bit forward and personal here, but you sir, are a witless and preposterous clown. Anyone who was in any sense in doubt regarding what I have been saying about you for years, and which I have been summarily browbeaten for so saying, which is that you are an intellectual hack and transparent intellectual poseur clearly without anything approaching the education and smartness you claim endlessly for yourself, may now regard your own statements here as the final demolition of your own credibility.
Good grief.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.