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_Droopy
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Gadianton wrote:Forgive me if I'll put more credibility in the CIA's assessment than in "Kim's" blog.



Try reading the original study written by the original authors Mr. Wizard, then post again after you've detoxed.
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Droopy wrote:

You lefties are just going to have to stop holding your breath until you turn blue and start doing your own homework.


I'm not a "lefty." I'm interested in your false claim. I've already done my homework on it. It took a matter of minutes to dismantle it. For what it is worth, both Gad an I are your run-of-the-mill top-hat wearing free market loving folk. I have a monocle. That's just neither here nor there.
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I'm not a "lefty."


You are, based upon some years of debating you and observing your views on pretty much everything (oh, and by the way, I'm well aware that a number of views at the more extreme ends of the libertarian spectrum mirror aspects of the Left).


'm interested in your false claim.


Keep up the pose E...

I've already done my homework on it. It took a matter of minutes to dismantle it. For what it is worth, both Gad an I are your run-of-the-mill top-hat wearing free market loving folk. I have a monocle. That's just neither here nor there.


Naw. If you believe in environmentalism, don't try to con me into believing that you believe in...freedom. Even you wouldn't insult my intelligence to that degree.
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Coggins,

I doubt you've read any "original studies". You've read the blogs. Had you read the original study yourself, you'd just cite it. Instead, you cite "Kim" who can barely write a complete sentence, who cites the study.
From reading two or three of your links, and what you've written, there are no doubt liberties being taken in the rewrites and neither you nor the blogs you cite grasp economics which I'll admit I feel like I barely grasp, but I grasp enough to know when others really, really don't grasp it.

As long as the CIA statistics are accurate, what you've argued is false. You keep changing that argument though, in hopes that you might hit on something that makes Sweden look worse than Mississippi.

And detox? heh.

I would recommend you take up alcoholism again.
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Gadianton wrote:Forgive me if I'll put more credibility in the CIA's assessment than in "Kim's" blog.

LOL
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