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		By: gringoman		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/06/why-dont-i-write-about-take-your-pick/#comment-11105</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You were undoubtedly right to stay away from The Dubai Deal. What did my &quot;Doing It In Dubai&quot; lead to---aside from (not so) White Slavery, child camel jockeys, Christians whose Bibles can remain un-shredded, the ambition of Sheik Mo, the advantages of Friendly Islamo Fascism, and even why Ethiopian women fetch better prices than their Ugandan counterparts. http://gringoman.typepad.com/usa/2006/03/doing_it_in_dub.html]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You were undoubtedly right to stay away from The Dubai Deal. What did my &#8220;Doing It In Dubai&#8221; lead to&#8212;aside from (not so) White Slavery, child camel jockeys, Christians whose Bibles can remain un-shredded, the ambition of Sheik Mo, the advantages of Friendly Islamo Fascism, and even why Ethiopian women fetch better prices than their Ugandan counterparts. <a href="http://gringoman.typepad.com/usa/2006/03/doing_it_in_dub.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://gringoman.typepad.com/usa/2006/03/doing_it_in_dub.html</a></p>
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		By: Ymarsakar		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/06/why-dont-i-write-about-take-your-pick/#comment-11106</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ymarsakar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You know Aqua, she has a blog of her own. If she doesn&#039;t have time reading other people, then why does she think anyone should read her blog? Catch 22.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Here&#039;s something she wrote about Bookie. Now again, most women I know aren&#039;t that combative, but of course we&#039;ve all seen women fight. They can get just as angry, if not more so, than the men.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;More worm than book, I&#039;m afraid.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Well, at least the neo-conwoman has me blogging again. What can I say? She is quite something. She responds with knee-jerk tirades about Marxist professors who supposedly warped my thinking (Marxist professors?!?), and then censors me from her site. She&#039;s not just a neo-con. She&#039;s a cartoon of a neo-con. My crime? I ask questions which neither she, nor any other member of her special class of cryto-cons can answer, without altogether abandoning even a semblence of reason. (the inital one being: what does 9/11 have to do with the war in Iraq?). OK, so I use sarcasm, and she responds with condescension. I&#039;ll post some of her responses to a private email correspondence at some point soon (I can play infantile too, Bookie). You be the judge. Like I said, obfuscation and misdirection (and of course censorship) are the pillars of right-wing debate.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yer doin&#039; a heckava job, Bookie!&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Aqua takes pride in being able to ask questions, and then saying the answers suck. She can&#039;t do that with me, because my answers are cryptic while most other conservatives are honest and not cryptic.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Obfuscation and misdirection. While I admit to such guilty charges, simply because I practice what I need to know to fight terrorists in the information war, and to understand their tactics and their strengths I must practice the same to the fullest extent possible, I don&#039;t think most conservatives have enough time to lie effectively. Their job isn&#039;t to lie, they aren&#039;t advertisers or lawyers predominantly, they aren&#039;t reporters, journalists, or writers predominantly.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Republicans don&#039;t lie for the great simple fact that a lot of Republicans favor engineering and math, and it is very very hard to lie there. So there isn&#039;t much incentive, really, while in liberal arts colleges you can lie and plagiarize all you want, and you can get successful like Ward Churchill.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sure, it&#039;s unfair. But honesty isn&#039;t a virtue just so your enemies can take advantage of you. Like I said before, virtues are always strengths, and strengths don&#039;t make you vulnerable to people like Aqua.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Aqua, she has a blog of her own. If she doesn&#8217;t have time reading other people, then why does she think anyone should read her blog? Catch 22.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s something she wrote about Bookie. Now again, most women I know aren&#8217;t that combative, but of course we&#8217;ve all seen women fight. They can get just as angry, if not more so, than the men.</p>
<p><i>More worm than book, I&#8217;m afraid.</p>
<p>Well, at least the neo-conwoman has me blogging again. What can I say? She is quite something. She responds with knee-jerk tirades about Marxist professors who supposedly warped my thinking (Marxist professors?!?), and then censors me from her site. She&#8217;s not just a neo-con. She&#8217;s a cartoon of a neo-con. My crime? I ask questions which neither she, nor any other member of her special class of cryto-cons can answer, without altogether abandoning even a semblence of reason. (the inital one being: what does 9/11 have to do with the war in Iraq?). OK, so I use sarcasm, and she responds with condescension. I&#8217;ll post some of her responses to a private email correspondence at some point soon (I can play infantile too, Bookie). You be the judge. Like I said, obfuscation and misdirection (and of course censorship) are the pillars of right-wing debate.</p>
<p>Yer doin&#8217; a heckava job, Bookie!</i></p>
<p>Aqua takes pride in being able to ask questions, and then saying the answers suck. She can&#8217;t do that with me, because my answers are cryptic while most other conservatives are honest and not cryptic.</p>
<p>Obfuscation and misdirection. While I admit to such guilty charges, simply because I practice what I need to know to fight terrorists in the information war, and to understand their tactics and their strengths I must practice the same to the fullest extent possible, I don&#8217;t think most conservatives have enough time to lie effectively. Their job isn&#8217;t to lie, they aren&#8217;t advertisers or lawyers predominantly, they aren&#8217;t reporters, journalists, or writers predominantly.</p>
<p>Republicans don&#8217;t lie for the great simple fact that a lot of Republicans favor engineering and math, and it is very very hard to lie there. So there isn&#8217;t much incentive, really, while in liberal arts colleges you can lie and plagiarize all you want, and you can get successful like Ward Churchill.</p>
<p>Sure, it&#8217;s unfair. But honesty isn&#8217;t a virtue just so your enemies can take advantage of you. Like I said before, virtues are always strengths, and strengths don&#8217;t make you vulnerable to people like Aqua.</p>
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		By: Ymarsakar		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/06/why-dont-i-write-about-take-your-pick/#comment-11107</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Could be both, Justin. Either way, probes will find out in the end.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If she thinks I&#039;m wrong, she&#039;ll tell me. If he gets angry, he&#039;ll tell me anyway. Either win, I get the info, and info is the key to any fight.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Most women I know aren&#039;t as combative as Aqua, but there are always exceptions.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Either way, it tells a story. Man picking on a woman exclusively, or a woman picking on another woman exclusively...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A lot of work is done in reading your opponent, much of that work is speculative in nature. I think the CIA needs to rely less on speculation and more on hard data.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I mean, if the CIA was more concerned with the facts and real intel, instead of being &quot;right all the time&quot; and saving their job security, they could get a lot more information.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I put out a few things things that are wrong, intentionally or not, just to see what reactions people come up with.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I like catch 22s, they are very lethal. Bush and the US is caught in one now, so I always thought if we could turn the tables on the other people, it might solve some things.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;B&gt;You are simply jealous, aqualung. The site meter for this blog reads 384K, and there have been hundreds upon hundreds of comments. If I were a woman, I would recommend a brand of makeup to best cover the green hues so obvious on your face. LOL!&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Catch 22. Remember, I did tell someone here that conscientious propagandists always try to get a catch 22.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Personality wise, I&#039;ve always tried to be honest, which is why I tend to tell people exactly what I&#039;m doing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I gave up any emotional attachements to being right a few years ago, which is a long time to me.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Could be both, Justin. Either way, probes will find out in the end.</p>
<p>If she thinks I&#8217;m wrong, she&#8217;ll tell me. If he gets angry, he&#8217;ll tell me anyway. Either win, I get the info, and info is the key to any fight.</p>
<p>Most women I know aren&#8217;t as combative as Aqua, but there are always exceptions.</p>
<p>Either way, it tells a story. Man picking on a woman exclusively, or a woman picking on another woman exclusively&#8230;</p>
<p>A lot of work is done in reading your opponent, much of that work is speculative in nature. I think the CIA needs to rely less on speculation and more on hard data.</p>
<p>I mean, if the CIA was more concerned with the facts and real intel, instead of being &#8220;right all the time&#8221; and saving their job security, they could get a lot more information.</p>
<p>I put out a few things things that are wrong, intentionally or not, just to see what reactions people come up with.</p>
<p>I like catch 22s, they are very lethal. Bush and the US is caught in one now, so I always thought if we could turn the tables on the other people, it might solve some things.</p>
<p><b>You are simply jealous, aqualung. The site meter for this blog reads 384K, and there have been hundreds upon hundreds of comments. If I were a woman, I would recommend a brand of makeup to best cover the green hues so obvious on your face. LOL!</b></p>
<p>Catch 22. Remember, I did tell someone here that conscientious propagandists always try to get a catch 22.</p>
<p>Personality wise, I&#8217;ve always tried to be honest, which is why I tend to tell people exactly what I&#8217;m doing.</p>
<p>I gave up any emotional attachements to being right a few years ago, which is a long time to me.</p>
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		By: Alex		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/06/why-dont-i-write-about-take-your-pick/#comment-11108</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[And I&#039;m studying econometrics as we speak (surrounded by books and papers).  Being busy doesn&#039;t give one the licence to be incoherent.  If someone is too busy to read &lt;I&gt;anything&lt;/I&gt; (which doesn&#039;t seem to be the case with you, me, or aqualung) then one should probably refrain altogether from inflicting one&#039;s political opinions on others.  If one has time to read a bit, as apparently aqualung does, then I don&#039;t think it&#039;s too much to ask that he read well and offer cogent responses, rather than the blanket condemnations we&#039;ve grown to love so much.  &lt;I&gt;Especially&lt;/I&gt; when he demands so much from others.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And I&#8217;m studying econometrics as we speak (surrounded by books and papers).  Being busy doesn&#8217;t give one the licence to be incoherent.  If someone is too busy to read <i>anything</i> (which doesn&#8217;t seem to be the case with you, me, or aqualung) then one should probably refrain altogether from inflicting one&#8217;s political opinions on others.  If one has time to read a bit, as apparently aqualung does, then I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s too much to ask that he read well and offer cogent responses, rather than the blanket condemnations we&#8217;ve grown to love so much.  <i>Especially</i> when he demands so much from others.</p>
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		By: Justin Olbrantz (Quantam)		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/06/why-dont-i-write-about-take-your-pick/#comment-11109</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Olbrantz (Quantam)]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;I&gt;Somehow I suspect aqualung does a lot of skimming.  I don&#039;t think close reading is his forte.  Is it too much to ask that aqualung summarize the main arguments of the torture piece and tell us why he believes they are wrong? Oh I forgot, aqualung doesn&#039;t have to defend his opinions--only the people he argues with do.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#039;d hypothesize that Aqualung doesn&#039;t have the time to spare, being a critical care physician and professor of medicine (from his - her? - blog). I mean shoot, I&#039;m only posting right now because I&#039;m not studying for my biochemistry and immunology tests tomorrow (like I should be doing).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Somehow I suspect aqualung does a lot of skimming.  I don&#8217;t think close reading is his forte.  Is it too much to ask that aqualung summarize the main arguments of the torture piece and tell us why he believes they are wrong? Oh I forgot, aqualung doesn&#8217;t have to defend his opinions&#8211;only the people he argues with do.</i></p>
<p>I&#8217;d hypothesize that Aqualung doesn&#8217;t have the time to spare, being a critical care physician and professor of medicine (from his &#8211; her? &#8211; blog). I mean shoot, I&#8217;m only posting right now because I&#8217;m not studying for my biochemistry and immunology tests tomorrow (like I should be doing).</p>
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		By: Justin Olbrantz (Quantam)		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/06/why-dont-i-write-about-take-your-pick/#comment-11110</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Olbrantz (Quantam)]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;I&gt;Hey Aqua, is talking back to women the only thing you can do?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You and the Islamic Fundamentalists, the American Bashers, and the destroyers of the American Constitution deserve each other.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Carina (the name of Aqualung&#039;s blog) is a female name, isn&#039;t it, or are there some cultures where it&#039;s a male name?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Hey Aqua, is talking back to women the only thing you can do?</p>
<p>You and the Islamic Fundamentalists, the American Bashers, and the destroyers of the American Constitution deserve each other.</i></p>
<p>Carina (the name of Aqualung&#8217;s blog) is a female name, isn&#8217;t it, or are there some cultures where it&#8217;s a male name?</p>
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		By: rickl		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/06/why-dont-i-write-about-take-your-pick/#comment-11111</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rickl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Neo,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;By the way, long posts don&#039;t bother me a bit.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#039;s your blog, so you can write anything you like.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As far as length goes, you&#039;re nowhere near Steven den Beste or Bill Whittle territory.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But if you ever want to compete head-to-head with them, then I say go for it!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Neo,</p>
<p>By the way, long posts don&#8217;t bother me a bit.  </p>
<p>It&#8217;s your blog, so you can write anything you like.</p>
<p>As far as length goes, you&#8217;re nowhere near Steven den Beste or Bill Whittle territory.</p>
<p>But if you ever want to compete head-to-head with them, then I say go for it!</p>
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		By: Ymarsakar		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/06/why-dont-i-write-about-take-your-pick/#comment-11112</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ymarsakar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s a tip.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt; a href=&quot;&quot; &gt; &lt; /a &gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;is the html format, without the spaces.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It makes it a lot easier for people to click on the link you send to them.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hey Aqua, is talking back to women the only thing you can do?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You and the Islamic Fundamentalists, the American Bashers, and the destroyers of the American Constitution deserve each other.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a tip.</p>
<p>< a href="" > < /a ></p>
<p>is the html format, without the spaces.</p>
<p>It makes it a lot easier for people to click on the link you send to them.</p>
<p>Hey Aqua, is talking back to women the only thing you can do?</p>
<p>You and the Islamic Fundamentalists, the American Bashers, and the destroyers of the American Constitution deserve each other.</p>
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		By: Brad		</title>
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		By: Brad		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/06/why-dont-i-write-about-take-your-pick/#comment-11114</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some food for thought for Aqua,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Some Gitmo Prisoners Don&#039;t Want to Go Home&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/06/D8G6CJV03.html]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some food for thought for Aqua,</p>
<p>Some Gitmo Prisoners Don&#8217;t Want to Go Home<br /><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/06/D8G6CJV03.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/06/D8G6CJV03.html</a></p>
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