[ale] [Kinda OT] The "TalkMaster", Freedom and Free Software

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 22:18:53 EST 2012


On Jan 30, 2012 7:30 PM, "Michael Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
> Sigh. I wasn't trying to stir up drama this time, I swear...

And yet you brought up an Atlanta-local blowhard?!
Ha!
I watched Boortz 20+ years ago give a doberman as a wedding gift without
consulting the bride and groom in advance!  It was presented at the wedding
reception.
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> On Jan 30, 2012 7:18 PM, "rhia" <rhiannen at atlantacon.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 18:47 -0500, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> > Boortz does not fit in with any of those others. He is a Libertarian.
He's
>> > pro-choice, pro-gay-rights, and anti-drug-control.
>> >
>> > You are ignoring information. There is a word for that.
>>
>> I've listened enough to Boortz before to say, yes, he does fit into the
>> list. Over-paid incendiary blowhards, the lot of them and I value my
>> time and my thought processes more than their partisan agendas.
>>
>> Also, I much prefer to get information from sources, not pre-digested
>> opinion pieces. When working on a Gentoo issue, I don't go to a FB
>> end-user blog, I go to gentoo.org first and then to other reputable
>> linux sites. The same for news. I go to actual articles, from numerous
>> various sources from across the spectrum, not the op-eds, and verify by
>> cross-reading and looking up the sources for the facts or statistics
>> listed.
>> But, thank you for assuming that because I refuse to listen to
>> unreliable and obviously biased sources that I'm ignorant. It helps me
>> in understanding much more about you.
>>
>> (Don't worry, list, I'm through with this conversation.)
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>> rhia
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