~> ~>  DD> The greedy bastards sure need something besides the 
~> ~>  DD> hand-wringing bankrupt shit they have been doing.
 EC>  
~> ~>  EH> Right, that's all they've been doing is hand-wringing. 
 EC>  
~> ~> Learn to parse a message instead of cherry-picking for your 
~> ~> personal buzz words, would you. I made no claims that 
~> ~> "that's all they've been doing is hand-wringing".
 EC>  
~>  EC> Actually that is what you said.
 EC>  
~> that is NOT what Dave said... his exact words are (still) quoted above...

 EC> That IS what he said, and his words ARE accurately quoted above, so

i do not see "that's all they've been doing" in dave's quoted
words... someone interpreted what is plainly written english and highly
altered the meaning... that someone wasn't dave...

 EC> your two comments really make no sense.  He could have corrected
 EC> himself and moved on, but he just couldn't stop himself from
 EC> diverting a political thread into a semantics thread by tossing in

ummm... dave's not the one who pulled a word or two out of his statement
and twisted it of context...

 EC> a hollow set of attacks.  And now you are volunteering as his
 EC> enabler.

sorry... i've done my time with uncle sam... i know better than to
volunteer for anything... dave is a big boy... he can handle himself rather
well... i simply pointed out the (apparently not so) obvious fact that he
didn't write what ed (and now you) are trying to say he wrote...

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