[Vision2020] Face It Dale, And Apologize, If You Have The Spine, That Is!

Donovan Arnold donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Fri May 27 07:54:40 PDT 2005


Carl,

You wrote: "Hell, I have that many messages on my
answering machine"

That is what happens when you have a 1-900 number. 
 



--- Carl Westberg <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dale notes that he's had 6,000,000,0000,000,0047
> hits (or something like 
> that) on his blog.  Hell, I have that many messages
> on my answering machine 
> when I get home after work.                         
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> Carl Westberg Jr.
> 
> >From: tbertruss at aol.com
> >To: dmcourtn at moscow.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
> >Subject: [Vision2020] Face It Dale, And Apologize,
> If You Have The 
> >Spine,That Is!
> >Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:53:42 -0400
> >
> >Dale et. al.
> >
> >So labeling someone you have never met as
> "paranoid" in bold type on your 
> >web site as a response to a Vision2020 post where
> the individual you 
> >labeled as "paranoid" merely posted the contents of
> an article with no 
> >comment whatsoever is a response from you focusing
> on the "facts" of the 
> >issues discussed in the article?
> >
> >I have debated with you before on V2020 and found
> that you have a very 
> >convenient style of debate.  If someone makes a
> point that is difficult for 
> >you refute, you just ignore it.
> >
> >Like you have ignored my comments recently on V2020
> about your blog 
> >statement regarding my "paranoia."  Maybe you
> responded on your web site, 
> >but I don't waste my time monitoring your site.  I
> want an apology from you 
> >on V2020 so all my fellow "Intoleristas" on the
> list can read it.
> >
> >Your statement regarding my "paranoia" added
> nothing whatsoever to a 
> >rational fact based discussion of the issues in the
> article I posted to 
> >V2020 that prompted you to post that statement on
> your web site.
> >
> >I know you know what "argument ad hominem" is!
> >
> >Face it, Dale, and apologize on V2020, that is if
> you have the spine for 
> >it!  You decided to insult me personally on your
> web site utilizing a lame 
> >psychological slam implying any concerns I may have
> over the reliability or 
> >potential for tampering of computerized voting
> systems is just "paranoia."
> >
> >I don't care how many hits your web site gets. 
> Since when is popularity a 
> >sine qua non for truth or ethics?
> >
> >Ted Moffett
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Dale Courtney <dmcourtn at moscow.com>
> >To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> >Sent: Thu, 26 May 2005 18:06:23 -0700
> >Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Still Creeped Out
> >
> >
> >Dear Rose,
> >
> >There were many reasons for my leaving Vision2020
> and quoting posters off 
> >of Vision2020 vice debating on Vision2020. First, I
> found this list totally 
> >a waste of time. Latah County is a solidly Red
> county.  Vision2020 posts 
> >are nearly across-the-board from
> Intolerant-Leftists. And non-thinking 
> >leftists at that. You can make a factual point and
> you are vilified as a 
> >person as opposed to dealing with the facts.
> >
> >Example: MSD has the 2nd highest per-pupil spending
> in the State of Idaho; 
> >it has the highest admin costs of any district in
> Idaho; and its actual 
> >student spending is in the bottom forth of the
> State.
> >
> >Response: Dale lies.
> >
> >No one outside of our small company here actually
> reads Vision2020 
> >postings.  So, I've gone elsewhere
> (www.right-mind.us, 
> >www.MoscowEducation.org, etc). The hit-count on
> Right-Mind is 604,333 since 
> >October 2004 .
> >
> >Google up Vision2020 in Moscow and find how many
> hits you get. When people 
> >Google Moscow, they don't find Vision2020; they
> find Intolerista quotes on 
> >my blog sites.
> >
> >So, I carry on my statistics; my pretty graphs; and
> online discussions on 
> >my site with whoever wants to engage. And I don't
> delete their postings. If 
> >they say something nasty, it stays (just as Tim
> Rigsby about his comment 
> >about my wife) as do inane comments. Just like
> Vision2020 -- they hang out 
> >there for the world to see.
> >
> >So, nothing has happened to change me. I'm just
> quoting Moscow's 
> >Intolerista on my blog for the world to see and
> behold.
> >
> >Maybe quoting you all just makes me appear nasty?
> >
> >best,
> >Dale
> >
> >PS -- Am I in violation of your copyright laws by
> replying to you here? 
> >What's the difference between replying and archived
> on Vision2020 verses on 
> >my blog?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >From: DonaldH675 at aol.com
> [mailto:DonaldH675 at aol.com]
> >Sent: Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:17
> >To: dmcourtn at moscow.com
> >Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Still Creeped Out
> >
> >
> >Dale,
> >I don't know the law, but I have a nodding
> acquaintance with courtesy and 
> >respect.  I know you to be capable of being civil,
> generous, kind, erudite, 
> >and Christian.  What happen?
> >Rose
> >
> >"One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil
> in the universe. There 
> >are just too many of them. But you can do
> something, and the difference 
> >between doing something and doing nothing is
> everything." Daniel Berrigan
> >
> >
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