You can "assume" anything you want to, Beardedbruce, and usually do. Invariably you're wrong. But what you SHOULD be noticing is the extreme exasperation you generate among others. When people are having a legitimate discussion, partisan or not, and you come along with your ill-researched inflamatory remarks and wedge yourself into the conversation, you take it down to a different level. You can't take a hint. People have tried to suggest strategies for checking your sources and you go staggering off through some Google backwater and come up with old discredited news and wave it triumphantly as "proof" and validation of your righteous position.

Most Mudcatters who have much history here (with only a few notable exceptions) have talked their way through issues and along the way have asked questions, apologized, offered mea culpas, explained their reasoning and even explained what it was that caused them to change their mind. Or they've had the patience to explain their position when challenged on it. They thank people, they examine the nuances involved in the given topic, they offer citations (those are the authoritative sources we link to where one can read more about a subject). There are plenty of people here who "agree to disagree." They can state their positions lucidly and have the agility of mind to stay up to date with what their particular position is.

I don't know why you suddenly started the huge volume of Mudcat posts a few weeks ago after coasting along for more than a year, but maybe something in your non-Mudcat life needs to be addressed--perhaps you're sublimating here at Mudcat. I read the increasingly angry and strident posts from you as a cry for help, but I doubt that Mudcat has the answer you need.

SRS