Sorry to say so, Doug, it strikes me as a little hollow that you want Nicole to detail everything point by point when you seem to be in the habit of dismissing peoples' well reasoned and often well documented writings by calling them "horse pucky" or "left-wing rhetoric." It sometimes seems rather pointless to try to discuss things with you. I do read your writings carefully and consider them seriously. If you're going to participate in a reasoned discussion, it seems to me that you should do the same. When someone answers an argument by calling it "left-wing rhetoric" or "right-wing rhetoric," that is not a refutation. It merely demonstrates a closed mind. You're an intelligent man. You can do better than that.

Don Firth