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It's quite the tutorial Baldie McEagle has been offering you - on the one hand. I also understand why you could find it overwhelming on the other. You're right. It shouldn't take a PhD to debate in Glenn's threads. Fortunately, it doesn't require one. However, apparently, BMcE thinks you're valuable enough as a commenter to offer an online course. Hang in there.

But I didn't call you a dummy, Omooex. I merely mocked your stated position. What else did you expect?

I don't think that's likely to be an accurate characterization of our friend Gay Black Thrasher.

No, I hadn't noticed ... until you flagged it.

Your website is a hoot!

Make sure Pedinska has a good time, and comes back with photographs of the event(s).

It's medieval. It sounds like Malleus Maleficarum or something.

Funny you should say that. The Catholic Church made a similar descent from the 7th to the 11th centuries. Brian Harrison documents it in some detail, if you're interested.

http://www.rtforum.org/lt/lt119.html

Of course, the ultimate '24' style tough guy remark of all time was uttered by a Catholic Inquisitor during the Albigensian Crusade:

Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius!

"Kill them all! God will recognize his own!"

"I don't think that's likely to be an accurate characterization of our friend Gay Black Thrasher." -- Baldie McEagle

It'll do for today. He'll be back sooner or later and sooner or later, he'll get the old heave ho.

It's a shame Glenn has to waste his time scrubbing the board like that.

BTW, this particular thread has been both enjoyable and educational.

Has anyone noticed?

Of course we noticed. And thanks for proving that Glenn doesn't have a forked tongue as troll legend suggests.

First omooex said:

Now, what the hell does that mean?

But then omooex said:

Ridiculing someone and reducing their argument to a caricature may be fun, but I can't see much to defend the habit.

So it becomes difficult to tell whether omooex is practicing what he condemns or condemning what he practices. But assuming that "Now, what the hell does that mean?" was not meant to ridicule nor even to reduce an argument to a caricature, but is in fact a plea for enlightenment, the answer can be found at <http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/57JNHY>. The article begins:

The Martens Clause has formed a part of the laws of armed conflict since its first appearance in the preamble to the 1899 Hague Convention (II) with respect to the laws and customs of war on land:

"Until a more complete code of the laws of war is issued, the High Contracting Parties think it right to declare that in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them, populations and belligerents remain under the protection and empire of the principles of international law, as they result from the usages established between civilized nations, from the laws of humanity and the requirements of the public conscience."

I suggest reading the entire piece. Even though you probably won't know much more about it afterwards because there are differing interpretations, you will at least know what the most generally taken possibilities of its meaning are.

Keep in mind that this is connected fairly firmly to the rules of land warfare. If one were to look in other areas I would think that our own founding documents came close to their own expression of this, viz. "the laws of humanity" corresponds to "the Laws of Nature and Nature's God" and "the requirements/dictates of the public conscience" corresponds to "a decent Respect for the Opinions of Mankind". Many probably wouldn't see it that way.

Waxman won the House Energy Committee and Elephantman is absolutely HORRIFIED!

The thread will turn into a wild daytime nightmare again? typo. I meant Thorton Wilder, not Thomas Wilder? L-brain.

UT causes mind bonkers.

Shelly @ Home- was always reading while eating. By his side was melted ice cream cones? Yes, and cold tea, mutton, venison, and cold potato soup. What was wrote was scalding hot. He'd read up to supper, lunch, and he'd boar dinner guest. He'd read until a candle was out. Yep, and blown out by a porker, a horse-mare, and then a donkey stud snorted out at a fly, horseshoe, and monarch moth butterfly. O sizzle (it really does crackle, pop, sizzle when a white moth flies into a candle wick). Try it? ya' dooms? tsk, la la ta ta. If you have areal cruel, and heartless conscience, and delight burning to a burnt crisp a innocent insect? My gads, O, you a conservative? A murderous, and kill-by-flames, a poor moth? I'm afraid to visit YKW?

No fair justice's for a moth these days, either?

Shelly read bogs with a bowl of pop, a cackle, o,

a boom! And Shelly allowed bowls of rice go cold.

The crispy cereal got soggy? Glenn bask by stoves.

Pedinska had to lug GG logs to a wood stove to purr.

Pedinska and boozer Jebbie sip at everglades swamp.

'Um get flea bits, and misquote good novel authors.

The hippos carried off the Chiquita yellow banana's.

Yellow belly porcupine oil lawyer, not AG Eric Holder,

best not sleep in a VAs ICU for eight mad day snoozing.

Poor Bysshe. He was no hot pot-holder DOJ fraud lawyer.

Bysshe loved to get to know lawyers? He'd hush in jail bar cell?

This gets stranger, OMO. One night a guest lay dead at thee table.

Honest. O, Nonviolent! It's true: Mr Vandal lay dead at Shelly's Home.

It's a story about Thomas Jefferson Hogg. T.J. Hogg was No groundhog.

But assuming that "Now, what the hell does that mean?" was not meant to ridicule nor even to reduce an argument to a caricature, but is in fact a plea for enlightenment,

Indeed as the above snippet suggests. Now, really leave me [the hell] alone. I have to freakin work. ;]

Well, don't thank me (not that you meant to). Ondelette is the true scholar here.

You should put THAT on your mean old negative liberal blog: Scholar o' the Day.