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Hi Mike,

I was looking out for others. Us Dems do that. :)

It wasn't meant as a lecture. I used the word "urge" when recounting my experience with this and similar threads. Since expressing my concern, I was pounced with responses, and have individually addressed each person who responded. That makes it appear that I have an abnormally large number of posts, but it is really just me getting back to folks who are responding to what I said. Sometimes, unfortunately this includes warding off unecessary personal attacks.

On a serious note, you'll see later in this thread where a few others of us good guys have encountered this thread, dove headfirst into it, and came out very frustrated. At first I would encourage the drafter and ask quesions and all I, or anyone esle would get back is another link to check out that made no sense. This has been the game associated with this post, and it is my strong opinion that this could very well be a tactic used to keep this wonderful, fabulous DU forum spinning around needlessly.

Perhaps my lack of patience for gameplaying is spurring my desire to urge caution, but it is also out of genuine concern for the time, energy and moral of the whole team here. In every post I have written I have been consistent in urging people to make the determination on their own, but to be vigilant in making sure they aren't getting sucked into a time-trap.

I hope my concern can be appreciated. The others treat this like the McCarthy era where anything you say they don't like you are all of a sudden a communist; in this case freeper. I have to admit that when you see a lot of posts in a thread, and the posts belong to a member of a dissenting group, it could be used to derail productive conversation, but what it different here is that there ISN'T the chance to have a productive conversation here because of the convoluted presentation in the main post.

At this point, after getting attacked McCarthy style for hours now for speaking my mind, I wouldn't mind seeing a few others try to make heads or tales of this non-sensical set of data.

Even if my words aren't so graceful in this thread, my intentions are. I still urge caution in spending forever and a century trying to prove the main posts point for it because the presentation is grossly convoluted. It is not a lucid piece by any means, and perhaps by all of us making a big deal about it today, we won't see the non-sensical side of this issue every day, sidetracking valiant DU member after valiant DU member.

Hope that helps. :)

Warmly,

George