Not Evil, Just Wrong...

[followsthewolf]

I grew up on a farm, also.

Simply stating fact. No attack.

[Sandy Eggo]

Me too, but it was just a small family farm intended to feed the family, extended family and anyone in need. I don't know that mom was careful with pesticides or fertilizer (we used a lot of compost and manure), but I developed my respect for nature from the things mom taught me. Had she known more about chemicals etc  then I'm sure she wouldn't have used them (as evidenced by the nasty natural concoctions I had to take when I was ill )

I don't think Ex was attacking farmers as a whole. He was just saying that being a farmer doesn't automatically mean that you care about the planet. Just like any industry, there are farmers who couldn't care less.

[Henry Hawk]

Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing 

House Democrats told the Republican committee staff earlier this week that they would be putting forward an unnamed 'celebrity' as their star witness Friday at a multi-panel climate hearing examining the House global warming bill. The 'celebrity' witness turned out to be Gore. The GOP replied they would respond to the Democrats 'celebrity' with an unnamed 'celebrity' of their own. When the Democrats were told who the GOP witness would be, Christopher Monckton, they refused to allow him to testify alongside Gore.

'House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated'

[Exterminator]

Which guys?  I posted in this thread, and I don't recall attacking farmers.  I commented on something I have knowledge of, having been raised on two farms. And my comments were strictly regarding those two farms.

DannyBoy obviously has literacy issues.

[LOsborne]

DannyBoy obviously has literacy issues.

That's rather a sweeping statement on very little evidence. I found one typo and one grammatical error in his post. Two lousy finger-fumbles do not make someone illiterate, Ex.

I disagree with his hymn of praise to all farmers, because every group of anything has some real toads associated with it. But the literacy of his post is excellent.

[pariann]

You might be getting the ideas of literacy and English grammar confused.

'Literacy' is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an individual to achieve his or her goals, to develop his or her knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in the wider society

English grammar on the other hand deals with rules in structuring the written language.

You may be able to write out properly your thoughts on a given topic, but that does not mean that you grasp the properly written thoughts of others on the topic.  Quite possibly this could be due to having literacy problems, .....or in other words, you just don't understand what someone else wrote.

[LOsborne]

literacy .... noun the quality or state of being literate, esp. the ability to read and write.

I believe DannyBoy's post qualifies.

[pariann]

Ability to read and write....and understand.

[DannyBoy]

errrrrrr dduuuuuhhhhhh grrrrrrrrr ohhhhhhhhhh fffffffffff

[Sandy Eggo]

I was just saying that myself the other day

[pariann]

errrrrrr dduuuuuhhhhhh grrrrrrrrr ohhhhhhhhhh fffffffffff

I'm sorry, I seem to be having some kind of literacy problem. I can see the letters on the page, but they just aren't making any sense to me.  All comprehension has been lost. 

[Ma and Pa]

I speak that language! Ddddmmmmm iiiiiittt.

[dan foster]

Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing 

House Democrats told the Republican committee staff earlier this week that they would be putting forward an unnamed 'celebrity' as their star witness Friday at a multi-panel climate hearing examining the House global warming bill. The 'celebrity' witness turned out to be Gore. The GOP replied they would respond to the Democrats 'celebrity' with an unnamed 'celebrity' of their own. When the Democrats were told who the GOP witness would be, Christopher Monckton, they refused to allow him to testify alongside Gore.

'House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated'

What is your point here, hank.?.  Global warming isn't real?  Manmade environmental disaster can't happen?  God will destroy the earth, not man?  Just exactly what are you trying to get at?  That gore is wrong and should be shouted down by some lunatic?  You don't have a clue about the science, so how is it you can make a point, anyway?

Just for the record, however, and for those geniuses that "lived on a farm" and have studied the problem right real good, I need only point out the last man-made environmental disaster that we seem to have forgotten; the dust bowl.  Or, do you think that was just some sort of plague sent by god?

[pariann]

yep.

[Exterminator]

DannyBoy obviously has literacy issues.

That's rather a sweeping statement on very little evidence. I found one typo and one grammatical error in his post. Two lousy finger-fumbles do not make someone illiterate, Ex.

I disagree with his hymn of praise to all farmers, because every group of anything has some real toads associated with it. But the literacy of his post is excellent.

The literacy issue comes into play with his inability to understand that stating simply that farms do damage the environment is not attacking farmers whatsoever.