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POPSObama and Marxism: A Legitimate Question Obama’s defenders characterize the above charges as mere “guilt by association.” They contend that his connections with known Marxists do not necessarily imply that he shares their views. They claim we can draw no legitimate conclusions about Obama’s own beliefs from the above facts concerning his associations. In so doing, they are in effect charging his detractors with committing a reasoning error logicians call a “Circumstantial Ad Hominem Argument.” They thus gainsay his opponents’ claims that because of his own special circumstances—in this case that Obama has had ongoing relationships with many known Marxists—he must share certain specific views (namely, Marxist). They argue that these relationships are, in fact, utterly irrelevant to his actual beliefs and should not be cited as evidence of them.
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POPSWas the photoshopped Ralph Lauren model fired for being overweight?
Most of us know that a tall, young woman who weighs 120 pounds is not overweight. But Hamilton claims Ralph Lauren was dissatisfied with her body, and therefore fired her six months ago. However, the company continued to use her image, whittling down her arms, waist, thighs, and possibly several other body parts in the above ad. If they were so unhappy with how she looked, why not get another model for the campaign? Why use the photos and alter and distort them? Today, Ralph Lauren himself is distancing himself from the ad, claiming, "The image in question was mistakenly released and used in a department store in Japan and was not the approved image which ran in the U.S." So we're confused. They say the photoshopping was an error, that Hamilton is "beautiful and healthy," yet they allegedly fired her for her size? With all these apologies and statements it sounds like the brand still has yet to accept responsibility for their actions.
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POPSA closer look at termites continued: This trial-and-error method of natural selection does not go on ad infinitum; nature is smarter than that. Each magnetic termite colony passes on a particular successful mound orientation to the next one through a clever technique: Each termite has a magnetic compass programmed into its system that allows it to sense a particular magnetic bearing, which it then passes on to its offspring. Something like an architectural blueprint ingrained into the DNA. Pretty cool, huh?
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POPSLogical Fallacies - an Encyclopeda of Errors of Reasoning A logical fallacy is, roughly speaking, an error of reasoning. When someone adopts a position, or tries to persuade someone else to adopt a position, based on a bad piece of reasoning, they commit a fallacy…Some logical fallacies are more common than others, and so have been named and defined. When people speak of logical fallacies they often mean to refer to this collection of well-known errors of reasoning….
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POPSList of logical fallacies (nizkor.org) It's very useful to be able to identify errors in reasoning and logical flaws when discussing (or arguing) about idea – your own argument will be stronger if you eliminate fallacies before you make it, for one thing. And, of course, being able to point out the places where someone else's argument breaks down is the quickest way to be able to refute it. Here's one list of 42 of the most common logical fallacies.
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POPSPoll: Obama Leads Wisconsin This one's a little personal. If I see one more electoral map that shows the Badger state as a toss-up, I'm going to hurt someone. Wisconsin isn't going McCain, it hasn't gone GOP since the Reagan landslide. Other fun results; Bush is really unpopular here -- only a 15% job approval rating. More evidence that McCain's done here. He's still spending money here, though. You can't watch TV for an hour without seeing a McCain ad. Glad to see him blowing that cash on a lost cause.
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POPSAltergold unsheduled downtime Altergold is presently experiencing some downtime. Yesterday the site wouldn't load and I got this error msg below. 504 Gateway Time-out If you are receiving this response, the host server is not responding to requests from ourproxy. Please contact support for the website you are trying to reach. Thank you. ddosprotection.com Today Altergold Management has put up a msg for customers. Hopefully this wil pass and it wil be business as usual come Monday. Do they work on weekends? Dear Customer, We regret to inform you that the AlterGold website is currently under DDOS attack at this moment. All efforts are in place to bring the site back online as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this interruption to service. Regards, AlterGold Management You can read discussion below at Talkgold forum One of the websites altergold lists as a prominent merchant in their directory. http://www.talkgold.com/forum/r229821-.html
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POPSDenialists & Logical Fallacies So familiar ... Time and time again you see someone exasperated by the crank who won't turn despite being shown again and again where their error is, and finally just call the guy an idiot. That's actually not an ad hominem. That might be totally true and highly relevant to the argument at hand. Sometimes people are just too stupid or too ignorant to realize when they've been soundly thrashed, and true cranks will stubbornly go on, and on and on...
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