Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   Observer Date:   12/31/2014 9:57:53 AM (updated 12/31/2014 10:02:56 AM)

I would submit that Martini Man IS NOT an intellectual giant… and he has never professed to be such. The real point is that he sees events, conditions, actions, and persons for what they are. It is especially important that he is a liberal in the classical sense rather than by present definition (progressive). I see that he is critical rather than cynical. Just because he reads it… or sees a picture of it… NEVER means that he accepts it. He has a healthy skepticism. He is not bought by a cliché. He does not mistake wolves for sheep. He sees the long stretch of government in his life and yours. He discerns the connectivity between action and effect from diverse sources to diverse subjects (constituencies). He knows the truth about statistics. (I would rather have a business major who understands statistics searching for unexploded ordnance… that a geophysicist who cannot tell me the difference between mean, median, and mode).

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Liberals follow a single “straight” line which… in truth… is crooked.

MM follows multiple straight lines which he knows will intersect somewhere. And he does not boast to know all intersections.

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I do not agree with MM on many of his opinions… but a debate with MM on our disagreements would lead to enlightenment on the part one or both of us. It is this condition which does not seem to describe argument with a liberal (puppet).

- - LMF Curmudgeon (also NOT an intellectual giant)