You know, fair enough. I suppose I'm a little sensitive to responses that come across as outright dismissals after so much time hearing MSM and NPCs call everyone who disagrees with them crazy lunatics.
Someone who thinks 2+2=5 is off the deep end, even if they don't claim it with certainty. And I agree with your point about disclaimers and moderate language, as well as that people who say things that aren't proven are "obviously so" aren't being open-minded.
Forgive my initial response to your comments, looking at them more I don't really disagree with much.
No problem. Thanks for the patience to continue talking. I am often at my low ebb with this stuff (which drives me nuts) and I really wish to have more congenial discussions.
I'll give you one in your column, just to be fair. When I moved into my present house in 1982, right in the path to Sea-Tac International, there would be some summer days when the air would be redolent with the odor of jet fuel. Huh? The local rumor was that airliners that were overweight for landing would jettison fuel on approach in order to meet their max landing weight limit. I had no idea whether this was happening, and it sounded exceptionally against good practice and regulation. After a few years, the problem went away. No clue. We live on the opposite side of a small knoll facing a major secondary road with lots of traffic. It could have been a spate of polluting Diesel trucks. Mystery unsolved!
You know, fair enough. I suppose I'm a little sensitive to responses that come across as outright dismissals after so much time hearing MSM and NPCs call everyone who disagrees with them crazy lunatics.
Someone who thinks 2+2=5 is off the deep end, even if they don't claim it with certainty. And I agree with your point about disclaimers and moderate language, as well as that people who say things that aren't proven are "obviously so" aren't being open-minded.
Forgive my initial response to your comments, looking at them more I don't really disagree with much.
No problem. Thanks for the patience to continue talking. I am often at my low ebb with this stuff (which drives me nuts) and I really wish to have more congenial discussions.
I'll give you one in your column, just to be fair. When I moved into my present house in 1982, right in the path to Sea-Tac International, there would be some summer days when the air would be redolent with the odor of jet fuel. Huh? The local rumor was that airliners that were overweight for landing would jettison fuel on approach in order to meet their max landing weight limit. I had no idea whether this was happening, and it sounded exceptionally against good practice and regulation. After a few years, the problem went away. No clue. We live on the opposite side of a small knoll facing a major secondary road with lots of traffic. It could have been a spate of polluting Diesel trucks. Mystery unsolved!