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In reply to the discussion: Obama Administration APPROVES Keystone XL Key Infrastructure Component. [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)61. And your track record of using "made up" statistics and Logical Fallacies...
....as a substitute for legitimate, rational debate remains unblemished.
The Ad Hominem Logical Fallacy
"An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps.
First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting).
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem.html
First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting).
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem.html
You will know them by their WORKS.
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Obama Administration APPROVES Keystone XL Key Infrastructure Component. [View all]
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2013
OP
Maybe they think their kids/grand kids will be immune to the destruction or maybe they have an
SammyWinstonJack
Nov 2013
#33
There are two pipelines... one to send the millions of barrels of diluter, the second to send dilbit
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2013
#6
Why don't you take the time to click on the provided links within the article? n/t
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2013
#7
As a business executive who sees this tactic played out all the time... It will prove itself.
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2013
#46
So, what you're saying is, you can't prove it. You made it up. Got it.
Drunken Irishman
Nov 2013
#68
It's approved. The proof is the deafening silence from the interested corporations and MSM.
GoneFishin
Nov 2013
#36
Um...KXL hasn't been approved. A bit reflexive aren't we? I mean, you took a post from a 500 post
msanthrope
Nov 2013
#20
More empty snark. More vapid namecalling for those who talk about issues
woo me with science
Nov 2013
#27
What's the 'sweaters' thread? If it causes that one so much heartburn, I gotta see it!
Number23
Nov 2013
#85
Don't tell me that Obama wore a sweater in the Oval Office or something like that!
NYC_SKP
Nov 2013
#88
I'd face palm but anyone surprised by that person's reaction to such an innocent OP
Number23
Nov 2013
#107
It's now funny---sad, too, but pretty funny. I'm hoping Hillary Clinton runs just to liven up the
msanthrope
Nov 2013
#108
so.. your evidence that it has been approved is that there is NO evidence?
scheming daemons
Nov 2013
#92
My point is that every week there is a new THING that will destroy Obama's legacy.
JoePhilly
Nov 2013
#43
Why, why, why doesn't he just do it already? The suspense is killing me! But about that oil...
freshwest
Nov 2013
#99
Now we need an open Flag list, after the vote transpires, to see who chronically flags posts.
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2013
#69
As someone in business who sees this tactic played out all of the time...
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2013
#50
No, the headline is to wake you up to the prospect that the final decision was made...
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2013
#55
You claim '...there are NO other pipelines on the books besides KXL... What is Canada doing then?'
freshwest
Nov 2013
#96
The links within the article seem legit. Even FOX is right from time to time.
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2013
#64
Gee, who woulda' ever thunk a Democratic president would approve such a titanic
indepat
Nov 2013
#71
We are NEVER going to have a say in anything or be represented UNTIL this corporate coup is stopped.
mother earth
Nov 2013
#84