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In your preferences, under Alert Preferences, if you have "Tags you in a message" checked (it's checked by default), you'll get an alert whenever someone tags you in a post. It's a way to call someone's attention to a post like, "Maybe @Ragman will chime in." When you type the @ symbol, don't...

That's exactly it right there. One of the problems is the rapidly changing electorate. Currently, 70 percent of Americans eligible to vote are white. In 1980 that figure was 85 percent. That's not that big of a problem in mid-term elections, when young and minority voters are far more likely...

Not exactly, no. As a general rule I don't bring in stuff from other threads. It's very rare if I do. I try my best to make it a point not to, because unless all readers at all times are familiar with those other threads, it makes no sense to do so. It's the exception to the rule when I do that...

Be very careful in accusing me of things I don't do. I make it a point to not bring things in from other threads to use as ammunition in an argument, and never to use it to attack someone with. On the extremely rare occasions that I have done it, it's always with a direct reference so as to keep...

In order to point out hypocrisy, you had to bring something from outside this thread into the thread.There was no hypocrisy in her post in this thread. Actually Rags' post comes far closer to a personal attack than anything in Cheri's post. That's both a false premise (in fact a "When did you...

As others have said, the vehicle's alternator while driving. While parked, if you have a generator you'd either charge the batteries directly from the generator or plug a battery charger into the generator and charge them that way. You could idle the engine to recharge them, but that's the least...

No Paul, you don't. Leo started a thread that's borderline trolling, Ragman took exception to it, and so did Cheri, and did so without the sole purpose being too insult Leo. You jumped on that opportunity to attack Cheri. I've tried to let you know as civil as possible that you need to stay on...

Look, man, you're developing the perception of you following Cheri around and insulting her. Keep defending that position and it won't end well. If you have a problem with something Cheri posts, either take it up with her in a private conversation or report it. Bottom line is, respond to the...

No, please keep your replies on topic and respectful and it's fine. You're a smart guy, I'm sure you'll figure it out.

Fine. I'm directing my response to you because of your recent historical pattern of responding to Cheri directly, and changing the topic of discussion in the process, with thinly veiled insults that have not gone unnoticed, or unreported, by a not insignificant number of people. So, I'll ask one...

No, it wasn't on topic. If you had been able to craft your response without using the word "you" and directing it solely at her, you'd have a case to make. It's important that people stick to the issues of what gets said rather than changing the topic to be about who said it, or the motivations...

A pansy of some sort. Or, possibly, a tulip.

From the article linked: "It turns out the Bush administration officials were wrong on many of those particulars and should have been less certain about how they were reading the intelligence, but there is no compelling evidence that they knew they were reading the intelligence incorrectly...

Yes, you quoted someone and then changed the text to make it look like they said something they did not say. And you did it specifically to make your reply about the poster, not the post. In doing so you changed the topic. If you can't stay on topic by replying to what was said without making it...

So I guess that means YES, then. Got it. People who are bad at math, and cannot eloquently deal with the complexities and confusions of the benefits provided by the highly complex and confusing VA, are mentally impaired of they need help in dealing with those complexities and confusions. Next...

So, good financial and math skills should be a requisite for an inalienable, natural right?

I'm getting hives just from reading this thread.

You do realize that "abstinence-based" sex education is an agenda in and of itself, right? When I was in school we had sex education, at varying levels at varying grades, but it was always in biology class, not a specially constructed sex education class, and it was always about the biology of...