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I recorded and watched a couple of his shows a few months ago after realizing I disliked him but had never even watched his show. He's such a douche that even on points I agree with him on, he's completely unenjoyable to watch.

JFC that will spike the cost of my health insurance.

Morkenlar wrote: He was a US soldier who took up arms against US soldiers during a time when we have an ongoing conflict (not really a declared war, but close enough imo), killing several. That is treason. Court martial and execute the bastard. Amen. But I doubt we would need to go that far. Murder will be a lot easier to prove than treason.

sapiens soultracker wrote: Plenty of people from both sides of the aisle did. Don't let the truth get in the way of your paranoid presidential fantasies though. Got a link to the thread? Why? It's not like you'd actually read it...

I'm pretty much with Klark and Marth on this one; the guy was a whack job. Terrorists by definition try to inflict terror and on that count, this guy fails. Terrorists generally hit soft targets (read: civilian) because there's political expediency in doing so. This guy hit soldiers, so the "terrorism" label fails. The terms 'terrorism', 'Islam', and 'whack job' have 3 things in common;...

"ensure" not "insure" unless you're suggesting some risk that someone wants underwritten? :-) Yes, the purpose of language is to communicate but I don't agree that the test is whether or not I can understand you. The question of effective language is the degree of understanding imparted or received. If I have to think about what you said to determine the meaning when different language would have...