Re: OT/ Tommy the cheeseburger is still here? bah!

damn you're still here?

"Thomas Muffaletto" <mrgantlet911@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|I guess it is only a matter of time till you leave this hell hole Sally.
| I will be sad to see you go.
| not much fun is it? personally I cant believe how they will tell lie
after
| lie
| with out any care about how bad they look. lol o well.
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| "mrslang" <mslangerhans@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| >
| > Quentin Grady wrote:
| >> This post not CC'd by email
| >> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:15:46 GMT, "rich" <dummyaddress@xxxxxxxxxxx>
| >> wrote:
| >>
| >> >Well said, except that personally I wouldn't put sally in there with
the
| >> >others. I don't agree with her, but I sense that she is sincere. But
| >> >as
| >> >always, YMMV.
| >> >
| >> >Rich
| >>
| >>
| >> G'day G'day Rich,
| >>
| >> Sally has, in my experience, always sought to distance herself from
| >> Tom. Hardly surprising really. Almost the only point they have in
| >> common is fostering forthright discussion about the ADA.
| >
| > I don't try to distance myself from anyone. I tend to look at Usenet
| > as a place where people meet in these little salons called newsgroups
| > and are usually brought to a specific one by some sort of unifying
| > theme. no doubt what this one is. believe it or not I try to judge
| > everyone on what they post and selfishly what they post in response to
| > me. despite his previous runins with people in this newsgroup before I
| > came on board Tom does tend to have some salient points that I agree
| > with.
| >
| >>Each time
| >> they appeal to authority they get slammed with another form of
| >> authority, more modern research and more recent decisions that have
| >> supported those they would attack.
| >
| > well that's one way of looking at it. but the modern research I see is
| > a patchwork quilt from many differing sources. I've learned over the
| > years that someone can cobble together findings to enforce their
| > personal beliefs and agenda. I realize those that post these modern
| > findings truly believe that they have the one and only right answer. I
| > don't happen to share that opinion. sometimes it's because I am not a
| > professional myself and must use a layman's brain to decipher it.
| > other times it's because the data and cites are suspiciously pushing
| > one particular agenda. when it comes right down to it we all must do
| > what we think is best for us. for some it's abandoning the traditional
| > because they think it's lacking for others it's not putting our trust
| > in someone we know only from their posts in a newsgroup. my endo is
| > someone I trust because not only do I see him in person but he is a
| > professional with much to lose if he gives the wrong advice. I'll read
| > other opinions and advice in here but cannot put my trust in what
| > someone says just because they say it. there is in my opinion too much
| > doctoring going on in here.
| >
| >
| >> IMHO she frequently uses debating skills
| >
| > I know you are responding to rich but this post is a lot like reading a
| > psychiatrists notes on me. tell me about my mother...lol
| >
| >>very adeptly to support her
| >> arguments ... often without providing current scientific evidence to
| >> support her case.
| >
| > there is always current scientific evidence to support things from both
| > sides. there was current scientific evidence at one time that said
| > smoking was not harmful. determining what scientific evidence is
| > correct and what isn't is way out of my league. and I suggest way out
| > of the league of *most* in here. what amazes me is the amount of
| > people in here who think they are qualified to interpret the big
| > picture of health. the fact that recently in here both the ADA and
| > Joslin are both discarded as authority is frightening to me.
| >
| >>It is a style many of us have gotten used to.
| >
| > gotten used to???
| >
| >> Is Sally a troll?
| >
| > to some I'm sure I am. to me people like jenny and susan are trolls.
| > it's all in how one looks at things.
| >
| >> Hardly, though it has to be admitted that the ADA, its strengths and
| >> weaknesses, is so boringly passe a topic that most people can't be
| >> bothered discussing it at all until Tom or Sally fire them up.
| >
| > oh come on. boring, passe? in a group about, for, and by diabetics?
| > the leading organization in diabetes is boring and passe? as far as
| > firing people up, the majority of my posts are in RESPONSE to someone
| > who has taken what I consider an unfair and malicious swipe at the ADA.
| > I really do believe that some newbies come in here or lurk here and see
| > all the ADA doctor and hospital bashing and just assume it to all be
| > true. likewise with eating low carb is the only way to go. many here
| > are convinced of those things and so they announce it over and over
| > again. a few of us don't see it that way. who is right and who is
| > wrong? each side firmly believes they are. and that is something that
| > is the firewood for conflict in many many things much larger than just
| > a newsgroup in cyberspace.
| >
| > my advice to you and others here is just keep doing what your doing and
| > believing what you're believing and be prepared to have someone like me
| > with a dissident voice. so it goes.
| >
| > Sally
| >
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