"Don post his death count despite many people taking offense. It is his right to post. It is Ed's righ to disagree. Don is posting Spam. How you you like me to post, every day "We are winning the war on terror" ? You would jump my case and tell me to shut up if I did."

This is not about Don, this is about repetitive base insults, offensive language and inappropriate behavioe on CE becoming the norm. You want to try to make a "But they did it first, Mommy!" argument. This is pointless for two reasons. First, even if you CAN draw such an analogy between Don and Nelsons behavior, one DOES NOT justify the other. I would think I shouldn't have to ecxplain this to anyone overe the age of 18, but apparently this is not the case.

Its pointless also because it is NOT true. Calling someone a "Patsy" or a "Liar" (without posting proof of either, but as an opinion) as a rhetorical device is fundamentally different than posting a body count for what this war has cost us. I find the body count offensive, but its offensive as a result of a difference of opinion or perspective

I take offense at a lot of opinion and pespective posted here, most of yours and much of Dons, in point of fact. I gladly and gleefully flame you on flame, but I TRY to act decently elsewhere. None-the-less, the offense I take from your 'posts' is my own, and NOT a result of name calling or puerile behavior on your part.

"If you really cared about the board protocol, you would have not flamed Ed in this very thread here on CE, you would have taken it over to Flame."

I did take it over to flame. Go look there.

"You, of all people, who is the king of hateful attacks, is bitching about this? You have no problem attacking those you don’t agree with with a vengeance, but you cry like a baby when you are something you agree with is attacked. What a hypocrite."

I don't really give much about your personal surmise of myself or anything else. My opinion of you is over on flame, and it will stay there. My personal attacks tend to stay on flame, and when they depart from flame, I tend to apologize. I suggest that you simply can't take the heat, and you would defend the actions of Satan should I complain about them. Your very tone here on CE is consistent with the definition of the term you invoked to describe me.

As for our comparative maturity, all I need to point out is the moral character of your defense of EBNelson and your equating it to Dons Daily Barrage. QED

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