The issue, Robert...
Is not that Tom makes asinine claims, it is that you insist on responding to them. LET IT DROP! For god's sake look at how the two of you have gone back and forth and increased the hostility on this board...
You are clearly stalking poor TB- just because he holds a different view than yours... let it drop! Let him post as he wants - he has his right to an opinion, you dont have the right to keep harrassing him every time he posts something you don't like. You claim to be rational, so be rational and quit responding... and quit trying to goad him into responding to you- I call for a 'time out'... You may NOT respond to any post by Tom unless it specifically addresses you.
(If you miss the Irony, well, others won't)