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merrily

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9. That is not how I work. If someone makes a claim I disbelieve, I google. Only if I cannot find it

Reply to dsc (Reply #7)

Wed Aug 26, 2015, 08:42 AM

Aug 2015

reasonably quickly do I expect anyone else to provide me with a link. I don't expect others to prove to me things in the news that I may have missed along the way and can easily find myself, nor do I consider my job to inform everyone about everything they may have missed in the news when it happened.

If the definition of entitled is thinking one doesn't have to do one's homework

Wow! I never saw anyone miss an incredibly obvious point by that much. The entitlement was an adult getting NYC schools closed with no regard for what that might do to families all over the city, not a kid failing to do his homework.

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So now Ambassador Caroline Kennedy is coming under scrutiny for use of private e-mails [View all] bigdarryl Aug 2015 OP

I still don't understand the idea that if somebody else is doing something wrong Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2015 #1

I rather suspect Caroline Kennedy has entitlement issues. merrily Aug 2015 #2

I am sure you have a source for the school story dsc Aug 2015 #4

Did when I first read it a few years back. Probably still available through google or merrily Aug 2015 #5

that isn't how this works dsc Aug 2015 #7

That is not how I work. If someone makes a claim I disbelieve, I google. Only if I cannot find it merrily Aug 2015 #9

Voila... meaculpa2011 Aug 2015 #8

Exactly. With enough info given, it takes more time to ask for a link than it does to find it. merrily Aug 2015 #11

yes God forbid we argue about sources dsc Aug 2015 #12

Is this source lofty enough for you? ... meaculpa2011 Aug 2015 #13

Find anything to disprove the story? Any denial from Klein or Caroline? merrily Aug 2015 #14

So if I read on the bathroom wall dsc Aug 2015 #15

Um, no. You're attempting the logical fallacies of reductio ad absurdum merrily Aug 2015 #16

So any source that doesn't measure up to your lofty... meaculpa2011 Aug 2015 #17

the New Yorker is different dsc Aug 2015 #18

You should get yourself a crayon... meaculpa2011 Aug 2015 #20

Oh, we can't do that. Too many people here fell for it. leftofcool Aug 2015 #3

blah, blah, blah DURHAM D Aug 2015 #6

If the NSA is reading it all anyway, LuvNewcastle Aug 2015 #10

This was wrong and the important thing is that the SD IG is pointing it out karynnj Aug 2015 #19