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leilanidude: "…a smug and arrogant response...."
HiloPuna: I'll just leave that to float on this thread as your metaphorical turd in PW's argumentitve punchbowl.
HiloPuna, it may not be in your best interest to help leilanidude prove his point.
"One may pretend knowledge of philosophy more successfully than that of arithmetic." -Last Aphorisms (or how about, one may pretend knowledge with an opinion more successfully than with facts)
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What part of my response is smug or arrogant? I'm serious. To me smug is to be conceited, to be overly proud of oneself when others might find you in fact lacking. What part of my response was not based on (self-obvious) logic and properly articulated ?
Should I dumb down my response into some cute pun or ambiguity?
Why?
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Hijacking often consists of taking a topic and making it about oneself.
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As is often the case a valid discussion degenerates into two blowhards yapping at each other. I say good rid dunce, red dance, ridence and reddence...and even (correctly, according to Merriam-Webster) riddance.
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Billy is a major player in Big Island business and politics. Rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated.
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Billy is a major player in Big Island business and politics.
Being ethically impaired and with connections of all sorts, he should do well in the local system.
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Mark my word, he will rise from the (alleged) ashes. Many of his detractors have no idea how far this man's influence flows on this island. Contrary to what most punawebbers may believe, Billy is loved by a multitude of folks on this island. Now more than ever.
Let me remind folks that I did not support Billy in any of his two races. I was a Pilago and Yagong guy all the way. However, I will not use this fact to blind me to the many accomplishments that took place during Billy's tenure as mayor. Before you start typing your response to my post, please note that I make these claims with all known acknowledgements to Pcards, Ethics, and drunken youtube clips. I will not list theft, because we all know how that turned out. The courts found that there was NO theft. Done, end of story. Say what you want about Billy's legal team, but in the end, the decision is done. No theft. And in this process, Billy made the Attorney General, and all media outlets look like a bunch of damn fools. Dare I say it once again -- Rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated.
