While we are at it, I heard of this great artist from Vienna. Very very gifted. Went to a great art school, played the piano and Bummed around Vienna and Germany selling his art. His name was Adolph Hitler. Didn't you say you were an artist?
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ART, who as we all know was Optional777, was actually pretty good - he talked the markets and often made intelligent comments backed up by well thought out charts. But as soon as one of the ET morons came in the chat room, he completely flipped and went on a completely fanatical rampage insulting them day after day continously. It was really wearing...
I never regarded you as a moron. You are a loooooooohoohoooohooooozer.Quote from Thunderdog:
Other than those people who occasionally disagree with you at times (which is when you began to openly regard me as a moron), I would be interested to know exactly how you define a "moron."
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I never regard you as a moron. You are a loooooooohoohoooohooooozer.
Big difference.
nitro
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Now Rowenwood, come on, you are a smart guy. You know better then to judge an entire group of people by one person. Look, Timothy McVeigh served valiantly in our Army and was even awarded a medal yet he was a complete psycho. I know guys on the floor of the Merc that are psycho. You can't judge people by a few bad apples. I know bad cops, bad teachers, bad nannies, bad doctors, bad lawyers. Come on, let's keep the judgement here to a minimum OK squirt?
Most of these men are married, have children and their only concern is coming home safely to see their family again. Like I said before, the Seals, the Rangers and so on are next to impossible to get into. You really need to be in the top 1% of all athletes. Most guys even if they wanted to, could never make the cut. Simply don't have the physical ability. They also go through extensive psychological testing.
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Okay sure, but I have now evidenced that an entire platoon or ops group is totally mad with the taste of human death. So we're not talking about one.
You don't know what Tillmans intentions or thoughts were. You know what the media has told you.
These guys have to love to kill in order to be special operations status. These guys aren't general infantry. You'll think what you want. I've more supporting facts for my argument than you do for yours. You're a smart guy too, do you understand what I'm saying, it isn't complicated.
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If that's true I'm really surprised. While I disagree with him politically I think of him as a smart, well read, well rounded person. He's funny, insightful, argumentive and passionate. Hmm...I think I just described the characteristics of good traders.
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No, I still don't think you understand. I don't care if you use 10 platoons or 100 platoons as your sample pool. It's still too small. Do you think doctors are bad people? Because I have seen hundreds, no, thousands of stories of bad doctors, yet I believe in those numbers they represent a very small sample of the total doctor population.
You have know idea what's in Pat Tillman's head neither do I so neither one of us can claim to be privy to that info. What I do know is that Pat Tillman's dream his entire life was not to kill, but rather to play professional football. He could have joined the service out of high school, even out of college. But he wanted to play football. It was only after 9/11 that he realized he should walk away from the sport. so your argument holds no water.
And again, look at who the majority of Navy Seals are. They are f*cking swimmers!!!!! Seriously dude, they were on the high school swim team, the college swim team, and like I said before, many of these men competed in Olympic trials. Now I don't know about you, but I knew a lot of swimmers in high school and college and I never thought one, not one, had a violent tendency about them. They were mostly these tall skinny guys that just like to swim a lot.
I would say its pretty damn hard to be a Seal if you were not a competitive swimmer trust me. You should see what these guys have to go through in training. Being tough is not going to cut it, hell just being a guy in really great shape is not going to cut it. You better be state champion swimmer. And you know how everyone likes to stereotype those silly state champion swimmers as crazy psychos that just want to kill kill kill whenever they can. LOL. You better re-think your argument.