Many questions I've been asking for a long time, and many new ones-good job Judge! Nice to hear some reality for a change.

John - I do acknowledge the gulf between liberal Democrats and Conservative Republicans. If conservatives behaved according to their principles, and voted that way, and liberals did the same, both of you would likely end up inadvertently supporting the Libertarian party. All I want is for the GOP to act like conservatives and get rid of these bad policies/habits they've developed the last 40 years, keep the good ones. Although the parties both say very different things, they do almost identical things, especially when we're all losing our freedoms. That's when we get to see real bi partisanship, the NDAA and the Patriot Act are good examples of this.What the two parties actually support more than anything else is totalitarianism.

This law represents everything that is wrong in the US. We still insist that we can control what we deem to be irresponsible behavior through public policy, but hey, they ought to be free to make their own decisions in New York, just like the voters in New York are free to elect a new mayor.

You know, fishes.

I'm on your side, read the board, he single-handedly dealt with 3 or 4 people and added probably over a hundred comments to the board. Our responses just supplied him with all of the opportunities he needed to post all of his propaganda in a contextual setting. He tried his best to keep the subject about religion because it is faith based and there is very little evidence associated with it, and because it is so easy to illicit emotional responses. If this debate were being judged, he won most of it. Like it or not, this is a game we have to play . You can be in control or you can let him manipulate the board and give him opportunities to spread his lies.

I don't like it either but you guys really should go through this board and read they whole thing, he stayed in control the whole time never reacting, meanwhile he was able to get emotional responses from people all over the place by just sweeping in and saying one or two sentences that would start this cascade of emotional responses again. He left because we weren't doing what he wanted us to do anymore. I'm LDS too and I hate the things he says but this is a debate setting, not an argument setting. We have to think about how it reads not how we feel when he insults us. I'm not trying to be critical I just hate seeing someone insult LDS so badly and have everyone playing to his tune. FDR is not anywhere near as efficient as the other guy.

Grammatical corrections are always just a lack of a good response, we all know that.

Bowing and refusing to play his game are not the same, let him play the board like he did here again if you want, doesn't matter to me.

It is very difficult when you are so insulting, remember that next time.

Dotdasher is one of those guys who come on here and say things to get a response and he never reacts emotionally, he stays in control and just keeps egging on all the negative commentary and distracting from any kind of constructive conversation. Ignoring these kinds of posters is best, or atleast, don't answer his questions, just keep asking him questions. We started doing this and now he's leaving the board, which is a good thing.