I Hereby Declare, and Let it Be Resolved...

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. That anyone who uses the term "gaffe" when talking about politics is an imbecile or a douchebag.

2. That you are not an ideology-free straight-talker just "telling it like it is."

3. That declaring yourself as swimming against the current or noting that "this will make a lot of people upset here" is a piddling and trite conceit unworthy of public discourse.

4. That - barring extremely rare case - you cannot claim poverty if you post on an internet forum more than five times a day.

5. That you are not an expert on the physics of demolition unless and until you have had an advanced (post-graduate) degree in engineering, physics, or a related field conferred upon you by an accredited institution, or you have at least seven (7) years of direct work experience involving the setting, arrangement, and use of explosives for the purpose of demolition.

HARRUMPH!

[IndianaJones]

1. hear, hear. nt.

[flvegan]

2. Nice gaffe, Hitler.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. QED

:-)