Comments on: Following Team America’s logic, he must stop referring to himself as an attorney…

By: Delearyous Annegram « Illinois Reason

Delearyous Annegram « Illinois Reason — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:53:09 +0000

[...] already learned that, if one practices her comrade Team America’s “logic”, no one is allowed to actually describe themselves by their job or other commonly accepted [...]

By: robnesvacil

robnesvacil — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:30:31 +0000

I’m not trying to hurt you by pointing out these facts, TA, just point out how far off the reservation you are…. Your blinding partisanship tends to make it rather easy.

By: Team America

Team America — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:51:01 +0000

Sticks and stones, my friend.

By: robnesvacil

robnesvacil — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:33:04 +0000

PS: try rereading my own blogpost on the topic.

Rather than “missing the point,” I point out that the Northwestern students are the ones missing the point (as are you).

This fact has been pointed out to you numerous times in the past few months, yet you continue to operate under illogical and irrational assumptions. This means you either have no capacity for logic or are simply a dunderhead willing to act stupid in front of the whole world.

By: robnesvacil

robnesvacil — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:26:26 +0000

Sure, TA, you go right on thinking that. What gets to me is when people such as yourself choose to make asses of themselves in public in order to further their partisan agenda. It’s fun and interesting to point out…

Two points:

- First, the students’ letter seems to miss the point of the faculty manual. Prof. Seals is not selling anything and thus not using the Northwestern name to sell anything. Rather, he is making a point of reference in his biographical information.

On your own blog you describe yourself as a lawyer. Same thing. He’s a professor. What do conserv-o-partisans not get about that?

- Second, I’ve not seen any verification of Mr. Atsaves’ claim that campus police were checking IDs at the door to the class.

Even if they were, given the hyperpartisan atmosphere you and others have helped manufacture around his professorship it makes sense that campus police would want to keep out people who are not registered for the class, lest they attempt to make some hay by playing the part of an interloper doing ‘recon’ — an activity with which you admit you are already familiar.

….By the by, I see from that McCulloch post that you are interested in the cost of a certain home of a certain retired mega-church pastor. I wonder if you’d care so much about the home costs for Reverends Moon, Robertson, Hagee, Parsley, LaHaye, Haggard (oh, wait, he caught teh gay), the late Rev. Falwell and many, many more conservative pastors who have turned their mega-churches into money machines for themselves and their families.

Nah, Pete Couvall probably just dropped a cigarette butt and you’ve got to run and blog about the horrors of litter.

By: Team America

Team America — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:26:27 +0000

Rob N–I’ve seldom read a post that so thoroughly misses the point of what I wrote, unless it was ArchPundit’s post on this same subject. The issue of the day is the complaint of the NU students that Seals is not following university policy. Read it again. I doubt that the Northwestern administration is going to be thrown off by you and ArchPundit insulting me.

Congressman Kirk is not a teacher at Northwestern and doesn’t have to worry about its policy. What he does have to worry about is the House Ehtic Rules, which specifically permit him to refer to himself as “Congressman” and similar usages. Go read it for yourself, on page 181 (page 193 of the PDF counter)

http://www.house.gov/ethics/2008_Ethics_Manual.pdf

Clearly, I’ve gotten inside your head, and ArchPundit’s, as well as Seals himself. A good morning’s work. Wonder why Seals had to ask campus security to gurad his classroom door, as some have reported?