Another two posts at Douggie Watch, here and here.. or just hit the main page here.
He's got yet another one of those posts where he makes a bunch of factual assertions about topics he has no expertise on, completely bereft of substance. It's really weird.
The logic goes like this. Because Doug is a construction worker in the housing industry, that makes him an expert on the housing market and the economics that define it. What he sees in his little slice of the world must be exactly how it is in the rest of the world. Therefore, there is no housing "slow down".
I'm not sure I'm going to do the usual quote/crush treatment for it.. but we'll see. If he doesn't say something else as stupendously stupid any time soon, I probably will.
2 comments:
Actually, Tom, I used to be a loan officer, and a Financial Advisor. I entered construction to do something different, and at the time it was quite lucrative. Honestly, I don't have to work. But I don't normally tell people that, but since your guesses about me have been so off the mark, I thought I would tell you so that you could perhaps head back in the right direction. And honestly, people are amazed how much goes into the construction industry in the sense of thinking, and I suppose my education has been helpful. Then, when people find out how much I am worth, or that I own prime property on the Oregon Coast, they are amazed that I even work at all. Like you, I too am able to go out on fantastic trips, and concerts, and spend a buttload of money as you have stated in your posts before (Rush concert?), but unlike you I don't go around telling everybody. In fact, I think this is the first time on the internet I have even uttered such. I prefer people to think I am no different than everyone else so that they don't make assumptions about me in the other direction . . . maybe that's why you have in your head that I am some poor neanderthal construction worker that grunts in the morning, whistles at the women passing by on the sidewalk at lunch, and comes home with a silver hard hat on my head and a half smoked cigar in my mouth in the evening, thumping his bible on weekends. Perhaps you shouldn't stereotype like that. After all, you accuse me of many things, stereotyping for one, and when you make assumptions about me in your posts rarely are you accurate. In fact, based on your posted stereotypes and interpretations of what I say, I am amazed that you even consider yourself intelligent, or in touch with the real world. Example: I never specifically said that "all poor people are lazy," but you not only decided that is what I meant, but even convinced another person of it (Jennifer). Think about it. All? That's idiotic. In fact, there are many instances of you making assumptions about my meaning, and it does drive me a little batty when you do so. At one point I even decided to respond on the liberal haven site to all of your untruths and assumptions, but I decided to close the site because "ballbuster" was being too obnoxious right off the bat, and I really didn't want to deal with that ass again. It had nothing to do with you. Besides, unlike you, I really don't have the time to go chasing after everything you say and try to correct each inaccuracy. And to tell you the truth, I cancelled out the liberal haven site before I realized you had commented there. Also, you assume that everytime I say "particular liberal blogger" I mean you. . . are you that arrogant? Please, there are more venom filled libs out there that love to give me shit than you. Anyway, I come to your site because yours is the most entertaining to read. . . the level of idiocy knows no bounds. . . you are entertaining. I, unfortunately, can't take a page out of Red Sox Manager Terry Francona's play book when he says he doesn't care what people say about him, nor does he read about it. . . perhaps I should. Maybe I am weak when it comes to my sick curiosity regarding what you write. Well, I can't wait to see what you are going to write about after you read this comment . . . it is sure to be fun, and full of inaccurate assumptions! Ciao, until later.
Ya, I'll get to this, probably on Monday. I owe Jennifer some answers to a few questions..
However, I would say that if anybody has to make any assumptions about topics you write about, that says more about your bad writing then what people interpret from the words.
For example, suppose you wrote "Black people should not be allowed to get married". Granted, that's not something you would say, and you obviously don't think that is true.. but for the sake of argument, if you did say that. It would be quite a normal assumption to think that you are a racist and have a problem with black people.
The point of writing is to convey a point in a clear and concise manner. If you're unable to do that, well, I just don't know what to tell you.
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