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Sept. 27, 2006 It was just a matter of time till Tom Pain’s hot-air balloon of partisan rhetoric felt the prick of truth. To put it in the folksy palaver so dear to his heart, let me say, “Well, Tommy boy, yall done went and flubbed up big-time this time. I shore hope yall don’t hang no mo’ of them articles online. Dang, it shore took yall a long time to show yall’s true colors.” This is the last article I’m going to write to or about Tom Pain. The man is a know-nothing blowhard, as his error-ridden articles and rebuttals attest. He (1) said that Russia has the greatest proven oil reserves in the world, (2) listed Iran among Arab nations, and (3) included Egypt in a list of countries with copious natural resources. The man simply does not know what the hell he is talking about, a fact that I have been aware of for some months. Making himself a defense attorney for George W. Bush’s integrity and Bush’s allusion to the British intelligence dossier, he didn’t even know about the plagiarized thesis included in the dossier, belittled the particular website that I cited when I brought it to his attention, as if the same information hadn’t shown up on thousands of websites, and then promptly forgot about it. Later on, it was as though he had never even heard of it. The dossier was vitiated, Blair proven a liar and Bush’s reference to his sources a patent fraud. I said before that I had no intention of answering a series of articles and rebuttals that Pain posted. I hate his foul mouth, for one thing, and his bigoted opinions are equally annoying. As far as I can discern, his whole attitude on the Middle East springs from his desire to let everyone see how staunch a Republican he is. He thinks that this is macho or virile. It’s just a childish game, however. Perhaps it’s his Texas upbringing. Texas is the only state where men wear spurs to the supermarket and the laundromat. I know; I lived in Bay City , south of Houston , for some months. Stupidly, I relented in my decision to ignore his articles and rebuttals, and decided to answer one. I spend hours and hours checking out sources, compiling figures, finding corroborative links, and he just dismisses them out of hand, as if he knew better. But his remarks about Russia ’s oil show that he doesn’t have even the most easily checkable facts straight. He could have refuted his own idle guesswork with a one-minute check online. I mentioned Senator Fulbright’s views on the Middle East , and Pain acted as if he could dismiss or challenge them without even doing a minimal amount of checking. This is obvious, because he spelled his name “Fullbright” (twice), proving that he had not tried to find anything whatsoever about Fulbright. That spelling would have been rejected by a search engine immediately. Instead of trying to learn, Pain merely tries in vain to act as if he already knows. There’s no reason for me to continue this debate. Facts and figures, references and links mean nothing to him. He indulges in mere speculation and expects the facts to fall in place at his behest. But they don’t and won’t. He should return to his windbag series. New readers may not know that Pain, using an alias, wrote several articles called “Windbag of the Week”, aimed at fellow contributors. I’m waiting to see his autobiographical “Windbag of the Week.” ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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