We can discuss your opinions, no dispute about those.

The problem is you insist on personalizing every subject simply as a vehicle to expound on why you are so great and every one else is a liar, a "liberal (add your insult)" or other derogatory comment that comes to your mind at the time.

In that regard there is no debate as far as you're concerned, it rather like a drive by shooting, where you shout a few inflammatory talking points, toss in a few insults or a little condescending attitude and run away to the next attack. It's pointless.

I know the truth when I hear or read it. I haven't heard it or read it in your case. Thousands of sailors have come through commands where I have worked. Discipline wise, I have heard it all. Trust is earned. It is earned through performance. When a solider, sailor or Marine tells me he did x,y or z, I check. If x,y or z is done as described, you begin to build a trust relationship with the solider, sailor or Marine. The next time the solider, sailor or Marine tells me he did x,y or z, I believe it, I don't have to check.

..So when you heard about my Dad working with Tom Delay and Denny Hastert, you thought the GOP connections were a lie...

This is the first time I have read that. If you say so. I doubt seriously that someone who is well connected in a political party as you claim would spend the amount of time you do on a second/third tier political show and website instead of pursuing bigger game. Either way, I really could care less what your dad does, who he knows and how much money he has. You constantly claimed you were on the "inside" of the GOP. Its your boast and of little concern to me.

...And when you read for years about my one-and-only single issue of taxation, you thought I had OCD, and I just wanted rich people to just keep on gettin' richer, because that's the American Way...

Possibly the only truthful thing you have ever posted. Most rich people I know feel no need to constantly brag about it. You may be rich..I doubt it. Just think how much richer you would be if you didn't spend most of your day blogging about your wealth on TYT.   Sounds to me like you want to be rich, you hatch big schemes and plans that never pan out and you need someone or something to blame. That  reason is taxes, the bogeyman "liberals". Wealthy people I know were smart enough to get and stay wealthy regardless of who was in the White House. That's why they are wealthy and you're not. It's your boast and of little concern to me.

...And when you called me a "phony" engineer, you didn't find it odd that no engineer in the forum ever dared challenge my knowledge in the field...

You know as well as I do you cant prove a negative. How many bonifide engineers are there on TYT blog? From what I have seen you have demonstrated little that a normal person couldn't have picked up from staying awake in a college chemistry or physics class. I have never called you a "phony engineer". You may have graduated from UT with a chemistry degree. I have no idea what you educational background is. I know your numerous explanations are confused and disjointed. Again it's your boast and of little concern to me. 

..And when you looked up the website, you thought the oil and gas experience must be somebody else's. (Well, my Dad does have a petroleum engineering degree, and more than a half century in the oil patch. But he was nice enough to teach me a couple of things on Take Your Kid To Work Day.)...

I don't know what website your referring to. Your family, your families activities, wealth or poverty, relatives, oil wells, Texas heritage or not, are your claims and of little concern to me.

We have been down this road before, and this too is pointless.

You make yourself the issue, that's the point. You enjoy it. You cultivate it. In short ,you need it. 

Don't flatter yourself by thinking that Hubble and I  spend every waking hour researching Ken...we don't. Don't flatter yourself by claiming every new detractor is my , Stars or Hubbles sock puppet, they aren't. Don't ever assume a I have spent  any time "researching" your personal information. I haven't.

You're just not that interesting. You are just a run of the mill loudmouth on an Internet forum. No more, no less. You're fun to bat around every now and then, that's about it.

In closing, when it comes to trust, and that's what we are talking about here, you haven't earned it.

That will never completely happen on an Internet forum so why bother? You could be Bill Gates or a homeless guy at the rescue mission

Sounds to me like you have trust issues with your father. You need to work those out before you come here ( or anywhere ) and expect unconditional acceptance and praise for you lives work and accomplishments, real or imagined.

So I have wasted enough time on you this morning, I'm out of coffee and the weather is great so..see ya.

Hope you had a good holiday, family infighting aside.

I'm glad to see you trust Tim, but I must say I'm confused as to why you bring him into this conversation because he agrees with Fred and me about the entire mythos surrounding spitting on vets.

What does Berkley have to do with the conversation? Kent State Ohio was also a hotbed for protesters as were many other colleges around the country, but to my knowledge veterans didn't land on campus, as Fred and Tim have pointed out they almost always came back to military air bases that for security reasons tend to have restricted access, and if on the RARE occasion a military transport had been diverted to OAK, exactly how would the "liberal posse" have been privy to the flight schedule?

As to your numerous claims of wealth, education, political connections, manliness I can only say you remind me of this guy.

As to other issues;

So when you heard about my Dad working with Tom Delay and Denny Hastert, you thought the GOP connections were a lie.

Didn't care one way or the other.

And when you read for years about my one-and-only single issue of taxation, you thought I had OCD, and I just wanted rich people to just keep on gettin' richer, because that's the American Way.

Actually it's not, and history is on my side, but history has never been your strong point. Of course when you get all you history talking points from Drug addicts and Alcoholics, it's understandable they might not get it right.

And when you called me a "phony" engineer, you didn't find it odd that no engineer in the forum ever dared challenge my knowledge in the field.

They don't have to challenge you, anyone with half a brain can understand you just google shit and don't even bother to read what you post because invariably what you claim is contradicted in the very links you provide.

And when you looked up the website, you thought the oil and gas experience must be somebody else's. (Well, my Dad does have a petroleum engineering degree, and more than a half century in the oil patch. But he was nice enough to teach me a couple of things on Take Your Kid To Work Day.)

No one cares, George W. Bush was a Texas Oil man who lived off his daddy's reputation too, of course he never found oil, is he your role model?

You've made so many claims and purport to be so many things it's no wonder you can't keep up, and then you want to call others bullshitters.

In conclusion..What Fred said!

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative." John Stuart Mill