Re: Not always joking, it seems

In article <61p3e3F2063qmU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Sean O'Hara <seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful David Friedman 
> declared:
> > In article <61n0keF1umji4U3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >  Sean O'Hara <seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >>>
> >> In another post he mentions that leaving the gold standard in the 
> >> 1970s is what's wrong with America, so I think retarded is probably 
> >> correct -- I mean, not only is he spouting a conspiracy theory, but 
> >> he doesn't even have the facts of the theory right.
> > 
> > Presumably he's referring to the point at which Nixon closed the gold 
> > window--which is one possible definition of leaving the gold standard.
> > 
> 
> But the conspiracy theorists usually blame Roosevelt (who was 
> secretly a Joooooooooooo working for the Rothschilds and Free Masons 
> to bring about a Workers Paradise in America, etc.). What's the 
> point of blaming Nixon for a conspiracy -- it's like blaming Oswald 
> for JFK's death.

Your claim wasn't merely that he was wrong but that he got his facts 
wrong. So far as I can tell, he didn't

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