One last time....

Listen, codebear, whether you want to believe it or not, I started all this totally open to what you had to say. I truly wanted you to educate me on the injustices that Bill Gates has served to the public school system in Seattle. No, I'm not an expert on Bill Gates or public education in Seattle. That's why I deferred to you (the self proclaimed expert) to tell me what was going on.

If Bill Gates is doing unethical things, I honestly would like to know about them. But, your avoidance of any and all questions on the matter doesn't help things. You continually state that you are not avoiding the questions and that you are in fact answering them. Well, if you are, I and the rest of the folks here aren't getting it. Explain it in a different way!

You speak of logic in several of your posts. I'm a logical person. In fact, I am too logical at times. I have to tell you, however, that you are not speaking logically. Step back for a second. You are obviously an intelligent person. You've just gotten so wrapped up in your cause that you can't see clearly any longer. Step back and take a look around. Then, take a deep breathe and clearly, intelligently, and logically explain exactly what Bill Gates has done to exploit the school district in Seattle. Just list the points one by one and give URLs to relevant sources where appropriate.

Please, please, please don't go off on another tirade and speak emotionally. You may not believe me, but I want to hear what you have to say. I just can't see the facts when your opinions get in the way (thugs, gangsters, partner in crime, no friend of children, derelicts, Mafia). Just stick to the facts and don't interject your opinions. Let us hear what you have to say. If the facts show Bill Gates exploits the schools, they will stand on their own merit and not need lifting up by allegations and opinions.

W00t! Amen.

Come on Matt - I bet your nose was growing longer as you were writing that!

You have three problems:

1. You're a Republican.
2. You're politicially ignorant.
3. You're lazy.

As a Republican, you're genetically programmed to protect corporate scum, like George W. Bush and Bill Gates.

Because you're ignorant, you're oblivious to the importance of logic, political connections, etc.

And you're too darn lazy to get off your butt and THINK.

As I told you, you're not going to find many smoking gun documents that convict Bill Gates (or George Bush or Bill Clinton, for that matter). I'm not aware that any of these bums have signed confessions.

But it isn't hard to figure out if you have any common sense at all.

But there's another problem, one that you miraculously recognize:

"I'm not an expert on Bill Gates or public education in Seattle."

You said it. And that makes my job even tougher.

When people explain how to do certain functions with PHP or MySQL to me, I seldom get it, because I know so little about PHP and MySQL. After all, I jumped in just a couple weeks ago.

But I've lived in Seattle - Bill Gates' backyard - for 20 years. I worked for the Seattle School District for 16 years and have been involved in political activism for nearly a decade.

Many people have accused me of practicing libel because some of the outrageous things I've said about Bill Gates and other members of the "Seattle Mafia." But no one has sued me. Why? Because I speak the truth.

Bill Gates gives millions of dollars to the Seattle School Board, which itself is frighteningly corrupt. That, by itself, is unethical.

I'm not the one who originated the story about Bill Gates blackmailing more than 500 schools. It was reported in the media. Maybe you should ask THEM to explain it to you. Or maybe you should talk to the businesses and government agencies in Texas and Germany who got sick of being threatened and told Bill Gates to shove it.

We taxpayers are buying a new football stadium for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. That's not an Internet rumor. It's a fact.

Paul Allen also bankrolled a charter school initiative a few years ago. That's a fact. Bill Gates is pushing charter schools this year. Fact.

So why is Gates pushing charter schools when he's giving money to PUBLIC schools? Is this an admission that his "philanthropy" isn't accomplishing anything?

In fact, it COULDN'T accomplish anything because Gates isn't even addressing the problems in education.

I enjoy these kinds of threads, because they give me an opportunity to 1) publicize Bill Gates and 2) publicize the foolish arguments Bill Gates' supporters rally behind.

Different kinds of people read these posts. Right-wingers and corrupt Democrats will automatically fall in line behind you, using the same stupid arguments (or no arguments at all). Most people probably don't care one way or another.

But the tiny percentage who do care and who have thinking skills will carefully weigh my words and your words.

I've presented a variety of facts, logical statements and questions and suggested some sources to both verify them and dig a little deeper; e.g. Google, the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligence, etc.

All you've done is remind us that you live in FLORIDA and don't have a clue about Bill Gates or public education.

Well, gee, I guess I'd better ask you for advice when I begin my investigation of King County Executive Ron Sims!

Have a nice day, Matt.

I gave him one last chance....too bad. Now he is banned.

I know I speak for many codewalkers when I say.. Thank You!

Postal Cow should be flogged for poking the troll.

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Yep he deserved it you offered a clean slate and he threw it back in your face. Well done matt for getting rid of a tyrant.