I am reviewing, page-by-page, the Camp File from the NFA-LD Debate Cooperative 2009. Specifically, I am running each and every controversial claim through the “SEARCH” feature on http://www.factcheck.org/

Try it. It can do you no harm; and it might do you some good!

Thank you.

P.S. And this is a good site for Parli Debaters, too… assuming, that is, they want to argue reality every once and a while.

The people – and each and every one of them – who prepared the “2009 NFA-LD Debate Cooperative Evidence Set” have performed an INCREDIBLY-COMPETENT, HIGHLY-EDUCATIONAL, AND PURELY BENEFICIENT act for everyone in the NFA-LD community. I cannot praise them too highly for the contribution that they have, so professionally and altruistically, made to this activity.

BRAVO!!!

That said, this evidence is, a “Camp File.” As a “Camp File” it is, at least IMHO, only the first single step in the long journey that will culminate in April of 2010.

In other words, if I am the critic/judge, woe betide any debater (especially the ones that I coach) if they use these materials as a final product in a round. (And if anyone hears a Glendale
merely reading one of these cases or briefs, please LMK immediately.)

A GREAT foundation has been laid – but (again, just MHO) it is up to each individual program, each individual coach, and each individual debater to build his/her own work of art upon that foundation.

The NFA-LD Debate Cooperative has launched us skyward and allowed us to reach escape velocity; each of us is now charged with charting a course to the stars of his/her choice.

Thanks again, NFA-LD Debate Cooperative. We who are about to die – from downloading and researching – salute you!