Larry wrote:


Noone in America gives a **** about providing healthcare to the poor,
the unemployed, old retired people....unless they band together and
throw politicians into the street, of course.

Therein lies a big part of the problem. Americans hate poor people. They
think they're all lazy bums who have no ambition.

I think Matthew Fox put it perfectly on "Lost"

Live together or die alone.

Americans have to understand that they would be stronger as a nation, as
a people if they helped those that can't help themselves. Not all the
poor are lazy bums.

..


--

We must change the way we live,
or the climate will do it for us.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oCYW4ScUnw

On 2 Nov 2008 18:46:01 -0600, Dave wrote:

On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:08:36 -0500, Brian Whatcott
said:

idjits who
don't know that Obama was a professor of Constitutional Law at Chicago
(fer Criss sake!)

....
Obama was never a professor. He was an instructor, but he never wrote
anything of significance....

Google 'Obama professorial posts'. Not all his students raved
about Prof Obama. Perhaps you are unsure of the difference between
an instructor (often a graduate student in the American system), and a
"lecturer", the label for a professor, as titled in e.g the British
system. States with Vo-techs often have academics titled
professor, let alone first tier professional schools.

Brian W

According to the United States Government Printing Office, the
following states ratified the amendment:

Alabama (August 10, 1909)
Kentucky (February 8, 1910)
South Carolina (February 19, 1910)
Illinois (March 1, 1910)
Mississippi (March 7, 1910)
Oklahoma (March 10, 1910)
Maryland (April 8, 1910)
Georgia (August 3, 1910)
Texas (August 16, 1910)
Ohio (January 19, 1911)
Idaho (January 20, 1911)
Oregon (January 23, 1911)
Washington (January 26, 1911)
Montana (January 27, 1911)
Indiana (January 30, 1911)
California (January 31, 1911)
Nevada (January 31, 1911)
South Dakota (February 1, 1911)
Nebraska (February 9, 1911)
North Carolina (February 11, 1911)
Colorado (February 15, 1911)
North Dakota (February 17, 1911)
Michigan (February 23, 1911)
Iowa (February 24, 1911)
Kansas (March 2, 1911)
Missouri (March 16, 1911)
Maine (March 31, 1911)
Tennessee (April 7, 1911)
Arkansas (April 22, 1911), after having previously rejected the
amendment
Wisconsin (May 16, 1911)
New York (July 12, 1911)
Arizona (April 3, 1912)
Minnesota (June 11, 1912)
Louisiana (June 28, 1912)
West Virginia (January 31, 1913)
New Mexico (February 3, 1913)
Ratification (by the requisite thirty-six states) was completed on
February 3, 1913 with the ratification by New Mexico. The amendment
was subsequently ratified by the following states, bringing the total
number of ratifying states to forty-two of the forty-eight then
existing:

37. Delaware (February 3, 1913)
38. Wyoming (February 3, 1913)
39. New Jersey (February 4, 1913)
40. Vermont (February 19, 1913)
41. Massachusetts (March 4, 1913)
42. New Hampshire (March 7, 1913), after rejecting the amendment on
March 2, 1911
The following states rejected the amendment without ever subsequently
ratifying it:

Connecticut
Florida (rejected the amendment after it had already been ratified by
three-fourths of the states)
Rhode Island
Utah
The following states never took up the proposed amendment:

Pennsylvania
Virginia

"Dave" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:08:36 -0500, Brian Whatcott
said:

idjits who
don't know that Obama was a professor of Constitutional Law at Chicago
(fer Criss sake!)

Close, but no cigar.

Obama was never a professor. He was an instructor, but he never wrote
anything of significance, and he never did anything else to warrant his
being made a professor.

Another example of his being a chronic underachiever.


Nope. You're wrong as usual:
UC Law School statement: The Law School has received many media requests
about Barack Obama, especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer." From
1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a
professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a
Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses
per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School
faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or
tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of
Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law
School's Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public
service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years
as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a
full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.


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"clouddreamer" wrote in message
m...
Bill Kearney wrote:

Ah yes, the specious 'racist' argument. Anyone daring to criticize their
almighty Obama must be a racist.

It's racist because you say this about Obama without a comment on Palin's
lack of experience

No, you're the one so frantic and foaming at the mouth that you're desperate
to raise such a specious argument.

"Dave" wrote in message
news
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 17:47:09 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School
faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or
tenure-track.

How many legs does a sheep have if the University of Chicago Law School
calls its tail a leg?


So, you're contradicting the UofC Law School because *you* know better. Got
it.

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In article ,
"Bill Kearney" said:

Hardly. I'm just not interested in seeing someone with so few
creditials suitable for the job be elected to it. That his ass
happens to be black has nothing to do with it. Shame on you for
trying to insinuate otherwise. Who's the closest racist here,
you, more likely.

What do you think the creditials suitable for the job of President
are?

-- wds

William December Starr wrote:

In article

,
"Bill Kearney" said:

Hardly. I'm just not interested in seeing
someone with so few
creditials suitable for the job be elected to
it. That his ass
happens to be black has nothing to do with it.
Shame on you for
trying to insinuate otherwise. Who's the
closest racist here, you, more likely.

What do you think the creditials suitable for
the job of President are?

-- wds

Lets try leadership and selecting superior
advisors and key people around you.

Obama wins on both. Bush and McShame lost/loose
on both. McShame can not even organize his OWN
CAMPAIGN. Do you think he would do any better
leading the entire country???????

On Nov 1, 4:28*pm, Douglas Berry
wrote:
On *Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:49:37 -0500 Jangchub
carved the following into the hard stone of alt.atheism

Wait, Palin went to five colleges to get her degree in what, who
knows.

Jounalism. She wanted to be a sports reporter and ended up a weather
girl.

I think if you look again, you'll see she's "ended up" as Governor
of Alaska, candidate for VP, and possibly future President of
the United States.

--
Walt

"Dave" wrote in message
...
Seems pretty obvious from the language you quoted that what the U of C Law
School does is call their part time instructors "Professor" once the
instructor gets elected to public office. Why in the world would they do
that? Duh...

My Lincoln reference seems quite apposite.

Seems pretty obvious to me that their definition of "Professor" is entirely
in keeping with the dictionary:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/professor