On Oct 28, 12:07*pm, "Paul@BYC" wrote:
On 10/28/2010 11:11 AM, jps wrote:





On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:05:14 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
*wrote:

On 10/28/2010 12:27 AM, jps wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:05:17 -0400, "Dr. Dr. Dr. Phd, Md. STD"
* wrote:

On 10/27/10 7:25 PM, jps wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:08:12 -0400, "Dr. Dr. Dr. Phd, Md. STD"
* *wrote:

On 10/27/10 2:38 PM, jps wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:40:33 -0400, "Dr. Dr. Dr. Karen Grear, MD, PhD,
* * wrote:

On 10/27/10 6:45 AM, Paul@BYC wrote:
On 10/27/2010 6:24 AM, I am Tosk wrote:
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:00:05 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
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On 10/26/2010 5:50 PM, jps wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:01:53 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
* * wrote:

On 10/26/2010 3:38 PM, I am Tosk wrote:
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says...

On 10/26/2010 3:18 PM, jps wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:19:34 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
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On 10/26/2010 11:43 AM, jps wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:00:01 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
* * wrote:

On 10/25/2010 12:28 PM, I am Tosk wrote:
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I get a lunch break, but you guys get to post here all day.
Rich? Retired? Not me.

I work from home, my wife is my boss, and after 20 years,
we still get
along, couldn't be better. Admittedly much of our business
is now
automated, but we spent many a year and hour getting here

I teach at a university in the middle of the state.

What do you teach?

Upper level undergrad and some grad courses in the traditional
liberal
arts.

Uh oh, one of the brainwashers!

As you know, ignorance is being worn as a badge of honor by a good
many Americans, including certain beverage-based political
organizations.

Glad to hear there's still some who are committed to
edumacating our
yungins.

Through no fault of mine, we have a very high percentage of our
students
going on to receive doctorates in the arts and sciences.
Smart is encouraged; stupid is not. :)

And still a political troll post, no matter how you look at it...

It is trolling to mention teaching and academic achievement?

Look out, you've already raised some hairs. Just mentioning higher ed
makes folks nervous around here...

Kool-aid is served year 'round hereabouts.

There really is a strong undercurrent of anti-intellectualism in this
country, more so than at any other time I can remember. It's too bad
because a dumbed down America will go down the tubes.

You mean "down the tubes" faster. The Chinese are turning out
engineers at 10 times the rate we are, many of them studying at our
universities.

The emergence of this beverage-based group really puts a point on it.
Their candidates don't require a basic knowledge of the constitution,
pivotal supreme court rulings or basic tenets of law. Instead, they
just supply a few common sense-isms, rail on the media, taxes, them
smart folks who got us in all this trouble, and mention the day they
accepted Jesus into their lives as their personal lord and savior.

That's it! You're electable and ready to govern! Yahooo!

Please don't feel obligated to respond. I'm already tainted by the
"liberal" stamp and you can remain above the fray. You should try to
keep it that way as long as possible since you'll have chosen sides
otherwise.

I hope your students help our country rediscover the pride of a
liberal arts education, the ability to leverage well-developed
critical thinking skills, and be of a country that accepts the
responsibility of the social compact between citizens, our obligation
to the state and our country.

Screw the greedy, the globalists and anybody who shops Walmart.

On 10/28/2010 5:23 PM, I am Tosk wrote:
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:37:44 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
wrote:

I trust you have the best intentions... I just know how tough it is for
my kid to be in a Social Studies class with a openly regressive teacher
who's car sports a bumper sticker saying "impeach Bush, torture Cheney".
She is a bright kid and knows how to play the game, she has the highest
grades in the class and it's not even her they are grading


You present an interesting paradox. On the one hand, you lament what you
perceive as a decline in freedom of speech and on the other hand, you
lament your kid's teacher expressing his or her freedom of speech on a
bumper sticker.

I suppose it is just context. Are you saying Helen Thomas, Rick
Sanchez and Juan Williams should not have been fired?

Yes, and Imus, and....



As a news reporter, and not a commentator, Ms. Thomas should have kept
her opinions to herself until she retired.

Rick Sanchez went after his bosses and employers and thus probably
deserved firing for demonstrating stupidity. Has Fox offered him a
contract yet?

Juan Williams probably was offered a $2 million contract if he could say
something insensitive enough to get himself fired by NPR.

Don Imus made some grossly racist remarks and deserved firing by a
network that had no business engaging in such behavior by one of its
hosts. I lost track of him; what's he doing these days?

On 10/28/2010 1:16 PM, jps wrote:

The process of weeding out the truly idiotic will take a while.

Then why not filter yourself and speed up the process?

On 10/28/2010 5:36 PM, Paul@BYC wrote:

As a news reporter, and not a commentator, Ms. Thomas should have kept
her opinions to herself until she retired.

I believe it's a good thing when an anti-semite outs themselves, retired
of not.

Why is academia always so arrogant?

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:20:54 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
wrote:

I read that the Peoples Republic of China now lays claim to the world's
fastest supercomputer. I don't know if any of the scientists involved in
that project were trained in the United States, but it would not
surprise me to learn some were.

I think the sun is setting on the United States for many reasons.

You may be right but that's a political statement anyway you slice it.
This is supposed to be (mostly) a boating group and past history here
is that nothing will get a food fight going faster than political or
religious pronouncements.

Don't start undoing your good work !

On Oct 28, 10:27*am, wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:35:32 -0700, jps wrote:
It's pretty obvious you're not a subscriber to higher ed.

I think the idea that everyone should go to college is probably not
valid.
There are plenty of people with liberal arts degrees who never learned
anything helpful in finding a job, yet they are saddled with a
$100,000 student loan that may end up costing them $200,000 or more by
the time they pay it off..
My biggest complaint with the American education establishment is the
degree of vertical integration. There is very little contact with the
real world. The system is dominated by generations of people who went
to school when they were 6 and never left.

You mean the 'professional student' types?

I know a guy who is working on a 2nd doctorate and is 36. and he'll
probably be a university life'r

Seems the university pays him to go to college to pay him to go to
college.

On 10/28/10 6:03 PM, I am Tosk wrote:
In article_o6dnfb5AYZvbFTRnZ2dnUVZ_i2dnZ2d@giganews. com,
says...

On 10/28/2010 5:36 PM, Paul@BYC wrote:

As a news reporter, and not a commentator, Ms. Thomas should have kept
her opinions to herself until she retired.

I believe it's a good thing when an anti-semite outs themselves, retired
of not.

Why is academia always so arrogant?

It's a detachment from the reality of the middle class.. Either way,
what was the big deal about what she said, it was hateful, but who
didn't know she was a hater in the first place, really? Come on if you
didn't know that before, you weren't listening...


"...Either way, what was the big deal about what she said, it was
hateful,..."

I don't think it is a great idea for reporters to say "hateful" things.
Her job as a reporter was to ask tough questions of the president and
white house staff, which she did for many years and of many presidents
and administrations.

What is the "reality of the middle class"?

On 10/28/10 6:12 PM, I am Tosk wrote:
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says...

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:20:54 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
wrote:

I read that the Peoples Republic of China now lays claim to the world's
fastest supercomputer. I don't know if any of the scientists involved in
that project were trained in the United States, but it would not
surprise me to learn some were.

I think the sun is setting on the United States for many reasons.

You may be right but that's a political statement anyway you slice it.
This is supposed to be (mostly) a boating group and past history here
is that nothing will get a food fight going faster than political or
religious pronouncements.

Don't start undoing your good work !

It's called "bait and switch".. Either way Wayne, you obviously missed
the "guidelines" Post. They clearly give regressives the right to post
mild trolls here and there, as long as nobody challenges it, we should
be ok...



"Regressives"?

The statement in question was non-partisan. *You* are using the language
of a troll.

On 10/28/2010 5:58 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:20:54 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
wrote:

I read that the Peoples Republic of China now lays claim to the world's
fastest supercomputer. I don't know if any of the scientists involved in
that project were trained in the United States, but it would not
surprise me to learn some were.

I think the sun is setting on the United States for many reasons.

You may be right but that's a political statement anyway you slice it.
This is supposed to be (mostly) a boating group and past history here
is that nothing will get a food fight going faster than political or
religious pronouncements.

Don't start undoing your good work !


Political? A non-partisan observation about this country is political?
So, if I posted that "Democracy in the United States has worked well,"
that would be political?

How about, "The sun is setting on new boat sales in the United States
because of the price of fuel, the economy, and the closure of many boat
manufacturers and dealerships."

Better?

Is it political to discuss the lack of dredging in the ICW?

I thought the idea was to avoid partisan political posting.

On Oct 28, 7:39*pm, I am Tosk wrote:
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On 10/28/2010 5:58 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:20:54 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
*wrote:

I read that the Peoples Republic of China now lays claim to the world's
fastest supercomputer. I don't know if any of the scientists involved in
that project were trained in the United States, but it would not
surprise me to learn some were.

I think the sun is setting on the United States for many reasons.

You may be right but that's a political statement anyway you slice it..
This is supposed to be (mostly) a boating group and past history here
is that nothing will get a food fight going faster than political or
religious pronouncements.

Don't start undoing your good work !

Political? A non-partisan observation about this country is political?
So, if I posted that "Democracy in the United States has worked well,"
that would be political?

How about, "The sun is setting on new boat sales in the United States
because of the price of fuel, the economy, and the closure of many boat
manufacturers and dealerships."

Better?

Is it political to discuss the lack of dredging in the ICW?

I thought the idea was to avoid partisan political posting.

Not your fault. You don't have enough seat time here to know all of the
history... For instance, If I said something totally innocuous to you
like "German screwdrivers", you might not see a problem, but there is
one poster (one you have already plinked I would imagine) who could get
all riled up... Listen to those who earn your trust, and keep a thick
skin, remember, some of us have been here over a decade...

--
Rowdy Mouse Racing - Pain is temporary, Glory is forever!

And some posters here are losers, like Scott Ingersoll aka Tosk, aka
justwaitafrekinminute, the midget lying ****.