But Harry, he has a degree!

On 6/20/14, 10:41 AM, Tim wrote:
But Harry, he has a degree!


This really seems to be an issue for you, Tim. Perhaps you should enroll
in a local college.

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Harry I'm not making a big deal out of the matter. I'm agreeing with Richard.

I'm just saying that credentialed, accredited academia and common sense may not always go hand in hand.

On 6/20/14, 11:50 AM, Tim wrote:
I'm just saying that credentialed, accredited academia and common sense may not always go hand in hand.


You and Richard should get a room. My comment specifically was aimed at
the irony of an absolute moron, Scott Ingersoll, commenting on the
intellectuality of a really smart person, Rachel Maddow. I was not
commenting in a general fashion.

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On 6/20/2014 8:58 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:50 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 8:25 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:08 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 6:35 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 12:07 AM, KC wrote:
From Rachael Madcow (MSNBC)

"The congressional authorization to go to war with AlQueda is still
good... but it doesn't apply to this group in Iraq because AlQueda
disowned them earlier this year"...

What a stupid bitch....


I didn't watch Rachel last night, but...

For a guy like you, an uneducated moron who was socially promoted
out of
high school and who has never held a decent job, to call Ms. Maddow
"stupid" is just...a statement that qualifies as one of the dumbest
remarks ever.

Anytime Rachel belches, she is expelling more brain activity than you
have ever had. Among her many achievements, Rachel holds a Doctor of
Philosophy in politics from Oxford University. You wouldn't qualify to
swab out toilets at Oxford.



A PhD doesn't mean someone is "smart". It means he or she satisfied
the course requirements and impressed a mentor and board with a
dissertation.

Oh, please stop with these anti-higher-education tirades of yours. They
just make you look silly. I know a few people with doctorates and I know
what they went through to get them. To even get into a first-rate
doctoral program, you had to have high GRE scores, high grades, be
personally interviewed by several faculty members, and have significant
letters of recommendation. There were multi-day exams at the end of each
year, and I know of several students who were "dropped" halfway through,
there were proficiency requirements in math and science and foreign
languages, faculty committees to be satisfied, preparation of a
significant research project, having the proposed project evaluated by
internal and external faculty committees, spending about a year doing
the research, evaluating it, preparing a half dozen dissertation drafts,
teaching classes, more exams, a final exam on "knowledge" that lasted
two days, and a full-fledged defense of the dissertation before three
university faculty members and several faculty members from other
universities.

Anyone who has an earned doctorate through a rigorous on-campus program
is smart. To posit otherwise is just silliness. "Satisfying the course
requirements..." What a laugh.

And for a moron like Ingersoll to claim Rachel Maddow is "stupid" just
reveals how stupid he is.



My anti-higher-education "tirades"? I feel nothing of the sort.

My objections are with people who feel they are somehow superior,
smarter or "better" simply because they have advanced or more than one
degree.

You often happen to be a perfect example.



The subject here was Rachel Maddow, who is as smart as a person gets,
and who also has advanced degrees. One of the resident morons here
claimed she was "stupid." That was stupid.


And you were stupid to call Bill stupid.


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On 6/20/2014 12:08 PM, H*a*r*r*o*l*d wrote:
On 6/20/2014 8:58 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:50 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 8:25 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:08 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 6:35 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 12:07 AM, KC wrote:
From Rachael Madcow (MSNBC)

"The congressional authorization to go to war with AlQueda is still
good... but it doesn't apply to this group in Iraq because AlQueda
disowned them earlier this year"...

What a stupid bitch....


I didn't watch Rachel last night, but...

For a guy like you, an uneducated moron who was socially promoted
out of
high school and who has never held a decent job, to call Ms. Maddow
"stupid" is just...a statement that qualifies as one of the dumbest
remarks ever.

Anytime Rachel belches, she is expelling more brain activity than you
have ever had. Among her many achievements, Rachel holds a Doctor of
Philosophy in politics from Oxford University. You wouldn't
qualify to
swab out toilets at Oxford.



A PhD doesn't mean someone is "smart". It means he or she satisfied
the course requirements and impressed a mentor and board with a
dissertation.

Oh, please stop with these anti-higher-education tirades of yours. They
just make you look silly. I know a few people with doctorates and I
know
what they went through to get them. To even get into a first-rate
doctoral program, you had to have high GRE scores, high grades, be
personally interviewed by several faculty members, and have significant
letters of recommendation. There were multi-day exams at the end of
each
year, and I know of several students who were "dropped" halfway
through,
there were proficiency requirements in math and science and foreign
languages, faculty committees to be satisfied, preparation of a
significant research project, having the proposed project evaluated by
internal and external faculty committees, spending about a year doing
the research, evaluating it, preparing a half dozen dissertation
drafts,
teaching classes, more exams, a final exam on "knowledge" that lasted
two days, and a full-fledged defense of the dissertation before three
university faculty members and several faculty members from other
universities.

Anyone who has an earned doctorate through a rigorous on-campus program
is smart. To posit otherwise is just silliness. "Satisfying the course
requirements..." What a laugh.

And for a moron like Ingersoll to claim Rachel Maddow is "stupid" just
reveals how stupid he is.



My anti-higher-education "tirades"? I feel nothing of the sort.

My objections are with people who feel they are somehow superior,
smarter or "better" simply because they have advanced or more than one
degree.

You often happen to be a perfect example.



The subject here was Rachel Maddow, who is as smart as a person gets,
and who also has advanced degrees. One of the resident morons here
claimed she was "stupid." That was stupid.


And you were stupid to call Bill stupid.



I still say you have to be stupid, regardless of degrees, to get up
there and say the things she says...

On 6/20/2014 7:25 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:08 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 6:35 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 12:07 AM, KC wrote:


Anyone who has an earned doctorate through a rigorous on-campus program
is smart.

Absolutely right.
But that doesn't mean their politics make make any sense.
Mikek


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Harry, I'd gladly share a room with Richard for a while! I don't know how long he could put up with me but I know I 'd learn a lot from him...

On 6/20/2014 12:37 PM, amdx wrote:
On 6/20/2014 7:25 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 8:08 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 6:35 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/20/14, 12:07 AM, KC wrote:


Anyone who has an earned doctorate through a rigorous on-campus program
is smart.

Absolutely right.
But that doesn't mean their politics make make any sense.
Mikek

It also doesn't mean they are smarter than anybody who has not not
"earned a doctorate through a rigorous on-campus program" either...


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