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"Zing" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
Most of these incarcerations are at the state, county and municipal
level,
so POTUS has nothing to do w/ it, Mr. Krause.

Would you care to rethink that statement?

Sure, I'd be happy to rethink the statement.
OK......thinking.....Googling.......DONE.

snip

Too bad you spent all that time writing. This class ends soon. If this is
your thesis, it's indefensible. Please go back and start over with the RIGHT
theory.

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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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Sure, I'd be happy to rethink the statement.
OK......thinking.....Googling.......DONE.

snip

Huh?

Too bad you spent all that time writing.

Thanks for your heartfealt concern Doug. I canz tipe reely fast so it wasnt
to bad plus it wasnt that much writin cuz most wus cut an paste sinz you
asked me to rethink my statement an i use that goooogle thingy to check
stuff out. yes sometime facts are a bummer cuz they lay waste to our closely
held beliefs.

This class ends soon.
I hope so. I'm rained in, can't go anywhere and bored to death, hence my
fooling around here.

If this is
your thesis, it's indefensible. Please go back and start over with the
RIGHT
theory.


Wasn't really a thesis (I wrote one once). Just a collection of indisputable
facts and my personal conclusion. Plus its fun to play with the libs. Even
more fun than playing with the neocons. Doug, what's the RIGHT theory? Doug,
what's YOUR theory? Please keep it short - typing is hard work.

Kind Regards - Your pal Zing

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"John Smith" wrote in message
news:qtxqc.76275$iF6.6395680@attbi_s02...

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Zing wrote:
What? You're denying we have a dumb ass as president?

At least he doesn't waste his time, cut and pasting articles from online
web
sites. Bush is comfortable enough with his intelligence and life, that he
doesn't have to make up elaborate stories about his wife and boats he
owns.




You don't seem to mind reading the articles posted here.

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"Harry Krause" babbled:

Bush may have been clever in his youth, but decades of booze and drugs
did him in. He can barely read. He has no mind for details. He speaks
like an idiot, and can't piece together complex sentences.


Bah.

This comes from the old, dried up wanna-be boater that lives off his old
nurse/wife's stolen Zanax, and the cheapest booze he can find at the
all-night liquor store. If you stood Harry up in front of 20 people, he
would pee himself and drool.

Hey, if Harry can make up crap so can I.

Mine is less of a stretch.

Jack

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"Jack Goff" wrote in message
. com...

"Harry Krause" babbled:

Bush may have been clever in his youth, but decades of booze and drugs
did him in. He can barely read. He has no mind for details. He speaks
like an idiot, and can't piece together complex sentences.


Bah.

This comes from the old, dried up wanna-be boater that lives off his old
nurse/wife's stolen Zanax, and the cheapest booze he can find at the
all-night liquor store. If you stood Harry up in front of 20 people, he
would pee himself and drool.

Hey, if Harry can make up crap so can I.

Mine is less of a stretch.

If polished speaking were a true sign of intelligence, news anchors around
the globe would all be rocket scientists.

Businesses would not function if the CEO of every corporation was involve
with every detail of daily business. Businesses that flourish are those
that the CEO underlings to handle the details.


Jack

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wrote in message
hlink.net...
http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html
Confidential college transcripts and test scores obtained by the
Washington
Post reveal that neither presidential candidate, George W. Bush nor Al
Gore,
were shining students during their college days at Yale and Harvard,
respectively. Although each earned respectable scores on the SAT college
admissions test (a total of 1355 of 1600 for Gore and 1206 for Bush),
neither did that well in their college courses. Both earned a mix of B and
C
grades. Gore's lowest grade of D came in a natural sciences course, while
his top grades were an A in French and English, an A in Visual and
Environmental Studies, and an A- in Social Relations. Bush's lowest marks
were a 70 (of 100) in Sociology and a 71 in Economics, while his highest
scores were High Passes in History and Japanese.


That's pretty interesting. I've heard that today the average for freshman is
about 1050 or so and that has been dumbed down, so 1206/1355 in those days
was well above the average, though not spectacular. I wonder how that
brilliant, knows-something-about everything-Renaissance man Bill Clinton
did? Pretty well, I imagine.

Regards - Zing

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"Zing" wrote in message
...

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...


Sure, I'd be happy to rethink the statement.
OK......thinking.....Googling.......DONE.

snip

Huh?

Too bad you spent all that time writing.

Thanks for your heartfealt concern Doug. I canz tipe reely fast so it
wasnt
to bad plus it wasnt that much writin cuz most wus cut an paste sinz you
asked me to rethink my statement an i use that goooogle thingy to check
stuff out. yes sometime facts are a bummer cuz they lay waste to our
closely
held beliefs.

"Rethink" means you head to the web? That's not thinking.

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"Paul Fritz" wrote in message
...

"Jack Goff" wrote in message
. com...

"Harry Krause" babbled:

Bush may have been clever in his youth, but decades of booze and
drugs
did him in. He can barely read. He has no mind for details. He
speaks
like an idiot, and can't piece together complex sentences.


Bah.

This comes from the old, dried up wanna-be boater that lives off his
old
nurse/wife's stolen Zanax, and the cheapest booze he can find at the
all-night liquor store. If you stood Harry up in front of 20 people,
he
would pee himself and drool.

Hey, if Harry can make up crap so can I.

Mine is less of a stretch.

If polished speaking were a true sign of intelligence, news anchors
around
the globe would all be rocket scientists.

Businesses would not function if the CEO of every corporation was
involve
with every detail of daily business. Businesses that flourish are those
that the CEO underlings to handle the details.

Good theory. But, the CEO has to be ready to behead an underling when
necessary, and with little or no warning.

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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
"Zing" wrote in message
...

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...

"Rethink" means you head to the web? That's not thinking.


Ohhh come on Doug! A little research at a US Gov't web site, presenting a
few facts and coming to a conclusion isn't thinking? My head felt all tingly
so I must have been thinking. No, I'm not drinking beer.

Doug, Let me try again and I'll try to keep it simple.

1) You asked if I would rethink my statement that only a small fraction of
incarcerated felons were in the Federal system. I said "certainly."

2) I gave two links that absolutely, unequivocally show that my statement is
correct. For the click impaired, I cut and pasted their summaries so they
wouldn't have to look at those confusing graphs.

3) I wrote a conclusion in my very own words! Now that's thinking! Please
post a coherent reply and show the world that you can think too.

See, we did this in school and the teacher would say "good thinking." Some
of youz guyz really crack me up. Oh, BTW I have a boating question, but it's
stopped raining so I'm out of here.

Kind regards - Zing

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"Paul Fritz" wrote in message
...


If polished speaking were a true sign of intelligence, news anchors
around
the globe would all be rocket scientists.

Businesses would not function if the CEO of every corporation was
involve
with every detail of daily business. Businesses that flourish are those
that the CEO underlings to handle the details.


Jack


Good points Jack.

It's amusing how many simplistic political watchers think, in a child-like
way, that the POTUS needs to be so "super smart." An effective POTUS of
course is intelligent. But sometimes the best leaders are not the very
"smartest" folks. Who thinks Jack Welch at GE was "smarter" than his

engineers? I read his book. He'll tell you he is not. Jimmy Carter is widely
believed to be our smartest modern prez. A very ineffective leader as we all
know (but a good man IMO). G. Washington was driven but not brilliant but an
excellent leader. Jefferson, the most brilliant of all, had a tumultuous
tenure, deeply polarizing the nation, yet a good prez. Clinton -undoubtedly
a very sharp mind, but a lousy leader who frittered away an economic boom
time and period of relative world peace, will be remembered for ejaculating
on his staff and tugging at his peckerwood in the oval office. He too
bitterly polarized the nation, but hey he was SMART. Some of the smartest
people you'll ever find are in the US University system. Most of those folks
are a mile deep and an inch wide, but many couldn't lead a cub scout troop
to Chucky Cheeze. Read Bob Woodward's book "The President at War." Extensive
interviews and I don't think Mr. Woodward would say GWB is stupid.



Stupid is as stupid does. Afghanistan is successful thus far. The economy is
coming back. Iraq is a disaster, but the jury is still out there - it's not
even half time yet.



If we can actually get those medieval nuts to govern themselves peacefully,
than Bush will come out looking like a winner. If we can't, he's in trouble.
If the economic rebound falters and Iraq can't be tamed, he's toast. A
second term is in jeopardy now, no doubt. But I'm amazed that Sen. Kerry was
the best the Democrats could come up with. A decent candidate could cream
Bush. Whatever happened to the Sam Nunn (D-GA) type of Democrat?



Kind regards - Zing