Letters to the Editor
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fundamentalism's anti-intelligence
American fundamentalism is pretend christian and narcissistic. The personal savior is narcissistic exclusiveness and the family values theme is family narcissism, false pride/pride of pedigree which is a sin, according to the Bible.The false doctrine which fosters a "I'm not responsible" because a bogeyman god or a bogeyman Satan told me/made me do it. This institutionalizes "I'm not responsible" thereby establishing a co-dependent support system for not being responsible. Politicians, especially, use this flawed system to scapegoat and hide their corruptions and incompetence which is used to deceive the general public whose gullibility and ignorance can not be overestimated.
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no pain no gain
The truth hurts but facts are facts. The only people who don't know what a terrible state American education is in are Americans. The whole world knows. I heard this thinktanker with my own ears and I heard the calls from the listeners. Or do you have a conspiracy theory to cover that? Conservatives love war and they hate and fear anyone who can think- how the hell do you think a donkey like Bush got to be President? How do you think you got stuck in Iraq? Or have you forgotten how proud W was to be a 'c' student? Personally, I doubt he ever actually got a 'c' for anything. He's just too bloody stupid. I'd love to read the thesis that got him the history degree he's supposed to have. That conservative politicians thrive on war is a fact my friend. The majority of Americans didn't want to invade Iraq - 70% were opposed - but they were ignored by Conservative politicians, as they always are. Tony Blair is from a Tory family and war is a disease with Tories. Margaret Thatcher was so desperate to have a war she invaded the bloody Falkland Islands!Even as leader of the British Labour Party Blair couldn't resist the temptation to be Winston Churchill- a Conservative, of course- and fly in the face of what his own party wanted. Winston Churchill said that war was the 'natural activity of men'. We have a conservative politician in my country, who used to be the Minister for Education,who said all the teachers in Australia took their orders from Mao's Little Red Book- and the stupid bitch was serious!Being wiped out in an election in which even the Prime Minister lost his seat has taught them nothing. I told someone years ago at a backyard barbeque that if the Liberal Party ever got back into government they would do everything they could to stop people going to university. Well guess what! I was right. Even though that person thought I was being ridiculous. They did exactly as I thought they'd do AND they got involved in another American war. They never learn. It was the Australian Labour Party that brought in taxpayer funded tertiary education, needless to say. In America tertiary education is a privilege when it should be a right. Why isn't it a right? Well, I've already told you. The rightwing elites don't want it to be a right. An educated electorate is their nightmare. Imagine if all those fundamentalist Christians didn't take all their ideas on life from one very old book. One of the funniest things I've ever seen is a man asking people in the street in New York when 9/11 happened. Most people couldn't tell him and one woman even said, 'October?' Fooling people like that is laughably easy and Conservative politicians don't like to work too hard. If they had their way, as much of the electorate as possible would uneducated and fed the Mickey Mouse version of their own history as well as everyone else's, and in America so far they have had their way.
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p.s. phunkyjunky
The reason the number of students at university hasn't fallen is that America's population has now hit 300 million. If you look into it you'll find that as a percentage of population the number has remained static or fallen. The real disaster in American education is what happens to kids before they ever get a chance to go to university. Lack of funding and planning is destroying American education from primary school up and Conservative ideology, which claims that any form of collective planning or funding is Communism is to blame. Bush's cure for this is to push the teachers around and punish schools that 'fail'. No surprises there.
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Dorgey
whatever, loser. you keep missing the point.
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Dorkey
as for faces on Mars and global warming, you speak out of both sides of your mouth, jackass.
On the Face, you look for any excuse to DISPROVE it because you are prejudiced against it.
Yet, on global warming, you pull the OPPOSITE STUNT, looking for anything to PROVE it because you are prejudiced FOR it.
So you are full-of-shit and arrogant about it too. FUCK OFF, loser.
This is the problem with "extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence". I find it extraordinary that the Earth should be so susceptible to global warming. You need to prove it with EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE, or else you are a horse's ass.
Go to it, horse ass.
Leave me alone, you have proven to be a joker clown who just wants to harm innocent people.
I'll contact the FBI if you keep threatening me.
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Why don't you two (drwho and brighthead) just exchange email addresses?
And leave this thread for a real discussion. You both should relax.
I'm smarter than you! I'm smarter than you!
Sheeesh. Couldn't prove it by me.
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@ show me
Thanks for your comment -- I'm one of the profs you mentioned who posted earlier, and to answer your question, I'm supporting Obama now that Edwards has dropped out. I don't myself feel quite that degree of hyper-enthusiasm about Obama (my second choice, after all) that others apparently do, but so far the Obama "movement" hasn't struck me as dangerous either, although I have at least one (older) colleague who thought the "Yes We Can" video that's been circulating on Obama's behalf was kind of creepily totalitarian. I agree that Obama's supporters are going to be disappointed when he turns out not to be the new Messiah, but I also think he does have real potential to be a good and perhaps great president, and one reason I picked him over Hillary is that I don't have the same confidence about her (nor the same confidence that she can win in the first place).