Morning Lizards!

Morning rightside!

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.

Or what newspaper he works for.

Perhaps Heller's best quote, that I could find online:

"Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it."

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.

— Joseph Heller

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, no more no less.

one of the 7(?) rules of highly effective pirates.

morning gg!

Is this the skillet thread?

re: #6 rightside

morning gg!

Hello there!
Is that a Sargent Major's sign in your icon?

Good morning, Lizards!

{rightside}
{BlueCanuck}
{freetoken}
{tedzilla99}
{galloping granny}

Good morning {goddess}.

Good morning all. 53 degrees in the predawn gloom of Chambodia with a high around 80 later today. Feeding the baby at the moment.

How's everyone this fine morning?

re: #8 MigueldowninMexico

hello to you too!

omg no! it's first class petty officer, or E-6 in the Navy. The rank I retired at from the Navy.

re: #1 rightside

Morning Lizards!

re: #8 MigueldowninMexico

Hello there!
Is that a Sargent Major's sign in your icon?

First Class Petty Officer, United Staes Navy.

But what is the rate/occupation?

{goddess}

This from the "Raging Obama" thread earlier, but I think it fits...

Barack Obama is struggling to contain his anger and frustration over the constant barrage of questions about his character and judgment, his wife has revealed.

Seems to me, he wants to be judged on the color of his skin, and not the content of his character.

re: #9 goddessoftheclassroom

Good morning, Lizards!

{rightside}
{BlueCanuck}
{freetoken}
{tedzilla99}
{galloping granny}

Morning goddess. How are you today? (Supposed to be a nice one here!)

re: #14 rightside

{goddess}

This from the "Raging Obama" thread earlier, but I think it fits...

Seems to me, he wants to be judged on the color of his skin, and not the content of his character.

So he wants a political affirmitive action election?

re: #9 goddessoftheclassroom

re: #9 goddessoftheclassroom

Good morning, Lizards!

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. "
- E. B. White

Weel, galloping granny, I attacked the front garden yesterday. My Lizard-in-Training and I tacked the dandelions, nettles, and other weeds. I've got a blister on my palm, but I'm pumped to finish the onslaught this afternoon!

This weekend we clear our the back yard so I can lay out the raised bed.

re: #12 rightside

hello to you too!

omg no! it's first class petty officer, or E-6 in the Navy. The rank I retired at from the Navy.

Heh, as you can see I don't know about that lol
Thanks for your service! :)
God bless you.

re: #12 rightside

hello to you too!

omg no! it's first class petty officer, or E-6 in the Navy. The rank I retired at from the Navy.

don't mind him: he don't get out much, and all us funny suiters look the same.

/except the Cav, since we wear Stetsons %-)

re: #17 freetoken

re: #9 goddessoftheclassroom

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. "
- E. B. White

I love it!

{Goddess} :)

re: #20 redc1c4

don't mind him: he don't get out much, and all us funny suiters look the same.

/except the Cav, since we wear Stetsons %-)

Hahahaha.

re: #13 AmeriDan

I was a fire control technician, or later, just fire controlman. We operate and maintain the ships' guided missile fire control systems. Used in conjunction with the ships' primary 3D air search radar, the fire control directors ensured maximum accuracy, and allowed us to put "ordnance on target"

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.
— Joseph Heller

Thank you for that cynical, miserable, self-hating observation - just what I need to start my day./

re: #12 rightside

hello to you too!

omg no! it's first class petty officer, or E-6 in the Navy. The rank I retired at from the Navy.

Rate, please.

re: #20 redc1c4

We wore green berets. :)

/great for funning the yanks in Fort Drum I heard.

In the Mexican Army, one stripe is corporal, two, seargent, three seargent major.

I know about hierarchy here.

re: #24 rightside

I was a fire control technician, or later, just fire controlman. We operate and maintain the ships' guided missile fire control systems. Used in conjunction with the ships' primary 3D air search radar, the fire control directors ensured maximum accuracy, and allowed us to put "ordnance on target"

also know as a "BSU" rating......

re: #16 BlueCanuck

That, and pay no attention to whom I associated with before, that's the past. I look to the future. Because there is hope. And change. And you can't change the past. If you elect this black president, I will be that change. I hope.

re: #18 goddessoftheclassroom

Weel, galloping granny, I attacked the front garden yesterday. My Lizard-in-Training and I tacked the dandelions, nettles, and other weeds. I've got a blister on my palm, but I'm pumped to finish the onslaught this afternoon!

This weekend we clear our the back yard so I can lay out the raised bed.

Good for you! I've got about 1000 pounds of bushes to haul up the hill, the last of last fall's leaves to get up to the new compost pile, 16 holes to dig, another row to plant in the garden and heaven knows what else. The daughter will be home tomorrow so we want the yard spiffy - new deck and picnic table, so that will be a nice surprise for her. And somewhere I have to find time to pot up another couple hundred tomatoes!

More stupidity from my profession: Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment

Often it seems as though American higher education exists only to provide gag material for the outside world. The latest spectacle is an Ivy League professor threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their "anti-intellectualism" violated her civil rights.

Priya Venkatesan taught English at Dartmouth College. She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of "French narrative theory" that it amounted to a hostile working environment. She is also readying lawsuits against her superiors, who she says papered over the harassment, as well as a confessional exposé, which she promises will "name names."

re: #24 rightside

Cool, I was a Boiler Tech on an aircraft carrier for four years.

Yeah, I know, a lowly snipe. But I still work in the field and it pays the bills.

Good Morning Lizards!

re: #31 galloping granny

Want to make 1000 pounds of bushes disappear?
Get a goat!

lol

re: #19 MigueldowninMexico

You, and all the fellow lizards are welcome. Thank you!

re: #32 Lucius Septimius

More stupidity from my profession: Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment

Sorry, Mr Godwin, but these people act like NAZIS.
Ugh.

re: #33 AmeriDan

Everyones job onboard is important, no matter what. We had fresh air snipes, since we were gas turbine, so I have had to go down to the boiler room, and ask for a BT punch LOL

re: #25 sparrowlake

Many of Heller's quotes that I can find on the web have a biting nature to them... he really could put on the sour mood when he wanted so...

I don't know if Charles has the quotes preselected, or if they are just selected randomly by a 'bot searching someplace like brainyquote.com... but this Morning's quote has a sardonic-ness to it that is a bit darker than expected for LGF.

re: #22 MigueldowninMexico

{Goddess} :)

{MigueldowninMexico}

Happy Cinquo de Mayo! (Is that correct?)

re: #31 galloping granny

Good for you! I've got about 1000 pounds of bushes to haul up the hill, the last of last fall's leaves to get up to the new compost pile, 16 holes to dig, another row to plant in the garden and heaven knows what else. The daughter will be home tomorrow so we want the yard spiffy - new deck and picnic table, so that will be a nice surprise for her. And somewhere I have to find time to pot up another couple hundred tomatoes!

i've been busy killing off non-native plants in the front yard and rearranging things out there. next i have to plant the native grass in back and secure the seeds from the bird population.

there's also the water feature out front to finish and the fountain/birdbath i'm expected to create in back.

/yes dear

re: #33 AmeriDan

Cool, I was a Boiler Tech on an aircraft carrier for four years.

Yeah, I know, a lowly snipe. But I still work in the field and it pays the bills.

Thanks for your service too, Dan.
God bless you too :)

re: #31 galloping granny

Good for you! I've got about 1000 pounds of bushes to haul up the hill, the last of last fall's leaves to get up to the new compost pile, 16 holes to dig, another row to plant in the garden and heaven knows what else. The daughter will be home tomorrow so we want the yard spiffy - new deck and picnic table, so that will be a nice surprise for her. And somewhere I have to find time to pot up another couple hundred tomatoes!

I am humbled.

However, I know better than to set my sights too high--my goal is to get started. I really enjoyed working on it yesterday with my son.

re: #41 goddessoftheclassroom

{MigueldowninMexico}

Happy Cinquo de Mayo! (Is that correct?)

Thanks, goddess! :)
Cinco de Mayo ;)

re: #41 goddessoftheclassroom

shhhhhh... Miguel is a known Cinco-terrorist.....

Is this the Army, Navy and/or the Marines thread?

re: #30 rightside

That, and pay no attention to whom I associated with before, that's the past. I look to the future. Because there is hope. And change. And you can't change the past. If you elect this black president, I will be that change. I hope.

Besides, this is not helping your children at all.

/move along people

re: #46 freetoken

shhhhhh... Miguel is a known Cinco-terrorist.....

Hahahahahaha

re: #33 AmeriDan

Cool, I was a Boiler Tech on an aircraft carrier for four years.

Yeah, I know, a lowly snipe. But I still work in the field and it pays the bills.

you kept the big grey bitch moving, and without that , she might as well have been a reef. you mattered.

thank you for your service. it *ALL* counts.

re: #47 littleoldlady

Is this the Army, Navy and/or the Marines thread?

I love Holiday-on-Ice!
:)

re: #32 Lucius Septimius

More stupidity from my profession: Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment

I read that the other day. What a lunatic this woman is. Oddly enough, I also googled for a picture of her (small world up here) and discovered that there were women (all different) in the same profession at at least 2 or 3 other colleges/universities scattered around the US.

Frankly, it almost made me wonder whether to call the INS. That seems like a very unusual name, much too unusual to be repeated for instructors at several different colleges.

See here -
[Link: www.google.com...]

If you click the images link at the very top of the page, you will also find pics of at least one other lady by the same name, this one at Duke.

re: #47 littleoldlady

Is this the Army, Navy and/or the Marines thread?

looks like the Air Force

110% on the "Gay Scale"

re: #50 MigueldowninMexico

Hahahahahaha

Miguel, Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Congratulations, Ya whipped the French. The French?
I mean , great victory & all, but the French?

re: #52 MigueldowninMexico

I love Holiday-on-Ice!
:)

I think the midget on skates is the star!

/me and BabbaZee
//Big OTs

re: #32 Lucius Septimius

It almost makes me sick.

One of my former students just got an A in an English 101 (composition) course. He told me he learned more about writing and correct structure when he had me in 8th grade. All he had to write about was how he "felt" about certain topics--no citations.

re: #42 redc1c4

i've been busy killing off non-native plants in the front yard and rearranging things out there. next i have to plant the native grass in back and secure the seeds from the bird population.

there's also the water feature out front to finish and the fountain/birdbath i'm expected to create in back.

/yes dear

ROFLMAO. See, if it were me I would inform the dear that the cost of fresh produce is much too high and expected to shoot over the moon with the price of gas and so on, thus I had decided that all of the available plantings and yard space should be given over to Victory Gardening.

Which is essentially what we are doing here, since I don't mow, the daughter doesn't have time/hates to, and the kiddo is much too young to be allowed to mow unless we get her a foot powered mower.

re: #53 galloping granny

Granny
Lucius

That reminds me of a popular saying in Cuba:
"In Cuba, the one who doesn't applaud is a counter-revolutionary"

The Nazis on the left want us not only to shut up, but to agree wholeheartedly with them...or else.
They're so sick.

Good morning, iizards.
Another Monday.

night all................. i'd better hit it before HRH wakes up and asks why i'm still up. %-)

L8r!

Well, good night all....

Time to sign off my broadcast day... tonight with this to counter Mr. Heller....

re: #55 opnion

Miguel, Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Congratulations, Ya whipped the French. The French?
I mean , great victory & all, but the French?

Hpmfffff...

Good night red. Have a busy day.

Heller's futility-of-war themes are Moonbat candy.

re: #43 MigueldowninMexico

Thanks for your service too, Dan.
God bless you too :)

re: #38 rightside

Everyones job onboard is important, no matter what. We had fresh air snipes, since we were gas turbine, so I have had to go down to the boiler room, and ask for a BT punch LOL

You are very welcome Miguel. I was proud to serve.

Rightside, my last year in, I was the watch supervisior (BTOW) and had to give a BT punch or three. I always took it easy on them though, just a playfull tap on the arm.

Then I gave then a tour of the Main Machinery Room. I guess I'm just an ole softy.

re: #60 Irish Rose

Good morning, iizards.
Another Monday.

Hello there! :)
Indeed.

re: #44 goddessoftheclassroom

I am humbled.

However, I know better than to set my sights too high--my goal is to get started. I really enjoyed working on it yesterday with my son.

Oh, don't be humbled. You would not be if you were here, trust me. This is not a new house - an antique, built in 1930. It once had lovely gardens, but they had been allowed to run wild during the entire time the previous owners had the house. I've already spent an entire year digging and clipping and weeding just to see what is even here, LOL, and will be at least a couple more thinning and putzing and moving and dragging and having at stuff with the chain saw unless I simply sterilize the entire mess. Hate to do that because there are some rare old iris, peonies and lilies, if I can ever get enough stuff weeded out to rescue them.

Gardening with kids is wonderful fun - and a great opportunity to slip a few science lessons in or add to their powers of observation. I have some great plans for an aquaculture set up you can do in an old aquarium come fall if you decide you want to give that a whirl too.

re: #62 freetoken

Good night free! :)

Hola Lagarto's!

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

re: #32 Lucius Septimius

More stupidity from my profession: Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment

After a winter of discontent, the snapping point came while Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on "ecofeminism," which holds, in part, that scientific advancements benefit the patriarchy but leave women out. One student took issue, and reasonably so – actually, empirically so. But "these weren't thoughtful statements," Ms. Venkatesan protests. "They were irrational." The class thought otherwise. Following what she calls the student's "diatribe," several of his classmates applauded.

Ms. Venkatesan informed her pupils that their behavior was "fascist demagoguery." Then, after consulting a physician about "intellectual distress," she cancelled classes for a week. Thus the pending litigation.

ROFLMAO! Typical light-weight mind. "FASCIST!"

re: #32 Lucius Septimius

More than 25 years ago I had a beautiful friend
he was 83 then
he had degrees in 5 or 6 different disciplines
he had been fired from almost every teaching position he ever held at the university level
and he had walked off the rest
He was reduced to teaching high school science by the time I met him.

So way back then he warned me about this kind of crap in academia and more, and the agenda politics, but I had no understanding then of what he was speaking about, I had not even been to college as a student ...
so I had zero clue about what the environment was like.

He also used to say two things to me
often and emphatically :

The entirety of the fossil evidence they have on the so called origins of man would not fill the bed of a pick up truck.

and

A very small group of incredibly stupid people does 90% the world's thinking for it ~
do not take anything they tell you at face value, they all have an agenda.

Love you Charlie. Miss you like crazy.

re: #61 redc1c4

night all................. i'd better hit it before HRH wakes up and asks why i'm still up. %-)

L8r!

Good night, you poor oppressed man.

/You should joint Men Lib lol

re: #58 galloping granny

ROFLMAO. See, if it were me I would inform the dear that the cost of fresh produce is much too high and expected to shoot over the moon with the price of gas and so on, thus I had decided that all of the available plantings and yard space should be given over to Victory Gardening.

Which is essentially what we are doing here, since I don't mow, the daughter doesn't have time/hates to, and the kiddo is much too young to be allowed to mow unless we get her a foot powered mower.

well, first off: i don't argue with my wife. that's why i have a happy marriage. second of all, there's only two of us, so we need only a bit of green crops, which we produce. since she won't let me crop out the whole area as Zinfandel, there's hardly any reason to anything else anyway.

re: #73 MigueldowninMexico

Good night, you poor oppressed man.

/You should joint Men Lib lol

Oops. Don't joint them, just join them lol

re: #56 littleoldlady

I think the midget on skates is the star!

/me and BabbaZee
//Big OTs

Big OT's are ripping them off!

re: #51 redc1c4

you kept the big grey bitch moving, and without that , she might as well have been a reef. you mattered.

thank you for your service. it *ALL* counts.

Thank you.

re: #53 galloping granny

She is something of a lunatic, it would seem. Interesting background I see -- MS in Genetics and PhD in literature.

It's her area of study now that's bizarre -- essentially the whole point is to argue that "science" has no validity because it's a "social construct" of "patriarchy." So I guess the reason her reactions never worked, or she couldn't balance equations in advanced organic was because of the evil patriarchy.

Glad to see her students were at least paying attention and called her on that nonsense.

re: #70 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Hola Lagarto's!

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Hahahaha lagartos lol
Thanks:

re: #14 rightside

{goddess}

This from the "Raging Obama" thread earlier, but I think it fits...

Seems to me, he wants to be judged on the color of his skin, and not the content of his character.

I heard He & Hillary speak last night at the Jefferson/Jackson dinner.
Hillary was the same old Euro socialism that you would expect.
Barry on the other hand; I have not heard that kind of Marxism since philosophy 101.
The terminology was omitted but the concepts were the same.
Hillary would bleed the middle class, Barry would go for the quick kill.

re: #57 goddessoftheclassroom

My smarter students complain about classes where all they have to do is write about feelings. Of course the ones who want to wallow in their late adolescent angst usually try to avoid me.

re: #73 MigueldowninMexico

Good night, you poor oppressed man.

/You should joint Men Lib lol

Mano, if you lived like i do, you wouldn't want to get liberated either. %-)

*really L8r*

re: #71 MandyManners

After a winter of discontent, the snapping point came while Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on "ecofeminism," which holds, in part, that scientific advancements benefit the patriarchy but leave women out. One student took issue, and reasonably so – actually, empirically so. But "these weren't thoughtful statements," Ms. Venkatesan protests. "They were irrational." The class thought otherwise. Following what she calls the student's "diatribe," several of his classmates applauded.

Ms. Venkatesan informed her pupils that their behavior was "fascist demagoguery." Then, after consulting a physician about "intellectual distress," she cancelled classes for a week. Thus the pending litigation.

ROFLMAO! Typical light-weight mind. "FASCIST!"

She is damned lucky her students don't sue her for breach of contract. Tuition at Dartmouth runs something on the order of $35000 per year. That figures out to a fairly hefty amount of change on a per class basis.

re: #78 Lucius Septimius

She is something of a lunatic, it would seem. Interesting background I see -- MS in Genetics and PhD in literature.

It's her area of study now that's bizarre -- essentially the whole point is to argue that "science" has no validity because it's a "social construct" of "patriarchy." So I guess the reason her reactions never worked, or she couldn't balance equations in advanced organic was because of the evil patriarchy.

Glad to see her students were at least paying attention and called her on that nonsense.

In a few of my graduate courses, I felt like the kid in "The Emperor's New Clothes" or Alice in Wonderland--some of the literary theory stuff was nonsense.

fascist demagoguery!

DRINK!

re: #77 AmeriDan

Thank you.

de nada...... i was *just* an 11B/19D/buncha other shit-10.

re: #72 BabbaZee

Mornin' Babba!

I have an agenda ... I want my students to be happy, thoughtful, and successful. And I also want them to have good relationships with their parents and with God.

The trick to teaching is to remember that at the end of the day, it's not about your own ego. That is more difficult that it may seem to be.

re: #82 redc1c4

Mano, if you lived like i do, you wouldn't want to get liberated either. %-)

*really L8r*

Congratulations on that! ;)

re: #87 Lucius Septimius

Mornin' Babba!

I have an agenda ... I want my students to be happy, thoughtful, and successful. And I also want them to have good relationships with their parents and with God.

The trick to teaching is to remember that at the end of the day, it's not about your own ego. That is more difficult that it may seem to be.

So I have heard LOL

re: #71 MandyManners

ROFLMAO! Typical light-weight mind. "FASCIST!"

Yep. What a maroon!

re: #85 BabbaZee

DRINK!

And I called her a Nazi.
Me culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

Right now on the Yahoo front page is this news item...

Is Denver ready for an alien encounter?

Honestly? I don't think so. But we'll find out soon enough.

re: #78 Lucius Septimius

She is something of a lunatic, it would seem. Interesting background I see -- MS in Genetics and PhD in literature.

It's her area of study now that's bizarre -- essentially the whole point is to argue that "science" has no validity because it's a "social construct" of "patriarchy." So I guess the reason her reactions never worked, or she couldn't balance equations in advanced organic was because of the evil patriarchy.

Glad to see her students were at least paying attention and called her on that nonsense.

Don't even get me started on the whole "girls don't do science, girls don't do math" thing. One of my girls, who is pretty brilliant mathematically (went to Smith at 16), had the misfortune to land in one of the very first "calculus for girls" classes. It so traumatized her to have to invent calculus while attempting to figure out how many pairs of shoes were in her closet that it was more than a decade before she managed to get back into math.

re: #86 redc1c4

de nada...... i was *just* an 11B/19D/buncha other shit-10.

Way over my head.

/splain

re: #87 Lucius Septimius

Mornin' Babba!

I have an agenda ... I want my students to be happy, thoughtful, and successful. And I also want them to have good relationships with their parents and with God.

The trick to teaching is to remember that at the end of the day, it's not about your own ego. That is more difficult that it may seem to be.

AMEN!

I'm trying to get my kids to THINK about what they read, not just accept it. Of course, getting some of them to read at all is challenge enough...

Didn't someone say that there's no difference between a man who can't read and a man who won't read?

re: #83 galloping granny

She is damned lucky her students don't sue her for breach of contract. Tuition at Dartmouth runs something on the order of $35000 per year. That figures out to a fairly hefty amount of change on a per class basis.

Ecofeminism? WTF?
I have a niece who minored in 'Peace Studies." I asked for an overview of the material & she could not give it to me, or it was so silly that she was just embarrassed.

Morning Babba.

re: #92 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Right now on the Yahoo front page is this news item...

Honestly? I don't think so. But we'll find out soon enough.

HA!
Aliens have been living in Denver for years now!
In huge vaults under DIA.

/Oops, spilled the beans...
//Can't help it, I'm a beaner.

Morning Granny.

re: #87 Lucius Septimius

Mornin' Babba!

I have an agenda ... I want my students to be happy, thoughtful, and successful. And I also want them to have good relationships with their parents and with God.

The trick to teaching is to remember that at the end of the day, it's not about your own ego. That is more difficult that it may seem to be.

I spent a number of years teaching older women returning to the workforce the hard science they needed to acquire a degree in nursing or similar fields. I always got the biggest kick out of their faces when they discovered that some of the "hardest" concepts were things they had known for years from their own kitchens.

Morning {AmeriDan}

re: #83 galloping granny

She is damned lucky her students don't sue her for breach of contract. Tuition at Dartmouth runs something on the order of $35000 per year. That figures out to a fairly hefty amount of change on a per class basis.

I hope they ask for legal fees in their response to her suit.

re: #98 MigueldowninMexico

HA!
Aliens have been living in Denver for years now!
In huge vaults under DIA.

/Oops, spilled the beans...
//Can't help it, I'm a beaner.

There goes the Lizard Secret Lair.

re: #94 AmeriDan

MOS's 11B is an infantry soldier I think. I only knew mine up here. Essentially his jobs in the army.

re: #90 Lucius Septimius

Yep. What a maroon!

She sounds like an incredibly spoiled brat.

re: #91 MigueldowninMexico

And I called her a Nazi.
Me culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

Heil!

Got to go, dear Lizards--enjoy your Monday!

re: #96 opnion

Ecofeminism? WTF?
I have a niece who minored in 'Peace Studies." I asked for an overview of the material & she could not give it to me, or it was so silly that she was just embarrassed.

This is exactly the reason that I am dead against parents footing the bill for college. Individuals who are paying for it on their own dime pay far more attention to the ROI and usually attempt to actually learn something.

re: #103 AmeriDan

There goes the Lizard Secret Lair.

Darn :(

;)

re: #104 BlueCanuck

MOS's 11B is an infantry soldier I think. I only knew mine up here. Essentially his jobs in the army.

11B10 is standard infantry. 11B something else varies. Infantry connected but specialized and not ground pounders.

re: #106 BabbaZee

Heil!

And thunder!

Hahahaha ;)

re: #108 galloping granny

This is exactly the reason that I am dead against parents footing the bill for college. Individuals who are paying for it on their own dime pay far more attention to the ROI and usually attempt to actually learn something.

Critical thinking at the university level seems to be frowned upon.
Group think is in vogue.

re: #102 MandyManners

I hope they ask for legal fees in their response to her suit.

Saying you're going to file and actually doing so are two different things. Dartmouth may be a lunatic asylum, rather anti-semitic, and a general nut house, but in other ways the area is pretty conservative. I can't see any local attorney taking such a moonbat suit on unless she has millions to finance the thing. Not to mention I think she would have to go pretty far even to find an attorney with no connection to Dartmouth.

re: #108 galloping granny

This is exactly the reason that I am dead against parents footing the bill for college. Individuals who are paying for it on their own dime pay far more attention to the ROI and usually attempt to actually learn something.

I've taught at different kinds of schools where parents paid tuition, and at others where students payed it themselves.
The difference is very obvious. The latter study/work more.

{BabbaZee}

Always the perfect video from you. I may be AmeriDan, but in the non-AlBore intertubes world, I'm Danny.

And yes the pipes are calling.

re: #110 galloping granny

Meh, take away all their fancy toys and everyone is a grunt. :)

/only thing that gave us joy.

re: #96 opnion

Ecofeminism? WTF?
I have a niece who minored in 'Peace Studies." I asked for an overview of the material & she could not give it to me, or it was so silly that she was just embarrassed.

My personal favorite is the (white, Jewish) kid who recently graduated from Haverford College ($$$$$) having taken "five or six black centric courses". When I asked him exactly what career path necessitated a curriculum like that, his answer was, "I took them because they interested me. I thought that's what college is about..."

re: #112 opnion

Critical thinking at the university level seems to be frowned upon.
Group think is in vogue.

Eins! Zwei! Drei! Vier!

re: #112 opnion

Critical thinking at the university level seems to be frowned upon.
Group think is in vogue.

That is what they are being taught from the day they enter kindergarten, with some few exceptions like the area Goddess teaches in. "we are all the same. . . . . there is no such thing as talent or "smart" . . . . . never give offense . . . . . . . NO TOLERANCE!"

re: #105 MandyManners

She sounds like an incredibly spoiled brat.

Bingo.

How's the Kid this morning? Still trafficking in contraband?

re: #117 littleoldlady

My personal favorite is the (white, Jewish) kid who recently graduated from Haverford College ($$$$$) having taken "five or six black centric courses". When I asked him exactly what career path necessitated a curriculum like that, his answer was, "I took them because they interested me. I thought that's what college is about..."

I remember that.
Would you mind telling us how much that capriccio cost him?

re: #121 MigueldowninMexico

EASILY $200,000.

/The Rich Are Different

re: #114 MigueldowninMexico

I've taught at different kinds of schools where parents paid tuition, and at others where students payed it themselves.
The difference is very obvious. The latter study/work more.

I went back to college about the time I turned 40. Absolutely flabbergasting.

re: #122 littleoldlady

EASILY $200,000.

/The Rich Are Different

Very

different.

re: #111 MigueldowninMexico

And thunder!

Hahahaha ;)

And Lightning !

LOLOLOLOLOL!

re: #117 littleoldlady

My personal favorite is the (white, Jewish) kid who recently graduated from Haverford College ($$$$$) having taken "five or six black centric courses". When I asked him exactly what career path necessitated a curriculum like that, his answer was, "I took them because they interested me. I thought that's what college is about..."

They provided necessary skills for functioning in an increasing diverse world, or at least that's the BS rationale we're always being given for offering those sorts of classes.

re: #123 galloping granny

I went back to college about the time I turned 40. Absolutely flabbergasting.

HUGE difference to the younger years right?
That's when one is really interested in learning.

re: #115 AmeriDan

The pipes are ALWAYS calling!
;~}

re: #113 galloping granny

Saying you're going to file and actually doing so are two different things. Dartmouth may be a lunatic asylum, rather anti-semitic, and a general nut house, but in other ways the area is pretty conservative. I can't see any local attorney taking such a moonbat suit on unless she has millions to finance the thing. Not to mention I think she would have to go pretty far even to find an attorney with no connection to Dartmouth.

All she has to do is find a moonbat attorney who hates Dartmouth. I'm sure they're out there.

Peter Ducey (son of Steve) is moderating a student focus group with Villanova students right now on Fox.
The question was did Obama distance from Wright for political reasons?
One kid turned himself into a pretzel trying to rationalize for Barry.
It was all "I feel" He was followed by another kid who said 'Of course he did."

re: #125 BabbaZee

And Lightning !

LOLOLOLOLOL!

Hahahaha Babba!
You have a link for every thing! LOL

re: #126 Lucius Septimius

They provided necessary skills for functioning in an increasing diverse world, or at least that's the BS rationale we're always being given for offering those sorts of classes.

The must mean that it attuned him to sit calmly through a diatribe like the Good Reverend Wright's and simply accept his guilt while shouting Hallelujah!

re: #127 MigueldowninMexico

HUGE difference to the younger years right?
That's when one is really interested in learning.

I teach both traditional and "non-traditional" students. There is a profound difference, though I must say that in each group, there are still people who shouldn't be in college -- it's not for everybody.

re: #81 Lucius Septimius

My smarter students complain about classes where all they have to do is write about feelings. Of course the ones who want to wallow in their late adolescent angst usually try to avoid me.

I am not a teacher but I have a slightly different take.
If what I hear and see is true, then our society is experiencing a literacy crisis. Given the low levels of literacy among our youth, including the difficulty many have in expressing themselves, I would encourage educators to focus more on imparting the basic communication skills such as grammar, spelling and organization, and to worry less about the subject matter of the writing. My pet peeve is the poor and sloppy writing skills all too oftern exhibited even by those who have university degrees and are obviously intelligent. I always encouraged my own kids to read, read, read, and to write about anything - but to do it well.

Durban II: The Not-So-Hidden Agenda
April 30: More double-standards when it comes to Jews and Israel

re: #132 galloping granny

The must mean that it attuned him to sit calmly through a diatribe like the Good Reverend Wright's and simply accept his guilt while shouting Hallelujah!

Gold star for you, granny!

re: #131 MigueldowninMexico

Hahahaha Babba!
You have a link for every thing! LOL

A very agreeable song! :)

Durban II: A Human Rights Abuser's Playground
April 24: An opportunity for human rights abusers to fabricate and distort the issues and the record

re: #133 Lucius Septimius

I teach both traditional and "non-traditional" students. There is a profound difference, though I must say that in each group, there are still people who shouldn't be in college -- it's not for everybody.

Agreed.

re: #110 galloping granny

11B10 is standard infantry. 11B something else varies. Infantry connected but specialized and not ground pounders.

Note to self... don't piss off red

EYE on the UN complete list Durban videos

Miguel,

Just looked it up.

2008-2009 Costs

* Tuition
$37,175
* Room and Board
$11,450
* Student Activity Fee
$350
* Total:
$48,975

In addition, first year students must add a $180 Orientation Fee making the yearly budget $51,817.

And that, of course, doesn't include all the "extras"...

re: #134 sparrowlake

True, though having them write about something and pay attention to the material is a way of avoiding having them just write about feelings -- if they have to focus on analyzing evidence there is not so much room for gushing about this or that. And in the process, they have to learn how to frame their ideas in proper form -- in my courses, at least, half of the grade is on form.

Creative writing is a whole different bag, and I wish they insisted on good grammar there as well.

re: #127 MigueldowninMexico

HUGE difference to the younger years right?
That's when one is really interested in learning.

I think the biggest difference was that I had gained a tremendous number of organizational skills and intense juggling ability over 20 years of marriage, work and 4 daughters - all of whom were teens when I went back to school as a single mother who worked full time to boot. I could accomplish in a few hours what the kids I went to school with could not get done in a month. (Of course I was not distracted by mixers, frat parties and the latest rent party.)

re: #142 littleoldlady

Miguel,

And that, of course, doesn't include all the "extras"...

Like dope ...

re: #134 sparrowlake

I am not a teacher but I have a slightly different take.
If what I hear and see is true, then our society is experiencing a literacy crisis. Given the low levels of literacy among our youth, including the difficulty many have in expressing themselves, I would encourage educators to focus more on imparting the basic communication skills such as grammar, spelling and organization, and to worry less about the subject matter of the writing. My pet peeve is the poor and sloppy writing skills all too oftern exhibited even by those who have university degrees and are obviously intelligent. I always encouraged my own kids to read, read, read, and to write about anything - but to do it well.

I agree with you.

d txt kills lang.

Kids here are losing the use of hard "c". It's all k: kiero un tako.
Ugh!

And I found out yesterday that the national average in Mexico is 7 books a year per person.
People don't read. And write badly, yes.

re: #117 littleoldlady

My personal favorite is the (white, Jewish) kid who recently graduated from Haverford College ($$$$$) having taken "five or six black centric courses". When I asked him exactly what career path necessitated a curriculum like that, his answer was, "I took them because they interested me. I thought that's what college is about..."

Sounds fine to me. Sometimes knowledge is just to be gathered.

re: #144 galloping granny

I'm amazed by folks I have who come from working full time and then taking classes, sometimes two a night. They'll be in class from 6 to almost 11 at night and are still going strong. I don't know where they get the energy.

re: #120 Lucius Septimius

He's perfect! Of course, he's still sound asleep.

re: #133 Lucius Septimius

I teach both traditional and "non-traditional" students. There is a profound difference, though I must say that in each group, there are still people who shouldn't be in college -- it's not for everybody.

Tell THAT to any college around these days! I happen to agree with you. Even among my non-traditionals, who would put in slave labor to ace the anatomy class they needed for a seat in nursing, there were some who just could not learn at that level, no matter what.

re: #149 MandyManners

He's perfect! Of course, he's still sound asleep.

They're always so cute when they're sleeping. Then they get up and start making demands and the buzz wears off.

re: #142 littleoldlady

Miguel,

Just looked it up.

And that, of course, doesn't include all the "extras"...

I'm going to start a charity.
To help poor Third World 59 y/o men.
If I hit a few fellows like that with a yearly contribution, I'm all set.
LOLOLOL!

What's that kid's addy?
LOL

re: #150 galloping granny

I had a woman in class who had a checkered academic past -- started as a traditional student, flunked out, lived on the wild side for a while, finally at around 40 came back to school and after a couple of rocky terms finally got her act together and graduated with honors. Very smart, very attractive, but some real attitude problems.

At graduation I met her dad -- he was a professor. Hmmmm ....

re: #128 BabbaZee

The pipes are ALWAYS calling!
;~}

If you were wondering, the latest music vid I can't find at YouTube that I would like to see is...

George Strait... "I saw God today".

Just an FYI.

re: #145 Lucius Septimius

Like dope ...

Change!
I mean, Obama.

re: #147 MandyManners

Sounds fine to me. Sometimes knowledge is just to be gathered.

Sure, but a couple of books from Amazon would have been cheaper.

re: #142 littleoldlady

Miguel,

Just looked it up.

And that, of course, doesn't include all the "extras"...

Or books. A single science text these days is $100 minimum. Not including the lab book or study guide. The better ones run to $200+. Stick the word "medicine" on something and increase the price by $50. Math is running $100 or more too. Financial aid allows $450 per year for books. My girls are spending that per class for some classes.

Did anyone catch this little gem from the "angry Barry" thread last night?

James Pickens is typical of those who have been inspired by the black senator from Illinois. A reformed crack cocaine dealer, he is now peddling Obama T-shirts.

Mr Pickens, 50, has served three prison terms totalling 13 years, but vowed to change his ways after hearing Mr Obama speak.

He said: "I never voted for a president before. He's for change, which is something I need in my life. Until recently I was selling drugs, and now I'm selling T-shirts."

Another typical wretched soul saved, by the Obamessiah!

re: #134 sparrowlake

not an accident.

re: #157 galloping granny

Or books. A single science text these days is $100 minimum. Not including the lab book or study guide. The better ones run to $200+. Stick the word "medicine" on something and increase the price by $50. Math is running $100 or more too. Financial aid allows $450 per year for books. My girls are spending that per class for some classes.

Wow!

re: #154 AmeriDan

If you were wondering, the latest music vid I can't find at YouTube that I would like to see is...

George Strait... "I saw God today".

Just an FYI.

I know ZERO about country music beyond the 1970's.

And very little before that.

First time I am ever hearing this song.

re: #151 Lucius Septimius

They're always so cute when they're sleeping. Then they get up and start making demands and the buzz wears off.

Sometimes it's hard to remember that he's the same peson who was my little, sweet bundle a few years ago.

re: #159 BabbaZee

not an accident.

Babba, that's a VERY interesting site.
I'm bookmarking it to read at ease.
thanks a lot!

What happens when they take your words away

re: #163 MigueldowninMexico

{miguel}

AmeriDan ~ I love your George Strait song!

re: #148 Lucius Septimius

I'm amazed by folks I have who come from working full time and then taking classes, sometimes two a night. They'll be in class from 6 to almost 11 at night and are still going strong. I don't know where they get the energy.

Coffee. Very strong, very black. When I was in school I slept about 45 minutes a night, attended class from 8-3 or so, spent a couple hours with the girls and snuck in a half hour nap, ran the computer lab until 2 am four nights a week and then started all over again. Towards the end I happened to have to have a physical for my clinical rotations. The doctor asked how much coffee I drank, so I asked her "Do you remember medical school? That much." That was explanation enough. About once every 3 weeks I would end up sleeping for 24 hours or so.

re: #156 littleoldlady

Got a package for you sunshine, some white, some lavender.

Is the Mean, nasty one home yet?

re: #158 Irish Rose

Typical crack dealer?

All hail Obama!

Take that typical white government CIA conspiracies!

re: #156 littleoldlady

Sure, but a couple of books from Amazon would have been cheaper.

I doubt it would've been the same. Gotta' take something to fill in those electives.

re: #159 BabbaZee

not an accident.

lol. Ignorance and mental sloth are the opiates of the masses?
Good morning Babba.

re: #164 BabbaZee

What happens when they take your words away

Do you like Ayn Rand Babba?
I don't know what to think of her.

re: #171 sparrowlake

lol. Ignorance and mental sloth are the opiates of the masses?
Good morning Babba.

{Sparrow}

Pretty much.
Take the WORD out of the mouth
and one can no longer rationally think or speak.
Makes it much easier to own you.

re: #161 BabbaZee

I know ZERO about country music beyond the 1970's.

And very little before that.

First time I am ever hearing this song.

I love you, in a Lizard way. Thanks.

Glad you liked the song.

True inspiration

BRB, gotta go watch it again.

Thank You!

Speaking of ignorance and mental sloth, time for me to go administer a final exam. I haven't had any last minute panicky emails, which suggests to me no one studied. I wonder who won't bother to show up.

Have a great day, ya'll. Keep it Obama!

re: #153 Lucius Septimius

I had a woman in class who had a checkered academic past -- started as a traditional student, flunked out, lived on the wild side for a while, finally at around 40 came back to school and after a couple of rocky terms finally got her act together and graduated with honors. Very smart, very attractive, but some real attitude problems.

At graduation I met her dad -- he was a professor. Hmmmm ....

That isn't particularly surprising to me. One of my daughters dated the son of a high official in the state police during her high school years. The first thing that kid did when turned loose on the world far away from home was sell drugs over the internet (no world wide web back then.)

For that matter, my mother (teacher) forced me to go to college at 17. I went. I majored in smokers and frat parties. I flunked every class except American History, which I could not fail if I tried, and then I came home, got married and went to Europe for a few years. The going to Europe part was what I wanted to do instead of college - didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I did end up acquiring a couple of degrees here and there, but would have done so much sooner if left to my own devices.

re: #167 galloping granny

I love coffee, but I love sleep more. That third of my life I spend horizontal and unconscious is precious. Having kids only strengthened that feeling.

Good on you keeping it up, though.

re: #168 Widow'smight

Got a package for you sunshine, some white, some lavender.

Is the Mean, nasty one home yet?

Are you giving away more of your garden? I can't wait for it to get warm enough overnights here to plant the cana.

re: #176 galloping granny

Hell, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. Pretty soon, I won't have to worry about it any more.

Ok lizards. Got to go now.
Good bye and God bless all :)

re: #160 MigueldowninMexico

Wow!

On textbooks... it is such a racket.

The American publishers work with the colleges to produce the required texts... now the professors don't normally make much money - they aren't getting rich writing texts. However, in so many subjects the reality is that for undergraduate classes a new text every year or two simply is not needed (obviously contemporary studies in politics, for example, do need regularly updated texts, and upper division/graduate classes in bio-engineering, etc.)

Classic case is foreign languages. E.g., in Japanese I know that several "top tier" American schools pick the texts from the American publishers, which as, >$100 for simple beginner level texts. However, publishers in Japan (naturally enough) produce the best texts on the subject... but only charge circa $40 or $50 for their books....

Well, anyway... I guess I was signed off once, but came back in to check out what was happening... I really need to go now...

re: #168 Widow'smight

Got a package for you sunshine, some white, some lavender.

Is the Mean, nasty one home yet?

KEWL! I'm almost done cleaning up that part of the garden!

MNT has been home. She left Hofstra after the first semester, been going to DCCC this semester (I would say as a "place holder", but it turns out I'm very impressed with our community college), and will be going to Philadelphia University in the Fall.

/back to Plan A!

re: #177 Lucius Septimius

I love coffee, but I love sleep more. That third of my life I spend horizontal and unconscious is precious. Having kids only strengthened that feeling.

Good on you keeping it up, though.

You do what you have to do. Trust me, I like sleep. I had four teens though and it was really important to me to finish my degrees before they started in with college, so I went to school year round, never took less than 18 credit hours a semester and finished 6 years worth of work in just under 3.

I figured I could always sleep when I was old. I was wrong there. Now I have trouble staying horizontal for more than 5 hours or so.

re: #172 MigueldowninMexico

Do you like Ayn Rand Babba?
I don't know what to think of her.

I do not like her.
I know her work well.
There is truth in it.
There is also massive amounts of bullshit in it.

Basically what she did is what many intellectual Jewish people of many stripes do and have done since Sinai

They take what they want from the TORAH
separate GOD from it
and assign the GOD position to someone or something else

in her case it was SELF
in many cases it is

in almost all of the rest
GOD becomes STATE

What she articulated IMO is also ULTIMATELY a form of totalitarianism
MOF she was in her personal life quite the little fascisti dictatress herself.

They even called their little group "the collective"
it was supposed to be ironic
and it was
just not the way she intended

There is a very fine line between her ideas and the ideas she railed against.

Disclaimer: Most people do not like this opinion of mine.

LOL

Big Ottiness!

More and more pets are being dumped for frivolous reasons, according to the RSPCA, who last week revealed that the number of abandoned animals rose to 7,347 last year - a 23 per cent increase on the previous year.

The charity blames the figures on our "throwaway society", and exposed some of the astonishing excuses that owners use, including a cat given away because she didn't match the new carpet, and a dog who was unwanted because "she hurts my legs when she wags her tail".

SNIP

re: #180 MigueldowninMexico

Ok lizards. Got to go now.
Good bye and God bless all :)

Enjoy Cinco de Mayo!

/runs and ducks

re: #182 littleoldlady

KEWL! I'm almost done cleaning up that part of the garden!

MNT has been home. She left Hofstra after the first semester, been going to DCCC this semester (I would say as a "place holder", but it turns out I'm very impressed with our community college), and will be going to Philadelphia University in the Fall.

/back to Plan A!

Good to hear. Some of the very finest colleges in this country these days are community colleges. Very few of them allow moon battiness.

re: #174 AmeriDan

right back at ye

'Muslim callous' conspicuous on forehead of two of the three muslim garb wearing, cop-killing bank robbers in Philadelphia. Score to date:
One in custody
One dispatched to allah/stan
One still on the run

re: #179 Lucius Septimius

Hell, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. Pretty soon, I won't have to worry about it any more.

That is about the size of it.

re: #183 galloping granny

You do what you have to do. Trust me, I like sleep. I had four teens though and it was really important to me to finish my degrees before they started in with college, so I went to school year round, never took less than 18 credit hours a semester and finished 6 years worth of work in just under 3.

I figured I could always sleep when I was old. I was wrong there. Now I have trouble staying horizontal for more than 5 hours or so.

Reminds me of the attorney I interned with. He had a Ph.D. in child psychology. He attended University of Denver's night school program five year course in three years while maintaining a full roster of patients.

re: #150 galloping granny

Tell THAT to any college around these days! I happen to agree with you. Even among my non-traditionals, who would put in slave labor to ace the anatomy class they needed for a seat in nursing, there were some who just could not learn at that level, no matter what.

This quote from Caddyshack...

Danny Noonan: I planned to go to law school after I graduated, but it looks like my folks won't have enough money to put me through college.
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.

A lot of truth to that. Though the line was meant to illustrate the judge's snobbery.

With good enough grades, anyone can go to college. Money is not relevant.

Fortunately, I realized that I wasn't college material before anyone spent the first nickel on my attending.

re: #189 ec marm

'Muslim callous' conspicuous on forehead of two of the three muslim garb wearing, cop-killing bank robbers in Philadelphia. Score to date:
One in custody
One dispatched to allah/stan
One still on the run

I wonder if they're NOI or regular Muslims.

Well, there's a vast difference between being educated and being intelligent.

Thanks to everyone who kept me in their thoughts and prayers! I'm heading to work in just a bit. Driving ought to be fun with 20 staples in. ouch! But, I'm upright and still breathing!

re: #194 Killer Tomato

Great to hear!

re: #189 ec marm

'Muslim callous' conspicuous on forehead of two of the three muslim garb wearing, cop-killing bank robbers in Philadelphia. Score to date:
One in custody
One dispatched to allah/stan
One still on the run

You know, I cannot recall ever seeing the "muslim callous" before the last few years. Is this something relatively new or is it just me?

re: #188 BabbaZee

right back at ye

There you go again, spot on as always.

re: #193 MandyManners

I wonder if they're NOI or regular Muslims.

Seems they all have spent time in the Governors accommodation's so I guess regular. Jail = fertile breeding ground for islam.

re: #194 Killer Tomato

Well, there's a vast difference between being educated and being intelligent.

Thanks to everyone who kept me in their thoughts and prayers! I'm heading to work in just a bit. Driving ought to be fun with 20 staples in. ouch! But, I'm upright and still breathing!

We are so glad you are!

re: #182 littleoldlady

Our oldest (my step daughter) had to be talked into staying in college after her first semester. Her Father (mussah, rissah grunt) told her to quit school and do massage therapy. She has Roomy-toid arthitis now. Anyway, after 5 years she has a special education and elementary education degree and is teaching.

Her dad borrowed the money for the 1st year, then went Bankrupt, some in a way I paid for 4 + years of her College. She has no loans to repay.

Life's a journey, and you don't have an earthly tour guide.

re: #184 BabbaZee

I'm so glad I asked!
Thanks for that :)
Now I have a much clearer idea ;)

Ok, i'm signing off for real lol
*poof*

re: #186 AmeriDan

Enjoy Cinco de Mayo!

/runs and ducks

Hahahaha.
Still appreciate it ;)

BYE!

re: #194 Killer Tomato

Well, there's a vast difference between being educated and being intelligent.

Thanks to everyone who kept me in their thoughts and prayers! I'm heading to work in just a bit. Driving ought to be fun with 20 staples in. ouch! But, I'm upright and still breathing!

There is also a huge difference these days between being truly educated and owning a college degree that claims that you are. In my not very humble opinion, most college degrees these days are hard put to be worth the paper they are printed on.

re: #202 MigueldowninMexico

Hahahaha.
Still appreciate it ;)

BYE!

Enjoy the celebration!

Warning to the Professionally Aggrieved lurking among us:

The following link goes to some Big OT's clingy freaking honky hoopled gun totin' Jesus huggin' evangelical God mouth site so don't tell me how you need therapy now from being exposed to such Big Goy Ottiness so suddenly.

Hegelian Dialects: The Devil's Winning Tool

Hegelian dialectics is being used around the world as a tool to break down traditional beliefs with the objective of replacing them with something new.

Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831) was a liberal German philosopher who led the German Idealist movement, turning his back on orthodox Christianity and holding to a type of pantheism. He denied that there is such a thing as absolute truth. He said it is “narrow” and “dogmatic” to assume that of two opposite assertions, one must be true and the other false. He rejected the Bible and proposed that man is on an evolutionary journey and that human history is the record of a process of conflict and synthesis that he referred to as the dialectical process of Spirit, believing that man would eventually reach his highest state, ultimately arriving at “the Absolute Idea” which would be so perfect it could not be challenged or synthesized.

The Hegelian system is described as follows:

“It was Hegel’s view that all things unfold in a continuing evolutionary process whereby each idea or quality (the THESIS) inevitably brings forth its opposite (the ANTITHESIS). From that interaction, a third state emerges in which the opposites are integrated, overcome, and fulfilled in a richer and higher SYNTHESIS. This synthesis then becomes the basis for another dialectical process of opposition and synthesis. Hegel believed that the creative stress of opposing positions was essential for developing higher states of consciousness. In the moment of synthesis, the opposites are both preserved and transcended, negated and fulfilled” (Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Spiritual Politics, 1994, p. 88).

Hegel believed that this process has a life of its own, in an evolutionary sense, but since the days of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels it has been used as a guided process toward a desired end.

The objective of Hegelian dialectics in this sense is to replace something old with something new (e.g., capitalism with communism, traditional Bible doctrine with theological modernism, a traditional educational system based on moral absolutes with a new one based on relativism, an old age with a new).

Stand in the ways and see
And ask for the old paths
where the good way is
And walk in it
Then you will find rest for your souls.

But they said, ‘We will not walk in it."
~ Jeremiah 6:16

re: #198 ec marm

Seems they all have spent time in the Governors accommodation's so I guess regular. Jail = fertile breeding ground for islam.

No NOI in prisons?

re: #196 galloping granny

You know, I cannot recall ever seeing the "muslim callous" before the last few years. Is this something relatively new or is it just me?

I don't know either. But it's good to know about. If I was boarding a plane with half a dozen peeps with that on their foreheads I might think twice.
The Phila. police hang out at a certain message board and they've been chatting about it. I won't mention the board cause they're saying some not so nice things and I don't want them to get into trouble.

re: #201 MigueldowninMexico

G'night Miguelito!

re: #178 galloping granny

I'll send you a few, I have to go through the rest of containers to see what's left. I also need to get a couple more Clematis for the back fence, and 4 more Rhodi's to replace the ones that died.

Time to put the peppers in!

re: #203 galloping granny

Some of the most clueless people I've ever known had a string of initials after their name, while some of the most brilliant people I've encountered never attended college, and in a couple of cases, didn't finish high school. The piece of paper merely tells me you spent years sitting in classrooms - doesn't mean you necessarily learned anything of any importance.

re: #207 ec marm

I don't know either. But it's good to know about. If I was boarding a plane with half a dozen peeps with that on their foreheads I might think twice.
The Phila. police hang out at a certain message board and they've been chatting about it. I won't mention the board cause they're saying some not so nice things and I don't want them to get into trouble.

There is no question but that I would not get on the plane. Though I will not fly these days anyway.

re: #205 BabbaZee

Hegel's great for the arrogance of youth. They want to believe that their parents' ways are out-moded and that they are destined to reveal the higher truths.

re: #212 MandyManners

Hegel's great for the arrogance of youth. They want to believe that their parents' ways are out-moded and that they are destined to reveal the higher truths.

This is the oldest lament in the book

See Calf, Golden

lol

re: #207 ec marm

Wonder if Obama is going to say anything about those Bitter, gun-using, bible-thumping small town folks that killed that cop over the weekend.

Oh wait, they weren't small town or bible thumping, how can this be oh great one?

re: #206 MandyManners

No NOI in prisons?

Not so sure. If you go to a mainstream islamic search site for mosques they usually list the ones that are in jail. Not so sure they would do that for NOI.

re: #209 Widow'smight

I'll send you a few, I have to go through the rest of containers to see what's left. I also need to get a couple more Clematis for the back fence, and 4 more Rhodi's to replace the ones that died.

Time to put the peppers in!

Oh you are so lucky! NO peppers here for another 3.5 weeks bare minimum. I would send you a Rhodi cutting but won't have any ready before fall. Though if you are into Rhodis you might check out the American Rhododendron Society. They are online, I believe they have some plants you can buy, but they also have a seed sale - very inexpensive, but you have to wait a couple of years for the plants of course.

Fare thee well, Dear lizards.I must take my leave.
Go thee forth in to the world and slapaeth sense into liberals.
For it is written that Lizards rule!

re: #217 opnion

Fare thee well, Dear lizards.I must take my leave.
Go thee forth in to the world and slapaeth sense into liberals.
For it is written that Lizards rule!

So let it be written
So let it be done

re: #210 Killer Tomato

I consider someone brilliant who can diagnose/fix a problem I have. Like the car Mechanic I go to.

re: #192 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

there is always deep truth in good comedy

re: #200 Widow'smight

It wasn't a matter of staying in college with MNT, it was THAT college. Hofstra was an (expensive!) experiment. We all learned a lot. :-(

Philadelphia University has a terrific program for what she (thinks) she wants to do. And if she changes her mind (littleoldlady loses more hair!) they have 2 or 3 programs that cover her other interests.

Otherwise, she could've gone to Temple ("She could have gone anywhere..." © Bill Cosby) and not have any outstanding loans at all when she finishes. As it is, I'm hoping it WON'T to be an amount she spends her entire working career paying off.

re: #213 BabbaZee

This is the oldest lament in the book

See Calf, Golden

lol

Much to the chagrin of the young, there's nothing new at all.

re: #219 Widow'smight

And plumbers, and electricians, and the list goes on and on. They make a damn good living too!

When I was a kid it seriously chapped my hide to watch absolute morons go off to college while I worked shit jobs and starved. I wanted to go badly.

Today I am certain that having been prevented by circumstance from "higher education" was the best thing for my higher education.

LOL

re: #221 littleoldlady

As long as mom and dad love her, she'll be fine.

Have a wonderful day, you are fearfully and wonderfully made.

re: #215 ec marm

Not so sure. If you go to a mainstream islamic search site for mosques they usually list the ones that are in jail. Not so sure they would do that for NOI.

We all know what regular Islam thinks about NOI.

re: #219 Widow'smight

I consider someone brilliant who can diagnose/fix a problem I have. Like the car Mechanic I go to.

Yup. I have a nephew that is the most mechanically brilliant human being I've ever seen. He could take sliders off doors and disassemble/reassemble Grandpa's alarm clock before he could walk. Didn't have parents who focused him on his studies, hated school, ended up dropping out and now he is a contractor. Draws blueprints in his head. He was up here building a new deck last week and teaching the kiddo geometry I didn't know. Really neat for her to learn that math is more than numbers in a book!

re: #226 MandyManners

We all know what regular Islam thinks about NOI.

that will not prevent them from using them as they see fit, as they do with the whores of Gramsci

Goooooooood Morning Lizard Nation! Another 'exciting' Monday is upon us. Whoop dee damn doo!

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.

— Joseph Heller

Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE DEAD IN BURMA?

re: #221 littleoldlady

It wasn't a matter of staying in college with MNT, it was THAT college. Hofstra was an (expensive!) experiment. We all learned a lot. :-(

Philadelphia University has a terrific program for what she (thinks) she wants to do. And if she changes her mind (littleoldlady loses more hair!) they have 2 or 3 programs that cover her other interests.

Otherwise, she could've gone to Temple ("She could have gone anywhere..." © Bill Cosby) and not have any outstanding loans at all when she finishes. As it is, I'm hoping it WON'T to be an amount she spends her entire working career paying off.

I'm hoping it won't be an amount that YOU will spend the next twenty years paying off. My SIL's mother made the mistake of signing for the student loans for her two younger sons (SIL went the military route.) She and hubby are selling the house they have owned outright for more than two decades to pay off the student loans because the dead beat kids won't/can't pay so she must.

re: #229 pingjockey

Goooooooood Morning Lizard Nation! Another 'exciting' Monday is upon us. Whoop dee damn doo!

re: #230 storagemanager

Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Amen!

re: #230 storagemanager

Good morning to you, storage.

re: #231 MandyManners

FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE DEAD IN BURMA?

huh?

re: #228 BabbaZee

that will not prevent them from using them as they see fit, as they do with the whores of Gramsci

I wish they could see that.

re: #231 MandyManners

FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE DEAD IN BURMA?

Wouldn't surprise me at all. Yesterday, read up on the "country" and it is a hell hole without a natural disaster. Oh goodness. Where did you see 4,000?

re: #236 BabbaZee

The cyclone.

re: #231 MandyManners
Big Cyclone, which is another name for a typhoon. Large tidal surge, lots of flooding. It is the same type of storm that hits India or Bangladesh and drowns so many because of the low lying countryside.

re: #238 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Wouldn't surprise me at all. Yesterday, read up on the "country" and it is a hell hole without a natural disaster. Oh goodness. Where did you see 4,000?

Fox just now.

re: #239 MandyManners

Oh

In sweeping comments before Israel's 60th anniversary, President Shimon Peres has compared the Iranian nuclear threat to Hitler's Germany. He says talking to Hamas would be like talking to a wall. And his birthday wish for Israel is for it to lead the world in science.

Peres says he wants his country to be "as old as the Ten Commandments and as new as nano-technology."

As for Iran, Peres says the combination of fanatic leadership and a nuclear bomb would be a "nightmare for the world."

"In a way it's more complicated than in the time of the Nazis," he said Monday. "Hitler didn't have a nuclear bomb."

The 84-year-old president says talking to Hamas militants would be like "having a dialogue with the wall."

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

re: #240 pingjockey

Big Cyclone, which is another name for a typhoon. Large tidal surge, lots of flooding. It is the same type of storm that hits India or Bangladesh and drowns so many because of the low lying countryside.

It's like one big beach until you hit the mountains.

re: #224 BabbaZee

When I was a kid it seriously chapped my hide to watch absolute morons go off to college while I worked shit jobs and starved. I wanted to go badly.

Today I am certain that having been prevented by circumstance from "higher education" was the best thing for my higher education.

LOL

The University of Hard Knocks taught you far more than you would have learned elsewhere. Fifty or sixty years ago there might have been a place for going to college just for the sake of learning. These days, with college costing as much as a mortgage on a decent house in most of the country, not so much. The ROI for most majors is somewhere in the toilet.

re: #233 BabbaZee
Thank you Babba!

'ello there folks.

damn early callouts, ugh

been up since 4 in the morning and its 2:50 PM now

re: #235 Irish Rose

Good morning to you, storage.

Good morning Rose.

re: #247 Hengineer

I badly wanted to sleep a bit more but, my body said otherwise.

re: #245 galloping granny

The University of Hard Knocks taught you far more than you would have learned elsewhere. Fifty or sixty years ago there might have been a place for going to college just for the sake of learning. These days, with college costing as much as a mortgage on a decent house in most of the country, not so much. The ROI for most majors is somewhere in the toilet.

Depends. Technical degrees and those going just for a bachelor's education get a pretty decent ROI, I know I am.

I paid off my student loans within 6 months on my first ship.

re: #231 MandyManners

OY! :-(

re: #232 galloping granny

She is an only child. She inherits everything. If I have to pay off her loans there will be nothing to inherit.

/it all comes out in the wash. ;-)

Truthfully, of all her many faults, default is not likely to be one of them.

re: #249 MandyManners

I badly wanted to sleep a bit more but, my body said otherwise.

just 5 more minutes mom!

The death tolls are always high in places like that from weather disasters

like when a tornado hits a trailer park, the death count is always worse because the structures can not withstand the torment at all, nowhere to hide

most of the shacks they live in in Burma make a trailer look like a well built mansion

so that kind of stuff is easily destroyed by weather

three little pigs,
house of straw vs house of bricks
and all that

Oh yikes. I have to go...

Good day, ALL!™

re: #244 MandyManners
Yep. I also found out why so many are killed in train wrecks over there. We were in Sri Lanka, and this train was going by the hotel. I thought it was piled willy nilly with bales of cotton. Nope, people. People in between the cars, on top of the cars, hanging on the sides. Damndest display of mass transit I have ever seen.

re: #254 littleoldlady

Oh yikes. I have to go...

Good day, ALL!™