From: Carbon on 7 Feb 2010 20:59 On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:30:28 +0000, assimilate wrote: > On 7-Feb-2010, William Clark <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> > wrote: > >> Exhibit one: Sarah Palin >> >> Exhibit 2: George W. Bush . . >> >> need we go on? > > I'll see your hand and raise you an Obama and Jimmah Carter! Be serious.
From: Carbon on 7 Feb 2010 21:02 On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:37:40 +0000, assimilate wrote: > On 7-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote: >> >>> Well for example let's say that every person automatically gets one >>> vote. Then in addition say that for every thousand dollars a person >>> pays in income taxes they get another vote. Doing something like >>> this would weight votes on what government should do based on who is >>> paying for it. If you pay $12k dollars in income taxes you get two >>> votes. >> >> In other news, oil industry shareholders cast 100 million votes to >> kill alternative energy research. The owners of the US healthcare >> system put a similar number of votes toward killing any type of >> healthcare reform. > > Alternative energy research can't be killed by oil cos you id-git. It > is being done by private firms everywhere. Because the gov't doesn't > do or fund it doesn't mean it's dead. And Healthcare reform was killed > by the majority in Congress, they were the ones that allowed > themselves to be bought. Dear Bill: I wasn't speaking to the current situation. I was talking about what would happen if the very wealthy could buy votes (more directly than they do now).
From: William Clark on 7 Feb 2010 22:04 In article <m2Ibn.75095$JE2.11730(a)newsfe09.iad>, assimilate(a)borg.org wrote: > On 7-Feb-2010, William Clark <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote: > > > Exhibit one: Sarah Palin > > > > Exhibit 2: George W. Bush . . > > > > need we go on? > > I'll see your hand and raise you an Obama and Jimmah Carter! Indeed, Columbia and Harvard Law, plus USNA nuclear engineer, against 6 community colleges and schools for a communications degree, and a legacy admission to Yale for a lucky C average. I'll raise you on that.
From: William Clark on 7 Feb 2010 22:05 In article <39pum5ppnqb3gro80m4g7mo0hnopu8hqei(a)4ax.com>, bknight(a)conramp.net wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:30:28 GMT, assimilate(a)borg.org wrote: > > > > >On 7-Feb-2010, William Clark <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote: > > > >> Exhibit one: Sarah Palin > >> > >> Exhibit 2: George W. Bush . . > >> > >> need we go on? > > > >I'll see your hand and raise you an Obama and Jimmah Carter! > > > You lose. As bad as he was, Carter's IQ makes Palin look like a > ten-year-old. > > Obama vs. Bush...there's no comparison. George Bush is an empty suit > comparatively. > > BK You say stuff like that, and you'll get Bertie, Moderate, and Mikey all frothy at the mouth. Just you wait.
From: William Clark on 7 Feb 2010 22:07
In article <H0Ibn.75094$JE2.42138(a)newsfe09.iad>, assimilate(a)borg.org wrote: > On 7-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > > > > > >>I came across a study recently that argued liberals tend to be more > > >>educated and higher functioning than social conservatives. It's possible > > >>that a civics literacy test would hurt the Republicans more than the > > >>Democrats. > > > > > > It all depends on who writes the tests. > > > > Whoever wrote them, they wouldn't be able to get away with injecting > > obvious bias into them. > > you haven't been to a campus lately have you? One of the last classes I ever > took was innocuously titled "Literary Theory." It was a graduate seminar > organized around variations on Marxist thought (though not explicitly > labeled as such). Indeed, I have a class tomorrow in the "Stalinist Approach to Crystal Structures and Characterization". Get real. |