From: Carbon on
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
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
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
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
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.