Disclaimer: I am a Republican, a neo-populist. Please note that populism originated in Lampasas Texas, and found its strongest support in the rural areas of the South, Midwest, and Western states. Populism in the U.S. was not, I repeat not a left oriented movement. In terms of cultural/social issues it was VERY conservative.
If you don't believe my assertion, then check out the Democratic nominee for the 1896 election. None other than William Jennings Bryan. You know the Scopes trial dude. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bryan
(NOTE: Red is used through out this web site to designate Democrats, and blue to designate Republicans.)
Click on the 'Election Results' tab Click on the 'Menu' button Scroll down to 1896 and select Now carefully examine.
Follow the same procedure to get to the 2004 election results
Anything look familiar?
{It also can be very instructive to examine the election results county by county, or parish by parish in Louisiana. The county by county are available only back through the 1960 election.}
It is my contention that neo-populist sentiment is the driving force behind the GOP victories in the South, Midwest, and West in the last 30 years. George Wallace tapped into it to win the electoral votes of five Southern states in the 1968 election. This is the last time that a third party Presidential Candidate won any electoral votes.
{Inspection of the county by county map of Texas shows that Wallace won the popular vote in many East Texas counties. If one checks the tables of the election results one will find that had Wallace's votes gone to Nixon, that Nixon would have won Texas.}
Ok enough of the preliminaries. Here's the scoop.
Since WWII, with only one *special* exception, NO Democrat has been able to win the White House that was not a Southerner. Truman from MO, LBJ from TX, Carter from GA, and Clinton from AR.
The special exception was of course JFK, but that was only because LBJ was his running mate. Had JFK not picked LBJ as his running mate JFK would have lost the 1960 election. Only by balancing his ticket with the man who was in all probability the most powerful Senate Majority Leader in history, and a Southerner could JFK get elected.
My point is that Mark Warner is about the only potential Democratic Candidate who is has gubernatorial experience, and is a Southerner. His gubernatorial experience is important as the only President elected directly from the US Senate since WWII was JFK. Ike was president of Columbia University in 1952, all the other Presidents excepting Ike, and Kennedy were either Vice-Presidents, former Vice-Presidents, or governors, or former governors.
Clark might have a shot via the Ike method, but Warner, and Clark are the only two potential Democratic candidates that are in any way likely to be able to crack the South. Cracking the South is nearly an absolute necessity for a Democratic candidate. No Democratic candidate has ever won the White House without picking up electoral votes in the South.
Two years ago I was saying that I hoped that the Dems would pick Kerry, but I didn't think that they would be that stupid. A show-nuff MA liberal, they just couldn't be that foolish. They were. By choosing Kerry the Dems totally conceded the South. This allow the GOP to be able to focus most of its resources on FL, and OH, and have some resources left over to insure that CO, AZ, and NV stayed in the GOP fold.
If one examines the 2004 election one will also discover that the central core of states, ND south through TX voted for Bush by 60% or greater except for SD in which Bush only garnered 59.91% of the vote. Thus rounding to the nearest whole percentage Bush won all these state with 60% or more of the popular vote in each of these states.
I'm in East Texas. The ground temp. here is about 70 deg. F. It's great for heating in the mild Winters that we normally have here. Our Summers can be quite hot. In September of 2000 we set several records daily max temps. On Aug. 1 &2 the max temp. was 107 deg F, on the 3 & 4 the max was 109 deg F. There was a 103 deg F max temp on Aug 30th as well. The only reason that July and Aug did not have record temps was that some other years had very high record temps. For example July 31, 1969 was the all time max temp ever recorded at 111 deg F. 1909, 1911, and 1912 were very hot with several daily max temp. records.
2000 was quite hot, and 1998 was also hot here in East Texas. In both cases the year over year electric use was higher than normal, but not astronomically so. This was in contrast to friends and relatives who live in the area, and had electric use sky-rocket compared to normal years.
In my opinion the thing that I really love about my geothermal heat pump is that once installed and payed for, one needed not sweat a major bump in electric bills. In my case while the walls of my house are not insulated, my windows are double paned with storm window thrown in as a kicker, plus the attic is *heavily* insulated.
The only way to insulate the walls properly would entail taring out the dry wall on the outside walls of the house in order to place the insulation in situ. Which would be an expensive proposition, as well as one that would be more than a little disruptive.
My strategy is to reduce energy consumption via more efficient appliances lighting etc.. This can be done via a phase-in as older appliance fail. I'm also planning to go to a more efficient compressor when the time comes to replace the current one.
As for the 7 runs of 78 feet...
The 78 foot depth was decided upon due to the existence of an aquifer beneath my property at about 67 to 74 feet. Dad felt the aquifer would insure that the water in the heat exchanger would never get above 70 deg F, and thus insure that the freon going into the evaporator coil on the high pressure side would also be at 70 deg F.
My Dad had the material which he got for a song, and the drilling rig was a borrowed. The cost of drilling extra 'wicket' shafts, and installing extra 'wickets' was minimal. So why not?
Also, consider if one of the 'wickets' gets blocked you just route around it and you're up and running again in about 5 to 6 hours with six 'wickets' still going strong. Unless corrosion is the problem you can then at least attempt a clean out at your leisure.
System redundancy is a good thing. Dad was a Master Aircraft Mechanic and considered redundancy a great design virtue. Finally, my house was built with the idea of adding a second story at some point in the future. So Dad's over-kill makes sense on that level as well.
My Dad, about 17 years ago got holt of several hundred feet of stainless steel tubing. Nice fairly thick walls. We borrowed a drilling rig and bored seven shafts in the backyard. Each about 85 feet deep. Insert the tubing which Dad had wielded into long shinny 'wickets' about 78 feet long. Wield the 'wickets' together in series, and viola closed cooling loop. Add a heat exchanger in the form of a 130 gallon stainless steel canister. Add one reversible compressor and we had a geothermal heat pump.
When the Heat Wave of 00 hit we had the electric company making inquires about how little electricity we were using in August and September of that year. --Much malevolent laughter on my and my Dad's part--
I don't expect that the stainless steel tubing to give me problems over the next 30 years. A garbage can rack that my Dad made out of lower quality stainless in 1952 is still soldiering on with but the most minor degradation. Water line that Dad make from the same lot of tubing as the garbage can rack was used by several relatives as water pipes from their rural water wells. They have never clogged since they were installed in the late 40s. They have be reliable for nearly 60 years. I figure that my cooling loop should out last me.
Since the cooling loop in the major difference between a standard heat pump and a geothermal heat pump I should not have any greater maintenance problems than one would have with a standard heat pump.
With a house of just less than 1500 square feet I always get an electric bill of that is less than $100.00. Dad also had the house insulated out the wazoo, so that is also a help.
I use mostly fluorescent lighting, and am considering running 12 V wiring to power LED lighting. LED lighting used in conjunction with a bank of deep cycle battering being charged by photovoltaic panels would likely cut my electric bill by about $5.00- $15.00/month. Depending on the hours of daylight of that month. Mainly though I want lighting that will work if the power gets cut off due to bad weather etc..
I'm also strongly considering a solar assessed hot water system. He, he; the only natural gas that I'd use then would be for the cook stove.
One might reasonably suppose that give that anyone who is the Chairman of Energy and Commerce would likely have a few $$$$ donated to their campaign by Oil and Gas, along with Electric Utilities. I doubt that Joe Barton would get $$$$ from said industries if he were chairman of the agriculture committee.
Joe Barton was trained as an Industrial Engineer. Not the most rigorous of engineering disciplines, but he is none the less an engineer by training and formal education.
Joe Barton is NOT from Dallas. He represents the Texas U.S. Sixth Congressional District. The Sixth District includes NO part of Dallas County, and thus can NOT include the City of Dallas.
Counties in the Texas Sixth U.S. Congressional District in whole or in part are:
Ellis, Navarro, Tarrant, Limestone, Freestone, Leon, Houston, and Trinity.
Joe Linus Barton: Born in Waco, Texas on September 15, 1949. He currently has homes in both Ennis, Texas, and Arlington, Texas. He is a Graduate of Waco High School. He is a Graduate of Texas A&M University where he earned a B.Sc. in Industral Engineering. He also holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Administration from Purdue University.
I'll be sticking with Apple. Recall that IBM was the object of Apple's animus in the Big Brother ad in 1984. If Apple made nice with IBM, I really don't see the problem with making nice with Intel.
New York City is the name of a city. Thus, NYC, or NY City would be apropos. However L.A. is an abbreviation of Los Angeles, please note the name is NOT Los Angeles City.
'New York city' is not equivalent to 'New York City'. Note the importance of capitalization in this matter. When City is capitalized a specific city with the name New York City is being referred to. Whereas, New York city refers to some unspecified city in the state of New York.
Good Grief, people take a course in basic English composition and rhetoric, read English for Dummies, but learn the *basic* rules of English grammar. (Not that I'm anywhere near an expert when it comes to English grammer. Geez, I'm often clueless when it comes to the use of the comma, and semi-colon.)
"... we are only dimly aware that Louisiana exists."
Is that because 'we' are just dimly aware period?
I dare say that anyone who has had a basic junior high geography class, or any America history class is aware of Louisiana.
Of course both the Northeast, and the Left Coast being the home of so many narcissistic oligarchs I'm not surprised that they're unaware of anything outside of their daily routine of self-indulgent hedonism.
You have made an incorrect assumption that I have not taken a significant amount of course work in the liberal arts. I, in fact, started college double-majoring in religion, and philosophy. I only had a couple of courses in religion to convince me that it was a waste of my time. Philosophy was a much more profitable, $$$, use of my time. I found logic, epistemology, and ethics to be of great value.
I would point out that as a physics major I had to take 12 semester hours of english, including 6 semester hours of literature, 9 semester hours of 'social sciences', 6 semester hours of history (I took 12), and 6 semester hours of 'political science.' I also ended up taking a course in both art appreciation, and music appreciation. Of these courses all but the two appreciation courses counted toward a major in that discipline.
Your experience is at odds with my experience, and I would dare say the experience of the vast majority of college students/graduates. In survey after survey college students have rated physics, chemistry, and math as the hardest majors/subjects.
My problem with B.A.s is not that people major in the humanities, but rather that they avoid rigorous subjects, and course work like the plague. While there are no history of ____ for sciences, or American poetry for Engineers, it is part and parcel of any math, chemistry, or physics department to have courses such as physics for poets, chemistry for elementary education, or Math for Liberal Arts. In other words folks that major in the 'liberal arts' are not required to fulfill their science, and math requirements with science, and math courses that count toward a major in those disciplines.
I've read the thesis, and dissertations of some of my colleagues over in the school of liberal arts with no problem. They on the other hand were not able to digest my masters thesis. Their backgrounds were deficient in both mathematics, and physics to understand key portions of my thesis. On the other hand my colleagues in the math, and engineering departments had to apply themselves only just a bit to understand the most technical portions my thesis. I'd additionally point out that juniors and seniors majoring in physics, math, and chemistry were also able to digest my thesis, though some had to put forth a considerable effort.
Liberal Arts majors are suppose to be very well rounded in their educational backgrounds. I've not found this to be the case. Rather, I've found it is the math, and physical science majors that are the best rounded. Indeed, it is a fact that physics majors score higher on the verbal portion of the general GRE that english majors do.
I do not deny that there are liberal arts majors that choose to avail themselves of a rigorous course of study in college. I simply argue that there are relativity few who decide to take "the path less traveled", and that Miss Shields must be included to be among those who failed to choose the less traveled path. I believe that the only course of Miss Shields that I found to be of some rigor was a course in comparative religion.
"Brooke Shields: Tall Princeton honors student. Tom Cruise: Short high school dropout. You decide!"
Ok, first of all Tom Cruise's recent looniness is just that, loony.
Now as to Brooke Shields--Princeton honors student.
I clearly remember that there was a issue of Life magazine in which a professor was lambasting the state of undergraduate education in the US. Brooke Shields Baccalaureate was used a something of a case study. Her complete transcript was published in the same issue.
At the time I had not completed my B.Sc., but had earned an A.A. with a concentration in Engineering from Tyler Junior College. Frankly, given the courses that Miss Shields took my lowly A.A. was a vastly superior degree. I can't recall the details of Miss Shields Baccalaureate, but I do recall that it totally lacked any courses in mathematics, and had but one or two courses in the natural sciences. If memory serves, I believe that Miss Shields had *a* descriptive astronomy course. What her transcript reveled was a total lack of any rigorous course work on the part of Miss Shields while she was at Princeton.
It's not the fact that you're a college graduate, nor is it the fact that you're an alumnus/alumna of an Ivy, or other prestigious university that makes you an educated person. It's what you did, your course of study, that makes you an educated person.
My congratulations for a posting a concise, clear, and straightforward statement of the fundamental facts regarding copyrights, theft, and their attendant issues.
To those with mod points: The parent deserves to be moded up.
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"Screw the olympics, and boycott every single damn company that sponsors them!"
Indeed! and Amen!
Am I to understand that Bill Gates is to be viewed in the roll of 'Oil Can Harry'?
First it was Science Fiction,
next was comics,
and now video/computer games.
Hollywood's eternal quest to milk every genre of every medium to the maximum extent possible.
What do you want to bet that Halo's next.
Disclaimer: I am a Republican, a neo-populist. Please note that populism originated in Lampasas Texas, and found its strongest support in the rural areas of the South, Midwest, and Western states. Populism in the U.S. was not, I repeat not a left oriented movement. In terms of cultural/social issues it was VERY conservative.
If you don't believe my assertion, then check out the Democratic nominee for the 1896 election. None other than William Jennings Bryan. You know the Scopes trial dude. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bryan
Now take a gander at the electoral map of 1896.
Goto http://uselectionatlas.org/
(NOTE: Red is used through out this web site to designate Democrats, and blue to designate Republicans.)
Click on the 'Election Results' tab
Click on the 'Menu' button
Scroll down to 1896 and select
Now carefully examine.
Follow the same procedure to get to the 2004 election results
Anything look familiar?
{It also can be very instructive to examine the election results county by county, or parish by parish in Louisiana. The county by county are available only back through the 1960 election.}
It is my contention that neo-populist sentiment is the driving force behind the GOP victories in the South, Midwest, and West in the last 30 years. George Wallace tapped into it to win the electoral votes of five Southern states in the 1968 election. This is the last time that a third party Presidential Candidate won any electoral votes.
{Inspection of the county by county map of Texas shows that Wallace won the popular vote in many East Texas counties. If one checks the tables of the election results one will find that had Wallace's votes gone to Nixon, that Nixon would have won Texas.}
Ok enough of the preliminaries. Here's the scoop.
Since WWII, with only one *special* exception, NO Democrat has been able to win the White House that was not a Southerner. Truman from MO, LBJ from TX, Carter from GA, and Clinton from AR.
The special exception was of course JFK, but that was only because LBJ was his running mate. Had JFK not picked LBJ as his running mate JFK would have lost the 1960 election. Only by balancing his ticket with the man who was in all probability the most powerful Senate Majority Leader in history, and a Southerner could JFK get elected.
My point is that Mark Warner is about the only potential Democratic Candidate who is has gubernatorial experience, and is a Southerner. His gubernatorial experience is important as the only President elected directly from the US Senate since WWII was JFK. Ike was president of Columbia University in 1952, all the other Presidents excepting Ike, and Kennedy were either Vice-Presidents, former Vice-Presidents, or governors, or former governors.
Clark might have a shot via the Ike method, but Warner, and Clark are the only two potential Democratic candidates that are in any way likely to be able to crack the South. Cracking the South is nearly an absolute necessity for a Democratic candidate. No Democratic candidate has ever won the White House without picking up electoral votes in the South.
Two years ago I was saying that I hoped that the Dems would pick Kerry, but I didn't think that they would be that stupid. A show-nuff MA liberal, they just couldn't be that foolish. They were. By choosing Kerry the Dems totally conceded the South. This allow the GOP to be able to focus most of its resources on FL, and OH, and have some resources left over to insure that CO, AZ, and NV stayed in the GOP fold.
If one examines the 2004 election one will also discover that the central core of states, ND south through TX voted for Bush by 60% or greater except for SD in which Bush only garnered 59.91% of the vote. Thus rounding to the nearest whole percentage Bush won all these state with 60% or more of the popular vote in each of these states.
If Hillary g
Rigid insulation is not an option as my house is brick veneer.
I'm in East Texas. The ground temp. here is about 70 deg. F. It's great for heating in the mild Winters that we normally have here. Our Summers can be quite hot. In September of 2000 we set several records daily max temps. On Aug. 1 &2 the max temp. was 107 deg F, on the 3 & 4 the max was 109 deg F. There was a 103 deg F max temp on Aug 30th as well. The only reason that July and Aug did not have record temps was that some other years had very high record temps. For example July 31, 1969 was the all time max temp ever recorded at 111 deg F. 1909, 1911, and 1912 were very hot with several daily max temp. records.
2000 was quite hot, and 1998 was also hot here in East Texas. In both cases the year over year electric use was higher than normal, but not astronomically so. This was in contrast to friends and relatives who live in the area, and had electric use sky-rocket compared to normal years.
In my opinion the thing that I really love about my geothermal heat pump is that once installed and payed for, one needed not sweat a major bump in electric bills. In my case while the walls of my house are not insulated, my windows are double paned with storm window thrown in as a kicker, plus the attic is *heavily* insulated.
The only way to insulate the walls properly would entail taring out the dry wall on the outside walls of the house in order to place the insulation in situ. Which would be an expensive proposition, as well as one that would be more than a little disruptive.
My strategy is to reduce energy consumption via more efficient appliances lighting etc.. This can be done via a phase-in as older appliance fail. I'm also planning to go to a more efficient compressor when the time comes to replace the current one.
As for the 7 runs of 78 feet...
The 78 foot depth was decided upon due to the existence of an aquifer beneath my property at about 67 to 74 feet. Dad felt the aquifer would insure that the water in the heat exchanger would never get above 70 deg F, and thus insure that the freon going into the evaporator coil on the high pressure side would also be at 70 deg F.
My Dad had the material which he got for a song, and the drilling rig was a borrowed. The cost of drilling extra 'wicket' shafts, and installing extra 'wickets' was minimal. So why not?
Also, consider if one of the 'wickets' gets blocked you just route around it and you're up and running again in about 5 to 6 hours with six 'wickets' still going strong. Unless corrosion is the problem you can then at least attempt a clean out at your leisure.
System redundancy is a good thing. Dad was a Master Aircraft Mechanic and considered redundancy a great design virtue. Finally, my house was built with the idea of adding a second story at some point in the future. So Dad's over-kill makes sense on that level as well.
Geothermal Heat Pumps! Now we're talkin'!
My Dad, about 17 years ago got holt of several hundred feet of stainless steel tubing. Nice fairly thick walls. We borrowed a drilling rig and bored seven shafts in the backyard. Each about 85 feet deep. Insert the tubing which Dad had wielded into long shinny 'wickets' about 78 feet long. Wield the 'wickets' together in series, and viola closed cooling loop. Add a heat exchanger in the form of a 130 gallon stainless steel canister. Add one reversible compressor and we had a geothermal heat pump.
When the Heat Wave of 00 hit we had the electric company making inquires about how little electricity we were using in August and September of that year. --Much malevolent laughter on my and my Dad's part--
I don't expect that the stainless steel tubing to give me problems over the next 30 years. A garbage can rack that my Dad made out of lower quality stainless in 1952 is still soldiering on with but the most minor degradation. Water line that Dad make from the same lot of tubing as the garbage can rack was used by several relatives as water pipes from their rural water wells. They have never clogged since they were installed in the late 40s. They have be reliable for nearly 60 years. I figure that my cooling loop should out last me.
Since the cooling loop in the major difference between a standard heat pump and a geothermal heat pump I should not have any greater maintenance problems than one would have with a standard heat pump.
With a house of just less than 1500 square feet I always get an electric bill of that is less than $100.00. Dad also had the house insulated out the wazoo, so that is also a help.
I use mostly fluorescent lighting, and am considering running 12 V wiring to power LED lighting. LED lighting used in conjunction with a bank of deep cycle battering being charged by photovoltaic panels would likely cut my electric bill by about $5.00- $15.00/month. Depending on the hours of daylight of that month. Mainly though I want lighting that will work if the power gets cut off due to bad weather etc..
I'm also strongly considering a solar assessed hot water system. He, he; the only natural gas that I'd use then would be for the cook stove.
Yo! Utility companies, Kiss my grits...
Please note the committee assignments of Joe Barton.
http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H3831103
As in...
CHAIRMAN of the ENERGY and Commerce Committee.
One might reasonably suppose that give that anyone who is the Chairman of Energy and Commerce would likely have a few $$$$ donated to their campaign by Oil and Gas, along with Electric Utilities. I doubt that Joe Barton would get $$$$ from said industries if he were chairman of the agriculture committee.
I must disagree with the parent post.
Joe Barton was trained as an Industrial Engineer. Not the most rigorous of engineering disciplines, but he is none the less an engineer by training and formal education.
See education at http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H3831103
Fact check:
Joe Barton is NOT from Dallas. He represents the Texas U.S. Sixth Congressional District. The Sixth District includes NO part of Dallas County, and thus can NOT include the City of Dallas.
Counties in the Texas Sixth U.S. Congressional District in whole or in part are:
Ellis, Navarro, Tarrant, Limestone, Freestone, Leon, Houston, and Trinity.
Joe Linus Barton:
Born in Waco, Texas on September 15, 1949. He currently has homes in both Ennis, Texas, and Arlington, Texas. He is a Graduate of Waco High School. He is a Graduate of Texas A&M University where he earned a B.Sc. in Industral Engineering. He also holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Administration from Purdue University.
For more info. on Joe Barton see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Barton
"Further more what is the plural for a Mac Mini?"
Many Mini.
Yes it was intentional.
Marliyn Manson is Goth's answer to Eric Von Zipper.
Hear, hear!
chromaphobic hits the preverbal nail squarely on the head.
I'll be sticking with Apple. Recall that IBM was the object of Apple's animus in the Big Brother ad in 1984. If Apple made nice with IBM, I really don't see the problem with making nice with Intel.
Boy are you ever misinformed about municipal government.
Municipalities, in general, are the most intrinsically evil from of government. The local oligarchs running things way to often at the city level.
New York City is the name of a city. Thus, NYC, or NY City would be apropos. However L.A. is an abbreviation of Los Angeles, please note the name is NOT Los Angeles City.
'New York city' is not equivalent to 'New York City'. Note the importance of capitalization in this matter. When City is capitalized a specific city with the name New York City is being referred to. Whereas, New York city refers to some unspecified city in the state of New York.
Good Grief, people take a course in basic English composition and rhetoric, read English for Dummies, but learn the *basic* rules of English grammar. (Not that I'm anywhere near an expert when it comes to English grammer. Geez, I'm often clueless when it comes to the use of the comma, and semi-colon.)
"... we are only dimly aware that Louisiana exists."
Is that because 'we' are just dimly aware period?
I dare say that anyone who has had a basic junior high geography class, or any America history class is aware of Louisiana.
Of course both the Northeast, and the Left Coast being the home of so many narcissistic oligarchs I'm not surprised that they're unaware of anything outside of their daily routine of self-indulgent hedonism.
You have made an incorrect assumption that I have not taken a significant amount of course work in the liberal arts. I, in fact, started college double-majoring in religion, and philosophy. I only had a couple of courses in religion to convince me that it was a waste of my time. Philosophy was a much more profitable, $$$, use of my time. I found logic, epistemology, and ethics to be of great value.
I would point out that as a physics major I had to take 12 semester hours of english, including 6 semester hours of literature, 9 semester hours of 'social sciences', 6 semester hours of history (I took 12), and 6 semester hours of 'political science.' I also ended up taking a course in both art appreciation, and music appreciation. Of these courses all but the two appreciation courses counted toward a major in that discipline.
Your experience is at odds with my experience, and I would dare say the experience of the vast majority of college students/graduates. In survey after survey college students have rated physics, chemistry, and math as the hardest majors/subjects.
My problem with B.A.s is not that people major in the humanities, but rather that they avoid rigorous subjects, and course work like the plague. While there are no history of ____ for sciences, or American poetry for Engineers, it is part and parcel of any math, chemistry, or physics department to have courses such as physics for poets, chemistry for elementary education, or Math for Liberal Arts. In other words folks that major in the 'liberal arts' are not required to fulfill their science, and math requirements with science, and math courses that count toward a major in those disciplines.
I've read the thesis, and dissertations of some of my colleagues over in the school of liberal arts with no problem. They on the other hand were not able to digest my masters thesis. Their backgrounds were deficient in both mathematics, and physics to understand key portions of my thesis. On the other hand my colleagues in the math, and engineering departments had to apply themselves only just a bit to understand the most technical portions my thesis. I'd additionally point out that juniors and seniors majoring in physics, math, and chemistry were also able to digest my thesis, though some had to put forth a considerable effort.
Liberal Arts majors are suppose to be very well rounded in their educational backgrounds. I've not found this to be the case. Rather, I've found it is the math, and physical science majors that are the best rounded. Indeed, it is a fact that physics majors score higher on the verbal portion of the general GRE that english majors do.
I do not deny that there are liberal arts majors that choose to avail themselves of a rigorous course of study in college. I simply argue that there are relativity few who decide to take "the path less traveled", and that Miss Shields must be included to be among those who failed to choose the less traveled path. I believe that the only course of Miss Shields that I found to be of some rigor was a course in comparative religion.
Thus, I stand by my original thesis
"Brooke Shields: Tall Princeton honors student. Tom Cruise: Short high school dropout. You decide!"
Ok, first of all Tom Cruise's recent looniness is just that, loony.
Now as to Brooke Shields--Princeton honors student.
I clearly remember that there was a issue of Life magazine in which a professor was lambasting the state of undergraduate education in the US. Brooke Shields Baccalaureate was used a something of a case study. Her complete transcript was published in the same issue.
At the time I had not completed my B.Sc., but had earned an A.A. with a concentration in Engineering from Tyler Junior College. Frankly, given the courses that Miss Shields took my lowly A.A. was a vastly superior degree. I can't recall the details of Miss Shields Baccalaureate, but I do recall that it totally lacked any courses in mathematics, and had but one or two courses in the natural sciences. If memory serves, I believe that Miss Shields had *a* descriptive astronomy course. What her transcript reveled was a total lack of any rigorous course work on the part of Miss Shields while she was at Princeton.
It's not the fact that you're a college graduate, nor is it the fact that you're an alumnus/alumna of an Ivy, or other prestigious university that makes you an educated person. It's what you did, your course of study, that makes you an educated person.
FWIW
STB
Sir,
You GET IT!
My congratulations for a posting a concise, clear, and straightforward statement of the fundamental facts regarding copyrights, theft, and their attendant issues.
To those with mod points: The parent deserves to be moded up.
STB
And since both of you brought it up before me...
I scored a 780 out of 800 or the verbal portion of the GRE, and a 760 out of 800 on the math portion of the GRE.
Every time I think about how wonderful I am, I could just kiss myself!
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I see now that you are a member of the Grammar Gestapo.
No doubt that you ware an adhesive tape button with an upside down lower case e on you lapel.
The Grammar Gestapo: By their schwa-stickers ye shall know them!
Ya think!?!
There are some...
That would gladly embrace Hamill's hair style, if only we had hair...