Its only intrusive to people that have something to hide...
Amazing, that sounds almost word-for-word what the Tories used to say about my revolutionary ancestors prior to America's Revolutionary War to throw off the yoke of Royalist England.
It's only the anti-crown who desire freedom and liberty...it's only the rabble rousers who detest authoritarians....it's only the....ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
Perhaps, it's only the unintelligent, uninformed and uneducated who make such statements (please note use of apostrophe in "it's"). I, for one, have no problem with big brother stomping you outdoors.
I would take issue with your analysis with that august reputation of Scientific American, which has long been considered by scientists to be little more than a popular science rag, and it has indeed published works by various quacks over the years - people which NO ONE (I am the official speaker for them, of course) in the scientific community takes seriously...although that old "Connections" column (by Burke, I believe) was truly outstanding.
But I do fully agree with your analysis of of that guy Gates...
Many eons ago, when I was in school, all the juvenile crooks primarily went into one of two professions after the left school, either full-time crime or the police force.
Since then, I have observed quite a number of dirty cops, drug-addicted cops, killer cops, and generally derelict coppers. Now, police work is very difficult, but only when it is actually being performed......
With results like that, is there really a good basis for argument against these cameras?
Duuuuuh! That same camera can be used by Der Homeland Security to track and apprehend war (make that illegal invasion) protesters, their (Homeland Security operatives, that is) ex-girlfriends (or ex-boyfriends) and various other future victims.
Two items of applicable interest:
(1) The Assistant Director of Homeland Security (Suzie Spacecadet or whatever her name is) mentioned the other day that the Bush Administration simply can't be bothered to ask their "ally" - the Pakistani president - to help them in capturing Osama bin Laden (still remember him, evidently he's supposed to have something or other to do with this "War on Terror"). Well, if that Osama ain't that important, just what is this phony Bushie Wushie war on terror supposed to be about, huh?
(2) George H.W. Bush (that's Dubya Senior, "born with a silver foot in his mouth") did solemnly state, at former appointed President Gerald Ford's funeral, that the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy was correct, and only "conspiracy theorists" thought otherwise - which would be about 90% of the American population when polled back in the early '80s. What a strange thing to mention, especially at someone's funeral......
Oh yeah, I forgot about those soon-to-be declassified CIA documents - of course, they were created within the CIA itself, but then, if there were a below surface battle taking place between patriots within the CIA and neocon traitors at the Pentagon......
Not to beat this subject into the ground, but one final comment:
That moronic, sociopathic fearless leader, George W. Bush's military records have obviously been doctored as no one remembers having served alongside him at that Alabama Air National Guard wing and flight he claims to have served with. I'd be curious if anyone ever recalls having served alongside former President Ford during WWII?
Now, I realize the advanced age of anyone who would have - so it would be highly unlikely they'd still be alive - but certainly someone would have mentioned it in some type of correspondence back when Ford became president and in those pre-Web times, letter-writing was still quite common.....
Oh, one other thing I neglected to mention which can be added to the list for "coincidence theorists" out there:
As a knowledgeable individual as yourself is probably aware, Bush Senior (George H.W. Bush) just happened to have dinner with the Hinckley family the night prior to Hinckley Junior attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan. Bush Senior also happened to be attending a breakfast with the head of the bin Laden family (also head of the BinLaden Group) at the Mayflower Hotel on the morning of 9/11/01. Guess where and with whom Bush Senior was having brunch with on the morning that John F. Kennedy was assassinated? Yup, you guessed it: he was breaking bread with former CIA director Dulles, former assistant CIA director and brother to the mayor of Dallas, and the mayor, of course, in Dallas. Simply another one of those seemingly coincidental life happenstances, no doubt?
Now here's the situation - I'm not disputing your link - and at this point I'm not going to bother searching for any other links which might dispute it for what's-becoming-a-very-obvious reality now over the past years, there is considerable manipulation of the media and revisionism taking place.
Whether it is "web scrubbing" which I've noted over the past several years at unprecedented levels, or seemingly innocuous facts as to Ford's war record (and let me state that while I've never voted Republican, I have nothing whatsoever against Mr. Ford and his very normal family). I have no idea why so much manipulation is taking place, but being blessed with an excellent memory - and having attended school in the D.C. area at that time while working on Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign - I recall an extreme number of stories and a few live interview where Ford stated he was sorry he missed out on WWII. I even distinctly recall a Life Magazine article and interview about that.
You would find any number of links detailing what I know to be complete fictions - as I was alive during that time - regarding the life of assassinated President John F. Kennedy. For example: CIA personnel who retired in the late '70s wrote a flock of articles blaming Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs and attempted assassinations on Fidel Castro, but shortly after his horrendous death there were numerous articles - never, ever disputed, recounting how Kennedy was being superceded by the Dulles brothers, and a few other top-level types at the CIA, with regard to Cuba. The CIA would sabotage shipments of sugar to Cuba, and Kennedy would apologize to Castro (he was trying diplomacy at that time and believed that to be the better road to take) and reimburse Cuba for those destroyed shipments while trying to rein in the CIA. Kennedy fired Dulles and his assistant director (who, it should be noted, was the brother of the mayor of Dallas - the one who changed the route of Kennedy's motorcade - ostensibly for security reasons - to take it in front of that book depository that day) after the Bay of Pigs debacle, and those closest to Kennedy staunchly claimed he knew nothing about it and it was another CIA renegade operation.
Unfortunately, firing just those several people at the CIA wasn't enough. It took Carter to put Stansfield Turner into the CIA directorship to truly raze through the shadow government in the CIA, which sadly, relocated to the Pentagon under Reagan and Bush. Carl Bernstein, of "Woodward and Bernstein/Watergate" fame, committed journalistic suicide by writing a book naming names as to the 400 journalists who were on the CIA's payroll, churning out misinformation and disinformation to the American public. Some of those one might mistake for liberal demo-types. Today, we again have many seemingly liberal journalist-types who are on the Pentagon and Bush Administration's payroll (I strongly suspect Marianne Means, Corn, Isikoff and Olliphant to be among them. Superficially they appear to scoff at this administration, while all too often writing misleading and misdirecting articles which cast them in a positive light occasionally. [End of diatribe.]
Gerald Ford attended Naval ROTC during his college years and did his mandatory one-year stint afterwards, which was just after WWII had ended. Mr. Ford was quite honest and candid - as he had always been - in stating that he just missed out on duty during WWII. Ford was selected as VP by Nixon when Nixon was aware he would be resigning the presidency. Nixon stated (this appears on several of those office tapings which came to light some years back) that he chose Ford as his revenge on the Republican Party for what he felt was selling him out (for his illegal and unconstitutional behavior, 'natch). Nixon said that Ford, being the most stupid of congressmen, would never be elected president. He was, of course, proven right.
The highlight of Ford's short presidency was his "Whip Inflation Now" program - whereby he mandated that government workers wear WIN buttons (for Whip Inflation Now) and urged the American citizenry to do the same.
On the other hand, I've heard LBJ (that would be the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson) was supposed to have had a manufactured record of service during WWII - wouldn't surprise me, given the blood money he made off of Vietnam (and I say this as a life-long progressive democrat)...
Whoopee!! They give us various forms of flu every year, and that SARS virus, and make traitorous, amoral morons pay the Chinese government to view the preserved remains of their murdered "dissidents" - and now they bring humanity the fluorescent green pig.....
Several recent events are pertinent to this discussion:
(1) Six months prior to that Italian premier election, the one which Berlisconi (the special Bushie buddy and anti-freedom of the press guy) narrowly lost (by the official electronic ballot machine count he only lost by 25,000 - by the exit polls, by well over 1 million - sound familiar??) old anti-press porn king Berlisconi had imported the firm Accenture to set up and program said electronic ballot machines.
(2)The pathetic mainstream media failed to properly report that in the last national elections of November, there was widespread ballot tampering (of an electronic nature) reported throughout the country, as well as record number of voter turnout (which was necessary to overcome said tampering) during an off-year election.
As something of an old fart, I wake up almost everyday with a headache from listening to the misinformation and disinformation which those mainstream media claim to be the news (e.g., the next day after former (selected, not voted in, as was also Bush that first time) president Gerald Ford died, he was incorrectly (fictionally??) cited as being a World War II veteran (wrong!!) and also cited as being the best athlete to hold the presidency (Huh? How about Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, that Gipper fellow, what's-his-name, and a number of others). There is simply no end to all the disinformation out there - which is why honest and aboveboard elections are sooooo crucial.....
Wow! What a great scam! It's about time someone used this one (at least in this century, would have been used already back in the old 20th). Gee, of course we're all familiar with that great tech genius, Christopher Scully (guess things were getting kind of slow at the old Wentworth Institute of Technology, huh?).
Can't wait to jack into this 'net...or, maybe not....
A most articulate and thoughtful post, Citizen Omestes.
I would add but one comment to the mix, that what passes for any space program of any consequence today (Bush's fraudulent Mars mission - really just another absolutely corrupt swindle to make and give a super-expensive drill to their buddies at Halliburton) gets lost in all the corruption. Would you really pay any attention to a moronic, anti-science, anti-education designated puppet (George W. Bush) who has only been interested in deskilling America when he gives a "speech" (i.e., random mutterings of a fool) on space exploration.....
And to a fellow SF fan, I would highly recommend Iain Banks' "Player of Games" and Stirling's "Drakon" - the first a true future fiction extravaganza which will remain a classic for hundreds of years to come, and the second a modern classic SF action opera....
Wow...could this be in a similar vein to that Enron fellow, Skilling, whose company's phony blackouts actually caused the death of a few people, yet Skilling will not be going to a regular prison but one of those country club-type daycare prisons???
Gee whiz...I guess the rich and super rich get away with murder (Saddam Hussein's body count: 100,000 to 200,000 Iraqis.....George Weasel Bush's body county: 600,000 Iraqis). 'Nuff said.....
Recently, an honorably discharged, multi-tour combat veteran was murdered by the Chicago police as he was called back to active duty to serve in the "surge of troops" in Baghdad.
He had refused to go on another (I forget whether it would have been his third or fourth) tour of combat. This is what this dispicable, vile country has come to - and the primary reason the only American candidate running for prez (hopefully he will) is Dennis Kucinich. HE, and really only he (exception: Russ Feingold, maybe Byrd and perhaps one or two others - definitely not Obama, Edwards, or Hillary from their voting records - they despise the middle-class and America and live only for corporate control and the forever offshoring of American jobs) is the only remaining possibility to put this completely amoral (amoral as in wanton killing for profit - negative on human rights, helping one's fellow human, and sex) society back on track.
Outstanding post, Good Citizen Threni. One might add the names of Michael Parenti and Howard Zinn for an historical perspective. And well articulated about "conspiracy theories," which appears to be the new neocon buzzphrase whenever they've been found out about anything and everything.....
You sure about that? Personally, I've always considered Stiglitz to be an idiot, and a mathematically-challenged one at that! But, if he's suddenly developing ethics at this late stage, then I, for one, salute him. Better late than never.
But an economist with a Nobel Prize isn't necessarilyy and indicator of "genius" - and being affiliated with the World Bank is a definite indicator of a sellout jackass. Just research who the past presidents and chief economists were at that institution. More likely those positions are simply political payoffs for a nefarious job-well-done.....(And if you don't believe this country - the USA - is simply one step away from a tyranny, you are woefully ignorant and haven't been paying any attention - once Habeas Corpus and Posse Commitatus have been erased - which the legislation was recently passed to eradicate them - then we do indeed have the makings for a tyranny.)
Three serial posts - and all COMPLETELY ACCURATE - amazing!!!
Soon it will be 2007 - and Osama bin Laden is still alive, Saddam Hussein is still alive, and far too many good Iraqis and Americans are dead. Any questions as to the validity of the Bush/Cheney/BinLaden Crime Family??? Remember - homosexuality is a biological given - not a choice - with the one exception of Vice President Cheney's daughter, Mary Cheney, who became so disgusted with Dick, she became a lesbian....
If you RTFA one more time, you will see (even the blind can sometimes see) that the article PASSED the national security review. This is more crapola from the Cheney/Bush/bin Laden crime family.
Henry Kissinger - now advisor to Dickhead Cheney - has been a paid register foreign agent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and government of China for a number of years (this is public domain information - the DOJ has the lists of said registered agents under F.A.R.A.). James Baker, now advising Bushie Wushie, is a legal representative to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, along with British Petroleum and Exxon-Mobil. Any of this starting to get through to you, Salvance????
While the NYT is free to publish almost anything they want.. ---- Huh? The NYT proclaimed the attempted coup of democratically-elected (and very similar to JFK) President Hugo Chavez to be positive (that is, at the time they believed this coup to have been successful). And that deceitful airhead Judy Miller (who, at that time was being boinked by the publisher, I believe) published false planted stories she had been told by Dickhead Cheney, draft-dodger extraordinaire...free to publish almost anything... --- think again, Kimosabe....
A thousand thanks, Good Citizen nido, for an extremely well-thought out post (together with your very pertinent later posts).
I attended a Catholic primary school (this is not an add for Catholicism, as I stand against all primitive artificial power constructs) with over 100 kids in first grade, yet we all learned to read, in English as well as beginning instruction in German, French and Spanish [and there were many immigrants and poor kids in that class - I was one of those poor kids]. And, as you made mention of in a follow-up post, the older children were send to the younger grades to act as tutors and aid and abet the educational process.
In other words, maybe it does take a "community" to educate a child.....(and yes, there exists a definite conspiratorial flavor to the dumbing down of America - anyone who doesn't realize that the reading list I had in third grade is now the reading lists at sophmore and junior years in college aren't particularly astute - and soooo many of these conspiracies turn out to be reality to those of us who read history).
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Amazing, that sounds almost word-for-word what the Tories used to say about my revolutionary ancestors prior to America's Revolutionary War to throw off the yoke of Royalist England.
It's only the anti-crown who desire freedom and liberty...it's only the rabble rousers who detest authoritarians....it's only the....ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
Perhaps, it's only the unintelligent, uninformed and uneducated who make such statements (please note use of apostrophe in "it's"). I, for one, have no problem with big brother stomping you outdoors.
But I do fully agree with your analysis of of that guy Gates...
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Something tells me you're not too much into special effects nor Flash -- I'd suggest an introductory seminar into both these subjects.....
Since then, I have observed quite a number of dirty cops, drug-addicted cops, killer cops, and generally derelict coppers. Now, police work is very difficult, but only when it is actually being performed......
Duuuuuh! That same camera can be used by Der Homeland Security to track and apprehend war (make that illegal invasion) protesters, their (Homeland Security operatives, that is) ex-girlfriends (or ex-boyfriends) and various other future victims.
Two items of applicable interest:
(1) The Assistant Director of Homeland Security (Suzie Spacecadet or whatever her name is) mentioned the other day that the Bush Administration simply can't be bothered to ask their "ally" - the Pakistani president - to help them in capturing Osama bin Laden (still remember him, evidently he's supposed to have something or other to do with this "War on Terror"). Well, if that Osama ain't that important, just what is this phony Bushie Wushie war on terror supposed to be about, huh?
(2) George H.W. Bush (that's Dubya Senior, "born with a silver foot in his mouth") did solemnly state, at former appointed President Gerald Ford's funeral, that the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy was correct, and only "conspiracy theorists" thought otherwise - which would be about 90% of the American population when polled back in the early '80s. What a strange thing to mention, especially at someone's funeral......
Oh yeah, I forgot about those soon-to-be declassified CIA documents - of course, they were created within the CIA itself, but then, if there were a below surface battle taking place between patriots within the CIA and neocon traitors at the Pentagon......
That moronic, sociopathic fearless leader, George W. Bush's military records have obviously been doctored as no one remembers having served alongside him at that Alabama Air National Guard wing and flight he claims to have served with. I'd be curious if anyone ever recalls having served alongside former President Ford during WWII?
Now, I realize the advanced age of anyone who would have - so it would be highly unlikely they'd still be alive - but certainly someone would have mentioned it in some type of correspondence back when Ford became president and in those pre-Web times, letter-writing was still quite common.....
Half of all new computers sold in 2007 will be laptops and 20 percent of those will be Apple's MacBooks.
ONLY 20 percent....not that's farfeteched...try 60 percent....
As a knowledgeable individual as yourself is probably aware, Bush Senior (George H.W. Bush) just happened to have dinner with the Hinckley family the night prior to Hinckley Junior attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan. Bush Senior also happened to be attending a breakfast with the head of the bin Laden family (also head of the BinLaden Group) at the Mayflower Hotel on the morning of 9/11/01. Guess where and with whom Bush Senior was having brunch with on the morning that John F. Kennedy was assassinated? Yup, you guessed it: he was breaking bread with former CIA director Dulles, former assistant CIA director and brother to the mayor of Dallas, and the mayor, of course, in Dallas. Simply another one of those seemingly coincidental life happenstances, no doubt?
Whether it is "web scrubbing" which I've noted over the past several years at unprecedented levels, or seemingly innocuous facts as to Ford's war record (and let me state that while I've never voted Republican, I have nothing whatsoever against Mr. Ford and his very normal family). I have no idea why so much manipulation is taking place, but being blessed with an excellent memory - and having attended school in the D.C. area at that time while working on Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign - I recall an extreme number of stories and a few live interview where Ford stated he was sorry he missed out on WWII. I even distinctly recall a Life Magazine article and interview about that.
You would find any number of links detailing what I know to be complete fictions - as I was alive during that time - regarding the life of assassinated President John F. Kennedy. For example: CIA personnel who retired in the late '70s wrote a flock of articles blaming Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs and attempted assassinations on Fidel Castro, but shortly after his horrendous death there were numerous articles - never, ever disputed, recounting how Kennedy was being superceded by the Dulles brothers, and a few other top-level types at the CIA, with regard to Cuba. The CIA would sabotage shipments of sugar to Cuba, and Kennedy would apologize to Castro (he was trying diplomacy at that time and believed that to be the better road to take) and reimburse Cuba for those destroyed shipments while trying to rein in the CIA. Kennedy fired Dulles and his assistant director (who, it should be noted, was the brother of the mayor of Dallas - the one who changed the route of Kennedy's motorcade - ostensibly for security reasons - to take it in front of that book depository that day) after the Bay of Pigs debacle, and those closest to Kennedy staunchly claimed he knew nothing about it and it was another CIA renegade operation.
Unfortunately, firing just those several people at the CIA wasn't enough. It took Carter to put Stansfield Turner into the CIA directorship to truly raze through the shadow government in the CIA, which sadly, relocated to the Pentagon under Reagan and Bush. Carl Bernstein, of "Woodward and Bernstein/Watergate" fame, committed journalistic suicide by writing a book naming names as to the 400 journalists who were on the CIA's payroll, churning out misinformation and disinformation to the American public. Some of those one might mistake for liberal demo-types. Today, we again have many seemingly liberal journalist-types who are on the Pentagon and Bush Administration's payroll (I strongly suspect Marianne Means, Corn, Isikoff and Olliphant to be among them. Superficially they appear to scoff at this administration, while all too often writing misleading and misdirecting articles which cast them in a positive light occasionally. [End of diatribe.]
The highlight of Ford's short presidency was his "Whip Inflation Now" program - whereby he mandated that government workers wear WIN buttons (for Whip Inflation Now) and urged the American citizenry to do the same.
On the other hand, I've heard LBJ (that would be the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson) was supposed to have had a manufactured record of service during WWII - wouldn't surprise me, given the blood money he made off of Vietnam (and I say this as a life-long progressive democrat)...
Whoopee!! They give us various forms of flu every year, and that SARS virus, and make traitorous, amoral morons pay the Chinese government to view the preserved remains of their murdered "dissidents" - and now they bring humanity the fluorescent green pig.....
(1) Six months prior to that Italian premier election, the one which Berlisconi (the special Bushie buddy and anti-freedom of the press guy) narrowly lost (by the official electronic ballot machine count he only lost by 25,000 - by the exit polls, by well over 1 million - sound familiar??) old anti-press porn king Berlisconi had imported the firm Accenture to set up and program said electronic ballot machines.
(2)The pathetic mainstream media failed to properly report that in the last national elections of November, there was widespread ballot tampering (of an electronic nature) reported throughout the country, as well as record number of voter turnout (which was necessary to overcome said tampering) during an off-year election.
As something of an old fart, I wake up almost everyday with a headache from listening to the misinformation and disinformation which those mainstream media claim to be the news (e.g., the next day after former (selected, not voted in, as was also Bush that first time) president Gerald Ford died, he was incorrectly (fictionally??) cited as being a World War II veteran (wrong!!) and also cited as being the best athlete to hold the presidency (Huh? How about Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, that Gipper fellow, what's-his-name, and a number of others). There is simply no end to all the disinformation out there - which is why honest and aboveboard elections are sooooo crucial.....
Can't wait to jack into this 'net...or, maybe not....
I would add but one comment to the mix, that what passes for any space program of any consequence today (Bush's fraudulent Mars mission - really just another absolutely corrupt swindle to make and give a super-expensive drill to their buddies at Halliburton) gets lost in all the corruption. Would you really pay any attention to a moronic, anti-science, anti-education designated puppet (George W. Bush) who has only been interested in deskilling America when he gives a "speech" (i.e., random mutterings of a fool) on space exploration.....
And to a fellow SF fan, I would highly recommend Iain Banks' "Player of Games" and Stirling's "Drakon" - the first a true future fiction extravaganza which will remain a classic for hundreds of years to come, and the second a modern classic SF action opera....
Gee whiz...I guess the rich and super rich get away with murder (Saddam Hussein's body count: 100,000 to 200,000 Iraqis.....George Weasel Bush's body county: 600,000 Iraqis). 'Nuff said.....
Man oh man...are you all wet. The old overlords reside in their ancient graves below that ice. End of sarcasm and an erudite post....
He had refused to go on another (I forget whether it would have been his third or fourth) tour of combat. This is what this dispicable, vile country has come to - and the primary reason the only American candidate running for prez (hopefully he will) is Dennis Kucinich. HE, and really only he (exception: Russ Feingold, maybe Byrd and perhaps one or two others - definitely not Obama, Edwards, or Hillary from their voting records - they despise the middle-class and America and live only for corporate control and the forever offshoring of American jobs) is the only remaining possibility to put this completely amoral (amoral as in wanton killing for profit - negative on human rights, helping one's fellow human, and sex) society back on track.
Outstanding post, Good Citizen Threni. One might add the names of Michael Parenti and Howard Zinn for an historical perspective. And well articulated about "conspiracy theories," which appears to be the new neocon buzzphrase whenever they've been found out about anything and everything.....
You sure about that? Personally, I've always considered Stiglitz to be an idiot, and a mathematically-challenged one at that! But, if he's suddenly developing ethics at this late stage, then I, for one, salute him. Better late than never.
But an economist with a Nobel Prize isn't necessarilyy and indicator of "genius" - and being affiliated with the World Bank is a definite indicator of a sellout jackass. Just research who the past presidents and chief economists were at that institution. More likely those positions are simply political payoffs for a nefarious job-well-done.....(And if you don't believe this country - the USA - is simply one step away from a tyranny, you are woefully ignorant and haven't been paying any attention - once Habeas Corpus and Posse Commitatus have been erased - which the legislation was recently passed to eradicate them - then we do indeed have the makings for a tyranny.)
Soon it will be 2007 - and Osama bin Laden is still alive, Saddam Hussein is still alive, and far too many good Iraqis and Americans are dead. Any questions as to the validity of the Bush/Cheney/BinLaden Crime Family??? Remember - homosexuality is a biological given - not a choice - with the one exception of Vice President Cheney's daughter, Mary Cheney, who became so disgusted with Dick, she became a lesbian....
Henry Kissinger - now advisor to Dickhead Cheney - has been a paid register foreign agent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and government of China for a number of years (this is public domain information - the DOJ has the lists of said registered agents under F.A.R.A.). James Baker, now advising Bushie Wushie, is a legal representative to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, along with British Petroleum and Exxon-Mobil. Any of this starting to get through to you, Salvance????
While the NYT is free to publish almost anything they want.. ---- Huh? The NYT proclaimed the attempted coup of democratically-elected (and very similar to JFK) President Hugo Chavez to be positive (that is, at the time they believed this coup to have been successful). And that deceitful airhead Judy Miller (who, at that time was being boinked by the publisher, I believe) published false planted stories she had been told by Dickhead Cheney, draft-dodger extraordinaire. ..free to publish almost anything... --- think again, Kimosabe....
I attended a Catholic primary school (this is not an add for Catholicism, as I stand against all primitive artificial power constructs) with over 100 kids in first grade, yet we all learned to read, in English as well as beginning instruction in German, French and Spanish [and there were many immigrants and poor kids in that class - I was one of those poor kids]. And, as you made mention of in a follow-up post, the older children were send to the younger grades to act as tutors and aid and abet the educational process.
In other words, maybe it does take a "community" to educate a child.....(and yes, there exists a definite conspiratorial flavor to the dumbing down of America - anyone who doesn't realize that the reading list I had in third grade is now the reading lists at sophmore and junior years in college aren't particularly astute - and soooo many of these conspiracies turn out to be reality to those of us who read history).
We can only hope..until we meet again, Third Dimension beings.
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No, what he's trying to tell us is he hasn't purchased a vibrator yet....
I knew that....