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Tradition leads to twist

I agree create......How's that old saying go?.....You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

December 20, 2010 at 7:42 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Tradition leads to twist

empgazfan

If everybody always accepted conventional wisdom.....and never challenged conventional thought. If everybody always just accepted everything they were told and never challenged what authority told them was the only way to look at things.

We would all still be living in the cave. Because after all, the cave was alright for our grandparents....it should do fine for us also.

But our history of human development has been one constantly evolving change. And it has alwyas been diven by those that thought out of the box.

December 20, 2010 at 4:20 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Tradition leads to twist

create

I really don't want to jump back into that much at the moment. But I hope as tempers cool you will be able to accept that I was not targeting your opinion or you.....I was (as is often the case with empgazfan) upset with the way you were saying it, because I felt it was counterproductive. But as you and I have both noted the more dramatic delivery often has the most impact.

And I have accepted that whatever I was trying to do with my criticism on the thread was presented terribly by me for it to have had the affect that it did. I apologize for that. What bothered me the most was condescending. I hate condescending people yet am often accused of it. So when I am it's not because I am trying to be. Peace.......?

December 19, 2010 at 12:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

New admission standards

Yes reddog

School teaches you how to learn (supposedly).......life teaches you what you need to know. Old Mark was a pretty smart boy because he had the nerve to think out of the box.

"planning war to quell the tide of economic unrest?" What's new about that we have known that at least since the Civil War.....war is good for business.

December 19, 2010 at 10:14 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Tradition leads to twist

empgazfan

You have the amazing ability to say things I find so much to agree with....in a way that is so hard for me to swallow. And yet, the way you say it makes people listen before they call you stupid and say you don't know what you are talking about. When I say it they don't listen...... they just say I am stupid and don't know what I am talking about.

December 19, 2010 at 9:29 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

New admission standards

Right on Steve. It was lessons learned during that stint in the military that caused me to see the value of education once I got out. Incidentally I didn't go on the governments dollar either. It was paid for with income earned by my wife and me. Somethings are a lot more valuable to you when you are paying the bill yourself.

I would love to see a mandatory service program required of ALL young people. No deferments. It wouldn't always have to be the military....but some type of mandatory service to country where you earn the rights we all go on about so much.

When we were young the mandatory service was called the draft. Unless you were a deferment king like that ex- Vice President......what was his name--he was big in some oil company.....or that ex-President--the one that had trouble with word definitions......:>)

December 19, 2010 at 9:09 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Homes for the Holidays

I applaud the city's effort to get more of these animals into homes. But I hope their enthusiasm to move the cats into caring homes is not clouding the due diligence I hope they use in deciding who is allowed to adopt the animals.

I would hate to think the animals that had been rescued and saved were adopted right back out to the authors of the disgusting book linked above.....or other such cretins.

Oh.....And I don't care if cats....or dogs.....poop in my yard. I have a yard broom that cleans it up nicely and I'm glad to be able to provide them with a safe place to do it. So for those that can't stand a little poop.....There is yet another good reason to stay away from my house.....:>)

December 19, 2010 at 6:10 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

New admission standards

When I was a kid growing up (in the 1940's and 50's) a person with a college degree was a rare thing. As such they were treated differentially in terms of respect and the positions they held. Only a few in my graduating class were college bound. Nobody in my family had ever gone.

By the time I started attending college in the late sixties the change had already begun. In fact I still remember my surprise that they would even let me attend considering my C-average high school grades. But I made it through. In fact I thrived in college and went on to enter a job market that still differed to college graduates.

Now everybody goes to college. If you don't qualify....no problem. We will lower our standards until you do. And now....college graduates join the ranks of high school dropouts in picking up a pay check from Bill's Burger Barn. But each one of those graduates dropped many thousands of dollars in tuition and economic benefits (either of their own money or the governments) to the state and the community on their way to Bill's.

So tying the health of the local economy to retention rates and student enrollment figures have cheapened college degrees to the point that many of the non-hard science degrees any more are virtually worthless. I don't think the trade-off has been worth it.

And incidentally....as another poster pointed out recently (wish I could recall his handle at the moment) most of the hard science classes are filled with Asians......mainly Chinese. and Indians. And who are they?.....our principle economic adversaries. And why are they here? To keep those enrollment and retention figures up.

December 19, 2010 at 5:51 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

New admission standards

I agree bobhornet. The only thing you gain with grade inflation is a devalued education.

December 18, 2010 at 11:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Plan a designated driver

Hello REWBA

Up late tonight also I see......:-)

December 18, 2010 at 11:32 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )