SOTU ("Drink! Drink! Drink!")

rhisiart at earthlink.net rhisiart at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 30 23:15:25 PST 2003


At 01:55 AM 1/31/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>At 11:25 PM 1/30/03 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>If you ridicule a president for limping, you are also ridiculing any
>>convict, etc. who limps. And it is real ignorance to believe that mere
>>good education or anything else will _necessarily_ (or even probably)
>>lead to the disappearance of dyslexia or related (and many probably not
>>even yet identified) difficulties.

let's just ridicule ourselves for allowing him to be president. that's where the ridicule belongs.

R


>so the pronunciation of nuclear as nukular is form of dyslexia now? a
>learning disorder?
>
>what the hell are you talking about?
>
>joe complained about the pronunciation, nukular. he never once mentioned
>stupidity. he did mention _stubborn illiteracy_ by which he does not mean
>that he is stupid. claiming _stubborn illiteracy_ is no different than you
>calling me an idiote (private person, refractory to education sort thang!)
>
>i can assure you that budge (joe), who is a good friend of mine, has never
>so much as spent one ounce of his considerable wit and humor on discussing
>what a dumbass shrub is. rather, he is far more interested in the
>contemptible politics and policies the man has pursued. and, actually,
>he'd beat on kkklinton sooner, i suspect. we spend hours laughing
>ourselves silly over many things: shrub, let alone people's disabilities
>or stupidity, are not among them. (ok, perfesser smant's antics are
>sometimes called stupid but only because that is easier to say than
>ignorant when you've had one too many).
>
>as an aside, i do not buy that shrub is disabled in any way whatsoever.
>that diagnosis will have to come from a physician qualified to make such a
>claim, not you and not Vanity Frickin Fair. I am far more interested in
>the administration's refusal to simply be out with it and tell everyone he
>is disabled, if it's the case that he is. He gets so much heat from all
>sides for his behavior, it makes no sense that they've kept it quiet.
>
>Kelley
>
>[1] wasted a spot does not mean what you think it means. wasted as in
>there are millions of young people who deserve an education _for_ an
>education. not so they can attend elite schools and make connections.



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