JimboDaMan Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Originally posted by Candy Nine of you were having this discussion, Art? Big car. :laugh: Candy, you are quite the sharp knife. I read the entire post and never noticed that implication. Nice. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted June 27, 2003 Author Share Posted June 27, 2003 Implication by imagination however, Jimbo. Who was in the car is covered in the first sentence. Candy, sadly, wasn't in the car . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Not trying to pick a fight with you Art but I will interject that not all liberals are so naive. My sister has an MBA and her husband is a published PhD, both are liberals and both understand the U.N.. Shameless plugs: http://www.pdcnet.org/nodogs.html http://www.nodogs.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Regardless of the public opinion and necessity of the UN in the world media, does anyone really care about the whole idea of it anymore? Di we not just render it pointless? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fansince62 Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 tex...meaning no disrespect...but as one coming from a family of PHDs, University professors and grandparents who have published over 40 books...I have been immersed in that environment my whole life: academic achievement, while impressive as a marker for personal drive, is very likely the last metric one should use to qualify political niaivite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candy Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Thank you kindly, Jimbo. "Sharp knife" beats the heck out of some of stuff I've been called. :laugh: As to whether or not who was really in the car was made clear by Art's first sentence of the first post, though ....... I think it is still up for grabs just whose imagination is running away with them. I just read the whole post it again, and I STILL don't know who was actually in that big old car talking about the sad state of American education besides Art and the boyfriend-in-law. But since this is not really what the discussion is about, I'll drop it if he will. I AM pretty sure only one of them was a conservative though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 Originally posted by fansince62 tex...meaning no disrespect...but as one coming from a family of PHDs, University professors and grandparents who have published over 40 books...I have been immersed in that environment my whole life: academic achievement, while impressive as a marker for personal drive, is very likely the last metric one should use to qualify political niaivite! Point well taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted June 28, 2003 Author Share Posted June 28, 2003 Candy, sweetie, I usually treat the lovely ones kindly, but, if you're confused by who was in the car after reading, "My sister-in-law's boyfriend and I were driving up to Duluth to attend a marathon my wife and sister-in-law were running in," then you must be extremely blonde (sorry Blondie) and I'd like to flirt with you more frequently . I would, however, like to avoid having to point to the obvious again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboDaMan Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 Originally posted by Candy But since this is not really what the discussion is about, I'll drop it if he will. Candy, you surely know by now that Art will never just "drop it".:laugh: And since there's no football to talk about, I'll have another go also. We know these things: Art and the boyfriend were in the car. They held a political discussion. Art extended the discussion to include 7 additional people. So the reader is left to fill in a gap. Art arrived at a destination where the others were. Or Art contacted the others by car phone. Or, since he didn't expressly state they were alone in the car, all nine were travelling together. You need to conjure up either the arrival, the cell phone, or the other members of the group. Upon re-reading the original post, the arrival is clearly the most likely scenario. But maybe that's because I know now what happened. What's wrong with me. I need football bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 On a similar subject, the National Geographic Society does a surver every year where they give a geography test to, I think, High School students. Typically, about 90% of them can correctly identify the US on a world map. (I sometimes wonder about that stat: Are the padding the numbers, somehow? Like counting students who didn't also mark Alaska as "wrong". But, it's possible the stat is real.) They also, each year, ask the students to locate another country that's been in the news that year (like Iraq). Typically, less than 1/3 of them can find that one. ----------------- I recall an editorial saying that the fundimental flaw with the UN, is that it's founded on the (absolutely false) assumption that all nations are equal (except for size), and therefore should have an equal voice in determining how the world should be run. His proposal has that there should be a body created similar to the UN, but membership should only be allowed based on the "morality" of the nation. (Although, considering that the UN thinks China and Cuba should be in charge of Human Rights, I don't know if that term could possibly apply to a political body.) (Maybe the UN should have a second "house" in the leglislature: Each nation's vote should count according to how much of the UN's budget it pays.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 I've always found even the 90% distressing. Think about it, after studying the US in grades school, Middle school, and high school, ten percent of students can't recognize the shape or locate the US on a map. Given the projection that only four percent of our population is supposed to be learning disabled and many of them, I could even go with most of the ones I taught anyway were able to find the USA, what is this saying about those 25 million who can't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fansince62 Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 those 25 million - you ask? they became democrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosperity Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 Well I (some might call me a "liberal") am Junior in HS and I knew that, maybe your friends and relatives just are not interested or smart enough to learn about politics, instead of being brainwashed in college like you say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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