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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 2:13:48 PM   
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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 2:21:15 PM   
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Or, Bowing to mediocrity...


Sanity,

You have cmail.

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 4:04:18 PM   
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What Sanity is trying to say is that with teabaggers calling the party shots, and birthers ignoring reality and palin and other creationists flapping their asses, and fox news dumbing down so the average neanderthalic neo-con can be entertained on their level, that science is inevitably going to suffer in America.

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Pure brilliance.

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 4:14:39 PM   
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I hate the name CZAR.  I hate the name "Homeland Security"


fuck that shit



It would be pretty kewel to be the czar...cept not the last one that they shot.

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 4:17:08 PM   
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I hate the name CZAR.  I hate the name "Homeland Security"


fuck that shit



It would be pretty kewel to be the czar...cept not the last one that they shot.
Yeah....them fucking Soviets sucked,eh tommie?

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 4:18:52 PM   
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The reason is so the the U.S corps. wont have to pay the price for domestic technicians. 
An American programer will bring about $65 an hour.  An Indian will make about $25 + room and board with six guys living in a two bedroom apt.

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 4:21:37 PM   
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But education = socialism, unless we are teaching the Bible. Have you not been following these threads?


Do you want a spanking young lady?

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 4:24:06 PM   
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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 4:25:17 PM   
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It would be pretty kewel to be the czar...cept not the last one that they shot.
Yeah....them fucking Soviets sucked,eh tommie?

Trust me dude getting shot sux no matter who does it.
It was not the Soviet which shot him it was the Bolshevics...not that he did not have it coming.

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 4:26:13 PM   
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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 4:26:33 PM   
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For telling the truth or being sarcastic?


No silly cuz you like it....duuhhh

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 4:28:23 PM   
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I usually don't give a fuck why I'm being spanked....the important thing is that I'm being spanked....just sayin.


It ain't happening dude....
that would just squick me out

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 4:28:29 PM   
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But education = socialism, unless we are teaching the Bible. Have you not been following these threads?

It's worth mentioning that your country did a u turn on creationism and actually started teaching proper science again in the late '50s when it looked like the Godless commies in the USSR were winning the space race, isn't it?

Moon, the Christian right has never given up on teaching creationism in this country, and most people still don't know anything about science. Why are we so stupid?

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 5:37:25 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead


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But education = socialism, unless we are teaching the Bible. Have you not been following these threads?

It's worth mentioning that your country did a u turn on creationism and actually started teaching proper science again in the late '50s when it looked like the Godless commies in the USSR were winning the space race, isn't it?

Moon, the Christian right has never given up on teaching creationism in this country, and most people still don't know anything about science. Why are we so stupid?

As someone who has spent a lot of time opposing the teaching of creationism and other anti intellectual movements I think part of it is ingrained in the American culture. We devote a lot of our sense of self in the idea that we're all equal which sometimes becomes a rejection of the expertise of others. We see that with things like the truthers rejecting all the studies by engineers on the subject.

Some of it is of course that the US is very religious country with a large subgroup who believes that the bible is accurate in every detail cover to cover. In order for this to be true the overwhelming mass of the physical sciences must be rejected as either wrong or at best wrongly interpreted.

Another factor is most scientists, by the very nature of who goes into research, are terrible communicators. Without the likes of Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov doing the heavy lifting of popularizing science it is much harder to spread the word about what science has done lately.

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 5:39:15 PM   
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Why are we so stupid?


Because it's the more socially acceptable, "patriotic", freedom-loving, "Christian" way to be?



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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 5:44:06 PM   
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Why are we so stupid?


Dear Sub of a Large Brain,

Being Stupid is Easy. Also we have piss poor Delayed Gratification. We want INSTANT GRATIFICATION. If you can not do it in five minutes then... BAH THIS WILL NEVAR WORK *breaks some things apart in a fit of rage*

Just another Gog to turn a Cog, one idiotic backwards step after another.

It would be wise to forget everything I have said.

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 5:49:42 PM   
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But education = socialism, unless we are teaching the Bible. Have you not been following these threads?

Brainia, with one possible exception, the dumbest conservative to be found anywhere near these forums is the one that lives in your head as the "typical example."



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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 5:51:04 PM   
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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 5:56:44 PM   
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You mean Sanity?


Soooo pretty yet so evil.
Me likey.

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RE: Striving For Mediocrity - 4/13/2010 6:01:18 PM   
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