on conservatives & liberals

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[emap]

Oh good greif, rifles and pistols and machine guns are all guns. It turns into something else when you are talking missiles, grenades, thermonuclear weapons.

 

[In_the_Nick_of_time]

Oh good greif, rifles and pistols and machine guns are all guns. It turns into something else when you are talking missiles, grenades, thermonuclear weapons.

It's a symbol of something else.

I'll give you a prize if you guess what.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Vette hun, your picture is a teensy on the oh crap he's got a gun side.

And a whole helluva lot of we owe our freedom to the man with the gun...




Would you think that if the uniform was Police Blue?

 

[emap]

His willy?

 

[unregistered]

 

[emap]

Frisco you know you really gotta find a different picture, Atlas can't go on strike.

 

[1hotbabe]

It's a symbol of something else.

I'll give you a prize if you guess what.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

It's a symbol of something else.

I'll give you a prize if you guess what.

Liberty

Keep your booby-prize to yourself.

 

[unregistered]

 

[emap]

For shame, and you a citizen of AZ too.

Yep, I can shoot a trusty old winchester rifle pretty darn well and fast even. But I still think of anything that uses gases to eject a projectile as a gun, silly me I guess.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Frisco you know you really gotta find a different picture, Atlas can't go on strike.

PPPPPPPpsssstttttttttttt, they ain't no Hercules gonna come along......

 

[emap]

That wasn't to go on strike, that was to stretch sheesh don't you remember any of your semi obscure roman myths that are basically copies of Greek myths?

 

[unregistered]

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Progressive "Science"

So in order to "help" black and Latino students, the idea is to eliminate the opportunity for said students to make something of themselves through science. Those students who excel will be disfavored, while those who do not will be given more resources. The problem is that science training is one of the elements of educataion least susceptible to the multicultural indoctrination that pervades education in Berekeley and far too many other places. Replacing science with something dreamed up by the education-school-trained "experts" is unlikely to bring any improvement, even for its purported beneficiaries.

The sheer racism of identifying science as something primarily for whites seems not to penetrate the addled minds of those who fancy themselves advocates for black and Latino students. The absence of any consideration of Asian students is also striking. The city of Berkeley has more Asian households (12,641) than black households (10,874) or Latino households (8,466).

Consider that the university which makes its home in Berkeley and dominates both local employment and community's character has a majority undergraduate population of Asian students, thanks to the fact that California voters approved a state law eliminating racial preferences in state institutions. The science majors at the University of California, Berkeley overwhelmingly comprise Asian students. U.C. Berkeley also boasts 21 faculty members who have won Nobel Prizes, primarily in the sciences. The list of laureates includes two Asians and one Latino, all three science winners.

Aside from the repulsive racism of this move, the broader issue to be considered is whether society is better-served by cutting down the achievers and investing in the stragglers -- or whether everyone benefits from the achievements of those who apply themselves enough to excel. I have no hesitation in saying that I am in the latter camp. How does it benefit anyone to have an America made up of mediocre minds?

Lifson
American Thinker

Nothing has changed about the Berkeley mentality since Rand published her essays...

SciAm is Science for Berkeley.

 

[In_the_Nick_of_time]

His willy?

Full marks.

When would you like your prize?

It would need to be delivered in person.

 

[In_the_Nick_of_time]

I'm a straight shooter. You have no clue.

Your sexual preferences are not in question.

 

[unregistered]

 

[In_the_Nick_of_time]

Liberty

Keep your booby-prize to yourself.

I usually have to.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Who the hell is John Galt?




Protagonist of the worst novel ever written. Like we're scared! Shaking in our poly jammies...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I usually have to.

Stay in the closet like Jesus says...

 

[emap]

Ummm, a shrug a strike does not make, in this case an Atlas shrug would cause alot of earthquakes, at least I think that was the myth.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Ummm, a shrug a strike does not make, in this case an Atlas shrug would cause alot of earthquakes, at least I think that was the myth.

Wrong.


Shrug is metaphor for when the producers go on strike against the looters...

There is an earthquake similar to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.

 

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[blunt_trauma]

SciAm has become such a political rag.

I cancelled mine over glow-ball warning and their treatment of Dr. Duesburg...

actually, i was shocked at how political it is.

this american thing of rabidly dragging con V lib into everything has permeated it's pages...more noticeable because i'm so used to seeing a conservative lean in american media. the liberal lean is in stark contrast.

can you get new scientist over there?
it's a little less biased in a very english way.