Joe Gunns
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Mr. Adams, yup, that is true. They are used to being taken seriously by other media mavens. Doesn't mean real folks need to do so.
Who Is Smarter - The Anti-War Actors or The Administration?
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DeltaElite
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Wow CampX, did you think up that entire post all by yourself?
You are an intellectual wasteland.
You are an intellectual wasteland.
Joe Demko
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Who cares whether George W. Bush and his staff are smarter than any given group of entertainers? Is George smarter than Charlton Heston? Is George Smarter than John Wayne? Is George smarter than Tom Selleck? Is George smarter than Ted Nugent? Is George smarter than Peewee Herman? Is George smarter than Ron Jeremy? Is George smarter than...The fascination with entertainment celebrities remains one of the oozing wounds in American society. Left and Right are equally guilty, though not in precisely the same ways.
Pendragon
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Einstein got horrible grades because regular school is not designed to deal with divergent thinkers and the top minds.
Public school is designed to deal with most people - but many brilliant young people are turned off by learning by rote, the slow pace and the extremely linear approach.
A lot of these kids get labled ADD/ADHD because they get bored easily and cannot deal with the traditional school structure - so we try and drug them up or punish them to make them "be like other kids".
Within that group of the most brilliant, some are able to adapt and do what is required, some just flounder and wallow in frustration.
Only dumb people try and classify someone according to some arbitrary standard and they do it to their own extreme peril.
I took the IQ tests and all the standardized tests - what does it mean? Smartness does not make you money on it's own.
Comparing yourself to other people folly. In the dot.com hey days, I was making a lot more money than most of the people I knew that had gone to college - I told myself that that was a good pragmatic measure - but I was wrong.
You should compare your accomplishments to your talent and see if you making the most of what you are given.
Thats the problem with public school - there is a very low ceiling on what you can accomplish and measure - it teaches kids to work to the level of their peers, not work to the level they are capable of.
Anyway - Dubya has been getting these people to misunderestimate him for years - I think it is intentional and it warms the depths of my heart.
Public school is designed to deal with most people - but many brilliant young people are turned off by learning by rote, the slow pace and the extremely linear approach.
A lot of these kids get labled ADD/ADHD because they get bored easily and cannot deal with the traditional school structure - so we try and drug them up or punish them to make them "be like other kids".
Within that group of the most brilliant, some are able to adapt and do what is required, some just flounder and wallow in frustration.
Only dumb people try and classify someone according to some arbitrary standard and they do it to their own extreme peril.
I took the IQ tests and all the standardized tests - what does it mean? Smartness does not make you money on it's own.
Comparing yourself to other people folly. In the dot.com hey days, I was making a lot more money than most of the people I knew that had gone to college - I told myself that that was a good pragmatic measure - but I was wrong.
You should compare your accomplishments to your talent and see if you making the most of what you are given.
Thats the problem with public school - there is a very low ceiling on what you can accomplish and measure - it teaches kids to work to the level of their peers, not work to the level they are capable of.
Anyway - Dubya has been getting these people to misunderestimate him for years - I think it is intentional and it warms the depths of my heart.
ReadyontheRight
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Hear hear Pendragon.
The original post still points out that the lefty celebs who constantly criticize Republicans (but remain eerily silent when Democrats launch military action) have not studied history and lack the capacity or motivation to do more than ACT in certain ways to keep themselves in the spotlight.
An actor needs to start worrying when they are no longer getting press -- it doesn't really matter if it's good or bad. Michael Moore has rejuvinated his career precisely because we are all so upset. We need to respond to these idiots with a big, big yawn.
By the way, those who speak out against the war aren't brave. The brave folks are the ones who fought (and still fight in Iraq) to allow others to speak their mind without arrest, torture and death.
Ala Dan
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The Administration, by far!
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
Zander
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But you are more than willing to suggest that Al "no controlling legal authority" Gore was or is.
Albert A. Gore, Jr. [yes, Al is a true 'junior'] was raised in a hotel suite in Washington, DC; attended one of the most elite private schools for his high-school "education" and entered an Ivy League university [at the behest of his senator father] for his undergrad education. He went to Viet-Nam for a distinctly-shortened "tour of duty" as a "journalist" but left to return stateside to enter Vanderbilt's Divinity School...where he promptly, and quite spectactularly, flunked out. I take particular umbrage that Gore is a Tennessean. He's no more a Tennessean than starlings or English sparrows are native species.
How anyone can pretend to compare Gore [whose most famous moment of his military service was a photo of him staring down the barrel of his M-16] with a Harvard MBA who was an accomplished F-106 jet-fighter pilot is beyond me.
But then, there's no accounting for the sheer hatred of Dubya and his accomplishments. He's a leader in the truest sense of the word and I long ago gave up trying to fathom the depths to which some will plummet to impugn his intellect or his effectiveness. How fortunate we are to have a man of true faith...in his country and in his God.
I shudder to think of the crises we'd be facing if Gore's coterie of legal assassins had succeeded in stealing the 2000 election...
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