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Sick gay hate in a Louisiana school

Dec 3, 2003 1:54PM PST

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But why?
Dec 4, 2003 8:34AM PST

I thought by lowering the taxes, as Bush has done, would give the public schools more resources...

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LOL just have to ask..........
Dec 4, 2003 3:58AM PST

Did you mean very good use of Phonics? Or phonetics?
Just wonderingHappy

Glenda

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Re:LOL just have to ask..........
Dec 4, 2003 6:17AM PST

you picked up on that too?
I thought the poster was plagiarizing the article.
david

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What I lack in education I try to make up with compassion.
Dec 4, 2003 7:12AM PST

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Re:What I lack in education I try to make up with compassion.
Dec 4, 2003 8:25AM PST

which is worth much more than all the odium and taunt that takes place in this forum sometimes!
Keep going Rosalie!! Wink

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That won't work...
Dec 4, 2003 8:32AM PST

because you definitely are not Conservative! Wink

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Humm.. Ed, did you just add insult to injury? ;-)
Dec 4, 2003 9:23AM PST

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Are you saying the only compassionate Conservatives are those that are uneducated? Or that you have to be educated to be a compassionate Liberal.

Actually I'm neither Conservative nor Liberal. I'm me.
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probably because...
Dec 4, 2003 11:37AM PST

I am saying that you have to be Conservative (or Libertarian) to be compassionate.

Taking care of others by "picking" the pockets of of still others is not compassion although it is the Progressive Liberal's perception of compassion.

A Conservative will "give 'til it hurts" while a Liberal will "give 'til the conservative not only hurts but is broke and all wealth is redistributed (excepting their own of course).

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I'm sorry, I don't even recognize what you call compassion.
Dec 4, 2003 11:51AM PST

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The dollar signs in your eyes are preventing you from seeing what I'm talking about and my bad mood is preventing me from seeing what you're talking about.

What do you call a person that finds fault with a misspelled word? A Conservative or a Liberal?
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So sorry you took it badly........
Dec 4, 2003 11:57AM PST

I simply asked a question Rosalie, in FUN, I couldn't resist since the topic was on spelling. By the way you spelled it right you just used it wrong. Smile you will feel betterHappy

Glenda

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It's been way too many times...
Dec 4, 2003 1:41PM PST

Glenda,

It has been way too many times, both in this and the old forum, that you and your buddy have hurt people's feelings by making fun of their possible limitations, mistakes or other things. Your buddy has been making fun of my English for a long time and his buddy has done the same. There is a systematic harassment that I find objectionable. I would be more than happy to provide links to the posts where this has taken place, but sadly the forum doesn't have a search function yet, which makes it hard to do so. But I know that you, your buddy and his buddy know what I mean!
However, I leave it up to Rosalie though to accept or not your apology.

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You answering for Rosalie now???? LOL
Dec 5, 2003 12:05AM PST

WHAT buddies are you talking about??? I am totally clueless here! And Like I said IF you read it, I noticed the use of the word BECAUSE Rosalie was talking about SPELLING! And it was funny! Did you happen to see the LOL????? I guess not! hmmmm

Glenda

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Yes I do! And I am not alone!
Dec 5, 2003 2:02AM PST

Glenda,

I don?t think I have answered for half as many people that have answered for you through these years. You have your buddy who has been defending you a lot lately and that is OK! I have never complained about people defending each other. But there are fellow members that have been complaining about the fact that Blake has answered questions that have been posted to me as you may know. There has even been a betting game (no money involved) about this in another forum that may be familiar to you...
When I see that people with a big and good heart like Rosalie, are being harassed or taunted or made fun of because of their limitations or mistakes, I can?t but step in and defend them! I don?t always see these things since I don?t read every single post here, but when I see it, I do step in. And I hope you are able to respect me for doing that just as you most probably respect that you own buddies do it for you and for others too!

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Re:Yes I do! And I am not alone!
Dec 5, 2003 6:14AM PST

So you don't think Rosalie can take care of herself?

With friends like you ...

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nt) ATTENHUT... General is in the barracks.
Dec 5, 2003 3:38PM PST

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Re:Re:Yes I do! And I am not alone!
Dec 7, 2003 7:30PM PST

I never said that I didn't think Rosalie can take care of herself. I said that I will always provide my support to people that are being belittled or made fun of.

Your last comment you could have spared the forum from and left it for your howling friends instead!

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Some questions Charlie????
Dec 5, 2003 11:43AM PST

What buddies are you talking about????
Show me a link, even ONE where someone is defending me??
The other place?? I take it you mean TV?? I am banned from there remember?? Like I think for over a year now?

Glenda

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Re:Yes I do! And I am not alone!
Dec 6, 2003 12:25AM PST

You are half right, Charlie. It goes two ways.

Everybody in the free world can tell that there are people here who do not like each other. I suspect they are more prone to not hide their feelings here than they would be in real life.

It all started in the old forum over two years ago, There was a mean-spirited round of fun and games against a member after the subject of a dishwasher was posted. There was another one in which someone who posted an untruth but later confessed and apologized, but constant references to that continued. There are those who become angry at one or all moderators, and make veiled and not-so veiled snide comments about them. Grudges that started in other forums continue in Speakeasy. Some don't take challenges to their opinions well. and this carries over into personal comments.

I often misspell. It doesn't bother me for someone to comment when I do, for, after all, I did,

It is not hard to see that who makes a comment makes a difference. Some people can say something and there is no resentment, while others can say the same thing, and a long thread follows of charges and counter-charges. And some are spoiling for a fight.

IMO, it behooves us all to avoid feeling victimized , and to lay down our swords, slings and arrows.

Angeline
click here to email semods4@yahoo.com

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Show some Compassion
Dec 5, 2003 6:11AM PST

drop the LOL so he doesn't feel bad about getting laughed at rather than with.

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Re:no need for links charley
Dec 5, 2003 5:01AM PST

you and your buddy *insert name here* have hurt people's feelings by making fun of their possible limitations, mistakes or other things. Your buddy *insert name here* has been making fun of my English for a long time and his buddy *insert name here* has done the same. But I know that you, your buddy *insert name here* and his buddy *insert name here* know what I mean!

stop sitting on the fence charley...spit it out...stop hiding behind vagueries...

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Dec 5, 2003 6:07AM PST
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What do you call a person that finds fault with a misspelled word? A Conservative or a Liberal?.
Dec 5, 2003 6:04AM PST

Educated, nit picking, anal retentive, or even just poking fun at someone.

What do you desire to call such a person?

PS - it is not I who has dollar signs in his eyes but the Liberal who wants all to know that he is responsible for your being able to stay on welfare so vote for him or his party. It is more difficult to be charitable at home when much of what you could be providing is taken by government and provided to others elsewhere because those urban others don't want to take care of their own.

PS - your is generic and is not intended in any way to reflect negatively or positively on any member of this forum so don't anyone even go down that road.

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Being compassionate requires ACTION, not just words!
Dec 5, 2003 2:33AM PST

He Ed.

George Bush can claim he's a "compassionate conservative" till the cows come home, but there's NOTHING at all compassionate about his policies. As the good book says, "by their fruits ye shall know them." The jury's still out on whether "compassionate conservatism" is an oxymoron, but I've seen nothing to convince me it isn't.

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(NT) Ooops -- that shoulda been 'hi!'
Dec 5, 2003 2:36AM PST

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Re:Being compassionate requires ACTION, not just words!
Dec 5, 2003 5:55AM PST

Yes it does Dave and there has been plenty. You are just used to seeing the ACTION being government taking from one and giving to another to satisfy your distorted view of compassion.

Your view is "Take from those better off and give to those less fortunate and let those less fortunate know that they need to keep us in power so we can keep giving to them at the expense of those who earned the money." Your, and other Progressive Liberal view of compassion is "thank me for making him surrender what was his so you could thank me for providing it at his expense". Your view of compassion is socialism and redistribution of wealth (as long as you don't personally have to sacrifice).

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Compassionate action, Dave...
Dec 5, 2003 6:23PM PST

Dave, helping somebody in need might be compassionate. Demanding that somebody else do it by passing a law is not the same thing. When that law was passed to get votes, the motivation is not always compassion. It seems to me that a lot of "Liberal" compassion is not giving themselves, but trying to force others to give instead of themselves.

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A lot of college students spell that badly over here, too
Dec 4, 2003 4:57AM PST

I worked on contract to our local 6th form college (post-16 Ed), and the quality of spelling and grammar on their enrollment forms often suggested this was their first time inside a classroom. Many can't even fill out their home address using the proper structure.

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I don't know about in your country ...
Dec 4, 2003 5:35AM PST

... but here we are spending more and more money and employing ever more "sophisticated" teaching methodologies and getting crappier results each year it seems.

I am amazed at the change in the level of students at just one place where I have only taught for 5 years. I'm scared, frankly, at the idea of some of my pre-med students ever actually gaining admission to medical school let alone becoming doctors because most would have been lucky to escape the freshman course work I completed with a 2.0!

Over here part of the problem is this cloud over the head of educators where one small misstep -- and really, if you look at this rationally, this may have been an inappropriate overreaction, but one that would have no longlasting negative impact on the kid if it was just dealt with calmly and rationally NOW -- can ruin a career. Even at the college level, many of my colleagues have expressed apprehensions about one misstep destroying a career.

For example, we used to say Chief Soh-cah-toa to remember trig functions (Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse, etc. ...) but it is easy to envision an ACLU lawsuit ensuing from such nowadays. One place I teach I call "Diversity U" because out of the 36 students I have this semester only ONE is a WAS? male (not sure about the Protestant). Now I don't teach subjects that often involve discussions of touchy subjects but I can't imagine actually having to do that in such an environment when at any moment a student could take something the wrong way and sue. And despite whatever union protections, etc. there may be, and what is true about actually firing a teacher, the administrations will always buckle on the side of a student in cases like this. I have an awful lot of students with some rather unique names, that I'm just curious about the origins of. I dare not even ask the origin lest I be accused of questioning for some nefarious motive!

Evie Happy

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LOL you talk *****, we talk sport!
Dec 4, 2003 7:26AM PST

We also learned that one, but being a footballing country it was a play on "Soccer Tour".

Yep old methods were so easy and they worked:

For the colour order of the spectrum:
"Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain"
- historical reference to the Wars of the Roses

And the doubly litigious ones for the musical scales:
staves: "Every Good Boy Deserves Football"
spaces: "Fat Aunties Can Eat"

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LOL
Dec 4, 2003 8:12AM PST

I wonder if I should fear PETA when I use Goldfish are Hell without Tartar Sauce for the energy relationship delta G = delta H - T delta S

Happy