Is standing in the corner forbidden now?

In article Ho8pd.141588$bk1.11182@fed1read05 "Circe" writes:

Cary Kittrell wrote:
Since, as we can clearly see from your .sig, you are one of those
wrong-headed anti-American NPR listeners, and likely French to boot:

LOL!

did you hear that Prairie Home Companion skit in which Garrison
is trying to help the little girl locate her missing parents --
and it turns out that the Rapture has come and gone, and only
the Unitarians were taken?

Yes. It was a scream.


My favorite was the Hip-Hop'n John Paul. Closely followed by
Billy Graham. It's probably me projecting, but I thought
Garrison had a bit of a soft spot for Billy Graham, as
I do.

Did you know that the hard-right fundies have a real
hate on for Billy now? I think it started when
he mused publicly that Jews, and maybe even pagans,
might end up finding themselves in heaven?

-- cary

"Graham" wrote in message
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Gray Shockley wrote in message
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delusional ravings popped

I think my post must have caused a short in the pig entrails
this poor boy has for brains. Cuckoo cuckoo cuckooo...poor
boy thinks he's Sgt. Rock or something now.

Gray, you're a damaged unit. Do the right thing.

--
Graham

Gray is a long standing member of this usenet community. It's you that's got
the screw loose.

Go peddle your mythology somewhere else.


--
Byron "Barn" Canfield
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"Politics is a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
-- Ambrose Bierce

"Graham" wrote in message
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Bob LeChevalier wrote in message
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more pathetic attempts to keep Bob's little belief system
intact snipped

But some is just too good to snip. Very amusing.

It is BY FAR the largest religion on Earth,

No. It is several hundred religions, and the largest branch, Roman
Catholicism, is up there with the largest branches of Islam

Uh, ever checked with a common dictionary, encyclopedia, World Almanac,
or any of the countless other sources that could explain this to you?
I happen to have the American College Heritage Dictionary nearby:

Christianity- 1. The Christian religion. 2. Christians as a group;
Christendom. 3. The state or fact of being a Christian.

Now, wasn't that easy. You can tell your counselor that Graham taught
you something new today.

our dating system is based on the birth of Jesus Christ;

No, Because of course we have no idea what year Christ was born in.

Most historians believe it was 4 B.C. By the way, it is currently
the year 2004 A.D., that's Anno Domini (In the year of our Lord).
(This is too easy.) The Common Era crap that you leftist clowns
tried to replace (C.E. and B.C.E for A.D. and B.C.) didn't fly for
long. Nice try, but you're greatly outnumbered. Overruled
you might say.

Christmas is, by far, the biggest holiday of the year;

And it is of course a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, far
predating Christianity.

Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ.

They aren't facts, as dealt with above.

And monkeys fly. BTW, I never stated which religion (if any)
I belonged to. But I'm a man who lives according to facts.
You and Gray Shocktreatments live by something else, but you're
still fun to kick around every now and then.

--
Graham

Go peddle your childish mythology somewhere else, twit.


--
Byron "Barn" Canfield
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"Politics is a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
-- Ambrose Bierce

"Byron Canfield" wrote in message news:6Kepd.563089$mD.460442@attbi_s02...

Gray is a long standing member of this usenet community.

Ever wondered why USENET is all you misfit cretins have?

--
Graham (looking forward to a wonderful Christmas!)

(teacherDeb) wrote in message . com...
(jitney) wrote in message . com...
Like any entrenched bureaucracy, the education establishment exists,
not for the students, but as a full employment program for an army of
administrators, assistants, assistants to assistants, and yes,
shrinks. Having to justify their presense on the payroll, they create
needs that aren't really needs and other alternate realities. Part of
this process is an elaborate and complex vocabulary meant to confuse
rather than describe, and to make complicated what is really simple so
as to require a large staff of degreed professionals who, in a well
ordered society, would be pushing a broom or cleaning toilets. Many
parents have given up on what former Education Secretary William
Bennett called "the blob" (referring to the intransigence of the
education establishment) and turned to private schools and home
schooling with a high rate of success.-Jitney

Yup. These kids got in the car at midnight and drove way too fast and
crashed and killed themselves because the local school needs to employ
a shrink. Or wait, was it the fault of the NFL because of their
smutty advertising? Or the teacher who did not teach them to add
three numbers at the correct age? I am sure you are correct that
these tragedies are the fault of your local school district or TV
station and
not in any way related to parenting, or lack thereof.

I regard teaching as a noble calling, and there are countless good
ones in the public schools. By referring to bureaucracy, I was more
concerned with the non-teaching administrators, counselors, assistant
principals, etc. The system is way too top-heavy, even where there are
shortages of qualified teachers.-Jitney

(jitney) wrote:
I regard teaching as a noble calling, and there are countless good
ones in the public schools. By referring to bureaucracy, I was more
concerned with the non-teaching administrators, counselors, assistant
principals, etc. The system is way too top-heavy, even where there are
shortages of qualified teachers.-Jitney

The system is NOT top-heavy.

The typical corporation has a far higher percentage of managers and
supervisors than the typical school, which typically has a handful of
same who with an equally small number of assistants, have to manage
several dozen teachers, hundreds if not thousands of students, a
complex physical plant, public relations, federal and state regulatory
compliance, and a few other things.

In private industry, in an institution the size of a typical school,
each of those functions would be managed by a different person,
whereas there aren't enough administrators in the typical school.

lojbab
--
lojbab
Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group
(Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.)
Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org

"Graham" wrote in message
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"Byron Canfield" wrote in message
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Gray is a long standing member of this usenet community.

Ever wondered why USENET is all you misfit cretins have?

--
Graham (looking forward to a wonderful Christmas!)

And I give thanks, this Thanksgiving weekend, that people of your ilk are
few and powerless to do anything but flap your lips.


--
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
those who understand binary numbers and those who don't."
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Byron "Barn" Canfield

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:20:24 -0600, Byron Canfield wrote
(in message S2tqd.103742$V41.68419@attbi_s52):

And I give thanks, this Thanksgiving weekend, that people of your ilk are
few and powerless to do anything but flap your lips.

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[gray: I've got 1994 as published date]
Late Breaking News:
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A Parable For Our Times (Prop 187)
From: (Richard Chimera)

As we're beginning to make plans at our house for Thanksgiving dinner, I was
drawn to ponder the historical roots of this very American celebration. The
Pilgrims, having barely survived a dangerous passage from their homelands,
came to America to find liberty and to begin new lives. But suddenly they
found themselves facing a winter with not enough food to feed their children.
They might have died.

But then the inhabitants of the land, seeing their plight and having
compassion, brought them food and provisions and helped them to survive the
cruel winter.

This, of course, was a bleeding-heart misguided waste of the crops that the
average hard-working Indian had toiled all spring and summer to raise for his
own family. These illegal immigrants who couldn't speak the language and were
too lazy or too stupid to even bother to grow enough food to support
themselves instead threw themselves on the already strained social service
system. Instead of just cutting them off and so encouraging them to just go
back home to their own countries, the Indians, in a truly misguided screw-up,
encouraged these disruptive elements and rewarded their laziness.

The results of this foolish policy are clear. The initial trickle of illegal
aliens from Europe turned into a flood pouring onto the continent. Murder
rates in North America skyrocketed as these foreigners came in greater and
greater numbers, with the number of native Americans murdered by gun-toting
Europeans climbing every year. They brought in disease and pestilence and
spread it among the previously healthy population. These immigrants never did
bother learn the language or the culture of their newly adopted homeland and
it eventually led to the destruction of the fabric of Native American society
and of Native American civilization as we knew it.

"Byron Canfield" wrote in message news:S2tqd.103742$V41.68419@attbi_s52...

And I give thanks, this Thanksgiving weekend, that people of your ilk are
few and powerless to do anything but flap your lips.

Powerless? Do you think we want to force YOUR ilk to celebrate
Christmas or something? I couldn't care less if you jumped off
El Capitan w/o parachute, and I'm sure nobody else does either.
USENET is about as close as most people want to get to your
ilk, that's why it's your ilk's major gathering place.

BTW, seen all those Christmas lights going up in your town yet?
How does it feel to be a complete waste of skin?

--
Graham

"Graham" wrote in message
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"Byron Canfield" wrote in message
news:S2tqd.103742$V41.68419@attbi_s52...

And I give thanks, this Thanksgiving weekend, that people of your ilk
are
few and powerless to do anything but flap your lips.

Powerless? Do you think we want to force YOUR ilk to celebrate
Christmas or something? I couldn't care less if you jumped off
El Capitan w/o parachute, and I'm sure nobody else does either.
USENET is about as close as most people want to get to your
ilk, that's why it's your ilk's major gathering place.

BTW, seen all those Christmas lights going up in your town yet?
How does it feel to be a complete waste of skin?

And again, I give thanks, this Thanksgiving weekend, that people of your ilk
are few and powerless to do anything but flap your lips.


--
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
those who understand binary numbers and those who don't."
-----------------------------
Byron "Barn" Canfield