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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 12:42 PM)
Welcome. To. America.

 

 

I know the polls/questionnaires that have been released that you are referring to with that, so i understand how ignorant some people truly are. However, Palin has a college degree. It's still hard, and almost unfathomable, for me to believe that someone of her age, with her education, and her current and former jobs, to truly not know Africa isnt a country. I could be wrong, but its just really hard for me to buy.

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QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 11:39 AM)
I've heard that, but I find it truly hard to believe. The GOP is probably trying to really to discredit her even more so there is no chance she thinks about running in 2012. I just have a hard time believing any 44 year old with any sort of decent education or IQ is not aware that Africa is a continent and not a country.

 

 

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 11:42 AM)
Welcome. To. America.

What makes me laugh is all the people who dislike Palin are running around saying "see?!?!" ...

 

I don't like her either, but this is just nonsense. It's called "hit pieces".

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So basically, we're discussing that there is now more evidence of what most people already knew - that Palin was a disaster of a pick, and that she clearly wasn't ready for the world stage.

 

Nothing new to see here.

 

I do agree with others who have said that McCain allowed his campaign to take on too much life without him. His campaign was not him, especially the last couple months. Not that that is a defense of McCain, because, that's not a real good indicator of how he'd run an administration.

 

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QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 09:51 AM)
I know the polls/questionnaires that have been released that you are referring to with that, so i understand how ignorant some people truly are. However, Palin has a college degree. It's still hard, and almost unfathomable, for me to believe that someone of her age, with her education, and her current and former jobs, to truly not know Africa isnt a country. I could be wrong, but its just really hard for me to buy.

Having gone through a state school as an undergrad, I think there's more than a few people who went through IU who couldn't answer that question. Just some of the memories I have, like the person in biology who said that we shouldn't care about any of this because the sun is just going to expand and destroy the earth anyway. Or the existence of math 001, which was basically the math I did in 7th grade.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 12:07 PM)
Having gone through a state school as an undergrad, I think there's more than a few people who went through IU who couldn't answer that question. Just some of the memories I have, like the person in biology who said that we shouldn't care about any of this because the sun is just going to expand and destroy the earth anyway. Or the existence of math 001, which was basically the math I did in 7th grade.

How do those people get INTO college? And not just some podunk CC, but a state flagship school?

 

 

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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 11:52 AM)
What makes me laugh is all the people who dislike Palin are running around saying "see?!?!" ...

 

I don't like her either, but this is just nonsense. It's called "hit pieces".

 

 

Who the heck is saying "see?!?!?!", and what exactly are they "seeing"? I see more of an appalled reaction more than anything else. Even the folks I know that really, REALLY "hated" her aren't saying "see..." And whatever you want to call it, it was fed from the horses mouth. They wrecked her and she did more to help them than to stop them.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 01:07 PM)
Having gone through a state school as an undergrad, I think there's more than a few people who went through IU who couldn't answer that question. Just some of the memories I have, like the person in biology who said that we shouldn't care about any of this because the sun is just going to expand and destroy the earth anyway. Or the existence of math 001, which was basically the math I did in 7th grade.

Whenever I have to peer review somebody's paper I'm sometimes shocked at the quality I see, or lack thereof. Most of them are about what you'd expect from a college student (fair to excellent) but occasionally I come across some genuinely awful ones that leave me scratching my head. I read one guy's paper that left me wondering how he possibly could've made it into a 300-level course, he almost did nothing right. He didn't even start off with a thesis, have a conclusion, or even take a side on a persuasive paper, it was indescribably bad, and that's not even taking into account that there was other, more minor stuff wrong with it like writing in the first person, bad grammar, not in MLA format, etc. And I reviewed this other woman's paper who didn't even try to get to 2000 words, she just stopped at 650 and turned it in.

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QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 10:24 AM)
Whenever I have to peer review somebody's paper I'm sometimes shocked at the quality I see, or lack thereof. Most of them are about what you'd expect from a college student (fair to excellent) but occasionally I come across some genuinely awful ones that leave me scratching my head. I read one guy's paper that left me wondering how he possibly could've made it into a 300-level course, he almost did nothing write. He didn't even start off with a thesis, have a conclusion, or even take a side on a persuasive paper, it was indescribably bad, and that's not even taking into account that there was other, more minor stuff wrong with it like writing in the first person, bad grammar, not in MLA format, etc. And I reviewed this other woman's paper who didn't even try to get to 2000 words, she just stopped at 650 and turned it in.

I have such an urge to point out the grammatical error here I can't resist...:P

 

Anywho...

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 01:30 PM)
I have such an urge to point out the grammatical error here I can't resist...:P

 

Anywho...

That was from not reading the sentence after I backspaced a couple times and re-wrote it :lolhitting

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QUOTE (Steff @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 01:55 PM)
Suck it up. :bang You weren't called either.

I am, that's why I tried to bring some humor into it. Basically to argue with people here...some who I consider friends and others who I consider FBWSA, over the governor of fricken Alaska's intelligence, is not something I'm interested in pursuing. Unless of course she invited me to spend a weekend with her in the hot springs of Alaska, in which case I would defend her til death for fulfilling my hot librarian/school teacher fantasy.

 

 

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QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 02:16 PM)
I am, that's why I tried to bring some humor into it. Basically to argue with people here...some who I consider friends and others who I consider FBWSA, over the governor of fricken Alaska's intelligence, is not something I'm interested in pursuing. Unless of course she invited me to spend a weekend with her in the hot springs of Alaska, in which case I would defend her til death for fulfilling my hot librarian/school teacher fantasy.

 

 

:lolhitting

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QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 03:17 PM)
Friends By White Sox Association

 

 

Which reminds me... I haven't gotten any new pics of Gia lately and IIRC she was getting a new friend this month...???

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QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 02:16 PM)
I am, that's why I tried to bring some humor into it. Basically to argue with people here...some who I consider friends and others who I consider FBWSA, over the governor of fricken Alaska's intelligence, is not something I'm interested in pursuing. Unless of course she invited me to spend a weekend with her in the hot springs of Alaska, in which case I would defend her til death for fulfilling my hot librarian/school teacher fantasy.

Alaska hot springs here I come.

 

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