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BUSCH IS A IDIUT! ONLY CRETANS AND MORINS VOTE FOR HYM!
Academic and intellectual Chris Sheil analyses the idiocy of George W. Bush:
When it comes to Bush, we’re dealing with a cretan. The problem with cretans in a democracy is that other cretans vote for them, and the size of this demographic is not to be underestimated. The Dems need someone who can turn the cretan vote.
Sheil qualifies.
I cannot believe Chris couldn’t see the humor and logic in my post about “cretans” and Connecticutians. Surely a man of his intelligence, breeding, worldliness, and grasp of nuance would know that people who live on a Mediterranean island can’t vote in a US election unless they are citizens.
And I think Andrea’s banning of Flute, whose ad hominem skills aspire to 5th grade, was approprite, even for a Minoan.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2005 07 01 at 03:31 PM • permalinkDamn missing “a”.
100x on the chalkbaord: “appropriate”
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2005 07 01 at 03:33 PM • permalinkI didn’t realize GWB was from the Mediterranean. Dumb me. It sure has to suck to be a Liberal and be spelling challenged.
Posted by swassociates on 2005 07 01 at 04:05 PM • permalinkI saw a gem today. My husband and I were driving along and we saw an idiot with his Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker still on, but, what made this moonbat special was, under Kerry/Edwards he had a long piece of masking tape and on that tape written in magic marker (or crayon, we couldn’t tell) was “really won”. We just cracked up laughing…..
Don’t forget this bon mot in the previous sentence: “Moron’s have logic…”
P.S. On behalf of Puce, I declare a jihad on Iowahawk for that insult.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 07 01 at 04:37 PM • permalinkIs a cretan the same thing as a Delta-minos?
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2005 07 01 at 05:22 PM • permalinkCS says morons are logical which must therefore be a statement of logic.
Other logical includes Israel being part of the Palestine problem.
Why i am so surprised by the lack of basic education of so called “intellectuals”?
Bad enough that so many have cretinous ideas and arrogance but again the other day, on Eddie’s “Who wants to be a Millionaire”, a woman was introduced as a “great intellect” ,a senior member of MENSA, by Eddie and also as a woman whose siblings are great intellects.
did she know the meaning of the word lugubrious? NO
Did she know who Louis David was ? NO
It seems there are no real intellectuals anymore , only the appearance of real intellectuals.The problem is that self-described “intellectuals” confuse “educated” with “intellectual.” And they’re too stupid to realize that government education over the past 30 years has degenerated to a point where these self-described intellectuals cannot give you the dates for the Civil War, multiply 9 X 12 without going into a desktop finger-tapping routine, point to Poland on a map, or identify six Supreme Court justices. But since they’re in university and coffee shops chatting with similarly stupid clever people, and have had their self-esteem boosted all of their lives, they see themselves as towering above the common rubes who can tear down an engine and get it working again, or apply common sense in reducing a complex problem (reactionary terrorist religious fanatics lacking exposure to Western liberal tradition and brainwashed by anti-modern clerics threatened by a loss of influence) to a simple solution (kill them).
From what I’ve read, it was sometime around the 1930s that the “wordsmith” intellectual became identified as “THE intellectual”, to the exclusion of the “numbersmith” (using Robert Nozick’s phrasing). If you were to ask such an “intellectual” to balance a chemical equation using valence electrons, solve a linear, first-order differential equation (or even a quadratic equation with real, integer roots), find the integral of dx over x, calculate the ballistic trajectory of an artillery shell, find the natural frequency of a simple harmonic oscillator, etc., I suspect you’d get a blank stare. Many of them even take pride in their scientific, technological illeteracy. But by golly, they can certainly ponder at length the moral nuances of Derrida vs. Foucalt vs. Borges.
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2005 07 01 at 07:34 PM • permalinkDavo: I never met a member of MENSA who wasn’t a mouth-breathing sex-starved halfwit. I work in what is jocularly described as a ‘cultural institution’, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of my colleagues who have any kind of ‘general knowledge’. And speaking of the fingers of one hand, almost none of them are able to carry out the simplest mathematical calculation in their heads, and see no particular shame in this. It has its good side: because I occasionally know the meaning of a ‘big’ word (yesterday it was ‘psephology’), I’m considered to be a brainiac.
C’mon, don’t slag economists in general. At my alma mater in Milwaukee, they’re keeping all the social scientists in the same building - the only office floor level that didn’t have at least one professor’s door with moonbat stuff on it (cartoons about how much of an, err, cretan Bush is, a continuously updated Iraqi body count etc) was the economists.
Bruce
I heard and wonder if it can be believed that not one person with scientific knowledge was employed at the BBC. This is some thirty years ago.
Only Graduates in other fields were allowed in the inner sanctum.
When they had to produce a mild scientific program - ” the Sky at Night” thay had to give the job to Patrick Moore ” who “fiddled about with a telescope” in his back yard in his spare time.
Patrick had no qualifications whatever but was actually a very nice bloke.
As for solving quadratic or differential equations, i would doubt if there was more than a handful of school teachers who can still do this today.
of course it is in the field of Islamic history that this lack of knowledge is a real worry, since by wilfully ignoring this subject, we open the gates to more of what has been going on for the last 1400 years.
I fear it will soon be politically incorrect even to study at university, the ravages of Islam on the popupulations thay have conquered and enslaved.This explains why liberals know so much about wine, the cretan of the dogs.
Posted by localharbor on 2005 07 01 at 11:18 PM • permalinkCretan is the doof of the dogs, and so is Samba Rio. Sometimes, though, they masquerade as Dr Ink.
Posted by Tony.T.Teacher on 2005 07 01 at 11:40 PM • permalink...and those cretans are all liars too! ;-)
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2005 07 01 at 11:48 PM • permalinkPatrick,
You shouldn’t believe anything that bastard Epimenedes says.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 07 01 at 11:58 PM • permalinkCretan? Cretan? Bush is a Cretan? Is that the Texas county he lives in?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 02 at 12:34 AM • permalinkYou get the feeling that when it comes to use big GrecoRoman words, Chris S is trying to watch the shadows on the wall of his cave on a cloudy day???
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 02 at 12:43 AM • permalinkReagan didnt think much of economists; “One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory.”
Another definition; an economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: he doesn’t win many contests for accuracy, but he keeps the crowd’s attention.As an economist, I feel we get a lot of bad press - most of it from the left - since the vast majority of us believe in small government and the sanctity of the individual.
From Chris’ bio and his ‘articles’ on globalisation, there’s no way he’s an economist.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2005 07 02 at 03:07 AM • permalinkrog2, I do agree with you on economic forecasters: they’re glorified snake-oil salesmen.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2005 07 02 at 03:09 AM • permalinkJust for the record, I’m sulking this weekend since someone beat me to the Lesbos joke…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 02 at 11:38 AM • permalink
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