tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14245640.post4602069489928431981..comments2023-10-24T06:05:38.954-05:00Comments on The Thinker--or Just Sitting Around?: Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504383209010655249noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14245640.post-26420939260202288412008-11-28T19:16:00.000-06:002008-11-28T19:16:00.000-06:00Hmm ... It should be noted that Parker stole liber...Hmm ... It should be noted that Parker stole liberally from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute to cut and paste her column. The question they raise isn't an original concept either; it's from the fertile mind of Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democratic Party:<BR/><BR/>"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." <BR/><BR/>While cut & paste Kathleen smugly sits in judgment of the American people, recycling the Institute's findings in her column, here's what I found curious: nowhere did she say whether she'd taken the test.<BR/><BR/>The link is in the lead paragraph of the news story reporting these findings. Anyone can take the test online before reading the specific findings. So Kathleen, before bitching about the "dumbing down of America" on the basis of this test, come clean lady. If you don't take the test and publish your score, well then ... STFU.Carloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12097922323580156789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14245640.post-9086046826014771322008-11-26T17:06:00.000-06:002008-11-26T17:06:00.000-06:00This is a toughie... On the one hand, George Ryan ...This is a toughie... On the one hand, George Ryan is a scumbag, complicit in the deaths of several people - including a whole family killed because he was willing to accept bribes from unqualified idiots who would up driving around in giant trucks. On the other hand, he saw the inequity of the legal system in cases where the death penalty was invoked. He did use his office to commute a slew of death penalties - and AFAIK there have been no state-sponsored death penalties carried in IL in at least 8 years. And so now he is old, decrepit, sick, and STILL and unrepentant convicted felon... I am betting that he receives a get-out-of-jail-free card from W - how ironic!!Rousing Rabblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951672412199469562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14245640.post-41445961300874702482008-11-26T09:41:00.000-06:002008-11-26T09:41:00.000-06:00George Ryan can host the welcome to prison party f...George Ryan can host the welcome to prison party for Blagy, and the two of them can rot behind bars.drmagoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10348370006624173053noreply@blogger.com