“No the other side is not smarter

False.”

Care to defend that statement. LOL you’ll be opening a can of worms that’ll bite you in the ass. Such arrogence won’t stand up to a very close examination.

AO: Parse your own words as you wish. The blindness of your bias lends little to the accuracy of your observations. Your tender sensitivity regarding your profession indicates an insecurity that all of your course bluster and cursing cannot obscure.

There’s really no point in talking to you, AO. I explain that both conservatives and liberals do not provide a valuable commodity to society as their profession, while teachers do. It is stupid to conflate my disparagement of conservatives with your disparagement of teachers. And I would have thought it stupid if you derogated construction workers, casino pit bosses, or shoe clerks instead. Dipshit.

No the other side is not smarter

False.

No the other side is not smarter, LOL in fact, while acadamia captures some fine minds, many of the best are in the real world “doing”.

Jaim,
You sure have a racial chip on your shoulder. Obama’s race is irrelevant. Let me make this simpler for you. deficits under a white president, bad. LARGER deficits under a black president, worse.

Deficits under black Democratic president trying to dig us out of the Bush Recession, the worst since the 1930’s: bad

Not all of us can be proud American Idiots such as yourself. We have to produce the technology which prevents people like you from dying of the bubonic plague.

Seriously, though, I really don’t get this. It seems to me that saying the other side is smarter than you is a poor debating strategy.

The tension between the individual and the group, between the conservative and the liberal could not be put in more stark terms than your offhand comment. This idea of yours makes no sense what so ever. To deny the contribution and importance of roughly 1/3 of the individuals that populate this nation is ludicris.

What the hell are you talking about, conservatives say the same thing about liberals all the time. Just ask Dennis.

Also, the word you’re looking for is “ludicrous”.

Dick Cheney: “Deficits don’t matter.”

Living in a liberal echo chamber has crippled your ability to discern reality. The dangers of the fiscal policy we are now pursuing left unchecked will eventually engulf us all, both those who participate in the active market of goods and services and those who feed from the largess extracted and redistributed through the public sector. Traditionally inflation is how a government gets out from under debts it cannot service. An old R&B tune from the 50’s sums it up best Your cash ain’t nothing but trash. Hope and change.

You’re a fucking moron, AO. Read my post again and try to comprehend it. Fuck it, I will write it again: Conservatives, AS A GROUP, do not provide a valuable service to society as a profession. Just like liberals, AS A GROUP, don’t. Conflating “teachers” with “conservatives” is stupid. That’s what I was saying.

Goddamn, AO, you should post here more often.

One idiot conservative illiterate fucktard fellating another. Big surprise.

“One of the hard sciences I see. Your unbiased observations regarding different political ideologies, mental capabilities and thought processes speaks volumes about your abilities. There is much truth in the old canard Those who can do, those who can’t teach.”

And there you have it folks. Conservative anti-intellectualism on display.

AO: are you over, say, 20 years old?

No you didn’t. You didn’t address the point at all.

You claimed that markets weed out inferior products.

I pointed out that the food industry makes substantial profits by selling processed foods which are inferior to healthier alternatives.

You came back and said but there so much unhealthy food we win!

Not only does that not even address my point, it actually disproves your original point.

You basically admitted that the American food market is flooded with inferior, unhealthy food.

Then you claimed that this was proof of the markets power which is the exact opposite of what you had claimed previously: that its power lay in efficiently eliminating inferior products from the market.

Amused, if you can’t recognize this basic flaw in your logic you wouldn’t last five seconds in front of a classroom.

Your students would rip your argument to shreds.

When a student asks you a question about your ramblings on the virtues of the marketplace’s ability to weed out inferior products, Amused, totally changing the subject to avoid the question would not really qualify as “education.”

I’m pretty sure you would suck as a teacher.

Amused, you’ve completely changed your argument. You went from lauding the market’s magically innate ability to punish inferior products while rewarding superior ones, to arguing that producing a whole crap load of inferior products is better than nothing.

Try defending your original point and then we’ll move on to the role of markets in famines.

Your comments about academic standards of evidence and proof are just ridiculous. You’re argument in a nut shell: Scientist’s theory was proven incorrect by other scientists and so the whole of the scientific method must be called into question. Doofus, that is the scientific method. Throwing in “Ha ha my exterminator is smarter than you eggheads” doesn’t really help distract from how utterly ignorant your argument is.

And, Amused, you also clearly have no idea how to use the phrase “an old chestnut” in a sentence either.

Try again, buddy.

I think the term refers to the grandchildren of humble beginnings, not the children as you suggest.

Publish or perish is true enough but the quality of much research and the subsequent publication is as likely to illustrate garbage in and garbage out as anything else. LOL in the realm of the study of the mine think no further than Skinner’s examples of rats in a maze. Although published to great acclaim in subsequent years it was found that much of the “learning” was due to the habits of rats following each other’s scent trails. Something almost any exterminator could have told him. Again this is not to say that all research is as flawed but that the metric for accuracy is a far harder thing to successfully quantify.

To say that I or anyone of average intelligence couldn’t cut it as a teacher is to admit either intellectual dishonesty or a lack of familiarity with the modern educational system. Indeed comparing the college entrance test scores of homeschooled children to those from the public system does nothing to diminish the credentials of interested amatuer educators.

Dennis, wasn’t one of your first posts one that laughed at the liberals here because you thought we were brown nosing each other so much?