Ann Coulter Attacks 9/11 Widows

How many times has a user on A2K typed in a southern drawl to either make a point about someones stupidity or to appear as though they were themselves stupid?

Why would someone do that if not for the stereotyping of a southern accent indicative of a person being slow or stupid?

it is a blot on the landscape Imust admit.....

Well, often they are trying to sound "folksy." Which is what I think the other lawyer was trying to do in the example I mentioned. He certainly wasn't trying to sound stupid. (Think "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer" )

Setanta often tries to sound folksy ... I'm not sure why.

I've typed in a Southern drawwl, McGentrix dawlin . . . because I'm (after each "I" think "pie") a Southe-ner and I think that's the way it's spelled.

Ann is our opportunity to watch someone completely inflame herself. She is not as informed as Phyllis Schaffly, but probably almost as much as a nutcase. We can all sit back and watch her head explode, but most of us won't enjoy it. God Bless, poor ol Ann Coulter and her hatred of everything (maybe it's just her fear of independent thinking) (or critical thinking)) Let's just hope she manages to review the original Constitution and Bill of Rights, and after she does that, hopefully she can find an actual intellectuall to explan it to her. I guess she has our country in her heart, I just hope she understands the intent of the founding fathers in 20/20 review.

North Carolina was a failing state when I was at Fort Bragg and it is still a failing state.

One of its leading citizens recently outlined its severe weaknesses.

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Posted on: Thursday, 1 September 2005, 18:00 CDT
Media Executive Says North Carolina Corporations Fail to Address State Problems
Sep. 1--PINEHURST -- Jim Goodmon, one of the Triangle's most powerful corporate executives, blistered the business community Wednesday, saying leaders are unconcerned about problems facing the state.

North Carolina is failing to progress, said Goodmon, chief executive of Capitol Broadcasting, owner of the Triangle's CBS and Fox television affiliates. It is struggling with a flawed education system, low worker morale and an inadequate juvenile court system.

And it lacks a plan to fix them, he said. Politicians have failed to develop a strategy for improvements, even incremental ones.

"It's our fault," Goodmon told attendees at a N.C. Technology Association conference in Pinehurst. "It's our fault as business leaders because we don't hold our elected officials accountable. Let's get together and come up with some really good efforts to help somebody other than ourselves."

Goodmon is one of the most prominent members of the region's business community, with his hand in a wide range of ventures. In addition to his media empire, Goodmon also owns the Durham Bulls baseball team and is the developer behind the renaissance at the American Tobacco complex -- a shuttered tobacco plant in downtown Durham that has become a thriving corporate and retail campus.

Goodmon is known for speaking his mind, and speaking off the cuff. He had no prepared speech Wednesday, only a spiral-bound notebook. The conference, sponsored by the biggest trade group for North Carolina technology companies, focused on building competitiveness through innovation.

Goodmon, whose speech went a little off track, said that he was especially fired up because he was "so [darn] mad about the lottery."

Goodmon opposed the lottery, which Gov. Mike Easley signed into law Wednesday. The lottery is billed as a way to boost education spending, but Goodmon said that is unlikely.

Another prominent businessman, and the Triangle's wealthiest resident, had a similar view.

"It will help for about a year," Jim Goodnight, the billionaire chief executive of SAS, the world's largest private software developer, said in an interview after speaking at the Pinehurst conference. "The money now set aside for education will be spent on something else."

What's more, Goodnight, a statistician by training, said lotteries aren't kind to those who play.

"It's certainly the most unfair game ever devised by man," he said, if fairness is measured by how much cash can be recovered.

With the card game blackjack, a gambler will get back about 99.5 percent of the money wagered, he said. Those who buy a lottery ticket will recoup only about 10 percent of the money they bet.

Goodnight has been an outspoken advocate of changes to the state's education system, going so far as to build a school in Cary, where SAS is based, to implement technology-tailored curricula. He advocates smaller classes and a bigger emphasis on technology.

"Obviously, if we are not producing a work force for a 21st-century economy, we will not be able to attract or retain the industry we need," Goodnight said.

Problems in the state go beyond education, Goodmon said. Consider state workers. Their health benefits have been cut amid rising costs, pay raises have been minimal during the budget crunch and people call state employees lazy.

That's not a conducive environment for attracting the best and brightest to government work, Goodmon said.

"If you wanted to make a list of how can I make sure my work force hates working for me," elected officials have done it, he said.

But those aren't the issues that are drawing the attention of business leaders. Instead, the biggest corporate lobbying group -- N.C. Citizens for Business and Industry -- is pushing to lower taxes for industry and the wealthiest residents of the state.

"That plays really well," Goodmon said. "I would say we've lost our credibility with the folks, with the community."

Phil Kirk, president of the business group, couldn't be reached for comment.

The state has come a long way since the Civil War.

I wonder if you were in Fayetteville the same years I was... I played there in several house bands.... screwed a lot of guy's wives....

No, you weren't in the bars I went to--We didn't cater to "legs" in those days. We merely roughed them up and left them in the trash outside.

Did that ever happen to you? It would explain a great deal!!!

Bernard name the bars in Fayetteville on the strip from those days and the two main streets they were on..... please now and not hours from now after you've googled the info from your wheelchair.....

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Also Fartblossom, at what historic place did they used to sell slaves on what street in downtown Fayetteville? Anyone who's been in Fayettenam longer than a week should know that.

If you were 82nd Airborne, you definitely should know these things, and its hours after BPB asked you the first question....

So?

Well look what the cat drug up here. Rumor has it you were booted out of the west coast forum and everybody over there is having a good laugh about it. I guess you got too high and mighty and the adminstator knocked you down to size.

I speed read so it really didn't take much time to find out what all the hullabaloo was about and I often read dissenting books and essays not commensurate with my philosophy. The books were not all released at one time. Still entertainment for the weak minded, all sound and fury signifying nothing.

Stalking glitterbug, are we? What a nasty post yours is!

Speaking of Phyllis Schlaffly or whatever her name is, some years ago, before she attended law school herself, she participated in a debate, broadcast live over the radio, with several other women, including a law school professor. The professor tore Phyllis to shreds for her lack of accuracy.

What professor tore Schafly to shreds? I never read that! Do you have a link or are you just flatulating mentally?

since bernards entire life is based on what he reads and repeats...... if he didn't read it.... it didn't happen....

Wasn't that the law professor who's body was found in a car trunk out at Logan AirPort? Boy, what a stink when the cops opened that trunk up.

You've got that right. Nasty!