CBS "News" strikes AGAIN

"Nomen Nescio" ] wrote in message
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From: "Tom Sixkiller"

"Jordan" wrote in message
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Ok I thought of something else. Does anyone know if celebrity pilots
like Travolta and Ford are at all active on these issues? You'd think
Travolta would have something to say given his airport living
arrangements. Then the general public might actually listen.

If we have to have celebrity endorsement, then our nation is too brain
dead
to endure and is finished.

Our nation is too brain dead to endure and is finished.

It's not too brain dead, I think, but a couple generations of our public
indoctrination...um, "education" system has totally obliterated the capacity
for critical thinking.

See also: "Post Modernism".

Yes, you have a point. Way too many swallow just about everything they
see hook, line, & sinker. But the media is the country is certainly
guilty of fostering ignorance, playing always to the lowest common
denominator, etc. They're masters at bringing out the worst in the masses.

Tom Sixkiller wrote:

"Paul Folbrecht" wrote in message
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Yes, they do. The media, however, doesn't.


If the plane was shot down there'd probly have been alot of damage and
at least one fatality from the impact. Doesn't the general public have
any critical thinking skills whatsoever?


The same general public that, all glassy eyed, watches the media?

"Paul Folbrecht" wrote in message
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Yes, you have a point. Way too many swallow just about everything they
see hook, line, & sinker. But the media is the country is certainly
guilty of fostering ignorance, playing always to the lowest common
denominator, etc. They're masters at bringing out the worst in the
masses.


See my response about our public "education" system.

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in
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"Jordan" wrote in message
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If we have to have celebrity endorsement, then our nation is too brain
dead to endure and is finished.

That's what happens when teachers make minimum wage, and celebrities make
$100,000 an episode...

"Peter Gottlieb" wrote in
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"David H" wrote in message
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They asked, "why weren't air force fighters scrambled to intercept and
shoot down this plane?"

These people are nuts. There is a reason why we try to keep the armed
forces from police duties in this country. Just what kind of
government is CBS trying to push? What is their real agenda?

Ratings... Nothing but Ratings...

Judah wrote:

That's what happens when teachers make minimum wage, and celebrities make
$100,000 an episode...

Well, teachers haven't made that little in a LLLOOONNNGGG time! Around here, the
going rate is around 50K for substitutes and over 70K to start for regulars. By
comparison, starting pay for a software developer with an MS is about 50K.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

I hear they have been running that thing over and over.


"Judah" wrote in message
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"Peter Gottlieb" wrote in
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"David H" wrote in message
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They asked, "why weren't air force fighters scrambled to intercept and
shoot down this plane?"

These people are nuts. There is a reason why we try to keep the armed
forces from police duties in this country. Just what kind of
government is CBS trying to push? What is their real agenda?

Ratings... Nothing but Ratings...

"Judah" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in
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"Jordan" wrote in message
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If we have to have celebrity endorsement, then our nation is too brain
dead to endure and is finished.

That's what happens when teachers make minimum wage, and celebrities make
$100,000 an episode...

Teachers hardly make minimun wage. Even if we paid them $100K, they don't
know _how_ to teach (besides being beholden to the unions). Further, even
those who LOVE to teach, still miss HOW the human mind learns and grasps
information in the form of concepts. That's why most all of "education" is
now BY ROTE.

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:43:26 GMT, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote:

Well, teachers haven't made that little in a LLLOOONNNGGG time! Around here, the
going rate is around 50K for substitutes and over 70K to start for regulars. By
comparison, starting pay for a software developer with an MS is about 50K.

Is that 70K real dollars or annualized based on 52.5 for nine months?

Don

Don Tuite wrote:

Is that 70K real dollars or annualized based on 52.5 for nine months?

That's $70,000 per year.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."