tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post4724319881008247688..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: From the Quotes Filekcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-52207010632021022382007-09-24T07:10:00.000-04:002007-09-24T07:10:00.000-04:00Do you all really, really want to know why the cam...Do you all really, really want to know why the campus was so lukewarm to the Lax cause and did not protest a lot and only a few were activists and why the students did not even vote in the election and why so few even signed the petition? Because the campus as a whole knew the truth about the Lax team and ....you all do not. You have romanticised them as "a cause". a cause againist blacks, a cause againist gender and racial studies, a cause againist affirmative action, etc. The truth is that the Lax team was a bunch of a--holes and that is why everyone believed the worst about them. Although you guys have tried to portray them as saints on here, they were far from it and that is why the campus did not support them the way they should have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-52121483948666360202007-09-23T11:19:00.000-04:002007-09-23T11:19:00.000-04:00I 2d the above post. Who needs hostility?I 2d the above post. Who needs hostility?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-20640097609228458692007-09-23T10:12:00.000-04:002007-09-23T10:12:00.000-04:00I'm wondering. Is there an explaination for the co...I'm wondering. Is there an explaination for the contests presented in this post other than Chan Hall being a revolting bigot and Jesse Jackson being a media-whoring scam artist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-29370951308996832312007-09-23T02:34:00.000-04:002007-09-23T02:34:00.000-04:00Can you dopes, cursing and calling names try to ha...Can you dopes, cursing and calling names try to have some manners and decorum. Are people drinking again tonight?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-67921652997788948712007-09-23T02:33:00.000-04:002007-09-23T02:33:00.000-04:00Lacrosse woman and coach, were then and are now he...Lacrosse woman and coach, were then and are now herpines. They will proudly be telling their children and grandchildren about this event.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-23526196635349066662007-09-23T01:02:00.000-04:002007-09-23T01:02:00.000-04:00bob h. @ 12:16 and 12:20Let me restate ... your at...bob h. @ 12:16 and 12:20<BR/><BR/>Let me restate ... your attitude is offensive. <BR/><BR/>And I'll add, I think you are a moron...with a 'hard on' for what, ... I don't know. <BR/><BR/>I guess you hate being you. You only want to look through the color of your own eyes and ignore the facts. That is one reason why you are so offensive.<BR/><BR/>So i'll repeat <I><B>and</I></B> expand ... your comments are offensive and you are a moron.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-37263133872422436262007-09-23T00:47:00.000-04:002007-09-23T00:47:00.000-04:00LOL!!!TO 12:35 AM--I love it.Let me warn you:I hav...LOL!!!<BR/><BR/>TO 12:35 AM--<BR/><BR/>I love it.<BR/><BR/>Let me warn you:<BR/><BR/>I have dealt with envious b!tches like you (both male and female) all of my life.<BR/><BR/>ROTFLM-T's-O !!!Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-12679820364128157572007-09-23T00:35:00.000-04:002007-09-23T00:35:00.000-04:00Yes, debra, their skills are indeed valuable. One ...Yes, debra, their skills are indeed valuable. One can only wonder why you chose not to enlist them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-37360857609714475602007-09-23T00:29:00.000-04:002007-09-23T00:29:00.000-04:00TO 11:33 PM--That's what I have been saying for mo...TO 11:33 PM--<BR/><BR/>That's what I have been saying for months.<BR/><BR/>KC is hot-to-the-max!<BR/><BR/>Anyone who doesn't know that hasn't read his posts closely or listened to him closely.<BR/><BR/>(Speaking of hot...and the Jon Stewart Show)<BR/><BR/>Stephen Colbert is featured in the October edition of <I>Vanity Fair</I> without his glasses and airbrushed inside a black turtleneck.<BR/><BR/>Amazingly, he looks very handsome.<BR/><BR/>That's why good photographers are so valuable.Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-19918515914686135202007-09-23T00:20:00.000-04:002007-09-23T00:20:00.000-04:00If these Duke students are so great, so committed,...If these Duke students are so great, so committed, so concerned about their dear university, why is it that so few of them have bothered to express any objection to what has happened. The Class of 2006, whose senior year was spoiled, the oldest and, seemingly most aware of the undergrads, barely raised a peep. The women’s' lacrosse team showed solidarity, but the response from nearly everyone else was pretty flaccid. <BR/><BR/>When given the opportunity to sign a petition this past spring, barely 1,000 students (if you can even believe all were legit) bothered to put their names down. The new editor of the Chronicle is nothing but a mouthpiece for the administration, wanting everyone to just “move on”. Ha ha, as each day passes, the radicals will gain ground and the cowards will escape their betrayals. They will polish the brass, have a few traveling road shows, send out their recruiters to Harding Township, to New Canaan and Pound Ridge. Let the child of some ambassador from Peru or Senegal satisfy the “person of color” box, and we can be on our way. Duke does not care much about what has happened, even if the folks on this blog do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-54264556439056209392007-09-23T00:16:00.000-04:002007-09-23T00:16:00.000-04:00inman, you may repeat until your heart's content, ...inman, <BR/><BR/>you may repeat until your heart's content, but it is of no matter to me. <BR/><BR/>Remind me why Duke's financial aid numbers can be taken at face value, why you are certain there has been no manipulation. <BR/><BR/>As for stereo types, the students themselves reinforce it, so why should you bother to dispel that which they embrace?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-72326348711914247992007-09-22T23:48:00.000-04:002007-09-22T23:48:00.000-04:00Anonymous @ 9:59 pm"I do not want to see an ugly g...Anonymous @ 9:59 pm<BR/><BR/>"I do not want to see an ugly gash on anyone's finish."<BR/><BR/>Does that apply to Nifong, the Gang of 88, Brodhead, the Durham Police officers?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-58391837441470060332007-09-22T23:44:00.000-04:002007-09-22T23:44:00.000-04:00RRH:Who is the the great man you quote, and what d...RRH:<BR/><BR/>Who is the the great man you quote, and what does it have to do with Duke?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-45029683630660866652007-09-22T23:33:00.000-04:002007-09-22T23:33:00.000-04:00"That strikes me as an absurd reading of the ad--t..."That strikes me as an absurd reading of the ad--the sort of thing one would expect from Amelia Bedelia, not professors at one of the world's leading universities.<BR/><BR/>And, I should point out, not even the Group has contended that they were thanking the protesters for the sounds they made while suggesting that people should have ignored the words those sounds formed."<BR/><BR/>Oh. My. G*D. I almost missed this gem!<BR/><BR/><BR/>Ummmm, just a suggestion, but if you ever tire of teaching and scholarship, perhaps you can join the writing team on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" because you are seriously funny! <BR/><BR/><BR/>". . . while suggesting that people should have ignored the words those sounds formed" is my #1 quote! And you worked in an Amelia Bedelia reference - you have a gift!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-47079641074178411712007-09-22T23:28:00.000-04:002007-09-22T23:28:00.000-04:00bob h. @ 8:20Your generalizations are offensive.Th...bob h. @ 8:20<BR/><BR/>Your generalizations are offensive.<BR/><BR/>There may be kids at Duke who fit your stereotype. But here are the facts:<BR/><BR/><I>"Four of 10 undergraduates receive need-based financial aid. The average need-based grant awarded in 2005-06 -- the most recent year for which final totals have been calculated -- was more than $24,000."</I> (www.duke.edu)<BR/><BR/>So 40% of the Duke student population, BY DEFINITION, does not fit your stereotype. Of the remaining 60%, if I may be so bold as to suggest, many (if not most) do not fit the BMW-driving, credit-line toting, wardrobe-laden Daddy's kids that you so cavalierly suggest as the norm. <BR/><BR/>In fact, I'd be willing to wager that among the 60%, many come from homes blessed with hard-working fathers and mothers who by virtue of that hard work, financial ethics and saving find it a priviledge to purchase an oustanding education for their child (children), without the need for financial aide. But, although blessed by hard work and foresight, those same hard-working fathers and mothers would find your stereotype to be most inappropriate.<BR/><BR/>So yes, I'm sure their are a few who flaunt their family's wealth.<BR/><BR/>But my experience is that only the truly <I>nouveau riche</I> feel a need to display their wealth.<BR/><BR/>My grandfather said that the heirarchy of status went something like this...<BR/><BR/>new blood ... no money<BR/>new blood ... new money<BR/>new blood ... old money<BR/>old blood ... new money<BR/>old blood ... old money<BR/>old blood ... no money.<BR/><BR/>It's the second category that you illuminate. You pay too much attention to false values. <BR/><BR/>One can think of the last -- old blood, no money -- as those who take a vow of poverty and pursue a pure existence before God.<BR/><BR/>Again, may I repeat...<BR/><BR/>...your generalizations are offensive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-91115755110120157012007-09-22T22:59:00.000-04:002007-09-22T22:59:00.000-04:00A great man once said, "Never be humble to the hau...A great man once said, "Never be humble to the haughty or haughty to the humble." <BR/><BR/>RRHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-1005356537123557562007-09-22T22:27:00.000-04:002007-09-22T22:27:00.000-04:00KC,Did you include the following quote from Mike n...KC,<BR/>Did you include the following quote from Mike nifong (or did I miss it)?<BR/><BR/>http://crime.about.com/b/a/257183.htm<BR/><BR/>You can make the case go away pretty easily. Anybody could. The next D.A., or me if I were so inclined. You can do it with the stroke of a pen. But that does nothing to address the underlying divisions that have been revealed. My personal feeling is the first step to addressing those divisions is addressing this case," said Nifong, who is up for re-election next week. "That is not the kind of thing that you can really assign to somebody else and say, 'You go do this for me. The future of Durham's in the balance and I don't really want to get my hands dirty. You do it.'"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-27014230188487190972007-09-22T22:10:00.000-04:002007-09-22T22:10:00.000-04:00"So, I am more than happy to see an ugly gash on t..."So, I am more than happy to see an ugly gash on that clear coat finish."<BR/><BR/>Some day, perhaps, you will realize the ugly gash is on you for feeling that way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-24637290233514996382007-09-22T21:59:00.000-04:002007-09-22T21:59:00.000-04:00great " born on third base and think they hit a tr...great " born on third base and think they hit a triple." Well put - I do not want to see an ugly gash on anyone's finish. These woman did not do the strip for free = eight hundred bucks for two hours is good money - I know it was four minutes. No home visits is the key.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-32838450668337264972007-09-22T21:39:00.000-04:002007-09-22T21:39:00.000-04:00bob h. said ...It would be disingenuous, at best, ...<I>bob h. said ...<BR/>It would be disingenuous, at best, to say the stereo-type Duke undergrad is inaccurate. They actually do ride around in BMW’s purchased by Daddy; they actually have sizable credit lines, fabulous wardrobes and prep school breeding. Have you heard the chants at Cameron, directed at the opposing teams from Chapel Hill and NC State? The condescending remarks about their "public school, public school !" As if these kids, at eighteen to twenty-two, can really claim to merit a special status in life due to their own unaided achievements! We all seek assistance, a hand, a connection to get ahead. Not all of us are so insensitive to the good fortune that delivers us into the front row of life.... </I><BR/><BR/>This is an interesting comment with which I would like to engage, but I cannot before first learning what was bob h.'s "good fortune" that delivered him "into the front row of life"?<BR/><BR/>RRHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-16417216710315291812007-09-22T20:20:00.000-04:002007-09-22T20:20:00.000-04:00To anonymous @ 5:35 pmRather than ask the question...To anonymous @ 5:35 pm<BR/><BR/>Rather than ask the question "why should Duke students deserve special condemnation, just because they may be smarter, or richer or whatever?", consider the question "Why should Duke students act in such a way as to denigrate those who, either by choice or circumstance, find themselves in situations that Dookies find less than attractive?" It would be disingenuous, at best, to say the stereo-type Duke undergrad is inaccurate. They actually do ride around in BMW’s purchased by Daddy; they actually have sizable credit lines, fabulous wardrobes and prep school breeding. Have you heard the chants at Cameron, directed at the opposing teams from Chapel Hill and NC State? The condescending remarks about their "public school, public school !" As if these kids, at eighteen to twenty-two, can really claim to merit a special status in life due to their own unaided achievements! We all seek assistance, a hand, a connection to get ahead. Not all of us are so insensitive to the good fortune that delivers us into the front row of life. Nor are those who have striven mightily, at a young age, to overcome some of the disadvantages of demographics as insensitive to those who are still working against greater odds, without the connections, to achieve their goals. The problem with so many of the Duke kids is that, having been born on third base, they think they hit a triple. So, I am more than happy to see an ugly gash on that clear coat finish.<BR/><BR/>And, it might reflect better on you if, rather than take a personal shot at me, you would stick to the matter at hand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-82371729668064330632007-09-22T20:08:00.000-04:002007-09-22T20:08:00.000-04:00Anonymous 7:07 PM brings back fond memories of a p...Anonymous 7:07 PM brings back fond memories of a poster on an earlier thread who identified him/herself as being from the <I>Duke community</I> and who almost choked to death arguing with me about the human content of Page.<BR/><BR/><B>Shades of a navel-gazer conquering</B>Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-6563634184768208122007-09-22T20:03:00.000-04:002007-09-22T20:03:00.000-04:00TO 7:07 PM--How tedious.What unadulterated nonsens...TO 7:07 PM--<BR/><BR/>How tedious.<BR/><BR/>What unadulterated nonsense.<BR/><BR/>KC might wish to parse words with people like you and engage your dishonest motives....simply because he needs to remain objective when writing his posts.....sticking to the facts without a lot of editorializing.<BR/><BR/>Some of us don't need to do that.<BR/><BR/>You can twist and turn and even wallow inside a Clinton-esque mirage of what <I>is</I>...is.......all day long.<BR/><BR/>Here's what most of the world knows quite well...just from watching:<BR/><BR/>The Gang of 88, with some members having been more enthusiastic than others, staged a deliberate smear campaign against the lacrosse team.<BR/><BR/>Reade, Collin, and David, in particular.<BR/><BR/>I don't happen to care how you form your subjects and predicates...or how you twist your adjectives and adverbs.<BR/><BR/>Those Duke professors deliberately incited students of like mind and pathologies to make as much of a show as possible to promote their personal agendas.<BR/><BR/>Now move on to another topic. Your exercise in verbal gymnastics to try to salvage a whiff of decency from these 88 gangsters is becoming tedious.<BR/><BR/>You are disingenuous.<BR/><BR/>You waste a lot of time, and the time of others as well.<BR/><BR/>On pure trivia.Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-28681999144576894192007-09-22T19:56:00.000-04:002007-09-22T19:56:00.000-04:00"the New Black Panther Party, Jesse Jackson, Al Sh...<I>"the New Black Panther Party, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the Pot Bangers or any of the national media racist morons"</I><BR/><BR/>They've already moved onto the next hoax, in poor Jena. The same people who believed Crystal Mangum will <B><I>love</B></I> Mychal Bell. And this time, the attack will be on some poor whites who have no clue how and no money with which to defend themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-29146403547249499802007-09-22T19:37:00.000-04:002007-09-22T19:37:00.000-04:00To the 7.07:"You might as well have written that t...To the 7.07:<BR/><BR/>"You might as well have written that they thanked people who had asked for players to be castrated."<BR/><BR/>Indeed, I could have, but it would have been a less accurate point, since some protesters who presumed guilt did not (publicly, anyway) advocate castration. The castration demand was one of many that presumed guilt.<BR/><BR/>One could argue, I suppose, that 88 profs and (allegedly) five departments and ten programs signed onto a statement that thanked protesters for the noise they made, but presumed that people would ignore the words formed by that noise. That strikes me as an absurd reading of the ad--the sort of thing one would expect from Amelia Bedelia, not professors at one of the world's leading universities.<BR/><BR/>And, I should point out, not even the Group has contended that they were thanking the protesters for the sounds they made while suggesting that people should have ignored the words those sounds formed.kcjohnson9https://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.com