Do we investigate Wall Street and the Banks?

[Oakman]

Stan Shannon wrote:

So, you have no university experience? I thought so

You pompous little twit. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I went to a very highly regarded and expensive university on the east coast. Not to the local state teacher's college over in Mentone. I'm sure that at jerkwater U, you weren't required to spell well, or have a decent vocabulary. After all, it was wonder enough that the son of an illiterate redneck like you could get into college. Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm also better educated. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

[Stan Shannon]

Oakman wrote:

a very highly regarded and expensive university on the east coast

Where? I have degrees from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Alabama.

Oakman wrote:

it was wonder enough that the son of an illiterate redneck like you could get into college.

Indeed.

Oakman wrote:

but I'm also better educated

You certainly don't act like it.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

[Oakman]

Stan Shannon wrote:

University of Oklahoma and the University of Alabama

I just knew you were a state college kind of guy! Bet you learned all about how to grow corn and raise chickens. I went to Boston University. (Tuition there, per year, is about what it is for four years at the U of Alabama, isn't it?) Then did some post grad at Princeton until I realised I realised I had better things to spend my trustfund on. Later my employer sent me back to the trade schools to get advanced training as a programmer - Hey, I bet your "web designer" experience is buying a copy of Front Page. :laugh:

Stan Shannon wrote:

You certainly don't act like it.

And what, pray tell, does a guy selling car parts in a jerkwater town in Indiana know about what truly educated people act like? Have you ever met one?

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

[Stan Shannon]

Oakman wrote:

better things to spend my trustfund on

What the hell is a trustfund? And if it is what I think it is, what the hell was someone with one of those doing in Vietnam?

Oakman wrote:

Hey, I bet your "web designer" experience is buying a copy of Front Page.

Actually, I'm not a web designer, per se, although I suppose I do a little from time to time. I sell myself more as an all around windows application developer. But yes, I am self taught on most of the technologies I use on a daily basis these days. But then, who isn't?.

Oakman wrote:

And what, pray tell, does a guy selling car parts in a jerkwater town in Indiana know about what truly educated people act like? Have you ever met one?

Yes, I've met several. I consider many of them to be among my closest friends. And most of them would know that "marijuana use in the Mexican war was twice that of vietnam" is not a verifiable assertion to base an actual historic thesis upon. So, apparently, you wasted your trustfund money on an education you could have gotten by simply goggling libertarian web sites.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

[Oakman]

Stan Shannon wrote:

What the hell is a trustfund

Until I was 21, it was a large amount of stocks and bonds overseen by my mother and my lawyer and paying any bills I ran up. When I reached my majority it became an annuity that paid off every month until I was 35 - by which time my grandfather (Yale, Exec VP of NYC) and father (Princeton, Duke, History Professor at Groton) figured I should be doing all right on my own. They were right :cool:

Stan Shannon wrote:

what the hell was someone with one of those doing in Vietnam?

Killing gooks. It's an adrenaline high.

Stan Shannon wrote:

Yes, I've met several.

With degrees from (snort) The University of Oklahoma? I bet you think veggieburgers are just like ground angus sirloin.

Stan Shannon wrote:

And most of them would know that "marijuana use in the Mexican war was twice that of vietnam" is not a verifiable assertion

There's one thing that's quite clear. You have done no research on this at all. You remain complacently, fatuously, sure of yourself, in spite having admitted you know nothing about the time and place. Is that the hallmark of an educated man down at the U of "Alabamy?"

Stan Shannon wrote:

So, apparently, you wasted your trustfund money on an education you could have gotten by simply goggling libertarian web sites.

I knew about libertarianism before there was a Google; before there was a Netscape. By the way, Vietnam is the proper name of a country. It's always capitalized in educated circles.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

[Stan Shannon]

Oakman wrote:

History Professor at Groton

What was his doctoral thesis?

Oakman wrote:

You have done no research on this at all. You remain complacently, fatuously, sure of yourself, in spite having admitted you know nothing about the time and place.

Yes I tend to rather enjoy being complacently and fatuously sure of myself about things that aren't true.

Oakman wrote:

I knew about libertarianism before there was a Google; before there was a Netscape.

And I'm sure you also knew all about the history of marijuan use by US troops during the American-Mexican war. (Was that your dad's thesis by any chance?)

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.