I mean, the poor guy thinks he married well because his wife uses the word “tranny”!

The fact that they couldn;t find anyone in the study who supported both foreign aid and the Iraq War shows that the study is more indicative of the researchers’ biases than their test subjects.

A Jersey accent can grate but it still gets the point across in its own charming way. New Yorkers? Well, it’s not nice to discriminate against those that suffer from terminally-constricted wind-pipes. A North Carolina or Virginia accent – pure poetry!

Now, New Englanders that pronounce Denver as “Den-vah” and Atlanta as “Atlan-ter” do worry me. When people get confused by something as simple as the difference between an “r” and an “a”, I start worrying about malfunctioning wiring upstairs.

I don’t know this Michael Seitzman, have never even heard of him until now. That someone would actually say the things he has, believe he is making a serious point, and therefore any “verbal excesses” are OK ’cause he is just trying to be funny, is mind blowing. I have always been a touch cynical and paranoid so I am rarely shocked so much as I am now. But the amount and diversity of absolutely vile things said about Palin and the rabid hatred behind it all is stunning to me. Why do I continue to think there must actually be some honorable people on the left when they have run all such people out of the Democratic party? The loonies have taken over the asylum.

I recall some years ago hearing Ted Kennedy, trying to prove he’s an ordinary guy, refer to two baseball players as Mark McGarrett and Sammy Soosha. Somehow that doesn’t seem to dog him.

Having worked for a number of years at ORNL (in their High Performance Computing team) I can assure you that this is true.

Last time I pointed that out and even linked to one saying that in some video the leftist declared that person to also be suspect as to their knowledge on the matter. Never mind that persons name was one of the ones that is considered a “God” in that field.

But then I suppose someone who has that level of a superiority complex doesn’t feel any shame saying they know more than the guy who received a PhD in Nuclear Physics from a top end school and then went on to a 30+ year career at several top end R&D sites simply because of their accent.

*shrug* I had people talk over me to the others in my group when they asked questions because I had a southern accent. Their reaction was always amusing when they were informed that I was the one who designed and wrote the piece of software and the questions should be directed at me. I was also rather politely informed that I might as well not apply to several graduate schools for the same reason (no one like me could do the work even though some of the algorithms I developed were the ones being taught and the source material was publications I had written).

There were other reasons but these also factored into my eventual turning away from academia. It wasn’t worth the fight to get to where my accent would be viewed as “quaint” instead of “stupid”. Neither was good and it would have taken years of outperforming everyone else to even get to quaint and amusing.

“There seems to be a slight inconsistency here in the message. ”

Then we’ll just stay here until you realise 2+2=5 when we say so.