(December 15, 2012 at 2:19 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote: Fool us twice, SHAME ON US!
We have been fooled many more times than twice, Oro.
It was a cliche, and wasn't meant to be taken as being numerically accurate.
minimalist Wrote:Tonight on the news here in AZ - almost as predicted - some self-proclaimed libertarian declared that we should arm kindergarten teachers.
I saw someone on another forum make the exact same stupid argument.
minimalist Wrote:The answer to gun violence from these morons is always "more guns."
What we then get is more bodies.
Fuck them all.
The kool-aid they are drinking from the NRA is strong, indeed.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
