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To: Smiling Bob who wrote (13664)	11/3/2004 6:49:50 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 17683

Gee I wish we had some books that weren't colored in.. out here in the great waste land.. Look at the electoral map. The states that voted against Bush are the progressive, forward thinking, technology driven areas that house most of the nations most prominent universities. These are the scientists and doctors and physicists and engineers and the creators and thinkers and intellects who help this country move forward and grow. Gee sure whish we had some of tem ungineers and docters and universities arund here...I bet we could really move ahed and be smert like u.

To: Smiling Bob who wrote (13664)	11/3/2004 7:30:37 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17683

The states that voted against Bush are the progressive, forward thinking, technology driven areas that house most of the nations most prominent universities. Do you mean Purdue University in Indiana? Or the University of Arizona or Arizona State University? Or the University of Colorado? Or the University of Texas? Or Rice University? Ot Texas A&M? The College of William and Mary? George Mason University? George Washington University? James Madison University? The University of Virginia? Virginia Military Institute? Washington and Lee University? Vanderbilt University? The Citadel? Clemson University? Notre Dame? Ohio State? Case Western Reserve? Oberlin? Wake Forest? Duke? University of North Carolina- -Chapel Hill? Sorry, I'm getting tired of listing all the good schools in Bush Country. What fleabag did you say you flunked out of?

To: Smiling Bob who wrote (13664)	11/4/2004 7:11:28 AM
From: JeffA	Respond to of 17683

Scott, You post is such unadulterated BS I can smell it from here. You, sir, are quite frankly a snob. I imagine you are young and dumb after posting that drivel you just did. Mostly rural dwellers cajoled into believing we are in Iraq because we needed to head off an imminent attack. In between revival meetings and pig roasts, they huddle by their TV sets sucking in every cliche their protector delivers. Look at the electoral map. The states that voted against Bush are the progressive, forward thinking, technology driven areas that house most of the nations most prominent universities. These are the scientists and doctors and physicists and engineers and the creators and thinkers and intellects who help this country move forward and grow. These are the ones who think for themselves and think outside the box. These are the ones who are taught and learn how to plan and anticipate and diagnose and contemplate and reason and head off problems, not recklessly create them. Ah, man, where to start..... hell with it. Dude, you are simply out of touch, very ignorant of your country, and a snob.

To: Smiling Bob who wrote (13664)	11/4/2004 7:52:45 AM
From: JeffA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Scott! I may have been wrong about you! I apologize for calling you ignorant of your country. Now I realize you are not from here. You must be this Muslim cleric, because he shares the same basis as you used in your idiotic post. Maybe you are a Muslim and not from the US. That's about the only thing that can explain your ignorance. Here, read the article from one of your soul brothers. Muslim cleric slams U.S. vote system Wonders why 'imbeciles' get same say as intelligent Americans -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: November 4, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A Saudi cleric has hammered the U.S. one-man-one-vote system on Arab television, saying an "idiot" doesn't deserve the same say as an intelligent American. The Muslim cleric's comments were part of an interview translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project, or MEMRI TV. During the interview, which was broadcast in Saudi Arabia and UAE, the TV host asks the cleric: "Liberty and human rights make some Muslims angry. Why does this term make them angry?" Responds Saleh Al-Munajid: "If you compare un-Islamic regimes, some of them would be bad and the others would be worse. It is a known fact. For instance, if you compare between a tyrannical, evil, oppressing regime and Western democracy – which is better? Western democracy is better. But is it our dream come true? No! "Take the issue of elections, for instance. What do you think of a voting system like the American one that gives a physician, an intellectual, an astronaut, an intelligent person and the head of the family, a vote that has the same weight as the vote of an ignorant, a fool, an idiot, an imbecile, a hippy, a bum, an unemployed man, who has no diploma, culture, or brains. What is this?!" The cleric is then asked about globalization and the Westernization of Muslims. "The problem is that globalization now comes from the others to us. Therefore, we [Muslims] are being globalized, and not globalizing others. We want to turn the tables." Al-Munajid concludes the video clip with criticism of Western hairstyles that have infected the Muslim world: "My brother, there is the crab haircut, the lion haircut, the mouse haircut. … They didn't leave out a single haircut. Nowadays, we hear amazing things. It's no longer just the barbershop chair. They are leisure salons and coiffure – coiffure which is explicitly for men. They dye hair and put on makeup, as the viewer had mentioned, and there is the third sex, and the fourth... Westernization is very clear. Today when a young man leaves a barbershop you can't tell which planet or country he came from, because of the haircuts and makeup. Some leave the barbershop with hair that looks like a thorn bush, others look like a jinn. Allah said about the Zaqoum tree (in hell) that it looks like the heads of demons, and this young man's head also looks like the head of demons. This is Westernization and the loss of identity."