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if you don't count rosie's cats, the innies "non serious" pets like goldfish, guinea pigs, hamster.. it's probably closer to 1497..

don't the "directors" vote themselves in? I thought they had some kind of majority rule.. once in, like.. a majority of could vote a "member" off.. unless the new subservient vice presidents can't vote or something.. just glorified lackies and gofers for the top three.. I think it's more like a tag team consisting primarily overweight, aging.. what's the word.. it'll come to me.. but they've "tag teamed" the top positions of the organization for how long now.. honor among "thieves" works I guess.. and once you're "in", You're IN. Unless one's behavior threatens the other "members" with possible criminal prosecution, or just don't have the stomach for the job. Look what it took to oust the loyster.. they were content to just swat his little hands, and say be a good boy.. I think it's more like a club..

about 3/4 of a year ago, I took my old loose leaf oxford.. took a deep breath, and sent it to the landfil. It had whole class sylabi transcribed in it, most of pfal, etc. etc.. it was the last item I had with any way theology transcribed in it..

that's the "odor" I detect in jl's pathetic "da way-it was" letter.. "sure, it was abusive, doctrinally and practically 'screwed up', but for a brief MOMENT.. *we* were part of da most significant MOVE of gawd since the first century." the "pathetic" part about it was, *we* didn't "win" some kind of game.. his little "winning moves" were marked foul.. not that there would be a significantly different outcome if they weren't.. I think if it was anything he "won", it was a ruling seat in an abusive organization.. chosen out of all of the rest of the drones..

for a "fair and balanced" supposed review of everything da way, the site doesn't seem to offer much, other than whoever the guy is giving the vicster's stolen goods five stars.. whatever that means..

it's not money.. it's numbers on a hard drive somewhere.. :) you can bet all my numbers, zeros (the few that there are) and all..

I'm not sure about the last name.. but I knew them as Chip and Bonnie. Michigan, 198something.. Chip got a masters degree (I think) at CMU.. then herr way moved him far west..

we need something like a Jubilee.. then time to rebuild.. I hope this is it.. :)

I saw a picture like that once.. but it was a lot more blue.. kinda blinding in the middle.. I hope this 28th year is a call to "family".. everybody needs one..

when the kids in Numerical Analysis were crying about having to do some series, or integration by parts.. or Newton's method.. I knew it like the back of my hand.. I can say "kids".. heheh. That was what these classes were like.. a fifty year old hippy, and twenty some young kids.. My class in Real Analysis was fun.. the professor was absolutely brilliant.. some of the students were rather disappointed though.. he gave little feedback. It came, but not in what they thought was a timely manner.. but it was a 400 level class. What does one expect? I figure a lot of grad level classes will be like that.. I hear some give you something to work on.. like projects and stuff.. and sometimes, if you don't figure it out, you'll NEVER know the answer..

Hey.. if you have a passion for it, why not? Sounds like you have an advantage at the starting gate, like I did.. I studied and understood Calculus I, II and III before I set foot in a classroom.. learned it on my own.. but it's a big world, there's lots more..

Cripe.. ya wanna be a lawyer.. BE A FRIGGIN LAWYER..

*boo hoo.. it's just another set of hoops to jump through..* and I'll add.. INFINITELY more difficult, that sitting through the latest "miracle" class.. what kind of "hoops".. Learn how to read, understand, analyze, and logically comment on literature.. Learn how to actually research, properly document, and write in a way people can actually understand you.. Learn enough math to actually have no excuse for being short-changed at the lunch counter, or supermarket.. or be forced to pay someone to crunch the numbers, STILL not knowing if the numbers are "honest".. learn at least one foreign language. At least enough, that if one is lost, to ask the locals "donde es la servesa" or something.. learn enough about world conditions, that one is well aware of the names of those who their newfangled high tech gadget will disenfranchise.. honestly.. as far as "education" is concerned.. twi left us far worse off than "short changed"..

I still wonder about the little book though. Is it still there? Or is the embarassment that 99 percent of the names of those who (practically) broke their backs contributing to that particular construction project are people loy castigated/marked and avoided/purged/whatever, that they've felt justified removing it from public display? Just wonder..

I mean.. really.. you're "passionate" about scumbags getting a fair shake and all.. I got into this math and science thing thinking I'd make some kind of difference.. believe me, it's not for the money.. I can think of a few ways to (positively) motivate students to learn math.. I just happen to like the subject.. what's the difference here, wd? Wanna make a real, substantial, difference? Think you are "right"? fine.. PROVE IT.. "duhh.. but I'm so old.." personally.. I don't think one is "too old" until they are dead..

Personally.. I think if someone is that "passionate" about legaleaze and all.. maybe one ought to go to law school.. if a fifty some year old squirrel can get a degree in math and chemistry.. I mean, cmon.. how hard can it be? you take your midlife crisis.. and just don't throw it away.. for gawd's sakes, DO SOMETHING with it.. I just didn't want to PRETEND to be a mathematician for the rest of my days or something like that.. oh, the nice university thirty miles the other way accepted me into their grad program.. now if they'll give me a teaching assistantship.. I'll be REALLY happy..

and while you are at it.. is that little book still in the auditorium.. listing names of contributors? Just curious..

it's almost "funny" at first.. "amusing".. how "quaint".. then if they persist.. and show they are really SERIOUS about it all.. *well.. what are YOU doing to witness da greatness of da word da manogawd taught us..* or something.. then it's "troubling".. at least to me. like the night of the living dead or something.. I wonder what *they* are doing with all of those old pfal materials and stuff they bought from geero.. probably five to seven bucks a shot.. as far as vic's old books are concerned.. probably trying to sell it in an internet bookstore.. with a name more appropriate for a cemetary.. sorry.. but it's probably true..

I've met some like that in real life.. honestly.. it's almost.. if not beyond, eerie.. almost like they've woken up from a slumber, that began in 1975 or so.. almost scary. Still living in "da way, it was.." I don't know how to describe it.. "funny" or "troubling".. perhaps a mixture of the two..

actually.. that's just about the picture I've got in my head.. I tend to try to figure people out. I'll digest what they say for a while.. then as in this instance, only two possible scenarios explain it satisfactorily to me.. I wonder how many more twi "sleepers" there are..

honestly.. some of the comments and such I've seen with such a "legal" flavor.. if I'm not mistaken, this is my take on it.. the originator seems to be some kind of "sleeper" spy or something.. put in cold storage by herr vicster in the event that someday, some victim might have the "audacity" to break open his lock-box, to bring CONSEQUENCES (grilling for every documentation for every grisley detail) for opening said lock box with accusations that the person is just overstating the situation, or mistaken, or just plain lying.. but I could be wrong. I have a pretty vivid imagination.. it could be just as simple as one holds a warehouse of the now dead adulterous ravenous pig's materials, and can't sell them until the heat's off.. then again, I could be wrong. But these are the only two scenarios that make any real sense to me at the time..

at least one can't describe it as "boring". generally.. the schoolyard bully comment is fitting, but I think it describes bullying with a quasi-legal flavor to it.. corporations can exhibit that kind of behavior. Like the old RCA corporation and Armstrong. he lost simply because RCA had deeper pockets, and more lawyers and motions in courts than he could even dream of keeping up with.. but this is not a court here. At least last I checked.. I don't see a problem with having a different experience in twi.. not everyone went wow, or corps, were publically berated, or were drugged and raped, or the like.. "wow, that wasn't MY experience.." now, if one said their piece, and just left it at that..

Witness: *and that's when the scumbag..* Defense: *your HONOR. I OBJECT. Assumes facts not in evidence..* Prosecution: *we have already established your client is a dirtbag. Your honor, what is substantially different here?* Defense: *Your honor.. I assure you, there is a substantial difference between these OUTRAGEOUS CLAIMS... besides, my client isn't convicted, yet..* maybe the "defense" has delusions or something.. there is no prosecution, no judge.. we're not even in a courthouse.. maybe he's walking around just talking to himself..

I don't think that's entirely it. I don't think there's a problem with a pro-twi posting, as long a certain people aren't so intensely obnoxious about it.. to me, it's the eternal bickering, eternal lawyering.. eternal quest to exonerate the scumbags.. lying in wait for a poster to make a small factual error.. then to blow a little matter completely out of proportion with demands of following rules of evidence, documentation, etc. etc. etc.. in short, "lawyering" any personal account into a dark deep hole.. and conveniently ignoring fully documented corroborating evidence and the like.. and it goes on, and on, and on.. if twi wants a lawyer here, I'm sure they will send one.. I think some posters just watched too much Perry Mason.. there the "accused" is NEVER the real perpetrator.. at the end of the show, even with overwhelming odds.. da lawyer pulls some judicial wabbit out of the hat.. and his client is fully exonerated, the apposing legal team slinks away in embarrassment and dishonor.. somehow, I don't think that's going to happen here..