At 09:03 PM Wednesday 11/12/2008, Warren Ockrassa wrote: >On Nov 12, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > I'm hoping to engage in civilized discourse with no strings > > attached. I > > keep hoping I can be that way no matter how other people may behave. > >It's really rather shocking and more than a little depressing to see >how badly discourse in general has disintegrated over the last half >decade or so. Now, more than ever before, all I seem to see is shrill, >shrieking, humorless voices talking *at* one another with damned >little consideration of the humanity or validity of the other's point >of view. > >Today a protest was staged outside the county courthouse here. Several >groups, including a local faction of the Minutemen*, were gathered to >lend voice to the idea that Barack Obama's US citizenship is >illegitimate or, at best, questionable.
You think that's bad? From another list this morning (actually, I see it was posted last night, after I'd called it a night): <quote> <http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Idaho_students_chant_assassinate_Obama_on_1112.html>http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Idaho_students_chant_assassinate_Obama_on_1112.html *Idaho students chant 'assassinate Obama' on school bus: Report * *David Edwards and Muriel Kane *Published: Wednesday November 12, 2008 Madison County, Idaho was once dubbed "the reddest place in America" by Salon, but that didn't make it any less shocking when elementary school children started chanting "assassinate Obama on the school bus. Matthew Whoolery told KIKD News he found out about the chanting from his second and third graders, who had no idea what the word "assassinate" meant. "They just hadn't heard anything like this before," Whoolery stated. "I think the thing that struck us was just like, 'Where did they get the word and why would they put that word and that person together?'" Whoolery, a psychology professor at Brigham Young University in Rexburg, is not an Obama supporter, but he was shocked that any public official would be threatened in that way. "I don't think that the majority of people in Rexburg have extreme ideas like that, but we were just surprised that it would go that far," Whoolery told KIKD. The Madison County School District has sent out an email saying that students are to be told this sort of behavior is unacceptable. </quote> . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
