Re: The Art of Prattle

[aburke5054@aol.com]

 Yeah, reading for details is a Promethean challenge, all right.? 

Apart from that, you might consider whether your habits of personalizing everything, reading knavery and criminality into people whose ideas you don't like, and making wild assumptions about those you know nothing about are desirable habits for an educator, on whatever continent.? Finally, if you're depressed, get help instead of venting on listservs.? 
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Art
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick  Parkany <rparkany@adelphia.net>
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Cc: rparkany@adelphia.net
Sent: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:29 am
Subject: [arn-l] The Art of Prattle










[Art spat out this spiteful and malicious crap while attempting to make some 
point, unknown to me:]

I find it incongruous that someone who is arguing against an adverse tenure 
decision would publicly announce such outlandish conclusions about a study that 
he admits he hasn't read carefully.? This must be a new litigation strategy.  

Art

[Prometheus gags and spits back in disgust:]

I find it unbelievable that you are still plying the same prattle, now, for all 
these years, Art; while I have read and kept pace w/this list discourse, mutely 
ignoring your vapid contributions! You must have gotten tired playing that 
broken record you call a mind, by now. Not?

I said that I *scanned* the report for a specific item. *Scanning* IS a useful 
and necessary type of reading, my man! It's a skill few have, and fewer can do 
well, yet invaluable, particularly in these informatic times where what one 
needs to read is growing at exponential rates from moment to moment.

IF I want to read for details, I will do that at another time, as I said. Can 
YOU find me any details concerning *Participant Dropout Rate* in this study? 
Read it for detail if you like, you tiresome old man...you will find NONE! This 
was my point.

On the other hand, I also say now that when I WISH to criticize methodology, 
analysis, or any other dimension of this study, and when I report it, I WILL 
have read it for details and you can bet that my findings will be just as 
correct and well-founded as the one point I made, last post.

So far as my tenure arbitration:   it is a separate issue, and I shared it with 
frioends, this list. That's why I introduced it w/a GREAT BIG *BTW*, you dolt! 
Your not being one of my friends, nor apparently one interested in hwat I've 
been dong in this strggle these past several years, only should have left you 
ignoring my post. But, No! for whatever reason, you decided to attempt to insult 
me and disparage my loss and grief at being way from my loved ones while I 
ensure their standard of living is, in fact, increased as a consequence of my 
actions in Utica, NY and, then, here in Kuwait.

But, then again, for someone such as you, who, when asked to chew gum AND go 
upstairs at the same time, must either spit out the gum or stand still on the 
landing, I suppose any two thoughts juggling inside that bonehead of yours will 
apear *incongruous*.

Art:    for a one trick poney such as yourself, I find it incongruous that you 
can put two neurons together and try to come to ANY sort of a conclusion, 
whatsoever. But, then again, what does or could it matter WHAT you find 
incongruous?

I made my point concerning the study as I was asked by Jim & Ken AND I replied 
to dear George Schmidt's query as to my whereabouts these past several 
years...what IS your point? and what does it have to do w/the purpose of this 
list?

I know what your purpose is, you Flatlander:   disrupt, blow smoke, muddy the 
waters, and attempt to appear to have accomplished something in your life other 
than rubber stamping and *ss-kissing.

I'll get my case won AND get this NCLB out of the AmeriKKKan lexicon and 
curriculum. And you? what will you have accomplished with your life and done, by 
then? but wasted your and our time while we effect our goals?

Bush and this corporate, fascist state don't have the guts nor stamina to get 
much more done with this tired attempt at ruining the American Curriculum. On to 
the next phase of the fight, I suppose...and we will meet them, there, as here, 
on the battlefield and on-going struggle for the American Curriculum!

What a complete bore you are, Art Burke...I'm out here exiled in Kuwait, 
teaching, consulting, tutoring, and continuing my craft as an educator, awash in 
tears & sweat, and fighting depression and the consequences of a fight not yet 
finished that I will yet have the last say, all-the-while sending my money back 
to my wife and kids and biding my time as my case is arbitrated.

And YOU?

I hope you HAVE a family with whom to share, if they can stomach you or even 
have decided to stay with you this late in your life. I'm sure you've spent your 
life so safe and unchallenging, while displacing the despair at it against those 
near to you (as we are, this list, and as you have with us, as well) that your 
retirement, bought & paid for by the taxpayers, will come to you as easily as 
have your principles been lost from you the moment you were hired for your 
first, and probably only position:  prostation before and supplication to the 
powers that be...

But, what would YOU know about sacrifice and commitment to a cause, you useless 
fool?     ;-} rap.

-- 
"Dein Wachstum sei feste und lache vor Lust! 
Deines Herzens Trefflichkeit 
Hat dir selbst das Feld bereit',
Auf dem du bluehen musst." JS Bach: Bauern Kantata

Richard A. Parkany: Prometheus Educational Services
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/
Upper Hudson & Mohawk Valleys;
New York State, USA

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