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Article #218Re: President Puke And The Liars Of The Purple Rage
From: Ron
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:32
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:32
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Jonathan Ball <jonball@whitehouse.not> wrote in message news:<Oa21c.15481$yZ1.14313@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>... > Pit_Bull wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:55:23 GMT, Jonathan Ball <jonball@whitehouse.not> > > wrote: > > > > > > > >>>I think you would be pleasently surprised by just how articulate and > >>>well-read "blue collar" workers can be. > >> > >>Undoubtedly some small number of them are. They're a > >>distinct minority, as the intellectual tone of beer, > >>pick-em-up truck and various other blue-collar-oriented > >>advertising makes clear. > > > > > > You're an elitist pig. It comes through loud and clear in your posts. > > I'm not an elitist, if by that you mean one who favors > some kind of aristocracy based on inheritance. I do > believe in a natural merit-based elite, though. Cream > rises. > > Intellectually, blue collar workers, on average, are > skim milk. That's just how it is. Don't run yourself down like that Ball. Blue collar workers make the world work and many have skill sets that many of the so-called intellectual elite couldn't hope to master in a million years. You and I agree on practically nothing Ball but don't be convinced that because you happen to have a blue collar job that you are inferior. Whatever your problems are (and they seem many) they aren't due to your blue collar job.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: feb97,798604d0bcd70fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gidfeb97,public X-Google-Thread: fda71,798604d0bcd70fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gidfda71,public X-Google-Thread: 10a587,798604d0bcd70fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a587,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,798604d0bcd70fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: f514b,798604d0bcd70fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf514b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-23 15:32:08 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: banmilk@hotmail.com (Ron) Newsgroups: ia.talk.misc,alt.appalachian,misc.rural,dc.general,nyc.politics Subject: Re: President Puke And The Liars Of The Purple Rage Date: 23 Mar 2004 15:32:07 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 43 Message-ID: <436a5d81.0403231532.30c34697@posting.google.com> References: <3275e89e36fa0df28687947dbe8d35ec@news.meganetnews.com> <82586db4.0402190804.153dc894@posting.google.com> <JR5Zb.256$yZ1.216@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <82586db4.0402200927.418ba8a9@posting.google.com> <LCtZb.1523$yZ1.1149@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <c6d5b4c57e69d895843ba5917f4ae787@news.teranews.com> <Oa21c.15481$yZ1.14313@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.244.3.107 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1080084728 31643 127.0.0.1 (23 Mar 2004 23:32:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:32:08 +0000 (UTC)