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Re: Susie Marshall Sharp

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:33:00 -0500

Covered that here.

— RTB

Susie Marshall Sharp

Isaac136 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:27:01 -0500

RTB --

SUSIE MARSHALL SHARP

First woman chief justice in NC (and maybe in U.S.)

Re: Like it or not

FFC1304 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:04:18 -0500

Progressive democrats are here and we must also deal with that as well.

Re: Fortunately . . .

tweathe850 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:23:52 -0500

No, I want to cut waste and bring Justice back to our State.

Re: Fortunately . . .

dahedgehog — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:50:23 -0500

Certainly the costs would be way above the high-end estimates if we force university admissions officers to personally round up North Carolina's illegal immigrants and drive them to Mexico. I don't think either think tank was envisioning the plan put forward by NC's conservatives of making college officials enforce immigration law.

Fortunately . . .

Anglico — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:47:10 -0500

Most people with good sense don't much care what you say.

And just to be clear, cost estimates for deporting the 12 to 15 million people in this country illegally range from $2 billion (conservative think tank) to $52 billion (liberal think tank).

Let me guess. You want to cut taxes too.

Re: Like it or not

tweathe850 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:45:36 -0500

Deal with it by jailing those that Illegally hire and house the Illegals and the argument will not need to be had. Take away the incentives and the Illegals will stay at home and help improve their own country since they are such honest, hard workers.

Re: UNC to study illegal immigrants

tweathe850 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:42:59 -0500

He says they are here and we have to deal with them. I say they are here and we have to deport them. We do not have to deal with any criminals, they should not be here in the first place.

Re: More fun with spelling

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:48:19 -0500

My coworker said that I should remember that the word is "accommodating" enough to include two c's and two m's.

I think the best mnemonic is simply to misspell the word in front of an audience of your friends and neighbors.

— RTB

Re: More fun with spelling

JohnHood — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:42:19 -0500

Ryan,

My favorite professor at the UNC J-School, Phil Meyer, counseled his students to remember the proper spelling of "accommodate" with the following mnemonic device: Charlie Chaplin takes Marilyn Monroe on a date.

Re: This is typical

greenlamp — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:49:51 -0400

I don't think the Pope Center's report was criticizing the schools that do support Shakespeare considering Davidson puts so much emphasis on sustaining the arts.

I believe the report instead was merely to point out and maybe encourage schools to be more like Davidson and continue a strong focus on the arts. I will agree with previous posters though and say that the Pope Center probably needs to do a little more research into the actual course offerings than JUST off of the school's website before releasing reports such as this.

This is typical

JohnBurns — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:39:43 -0400

This report indicts several North Carolina universities and colleges for failing to "require" study of Shakespeare in English departments, and bases the determination of what is required on a review of ~~course guidebooks~~ school websites.

How much money did Pope pay for such amateurish ridiculousness?

Want proof of how limited and sloppy the purported "method" of this survey is?

How's this? During the time it was determined by the Pope Foundation to be inadequately focusing on the works of William Shakespeare, Davidson has twice hosted as artists in residence . . . wait for it . . . The Royal Shakespeare Company. In fact, the Company is in residence at Davidson from 2005-2008.

While I understand such a unique and vital link between Shakespeare and modern education might have been missed from looking at course catalogues, I will be happy to provide a link so that our intrepid "researchers" from the Pope Foundation don't miss it next time.

THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY TEACHES AT DAVIDSON

Re: Bye, bye Bard

clnelson80 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:52:30 -0400

This is exactly what I would expect when a group of self-styled conservative politicos decide to weigh in on a subject they know little to nothing about ...

Re: Bye, bye Bard

Proctor — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:48:55 -0400

Hark, Manteo, welcome to Olde Englande!
How are things in yon Roanoke Sing-lande?

Way out in Murphy they've heard of Shakespeare
Even though it's "So Far Away" from Olde Cape Feare.

Well, they may never come to London for the play,
But they can journey west to New London for a day.

New London, in the County of Stanly fair,
Whose native sons fill the radio roundball air.

Woody and Bob of blue shades know their verse
When basketball fundamentals slip to their worst,

Whilst Sir Roy and Prince Mike prod their troops
To return to the basics of hoops.

In the meantime, with no Shakespeare to read,
Our students can dash with still greater speed

To the academic goals that the times require,
But don't forget the music of "Earth, Wind and Fire!"

"Fair is foul and foul is fair..."
Woolly and Muddy, homer through the air!

"Lay on, McDuff!" Go make a good stew
In case the new curricula should ban barbecue.

And so if Will's plays are no longer a cinch,
At least Milton and Dickens are on the bench,

Waiting to come into the game of poetry and prose,
Hoping teachers will choose the rhododenron and the rose.

Re: Young for treasurer

FFC1304 — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:17:27 -0400

Nope, sorry... he may be high up in the Co Commisioners realm but he is NOT very well liked in Buncombe...Please do NOT vote for him!

He's a democrackkk...We are NOT voting for anymore democrackkks as of this time. 100+ years of democrackkk domination in NC has RUINED our state!

Strive to be smarter than a democrackkk...