And I don’t think I’m going to “pray for forgiveness.” Instead, I suggest that YOU pray for sufficient enlightenment to appreciate the instrumental importance of COMMUNICATION SKILLS in your children’s educations.

I’m not at all surprised, however, in the contempt shown by an average American upper-middle-class slob for the education professionals who work with his children: I encountered it almost every day in my profession, and it’s the principal reason for my imminent expatriation.

Now you go and insult my family and children. You need to shut the hell up and act like an adult.

Worm. Now go to bed an pray for forgiveness. You have another “long”(8:00-4:30) day ahead of you tomorrow!

hahahahahahahahaha!

You should SEE what I’ve just been through today, at an International Baccalaureate Teacher-Training Workshop here in New Mexico–intensive training sessions on assessing and curriculum construction, lasting from 8:00 a.m. in the morning until 4:30 p.m. with half an hour for lunch.

In any case, with an attitude like that–typical, I agree, for most Americans–your children (if you have any) are probably as illiterate as you are!

Apparently, as an English teacher, you have a thing for, how could one say, I can’t remember the word, oh yes, I believe you really, really like commas.

Anyway, unlike an english teacher, I work real life hours at an actually difficult job (engineering). I wrote that response after working for 13 hours straight, so get off your high horse.

Sorry for being overly pedantic, but I’m an English teacher, and, unlike the kind of “blowhards” who create sound-bytes for neo-fascist Republicans, I CARE about language and grammar. Many of those who don’t are DELIBERATE polluters of the “elevated discourse,” which, according to the poet Auden, is more essential to democracy than a mere ballot.

Now you are stretching and misrepresenting. I’ve NEVER went out and vigorously supported McCain. Maybe you should think before you speak.

Maybe you should be put under moderation like I was…

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/07/out-by-2011.html#trackback

Actually, jh, it’s beginning to look like Maliki and his crew, under pressure from the Shiah ayatollahs (Sistani, in particular) are going to prove YOU and your fellow apologists for this flagrantly neo-colonialist adventure wrong, by asking for the withdrawal of all American forces and the autonomous control of Iraq’s oil industry.

I wonder what McCain and his supporters will say then. Will their cover be blown, and will they be shown for what they are: colonialist occupiers whose REAL purpose in invading Iraq was to maintain the dollar-structure of the world’s carbon fuel economy, to provide a permanent American beach-head in the Arab world, and to protect the Zionist State against the natural consequences of its illegal land-grab?

It seems to me that Obama, with his plan for staged but total withdrawal from Iraq, is more in line with what the majority Shiah-government want for their country than is McCain and the still-rabid remnant of the “neo-conservative” clique that continue to dominate Republican foreign policy thinking.