defenseless against missiles

[jeff]

Do you actually retype each response or just cut and paste?

Love you too!

The same response is appropriate as long as you troll and can't back up your BS with anything better than insults.

[Hauptman]

I don't hate. I dislike what you trying to do to this country and and I dislike you casting insults and lies about my faith, but I don't hate you. I find it amusing that almost every one of your posts displays your ignorance of the subject you are talking about. After you showed your ignorance of politics, I don't even bother taking the time to correct you anymore. I would advise you to do a little research before posting from now on though.

I also don't like how you try to distort the meaning of the Bible to justify your disdain for Christianity. Being humble doesn't mean being a doormat for others. After all, Jesus was humble but yet strong. He had no problem clearing the Temple of the moneychangers. Humility comes from being confident in my faith in Christ and knowing that although I may not win every fight I face in life, I will win in the end.

This is just more of your ranting against those that believe differently from you. The big difference between us is that I try to help others, while you want the government to take away from those you despise (evil, greedy, wealthy) in order to help those you decide needs help, including yourself.

What do you know about my beliefs? And why do you care what any Christian believes?

Love you!

Show me one insult or lie I've posted regarding Christianity, BB... I guarantee you can't. The insults and lies belong to you and Chase. Let me state it again, I have no problems with Christianity, only with hypocritical "Christians in name only" who insist that others live by the values that you don't bother to follow yourselves.

You also don't seem to realize that there is a big difference between strength and arrogance, which you and Chase also display to no end. Humility has nothing to do with knowing "I will win in the end".

And finally, all your straw-men regarding me and liberals at large are absurd. Find me any meaningful quotes; I guarantee you won't find any.

Your "Love you" closing only proves my point on your completely disingenuous attitude and lack of sincerity.

[chase]

In my experience, if it's a really good school, there is little one can do to guarantee admission there, because the really good schools can afford to only admit the truly amazing students. Some good schools have a self selecting mechanism that means that only the ideal candidates apply so the numbers make it look easy to get in while it may actually not be-- do you have any idea why on paper it looks pretty easy to get into UT, and why you're not worried?

If you have a low opinion of Harvard, why would being compared to Harvard be a point of pride?

My list of facts about UT vs. Harvard are current. Some may be a year or two old, but they're post 1900. If you are convinced that there is concrete evidence that UT provides a better education than Harvard, there must be some sort of statistic that proves it. Please tell us the areas where UT outperforms Harvard. I've already suggested that UT probably outperforms Harvard in undergraduate finance and accounting programs. Is that it? Are you planning to major in finance then?

Please name the international schools you think are competition with UT for the top spot. I'm not asking you to rank them, I'm not (yet) asking for any justification. I'm just curious which 2-4 schools you think are in the top 5 international schools along with UT.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to get in because I know several people who got in who have lower numbers and less volunteer experience than me. They also have a good chunk of seats reserved for Texas residents so the rest of the 49 states can't freeload off our greatness.

I don't look down on Harvard, I just think that their a bit overrated because they've been around so long and have a "brand-name" type of appeal.

For your information, I'm going to be majoring in petroleum and geosystems engineering (we are number 1 in that too).

I don't know for sure but our peer schools are probably Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Oxford.

[jessicasimpson]

The insults and lies belong to you and Chase.

And slim

[jeff]

Aww... I don't think Slim is anywhere as bad as the other guys

[jessicasimpson]

Aww... I don't think Slim is anywhere as bad as the other guys

He seems to be smarter, yes. but that makes him worse because he should know better

[keith]

I don't know for sure but our peer schools are probably Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Oxford.

Little observation. Your peer schools will depend on the discipline, and no one gives a flying **** about undergraduate programs .

[prototoast]

I don't know for sure but our peer schools are probably Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Oxford.

Personally I believe that the "peer" relation ought to be symmetric, and in that case, no, those are definitely not your peer schools.

[Philistine]

So one event which had no actionable intelligence happened under Bush who then ensured that nothing happened again after that. Let's take a look at Clinton's accomplishments:{snip}.

My post was directly related to your claim:

{snip}
Nobody ever thought of running planes into buildings.

Given the fact that many, many people thought of running planes into buildings--so much so that they wrote books and TV scripts about it, and NORAD trained to respond to it--shows that you were clearly just wrong.

I'm at a loss as to why you quoted my comment to make your long list when I made it clear (and you noted before) that I didn't think Bush could have taken advantage of the warnings to do anything tangible to stop 9/11.

Presumably you're either a complete idiot or you're just trolling to get more reaction. Either way, no thanks.

--Philistine

[Philistine]

In my experience, if it's a really good school, there is little one can do to guarantee admission there, because the really good schools can afford to only admit the truly amazing students. Some good schools have a self selecting mechanism that means that only the ideal candidates apply so the numbers make it look easy to get in while it may actually not be-- do you have any idea why on paper it looks pretty easy to get into UT, and why you're not worried?{snip}

By Texas law, anyone in the top 10% of their Texas high school class is guaranteed acceptance at UT. That changes for the class entering in 2011 to the top 8%.

--Philistine

[Bayou Bum]

Everyone should be encouraging Chase, after all, he will have to provide support for at least 9 government dependent liberals when he graduates!

[fencerchica]

...that I didn't think Bush could have taken advantage of the warnings to do anything tangible to stop 9/11.

On this point though... In Barton Gellman's Angler: The Cheney Vice-Presidency, he states that under President Clinton, the CIA had begun a project to track and potentially assassinate Osama bin Laden by means of drone aircraft, the Predator I think. During the Clinton administration, the drones were unarmed, but Gellman says that just after President Bush's first term had begun, they made a positive ID on OBL in a vulnerable, isolated camp and urgently requested permission to arm the drone and attempt a precision airstrike. IIRC, he says that the Bush/Cheney administration essentially hadn't tagged OBL as an item of high interest, and simply stalled the CIA for days until the window of opportunity had closed.

[keith]

Everyone should be encouraging Chase, after all, he will have to provide support for at least 9 government dependent liberals when he graduates!

His chances of graduation are pretty slim since he is relying on government dependents for his education. Bearing in mind that a government dependent conservative is an oxymoron.

[Hauptman]

Everyone should be encouraging Chase, after all, he will have to provide support for at least 9 government dependent liberals when he graduates!

If only that were true, BB, but the statistics clearly show that Republican voting states tend to take in more federal dollars than they pay in federal taxes.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/266.html

But then we know that conservatives never take gov't money like medicare, medicaid, social security, unemployment benefits, etc........yeah..... right.....

[migopod]

If only that were true, BB, but the statistics clearly show that Republican voting states tend to take in more federal dollars than they pay in federal taxes.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/266.html

But then we know that conservatives never take gov't money like medicare, medicaid, social security, unemployment benefits, etc........yeah..... right.....

Psst. You forgot no-bid defence contracts.

[jeff]

agricultural subsidies

oil depletion allowance (a subsidy to rich Texas oilmen)

[Capt. Slo-mo]

They also have a good chunk of seats reserved for Texas residents so the rest of the 49 states can't freeload off our greatness.

Wow...so: Affirmative Action for Texas residents, then? Even if other students are more qualified, they are denied an equal shot at all the student positions at UT?

That's certainly a core conservative principle at work.

Of course, I would suspect an ardent espouser of conservatism such as Chase will do his due diligence, and, should he discover that he has been granted entrance into UT over a more qualified applicant, or simply because he is in the top 10% of Texas students*, then he will politely decline his unwarranted placement.

On principle.

*not making the obvious reference to "in the land of the Blind, the One With The Least Macular Degeneration is King"

[erik_blank]

Oh yeah? Is that why it is on the very short list of Public Ivies?

Wow! A public Ivy? I went to one of these TOO! In fact Indiana University of PA is one of the top Public Ivy schools in the U.S.! I know this because they put it on their pamphlets!

But Chase, I have to ask... Why would such a solid conservative even think of applying to a publicly funded school? Isn't this public funding nothing more than a slightly veiled socialism? After all, the government is picking the pockets of the rich to fund education for the less deserving in our society who could not otherwise afford this kind of education.

Shouldn't you be looking to completely fund your own education directly from your own pocket so that you will not be a burden on the rest of society?
...Just curious...

[Bayou Bum]

If only that were true, BB, but the statistics clearly show that Republican voting states tend to take in more federal dollars than they pay in federal taxes.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/266.html

But then we know that conservatives never take gov't money like medicare, medicaid, social security, unemployment benefits, etc........yeah..... right.....

It depends on what is included in those statistics. Your link doesn't give any details. Does it include defense spending, welfare payments, etc. Do you have anything more current with some detail behind it?

I guess I am about to become a liberal then. I am about to retire and for this year I will actually get more from the federal government than I pay in. I am about to become a leech on society like the rest!

[I_luv_saber]

If you want to be completely free of any temptation of receiving government aid, just go through immigration .