[TheForge] NYT B Smithing reference

[dan tull]

OFF LIST, please
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From: "ries" <ries at riesniemi.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] NYT B Smithing reference


> You have never seen anyone type the word "stupid" in as relaxed a fashion 
> as I do.
> I slouch in my chair, eyes at half mast, breathing at a slow and cosmic 
> yoga rate, and roll my eyes at about 1mph.
>
> and 3 sentences is hardly a dissertation.
>
> you have, as usual, attempted to shoot the messenger, rather than respond 
> to the actual subject- the complete inanity and untruth of your 
> "statement".
>
> Idiocy is its own reward- and it sounds like your attitude has affected 
> whats on your plate, as well.
>
> I dont care if you dont like Obama.
>
> But what does that have to do with his MOTHER?
>
> Shoud I be bringin up YOUR mother?
>
> It would make about as much sense.
>
> Anyway, if Glenn Beck's mother had written a book about blacksmithing, I 
> would refrain from discussing her son's sexual habits, and, instead, 
> applaud her interest.
>
> I am in favor of blacksmithing.
> I like the fact that someone wrote about rural blacksmtihs in Java, as I 
> have been to Java, and seen first hand how hard it is for people.
> I enjoy reading about how rural smiths in third world countries do a lot 
> with very little.
>
> I read the first person account of the blacksmtih she gave a grant to, and 
> how it had changed his life.
> I think thats a great thing, completely non-political, and far from what I 
> would consider "degenerate".
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907884.ece
>
>
> ries
>
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>
> On Apr 22, 2011, at 7:29 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
> For pity's sake, relax.  I made a statement.  It took no food from your
> mouth nor money from your pocket, yet you write a dissertation in
> response.  HELLO.
>
> I've got far more unpleasant things on my plate these days, so I will
> bid you a good day.
>
> ries wrote:
>> Andy, I know you live to provoke, but even for you, thats kind of stupid.
>>
>> Obama's mother wrote a dissertation on rural blacksmithing in Indonesia.
>> The actual blacksmiths were helped by her- she gave gifts and grants to 
>> poor blacksmiths.
>> And the scholarship she did was helpful both to anthropologists and, 
>> potentially, to blacksmiths.
>>
>> Regardless of what you think of the politics of her son, what is possibly 
>> "degenerate" about either rural blacksmiths in Java, or a woman who 
>> studies them, and has been dead for quite some time?
>>
>> ries
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 20, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>>
>> Every discipline has its degenerates.
>>
>> peter fels wrote:
>>> I was just reading an NY Times article that said,
>>> that at one point Obama's mother
>>> got into blacksmithing!
>>>
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