[TheForge] NYT B Smithing reference

[Dave Mudge]

OK. See guys,,, this is what happens when we talk about someone's
mother........ (ouch)
In this case it DID have to do with blacksmithing but PLEASE keep
politics out of TheForge!
We get enough flame war, politics and stupidity on the evening news,
we don't need it here.
Back to blacksmithing please.
dave mudge
list mom for TheForge



On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:51 AM, ries <ries at riesniemi.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> and 3 sentences is hardly a dissertation.
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> you have, as usual, attempted to shoot the messenger, rather than respond to the actual subject- the complete inanity and untruth of your "statement".
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> Idiocy is its own reward- and it sounds like your attitude has affected whats on your plate, as well.
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> I dont care if you dont like Obama.
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> But what does that have to do with his MOTHER?
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> Shoud I be bringin up YOUR mother?
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> It would make about as much sense.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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".
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> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907884.ece
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> ries
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> On Apr 22, 2011, at 7:29 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:
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> 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
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> >
> > On Apr 20, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
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> > 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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