[TheForge] NYT B Smithing reference

[George Dixon]

Someone remove my name from this list please....
Never seen such a lost pile of thoughts in my life

G Dixon







On Apr 23, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Dave Mudge wrote:

> 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:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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