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February 6, 2007 at 09:39:40

Eh? Ran what? Part 2

by Daniel Geery Page 3 of 3 page(s)

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Our Police Officers deal with such threats daily. May God Bless all our uniformed protectors. Without them. Life would be a blood bath all over the world.

Sorry for getting carried away. But the greed of some intelligent people really upsets me. If we could take the greed out of man. We could all live in peace as it should be."

Regarding the second comment, I replied:

"Hi [name omitted],

I was just about to email one of my former students and got your email. Much appreciated.

FYI, I'm taking the liberty of posting what I wrote to this student recently, and her response. I had her is sixth grade, she is now in [high school]. She came from Afghanistan direct to my class, and was probably my best ever student. She's fluent in at least three languages, even though she seems to type in a hurry. We've communicated a bit over the years, but I want to talk to her now about doing an article regarding some of our former correspondence. I believe my email and then hers are self-explanatory. Thanks again!

[Part of that email to my former student] I have been thinking about you a lot lately, like for several weeks or months now, particularly as I read the insane news every day and write comments about it on one of my favorite "left-wing" websites. So much utter nonsense in the mideast, and such a lunatic we have for a so-called president! I think of you every time I hear the word "Afghanistan," which you can imagine is quite a bit.

Interestingly, I don't even know if you're a Suuni or a Shiite, or something else, and I don't really give a hoot. You are a beautiful human being, one of the finest I've ever met, and that's what matters to me (and warms my 19 year old heart!)." [I had a heart transplant a year ago Aug. 17, and this student was deeply concerned and upset by that.]

And finally, I quote the reply from my former student, which should be enough for us all to ponder for some time to come--and quite frankly, eliminates the need for me to say any more on the subject:

"good to hear from u good to hear u r doing great and u r in best of health

i would love to meet but nowadays are really busy but if there was a day free i might come and visit u ..

yeah well the news are crazy but i just stopped reading them or listening to them ..it's really crazy ..everywhere people are just dieing...but to some the lives of these innocent people seem like trash.....to them their precious victory is alot more important than the lives of the beautiful human ...i just wish they would see the tears in the eyes of the innocent and starved to death kids whose shelter and peace they have taken away i wish they could see the broken hearts of those women whose husband they have took and left them to deal with their troubled life and pay for something they didn't deserve..wish they could just see how hard they work to support their little kids knowing how hard it is for women to work in Afghanistan..i am Sunni ....but that doesn't matter because those 2 goups have lived with each other for centuries and there was no trouble but now they are down to finishing one another..thanks for standing by us ...

but anwyas i am in school now and the bell rung so i gotta go i will write u again"

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Geery lived off the grid for 15 years in an earth-sheltered, solar heated home, while his kids learned in school that solar energy isn't feasible. NAPTA hosts a page on Geery's foibles in education, and explains how he got his butt fired from a tenured teaching position. Here's a short clip of his most recent solar contraption; for more on that project, and Geery's contention that the Wright Brothers took a wrong turn, please visit his airship page (hyperblimp.com). Apparently, Geery is the only one in the world to respond to Osama bin Laden, call bullshit on him and George together, and expose them for the pansy ass rich kids that they are. Unfortunately, bin Laden has been too scared to write back and explain himsself; and George is still working hard to finish his goat book.

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A writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

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Mark SashineA writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

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A year ago I posted a diary entry

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=109

which is a letter to all the US fathers about the war and about the military.. Granted, we are not at war with Iran yet but the threat did not go away and all I wrote about is relevant to the letter.

I want to put it here. Whoever would like, please, read. I know what I am saying- I am from the place where people lost millions, tens of millions in the last war and the wound goes through each generation after that. Please, the clock is ticking.

by Mark Sashine (54 articles, 19 quicklinks, 251 diaries, 3598 comments) on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 11:43:33 AM

Geery lived off the grid for 15 years in an earth-sheltered, solar heated home, while his kids learned in school that solar energy isn't feasible. NAPTA hosts a page on Geery's foibles in education, and explains how he got his butt fired from a tenured teaching position. Here's a short clip of his most recent solar contraption; for more on that project, and Geery's contention that the Wright Brothers took a wrong turn, please visit his airship page (hyperblimp.com). Apparently, Geery is the only...

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Daniel GeeryGeery lived off the grid for 15 years in an earth-sheltered, solar heated home, while his kids learned in school that solar energy isn't feasible. NAPTA hosts a page on Geery's foibles in education, and explains how he got his butt fired from a tenured teaching position. Here's a short clip of his most recent solar contraption; for more on that project, and Geery's contention that the Wright Brothers took a wrong turn, please visit his airship page (hyperblimp.com). Apparently, Geery is the only...

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I wish you were wrong...

but I fear you're not.

I don't know if you caught this one or not, but it's along similar lines:

Is George Bush Insane?

My only problem with the article, looking back, is that I should have started with a declarative rahter than interrogative sentence.

by Daniel Geery (26 articles, 74 quicklinks, 123 diaries, 746 comments) on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 1:06:15 PM

thanks

Bush is insane but it is a wilful insanity, self-developed and nourished. It is also nourished by others. It comes from the years of extreme psychological weakness and immaturity. I bet he never was told directly that he was a stupid moron by anyone up to this day. We have a lot of people like that. Little moronic children with big guns, big cars, big voices. You are a teacher. One of the greatest books children read is 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. I am sure Bush and Laura read it too. At least they saw a movie. But who ever emphacises how courage manifests itself in that book and how powerful a person was Atticus and how courageus was a black man Robinson and even such person as Mrs. Dubois? That book is tough. It is about death. Tom Robinson died and Mr. Jewell and one person committed a murder. Do we show that? Instead of that syropy stuff we say about it, 'Oh, it was so bad but now we are over it..', do we say to the chidren that they can be either like Atticus Finch or Mr. Jewell and both of them are in everyone of us? Or maybe we are afraid that parents will sue us for 'disturbing a self- esteem'? So we raise millions of them, those who were never challenged psyschologically, those who think that suffering is when they have pimples, those who never were denied their 'little desires', those who are wilfully mad. Look at our product. There it sits in the White House. And now it kills our children.

by Mark Sashine (54 articles, 19 quicklinks, 251 diaries, 3598 comments) on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 2:07:13 PM