The Training Video Skip Gates Obviously Missed...

Probably because I didn't put it up here at DtP:

Let's see how Prof. Gates did on the exam:

1. Obey the Law: N/A
2. Use Common Sense: Wrong Answer
3. Stop Immediately: N/A
4. Turn That Shit Off: N/A
5. Be Polite: Wrong Answer
6. Shut the Fuck Up: Wrong Answer
7. Get a White Friend: Half Right
8. Don't Ride With a Mad Woman: N/A 

Test Score: Not so good.

Comments

[Guesst]

Thanks!

[markg8]

OT Dennis your party cries out for you. This is from the comments on an article in a local paper about Mark Kirk (IL-10) who is despised by the global warming denier wingnuts but is nonetheless running for Obama's old senate seat.

cramcod: we need a new party....a bunch of boring accountant types who actually LIKE their wives, work hard, and stay home at night.....

FEDUP57: Cramcod, I agree with you, but no one is stepping forward. Do you know of anyone good who is going to run?

RC21: Is there another good GOP prospect for the Senate seat? As bad as Illinois Dems are, the GOP ain't been too hot either, I honestly can't think of a solid candidate hoping some of you have suggestions?

lance manyon: Be afraid Kirk, be very afraid. You don't even begin to know how many of us have abandoned you.

cramcod truth be told, conservative voters are so disheartened by the candidates offered by the GOP that they turned out in dismal numbers in the recent elections...the upcoming crop is so suspect that I find it hard to believe their will be any upsurge in voter turn out. the fiscal irresponsibility, the blatant attempt to appeal to low-brow crowds and fear mongering tactics just isn't working. The true GOP base is sucessfull businessmen, well educated, and CONSERVATIVE!....Kirk's silly grandstanding with his Kush bill is just another example of the pandering that won't work....

[PeterUK.]

Clever of Obama to invite Joe Biden to the beerfest. Must realy have made Crowley feel at home.

[PeterUK.]

Round and round the pan goes Obama.

[Simon]

I have been skipping past all the stuff about the 'beer summit'. It has only just dawned on me that Barry is actually going to turn up as well. I had no idea - I thought it was just the two concerned.

What next - is he going to do marriage counselling ? This bloke is an absolute joke.

[Simon]

With a bit more reading I find that Gates has been instrumental in establishing the Hip Hop Archive at Harvard.

For God's sake.

[markg8]

He is a professor of black studies ya moron.

[CG in DG]

Mark--which of the local rags is that?

[Simon]

Oh I knew he was a professor of "black studies" Marky. I just had no idea black studies was such an open joke.

Is this one of these elite academies you were boasting about to me in relation to Sotomayor ?

[Dennis the Peasant]

I understand Biden was telling knock-knock jokes.

[markg8]

Daily Herald Cliff.

[markg8]

Oh more than just one Simon. Ya moron.

Professor Gates earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge, and his B.A. summa cum laude in History from Yale University, where he was a Scholar of the House, in 1973. He became a member of Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year at Yale. Before joining the faculty of Harvard in 1991, he taught at Yale, Cornell, and Duke. His honors and grants include a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” (1981), the George Polk Award for Social Commentary (1993), Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans” list (1997), a National Humanities Medal (1998), election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999), the Jefferson Lecture (2002), a Visiting Fellowship at the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2003-2004), the Jay B. Hubbell Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association (2006), ), the Rave Award from Wired Magazine (2007), the Let’s Do It Better Award from of the Columbia University School of Journalism for “African American Lives” (2007), and the Cultures of Peace Award from the City of the Cultures of Peace (2007). He has received 49 honorary degrees, from institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, New York University, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Williams College, Emory University, Howard University, University of Toronto, and the University of Benin. In 2006, he was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution, after he traced his lineage back to John Redman, a Free Negro who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Professor Gates served as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard from 1991 to 2006. He serves on the boards of the New York Public Library, the Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Aspen Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

[Simon]

Marky

Your naive idolisation of the varsity is very touching. I can see you at the Harvard Open Day with your nose pressed up against the glass agog at the doings of your betters.

Actually it's rather pathetic.

Here's Mugabe's CV (before he finally killed enough people for some degrees to be taken away from him) -

Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Bath Queen Elizabeth II
Honorary LLD degree University of Edinburgh
Honorary LLD degree University of Massachusetts "Your gentle firmness in the face of anger, and your intellectual approach to matters which inflame the emotions of others, are hallmarks of your quiet integrity." ... "We salute you for your enduring and effective translation of a moral ethic into a strong, popular voice for freedom."
Honorary LLD degree Michigan State University "... for his achievements as the president of Zimbabwe and for establishing a strong cooperative effort between MSU and the University of Zimbabwe."
Honorary LLD degree Ahmadou Bello University
Honorary LLD degree Morehouse College
Honorary LLD degree University of Zimbabwe
Honorary LLD degree St. Augustine's College
Honorary LLD degree Lomonosov Moscow State University
Honorary LLD degree Solusi University
Honorary D.Litt. degree Africa University
Honorary D Civil Laws degree University of Mauritius
Honorary D.Com. degree University of Fort Hare
Honorary D.Tech. degree National University of Science and Technology
Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger The Hunger Project
Honorary Order of Jamaica Government of Jamaica

[markg8]

Well ya moron (I think I'll just call you that from now on Simon, shoe fits and all...) Gates has a few other accomplishments that don't include being a murderous despot:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Professor Gates is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource in the field of African American Studies and Africana Studies, and of The Root, an online news magazine dedicated to coverage of African American news, culture, and genealogy. In 2008, Oxford University Press published the African American National Biography. Co-edited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, it is an 8-volume set containing more than 4,000 biographical entries on both well known and obscure African Americans. The companion website will add more than 1,000 entries to those in print within the next two years. With K. Anthony Appiah, he co-edited the encyclopedia Encarta Africana published on CD-ROM by Microsoft (1999), and in book form by Basic Civitas Books under the title Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999). Oxford University Press published an expanded five-volume edition of the encyclopedia in 2005. He is most recently the author of Finding Oprah’s Roots, Finding Your Own (Crown, 2007), a meditation on genetics, genealogy, and race. His other recent books are America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans (Warner Books, 2004), African American Lives, co-edited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Oxford, 2004), and The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin, edited with Hollis Robbins (W. W. Norton, 2006). In January 2009, his book In Search of Our Roots will be published (Crown), expanding on interviews he conducted for his multi-part PBS documentary series, “African American Lives.”

In 2006, Professor Gates wrote and produced the PBS documentary also called “African American Lives,” the first documentary series to employ genealogy and genetic science to provide an understanding of African American history. In 2007, a follow-up one-hour documentary, “Oprah’s Roots: An African American Lives Special,” aired on PBS, further examining the genealogical and genetic heritage of Oprah Winfrey, who had been featured in the original documentary. The second series, “African American Lives 2,” aired on PBS in February 2008. Professor Gates also wrote and produced the documentaries “Wonders of the African World” (2000) and “America Beyond the Color Line” (2004) for the BBC and PBS, and authored the companion volumes to both series. PBS will broadcast his newest documentary, “Looking for Lincoln,” in February 2009.

Professor Gates is the author of several works of literary criticism, including Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the “Racial” Self (Oxford University Press, 1987); and The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (Oxford, 1988), winner of the American Book Award in 1989. He authenticated and facilitated the publication, in 1983, of Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859), by Harriet Wilson, the first novel published by an African American woman. Two decades later, in 2002, Professor Gates authenticated and published The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts, dating from the early 1850s and now considered one of the first novels written by an African American woman. He is the co-author, with Cornel West, of The Future of the Race (Knopf, 1996), and the author of a memoir, Colored People (Knopf, 1994), that traces his childhood experiences in a small West Virginia town in the 1950s and 1960s. Among his other books are The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers (Basic Civitas Books, 2003); Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Black Man (Random House, 1997); and Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (Oxford, 1992). He is completing a book on race and writing in the eighteenth century, entitled “Black Letters and the Enlightenment.”

Professor Gates has edited several influential anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (W. W. Norton, 1996); and the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers (Oxford, 1991). He is the editor of numerous essay collections, including Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology (Meridian, 1990); "Race," Writing, and Difference (University of Chicago, 1986); and, with K. Anthony Appiah, volumes on the authors Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes. In addition, Professor Gates is publisher of Transition magazine, an international review of African, Caribbean, and African American politics. An influential cultural critic, Professor Gates has written a 1994 cover story for Time magazine, numerous articles for the New Yorker, and in September 2004, a biweekly guest column in The New York Times.

[markg8]

Oh and looky here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/science/earth/30degrees.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

White Roofs Catch On as Energy Cost Cutters

From Dubai to New Delhi to Osaka, Japan, reflective roofs have been embraced by local officials seeking to rein in energy costs. In the United States, they have been standard equipment for a decade at new Wal-Mart stores. More than 75 percent of the chain’s 4,268 outlets in the United States have them.

California, Florida and Georgia have adopted building codes that encourage white-roof installations for commercial buildings.

[David]

Gates' resume reads like a litany of modern academic bullshit.

Since when is a degree in English from anywhere particularly impressive?

He doesn't even appear to have bothered to study, let alone learn, another language. Not terribly multicultural of him.

"several works of literary criticism"

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Mark, your man Skip is a slightly above average guy who, by virtue of the color of his skin, has gotten ahead by playing the race card.

Honestly, Gates performed a national service when he caused this shitstorm. We ought to vote this trike-riding mediocrity a public pension.

He's in the b.s. business, except unlike you, Mark, he gets paid for it.

[Simon]

And I will call you 'turdy boy'.

Hey turd boy - can you point out any of your new hero's 'accomplishments' which are unrelated to the colour of his skin ?

There's a name for white guys who write and study solely on issues related to the colour of their skins. It's 'neo-nazi'.

Rather than Grand High Poobah of Aryanography at Harvard.

Did you go to Cornell Turdy ?

[Simon]

And why no reference to his achievements in the field of hip hop, turd boy ?

Come on now, don't be shy on his behalf - feel free to blow Skip's 'trumpet'.

Surely there's a Doctorate in Rhymin' and Stylin' from Eldridge Cleaver Advanced Institute of Tertiary Ebonics you haven't mentioned.

[PeterUK.]

"Come on now, don't be shy on his behalf - feel free to blow Skip's 'trumpet'."

Don't get Marky excited now.

"Shtimulate me one more time Mashter".

[PeterUK.]

Obama,Crowley and Gates were there to discuss insulation? Who Knew?
I presume Biden was there to serve drinks so the WH staff could have a night off?

[jcw]

Markg, are you a roof racist? You'd better be careful. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will be all over WalMart if they find out they've been using "White" roofs instead of "Black" roofs. Race relations will never be the same.

[markg8]

Oh yes, "slightly above average" LOL. And Moron? His field of studies is black history and society. It's his niche. You sound like Spike Lee criticizing Clint Eastwood for not including any black characters in his movies about Iwo Jima. Why no reference to his achievements in the field of hip hop, moron? Because I went to the website and couldn't find anything there about him being "instrumental in establishing the Hip Hop Archive". He very well may have been but so what? I'm not a fan of hip hop, but I see no point in sneering at it just because it's primarily a black thing. But you, being a moron, and evidently a racist, may have a different opinion. Thanks for marginalizing yourself.
Put your pants back on Petey. I believe Biden was there to tell everybody how clean and articulate they are and then tell stories about his dad moving to Delaware looking for work until everybody says STFU Joe. jcw you can do better than that.

[markg8]

Gates on Crowley yesterday: "We hit it off right from the beginning. When he's not arresting you, Sergeant Crowley is a really likable guy."

[jcw]

"jcw you can do better than that." Actually, I can't, but that's because of my intellectual and comedic shortcomings. I am curious as to what white vs black roofs has to do with the Gates affair.

[markg8]

Actually nothing jcw, awhile back Dennis was slamming Dr. CHu the new Energy Secretary fir suggesting we could save energy and money with white roofs.

[Progressive White Liberal]

Chris Rock is a racist and an inauthentic black man. I can say that because I JUST CARE SO MUCH.

[markg8]

I think you have him confused with Clarence Thomas.

[Simon]

I sneer at studying hip hop at university Marky you pompous tool.

Have I committed a hate crime ?

[markg8]

Nah, just a bad imitation of John Cleese.

[Simon]

You started screaming 'racist' and 'thought crime' turd boy - don't back away from it now.

If your president and vice president have some spare time maybe I could go to a re-education session with light beers so I could be 'unmarginalized'.

[markg8]

I don't remember screaming anything you putz, excuse me moron, but thought crime? Really?

[Progressive White Liberal]

Chris Rock is a racist and an inauthentic black man. I can say that because I JUST CARE SO MUCH!

[richard mcenroe]

"I think you have him confused with Clarence Thomas."

I have not! Chris Rock doesn't say the right things an authentic black man is supposed to say! Just like Colin Powell was an inauthentic black man until he screwed Bush Bush! BUUUUUUSH! over on Dick Armitage and Valerie Plame, but now he has so he's authentic but he may not be authentic again because he criticized Obama's stimulus plan.

But I think Condi Rice is still an inauthentic black woman.

[markg8]

I guess that makes Bill Kristol an inauthentic black man too because he told Job Stewart the other night the US government can and does run a first rate healthcare system and he has no love for big banks or the health insurance industry. Then he blamed it on the upper west side of Manhattan's it's influence on him.

[Simon]

Screaming 'racist' is the last refuge of the tool Marky. You just comitted it. No need to listen to you anymore. Go fuck yourself.

[richard mcenroe]

Bill Kristol never tried to get treated at the VA.

[markg8]

Richard I took my dad to Hines VA hospital in suburban Chicago about every three weeks from April 2006 to December 2007 for a wide variety of outpatient treatment. I found it far better organized, and the quality of care overall much better than what my parents got at our local heart surgery mill, Good Samaritan Hospital, part of the Advocate chain.

The VA is underfunded, there were patients traveling from as far away as the upper peninsula of MI and OH to Hines. They don't have some of the latest tech toys. That said they have the best healthcare IT system in the world. It's called VistA and despite it's name is open source and has been tweaked by them for decades. States like WVA, and HI have adopted it along with Germany, Finland, Brazil, India, Malaysia and most recently, Jordan. To date, more than eighty-five countries have sent delegations to study how the VA uses the program, with four to five more coming every week.

From what I saw the VA, on average, has younger doctors which has it's pluses and minuses. They're usually not as cynical as the middle aged docs at private institutions. Some of their surgeons are anxious to gain experience and will offer their services too quickly though imo. But the decisions overall are based on best medical outcomes, not what makes the most money for the hospital, or the doctors, which all too often is what happens in our private system.