re: Bush hasn't got anything to do with that.

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Andrew — 4/22/2008 7:09:38 PM (archived)

"The mainstreaming of illiterate ghetto culture is the problem here".

I could not agree more. But it is cultue all teh way down the line. I was a bookshop a couple of days ago. Row on rowof New Age BS, one shelf of popular science.

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"More felons allowed to enlist in Army, Marines ." A rich man's war fought with poor folk. - Bowser - 4/21/2008 10:34:03 PM
- Details - TB - 4/22/2008 5:04:23 AM
  - And a few more details on our "Army of the Poor" - TB - 4/22/2008 5:19:35 AM
    - Post no more. That's one of the saddest things I've ever read. - Bowser - 4/22/2008 6:05:13 AM
      - so about 50% are below average? DUH... - nick hoffman - 4/24/2008 2:37:21 PM
      - Missed the point - TB - 4/22/2008 5:01:11 PM
        
        You're trying to say that 55% of kids don't graduate from High School. - Bowser - 4/22/2008 9:44:06 PM
        
        In some "Urban" centers, a 55% dropout rate is considered a number to shoot for. (n/t) - Lee - 4/23/2008 3:41:29 AM
        
        No, I'm not. - TB - 4/22/2008 10:20:57 PM
- You never know, a little discipline, a little structure... - RobVG - 4/22/2008 2:39:20 AM
  - They got that it in the slam. - Bowser - 4/22/2008 3:16:29 AM
- Average education is going way down too. - alcaray - 4/21/2008 11:17:05 PM
  - There is a very powerful underclass developing. - Bowser - 4/22/2008 3:14:35 AM
    - "The cops don't need you, and they expect the same." -- Bob Dylan - ER - 4/22/2008 11:37:17 AM
  - Bush hasn't got anything to do with that. - Lee - 4/22/2008 3:01:43 AM
    - re: Bush hasn't got anything to do with that. - Andrew - 4/22/2008 7:09:38 PM
    - Irish, Italian, German, Poles----Cultural pollution. - RobVG - 4/22/2008 3:09:33 AM
      - Take a look at high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, drug use, etc. - Lee - 4/22/2008 8:05:59 PM
        
        I guess I wasn't clear. - RobVG - 4/22/2008 8:53:55 PM
        
        Elvis could talk like an adult and didn't sing about pimping out his hos. - Lee - 4/23/2008 3:47:39 AM
        
        re: Elvis could talk like an adult and didn't sing about pimping out his hos. - Andrew - 4/23/2008 3:59:35 PM
        
        You were quite clear. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/22/2008 10:12:06 PM
        
        "were" (n/t) - RobVG - 4/22/2008 8:54:50 PM
    - Yea, it's the entertainment industry's fault. - alcaray - 4/22/2008 3:03:44 AM
      - re: Yea, it's the entertainment industry's fault. - ER - 4/22/2008 11:29:40 AM

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