RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded
My bad. He was thumping the ground under my feet something fierce right after I posted that. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:45:15 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded Hey! Stop insulting Rasputin! On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: I consider Ms Palin about as saintly as Rasputin. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:08:21 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded Saw that a while ago. The string of words I released over the hypocrisy would surely make the saintly Palin blush, and the sleazy Limbaugh laugh. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 5, 2010 6:58:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded A bit more on the matter, this time courtesy of Ms Palin and the Drugster... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1114 If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: truthseeker...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:28:19 -0500 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded That's certainly at least two of us. Again, seeing crap like this, I wonder what historians will think of us years hence, the level of influence one sad little quitter from Wasilla had on the world. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:37:48 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded The best comeback was from Keith Olbermann who found multiple instances of Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck either using the word retard or disparaging mentally challenged people on air. Where's the outrage over that? I'm sick of this woman using her child and the rest of her family to try and score cheap points with the Fox news crowd. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: Them insensitive comic-book 'ritin' folk... Ms Palin gon' git her gun on 'em, iff'n they ain't careful. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:55:46 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded As an aside, i was reading an issue of the Fantastic Four comic earlier today. Reed and Sue Richards have two children now: the older, their son Franklin, who has normal intelligence, and their young daughter Valeria, who at the age of four is already a supergenius on the level of her father Reed. In playing around with Franklin about a question he was asking, Valeria says Oh Franklin, you're such a retard! Do we need to alert Sarah Palin so she can get Marvel comics censured? Demand an apology from the creative staff? Maybe get the FF canceled? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:13:24 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded (another standing ovation) When I first heard this story reported, I gave myself a headache when my eyes rolled back into my head too fast. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded
That's certainly at least two of us. Again, seeing crap like this, I wonder what historians will think of us years hence, the level of influence one sad little quitter from Wasilla had on the world. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:37:48 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded The best comeback was from Keith Olbermann who found multiple instances of Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck either using the word retard or disparaging mentally challenged people on air. Where's the outrage over that? I'm sick of this woman using her child and the rest of her family to try and score cheap points with the Fox news crowd. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: Them insensitive comic-book 'ritin' folk... Ms Palin gon' git her gun on 'em, iff'n they ain't careful. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:55:46 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded As an aside, i was reading an issue of the Fantastic Four comic earlier today. Reed and Sue Richards have two children now: the older, their son Franklin, who has normal intelligence, and their young daughter Valeria, who at the age of four is already a supergenius on the level of her father Reed. In playing around with Franklin about a question he was asking, Valeria says Oh Franklin, you're such a retard! Do we need to alert Sarah Palin so she can get Marvel comics censured? Demand an apology from the creative staff? Maybe get the FF canceled? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:13:24 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded (another standing ovation) When I first heard this story reported, I gave myself a headache when my eyes rolled back into my head too fast. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:33:52 + Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded I'm sorry, but I don't see this as a firing offense. Retarded has many meanings and connotations. When you call a person retarded for doing something stupid, it's not in any way meant to suggest that person has Downs or Autism or any other developmental condition. It means the person is an idiot, pure and simple. The words simpleton, geek, cretin, and actually even, idiot, could be tagged as equally offensive in this light. This is a tempest in a teapot, especially seeing as this took place behind closed doors. I'm not saying people don't have a right to be upset. Had he used the n-word behind closed doors, even, I'd be pissed. If some hate retarded on this level, i respect that. But I do think we need to do some serious examination of how much stuff said in private can and should be used to evaluate a person's character. No single one of us could bear the scrutiny if everything we said in private were publicized. If my private utterings around the house ever got out, I think a lot of conservative white religious fanatics would probably want to have me drawn and quartered! End of the day, I don't think he at all was thinking of people with true developmental problems, but now that it got out, an apology was the right thing to do. Past that, let this die, and let's move on. The bigger problem is a new Internet/Twitter/Facebook world where every single thing is instantly universal, without any benefit of filtering, explanation, or real analysis. And the biggest problem? A world in which that idiot Sarah Palin is still being quoted for her opinion on anything of substance. With apologies to the idiots of the world for that comparison
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded
A bit more on the matter, this time courtesy of Ms Palin and the Drugster... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1114 If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: truthseeker...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:28:19 -0500 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded That's certainly at least two of us. Again, seeing crap like this, I wonder what historians will think of us years hence, the level of influence one sad little quitter from Wasilla had on the world. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:37:48 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded The best comeback was from Keith Olbermann who found multiple instances of Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck either using the word retard or disparaging mentally challenged people on air. Where's the outrage over that? I'm sick of this woman using her child and the rest of her family to try and score cheap points with the Fox news crowd. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: Them insensitive comic-book 'ritin' folk... Ms Palin gon' git her gun on 'em, iff'n they ain't careful. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:55:46 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded As an aside, i was reading an issue of the Fantastic Four comic earlier today. Reed and Sue Richards have two children now: the older, their son Franklin, who has normal intelligence, and their young daughter Valeria, who at the age of four is already a supergenius on the level of her father Reed. In playing around with Franklin about a question he was asking, Valeria says Oh Franklin, you're such a retard! Do we need to alert Sarah Palin so she can get Marvel comics censured? Demand an apology from the creative staff? Maybe get the FF canceled? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:13:24 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded (another standing ovation) When I first heard this story reported, I gave myself a headache when my eyes rolled back into my head too fast. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:33:52 + Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded I'm sorry, but I don't see this as a firing offense. Retarded has many meanings and connotations. When you call a person retarded for doing something stupid, it's not in any way meant to suggest that person has Downs or Autism or any other developmental condition. It means the person is an idiot, pure and simple. The words simpleton, geek, cretin, and actually even, idiot, could be tagged as equally offensive in this light. This is a tempest in a teapot, especially seeing as this took place behind closed doors. I'm not saying people don't have a right to be upset. Had he used the n-word behind closed doors, even, I'd be pissed. If some hate retarded on this level, i respect that. But I do think we need to do some serious examination of how much stuff said in private can and should be used to evaluate a person's character. No single one of us could bear the scrutiny if everything we said in private were publicized. If my private utterings around the house ever got out, I think a lot of conservative white religious fanatics would probably want to have me drawn and quartered! End of the day, I don't think he at all was thinking of people with true developmental problems, but now
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded
Saw that a while ago. The string of words I released over the hypocrisy would surely make the saintly Palin blush, and the sleazy Limbaugh laugh. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 5, 2010 6:58:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded A bit more on the matter, this time courtesy of Ms Palin and the Drugster... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1114 If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: truthseeker...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:28:19 -0500 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded That's certainly at least two of us. Again, seeing crap like this, I wonder what historians will think of us years hence, the level of influence one sad little quitter from Wasilla had on the world. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:37:48 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded The best comeback was from Keith Olbermann who found multiple instances of Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck either using the word retard or disparaging mentally challenged people on air. Where's the outrage over that? I'm sick of this woman using her child and the rest of her family to try and score cheap points with the Fox news crowd. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: Them insensitive comic-book 'ritin' folk... Ms Palin gon' git her gun on 'em, iff'n they ain't careful. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:55:46 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded As an aside, i was reading an issue of the Fantastic Four comic earlier today. Reed and Sue Richards have two children now: the older, their son Franklin, who has normal intelligence, and their young daughter Valeria, who at the age of four is already a supergenius on the level of her father Reed. In playing around with Franklin about a question he was asking, Valeria says Oh Franklin, you're such a retard! Do we need to alert Sarah Palin so she can get Marvel comics censured? Demand an apology from the creative staff? Maybe get the FF canceled? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:13:24 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded (another standing ovation) When I first heard this story reported, I gave myself a headache when my eyes rolled back into my head too fast. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:33:52 + Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded I'm sorry, but I don't see this as a firing offense. Retarded has many meanings and connotations. When you call a person retarded for doing something stupid, it's not in any way meant to suggest that person has Downs or Autism or any other developmental condition. It means the person is an idiot, pure and simple. The words simpleton, geek, cretin, and actually even, idiot, could be tagged as equally offensive in this light. This is a tempest in a teapot, especially seeing as this took place behind closed doors. I'm not saying people don't have a right to be upset. Had he used the n-word behind closed doors, even, I'd be pissed. If some hate retarded on this level, i respect that. But I do think we need to do some serious examination of how much stuff said in private can and should be used to evaluate a person's character. No single one of us could bear the scrutiny if everything we said in private were publicized. If my private utterings around the house ever got out, I think a lot of conservative white
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded
I consider Ms Palin about as saintly as Rasputin. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:08:21 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded Saw that a while ago. The string of words I released over the hypocrisy would surely make the saintly Palin blush, and the sleazy Limbaugh laugh. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 5, 2010 6:58:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded A bit more on the matter, this time courtesy of Ms Palin and the Drugster... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1114 If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: truthseeker...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:28:19 -0500 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded That's certainly at least two of us. Again, seeing crap like this, I wonder what historians will think of us years hence, the level of influence one sad little quitter from Wasilla had on the world. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:37:48 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded The best comeback was from Keith Olbermann who found multiple instances of Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck either using the word retard or disparaging mentally challenged people on air. Where's the outrage over that? I'm sick of this woman using her child and the rest of her family to try and score cheap points with the Fox news crowd. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: Them insensitive comic-book 'ritin' folk... Ms Palin gon' git her gun on 'em, iff'n they ain't careful. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:55:46 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded As an aside, i was reading an issue of the Fantastic Four comic earlier today. Reed and Sue Richards have two children now: the older, their son Franklin, who has normal intelligence, and their young daughter Valeria, who at the age of four is already a supergenius on the level of her father Reed. In playing around with Franklin about a question he was asking, Valeria says Oh Franklin, you're such a retard! Do we need to alert Sarah Palin so she can get Marvel comics censured? Demand an apology from the creative staff? Maybe get the FF canceled? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:13:24 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded (another standing ovation) When I first heard this story reported, I gave myself a headache when my eyes rolled back into my head too fast. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:33:52 + Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded I'm sorry, but I don't see this as a firing offense. Retarded has many meanings and connotations. When you call a person retarded for doing something stupid, it's not in any way meant to suggest that person has Downs or Autism or any other developmental condition. It means the person
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded
Hey! Stop insulting Rasputin! On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: I consider Ms Palin about as saintly as Rasputin. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:08:21 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded Saw that a while ago. The string of words I released over the hypocrisy would surely make the saintly Palin blush, and the sleazy Limbaugh laugh. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 5, 2010 6:58:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded A bit more on the matter, this time courtesy of Ms Palin and the Drugster... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1114 If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: truthseeker...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:28:19 -0500 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded That's certainly at least two of us. Again, seeing crap like this, I wonder what historians will think of us years hence, the level of influence one sad little quitter from Wasilla had on the world. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:37:48 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded The best comeback was from Keith Olbermann who found multiple instances of Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck either using the word retard or disparaging mentally challenged people on air. Where's the outrage over that? I'm sick of this woman using her child and the rest of her family to try and score cheap points with the Fox news crowd. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: Them insensitive comic-book 'ritin' folk... Ms Palin gon' git her gun on 'em, iff'n they ain't careful. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:55:46 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded As an aside, i was reading an issue of the Fantastic Four comic earlier today. Reed and Sue Richards have two children now: the older, their son Franklin, who has normal intelligence, and their young daughter Valeria, who at the age of four is already a supergenius on the level of her father Reed. In playing around with Franklin about a question he was asking, Valeria says Oh Franklin, you're such a retard! Do we need to alert Sarah Palin so she can get Marvel comics censured? Demand an apology from the creative staff? Maybe get the FF canceled? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:13:24 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded (another standing ovation) When I first heard this story reported, I gave myself a headache when my eyes rolled back into my head too fast. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:33:52 + Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded I'm sorry, but I don't see this as a firing offense. Retarded has many meanings and connotations. When you call a person retarded for doing something stupid, it's not in any way meant to suggest that person has Downs or Autism or any other developmental condition. It means the person is an idiot, pure and simple. The words simpleton, geek, cretin, and actually even, idiot, could be tagged as equally offensive in this light
