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RE: How to get rid off file permanently?

From: Eric D. Pierce <PierceED_at_csus.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:02:21 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002E994F.20010413184555@fatcity.com>

tylenol, cough syrup & sudafed working here

the thought police suggested something stronger, but am still resisting assimilation

quit nicotine 3 months ago, current side effects minimal, with possible exception of premature permanent onset of curmudgeonly behavior

please advise

On 13 Apr 2001, at 18:00, Rachel Carmichael wrote:

Date sent:              Fri, 13 Apr 2001 18:00:21 -0800
To:                     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>

>
> Eric,
>
> Are you feeling alright? This is possibly the shortest, most succinct answer
> I have ever seen you post! :)
>
> Rachel
>
> >From: "Eric D. Pierce" Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com To: Multiple
> >recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: How to get rid off file
> >permanently? Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:00:33 -0800
> >
> >delicious. :)
> >
> >On 13 Apr 2001, at 13:40, Gogala, Mladen scribbled with alacrity and
> >cogency:
> >
> > > ... As a DBA and a gentleman I can not but take > pride > in helping
> >people to stop making mistakes.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-------- next:
> >
> >... John Leo on CSPAN. As you may recall, he is the columnist from "U.S.
> >News and World Report" who gave CSUS President Gerth the 1999 "Sheldon
> >Award" for political correctness.
> >
> >( http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000103/03john.htm ).
> >
> >---excerpt--- ... The coveted annual prize that goes to a wimpy college
> >president
> >
> >Exhausted staffers for this column have finished wading through dozens of
> >nominees for the third annual Sheldon Award. Named for Sheldon Hackney, who
> >scaled the heights of Sheldonism as president of the University of
> >Pennsylvania, this coveted prize is given each year to a craven college
> >president who looks the other way while campus newspapers are stolen. ...
> >
> >---end---
> >
> >
> >... on CSPAN, John Leo (warm, mild, grandfatherly, caring, thoughtful,
> >principled [&witty]) was talking about the topics in his new book
> >"Incorrect Thoughts" at an event organized by the Independent Women's
> >Forum.
> >
> >Since IWF's (very interesting) web site hasn't been updated recently, I
> >found some other links about Leo's book that you might also find
> >interesting.
> >
> >
> >http://www.iwf.org -
> >
> >John Leo's columns:
> >
> >http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/leo1.asp -
> >
> >(and: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/jleo.htm )
> >
> >http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/leo031201.asp
> >
> >excerpt from the above link:
> >
> >... That notion that free speech is a tool of the oppressor is now
> >mainstream in the campus culture. This is why campus newspapers with the
> >wrong news keep getting stolen, posters for the wrong events keep getting
> >torn down, and speakers with the wrong views keep getting disinvited or
> >silenced. Recent nonspeakers at Berkeley, home of the free-speech movement,
> >include conservative organizer Daniel Flynn (shouted down) and former
> >Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (threats of violence, advised to
> >withdraw by police). Berkeley gets another chance to oppose free speech
> >this week. David Horowitz is scheduled to speak there on March 15
> >
> >(end excerpt)
> >
> >http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000612/12john.htm
> >
> >excerpt from the above link:
> >
> >
> >... Post-1960s liberalism has lost its communal sensibility and now talks
> >almost exclusively of autonomy and rights, not obligation or moral
> >accountability. As Stein [_How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing
> >Conspiracy: (And Found Inner Peace)_] points out, it has aggressively
> >labored to devalue society by trying to banish moral and religious
> >discourse from the public arena. Values are viewed as matters of personal
> >taste. Even the famous liberal belief in openness, tolerance, and free
> >speech now looks like a discarded tenet. Witness all the disinvited
> >speakers, stolen newspapers, and current not-very-liberal efforts to
> >silence Laura Schlessinger and derecognize campus Christian groups. What
> >passes for liberalism now, Stein says, is often an attempt to impose
> >rectitude, "usually with the active cooperation of the news media,
> >government agencies, and Hollywood, all of which somehow get to call their
> >own agenda 'inclusive' instead of 'narrow.' "
> >
> >(end excerpt)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >more at:
> >
> >http://www.google.com/search?q=john+leo+incorrect+thoughts
> >
> >---------------
> >
> >also:
> >
> >http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed191/assignment1/1970illich.html
> >
> >excerpt:
> >
> >... According to Illich, "obligatory instruction assumes the belief that
> >man can do what God cannot, namely, manipulate others for their own
> >salvation" (1970, p.50). By deschooling society, schools would continue to
> >exist but their workings would be very different from those operating at
> >present. Deschooling could only occur given alternative social arrangements
> >and legal protections as well as a reconceptualization of what constitutes
> >learning in the heart of every deschooled person.
> >
> >According to Illich, schools are the "reproductive organ of a consumer
> >society" (1970). Schools produce myths upon which an economic society
> >depends. Schooling is a ritual performed by participants who are made blind
> >to the discrepancy between the purpose for and the consequences of the
> >ritual. Despite the advertised purpose of promoting social equality and
> >democratic participation, schooling is "the ritual of a society committed
> >to progress and development" (Cayley, 1992, p. 67). In his thesis titled,
> >Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich promulgates four myths created by the
> >school ritual; 1) the myth of unending consumption, 2) the myth of
> >measurement of values, 3) the myth of packaging values, and 4) the myth of
> >self-perpetuating progress. ...
> >
> >...As the creator, propagator, and protector of these four educational
> >myths, schools retain their sacred positions as the purveyor of "secular
> >salvation" (Gabbard, 1993).
> >
> >
> >---end---

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