Posted on 03/08/2006 8:00:32 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Thank you.
I had other suggestions for what to do to the ACLU but those suggestions might have caused a we bit of pain.
Amen!
Absolutely.
This whole argument is so retarded, as if it were some great intellectual puzzle how to dispatch someone quickly and without suffering (not that I have anything against a littler suffering in some of these cases. In fact, I am liking the IV cocktail much better now that this possibility of extreme suffering while paralyzed has been introduced. It is probably a bogus concern, but I bet it is causing some bad dreams on death row. They should be having bad dreams.)
With all his gifts and insight, even George Orwell could not have invented the ACLU; with each passing day, their endless forays into The Absurdist Political Theatre of Obnoxiousness gets ever closer to treason.
But far from warming up to these reasonable arguments, I become more entrenched in my support for the death penalty with every effort by the other side to overrule the people with this kind of nonsense.
The only way these b'tards cause me to reconsider capital punishment is to make me fantasize about some more Old Testament-style means and methods.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
I am not right up to speed on my academic protocol, but I believe this "Abd" may mean "all but dissertation." That seems an appropriate expression to me when you are applying for a job while still working on the dissertion. But it strikes me as pathetically whiney for man, of a certain age, who has gained some fame in the intellectual trades (liberal division) to still be carrying around this bit about the PhD he almost got one time.
Of course, if he is a dean at Berkeley maybe it gets both him and his employer a little tense for him to be undercredentialed. I think I will add some things that I ~almost~ did to my resumé! (Of course, if "Abd" here means something else, then I've made a fool of myself.)
After formal approval has been given for the dissertation topic, the student is referred to as a "Ph.D. Candidate" or an "ABD", which is an acronym representing the words "All-But-[the]-Dissertation".
If a candidate completes all coursework up to but not including the final dissertation, he may use the informal All But Dissertation (ABD) status
Let's send this poooor murderers into an nice, pleasant death by starvation, which the same leftist idiots claimed sends one into a state of euphoria when Terri Schaivo was the one being killed.
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