Ignorance Making You Ill? Cure It!

self | 01-04-02 | backhoe

[backhoe]

Does ignorance- the kind you run into in conversations with people, on editorial pages, and in letters to editors- make you queasy?

Remeber the old saying, "stupidity is forever, but ignorance can be cured with learning," and do your part to spread knowledge across the Web and the world.

First, never forget that we have a valuble resource right here on this site:

Research & Analysis via FreeRepublic...

Next, when you see an article here, pass it on to others-- Look here:

Communicate! Let the Sons of....

--within these links for mass communication are a pile of email addies-- what you do, in Outlook Express is create a new email "group" and in that group enter as many of the email addies as you wish.... I have one for "opinionators," one for "media" and so on. When you see a post on FR you want to send to a group, minimise IE and open Outlook express, click "new mail" go to the group you want to send it to and put it in the "bcc" so they aren't aware it is a mass email. Go back to IE and if you have clicked on the article, its web address will appear in the "address" window.... just use control-C and -V to copy & paste that to your email, with a title and comments, and send it... they will have a clickable link that way. How much good this does I do not know, but at least for a while people have a chance of seeing and reading things they may be unaware of.... I do suspect that some commentators like Tony Snow on Fox have gotten items this way.

[Inge_CAV]

Thanks backhoe,

BTTT!

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking..... let the SOB's know what you are reading here on FR--

[Inge_CAV]

FYI!

[dhuffman@awod.com]

The title "Ignorance Making You Ill?" caught my eye. I'll read it to see how it fits with my 'dot.sig' line.

The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense

[backhoe]

how it fits with my 'dot.sig' line

OK, I'll bite.... I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what a dot.sig line is....

[dhuffman@awod.com]

The comment that I've been making regularly and recently is

"High-fivin' here among our mates accomplishes little. Be sure to post our comments and corrections to the responsible author and editor."

The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Once upon a loooong time ago and in the time of VMS and e-mail readers 'pine' and 'tar' (IIRC) these programs allowed you to keep a file of data to be appended to each post. They became "geek boxes" of tersly coded personal information significant to no one excepth the guy in the next cubicle. Now even OE allows a "signature."

The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.

[backhoe]

Thanks for explaining!

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Perhaps you can tell me, please, where's the 'bookmark' button?

The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.

[backhoe]

Sonoffagun! It *is* missing, isn't it? Control-D will put it in your browser, FWIW.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Thanks. Like I need ANOTHER bookmark in my browser. I noticed and now try to avoid reproducing the topography of sites in their bookmarks. The FR treed to "log-in', 'posts' amd so on. JR didn't need to use the left side menu 'cause I HAD my own. Then one day I cleaned house and now have to ask "where's the bookmark button?"

[backhoe]

"High-fivin' here among our mates accomplishes little. Be sure to post our comments and corrections to the responsible author and editor."

Missed your comment to yourself.... you are correct, of course. A side-effect of emailing links from here to letters to editors may be more exposure of FR to people who would otherwise never hear about it.

[2Trievers]

Thanks IC

JR, I'm always doing this, do I get a gold star on my chart this morning? I'm sure I've increased the lurkers to FR and one poster that I'm sure of ... the beat goes on!

[backhoe]

I get a gold star on my chart this morning? I'm sure I've increased the lurkers to FR and one poster that I'm sure of

Absolutely!

Whoops! Not a happy pix! Still, it has a star & dog....

[2Trievers]

Thanks JR! Not unlike the look on our pup's face when she has had an "accident."

Still housebreaking hugs
2T

[Inge_CAV]

Thanks 2Trievers. Yes, you get an earned and well deserved Gold Star. : )

as soon as I can find one

BTW: When are you gonna post some pics of this pooch?

[2Trievers]

My scanner is down ... just imagine a yellow Lab, half the size of one of your cats, that leaves puddles all over the place! &;-)

[Inge_CAV]

Would she use a litter box with sand in it? Been a long time since I have raised a puppy. I carried my last puppy so much that for the first month or two she hardly knew she had legs. : )

[Inge_CAV]

"Ignorance Making You Ill? Cure It!"

backhoe, the ignorance, or misinformation, in my newspaper was so bad that I do not read it anymore. Television was even worse so now I get the truth and news from FreeRepublic. : )