Tuscaloosa Speech by Bush's anti-PC Civil Rights Commissioner

www.alabamascholars.org ^

[Captain Kirk]

Peter Kirsanow, President Bush's recent appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, will speak on Tuesday October 15 at the state conference of the Alabama Scholars Association, to be held in Tuscaloosa.

Kirsanow served as the director of the Center for New Black Leadership in Washington, D.C., and is the author of The Healthcare Ghetto. The subject of Commissioner Kirasanow's talk will be "Grade Inflation." It will begin at 7:30 P.M. in the Ferguson Theater of the Ferguson Center at the University of Alabama. Admission is free. See www.alabamascholars.org for details.

[Captain Kirk]

Kirsanow is a superb speaker. Alabama Freepers should come and attend and provide him with moral support. He may need it!

[Captain Kirk]

This is a great opportunity for Alabama Freepers to give this guy a friendly audience. There will be a lot of hostile there folks there.

[Captain Kirk]

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[blam]

Thanks for the bump. Anyone from Mobile that is going, let me know.

[mhking]

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[Captain Kirk]

It is this often that Freepers have this kid of opportunity in Alabama to support an ally.

[Captain Kirk]

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Ping!

[mafree]

Kirsanow seems too nice to say this so I will- "Dump Mary Berry!"

[Captain Kirk]

Kirsanow is a nice guy but he is quite a hard hitter on the lecturn platform. I don't think we every have to worry about him "turning RINO." Please keeping bumping to the top.

[Captain Kirk]

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[bonesmccoy]

Captain Kirk,
What's this guy's book "Healthcare Ghetto" about?

- Bones

[bonesmccoy]

Sounds like a fun talk to hear. Even Spock is smiling.

[Captain Kirk]

Bones: The Health Care Ghetto? You wouldn't like it. There you will find "Suitchers, scapels and people sown up like garmets."

As to the Kirsanow talk, you might want to check out the following article:

www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?category=NEWS&ArtNo=210050325&Ref=AR&Profile=1007&SectionCat=NEWS02

[Captain Kirk]

Actually, the full title of the talk is "Grade Inflation and the Decline of Academic Standards."

[the_doc]

"Suitchers, scapels and people sown up like garmets."

I'm not familiar with the allusion. (Sounds Elizabethan but not Shakespearean.)

Can you fill me in?

[Captain Kirk]

It is (more or less) a quote from a Star Trek episode in which a crazed Dr. McCoy is transported back to the 1930s and has a manic depressive rant about the barbaric hospital conditions of the period.

[the_doc]

Cool. I guess I was reading too much into the bad spelling (grin).

Bones was one of my favorite characters.

[Captain Kirk]

Well...spelling was never my speciality and I was too lazy to check the dictionary.

[the_doc]

That's okay by me.

Anyway, thanks for the article.