Posted on 06/11/2009 3:55:10 PM PDT by syriacus
American Mensa is distraught to hear of the violent events at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, June 10. Our thoughts are with the victims and the family and friends of Stephen Tyrone Johns, the security guard who was killed in the attack.
The accused shooter in this event, James Von Brunn, is a former member of American Mensa. Mr. Von Brunn was a member more than 20 years ago and his membership tenure lasted less than a year.
Mensa has more than 57,000 members across the United States and more than 110,000 members worldwide. Our members include people from all races, religions and walks of life. The organization thrives on the diversity of its members and the atmosphere of open-mindedness evident at Mensa events.
My experience, too.
An chance of a meet-up at the Pittsburgh conference next month?
I joined when I was 14 or 15 just to be able to say I was a member, never went to a meeting, never renewed my membership.
As others have noted, intelligence has nothing to do with common sense or rational behavior.
You are good at Ping lists waggleby, maybe you or somebody else could establish a FR Mensan ping list. Likely would be a not very active list, but it would annoy liberals.
I've got three VERY ACTIVE ping lists (and with my luck Mensans would go on a widespread crime spree), so I'll pass. If you or someone else wants to do a Mensa list I would like to be on it.
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