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Small, simple discussion that really blew up with someone who gets their entire view of the world through Fox News.
"Global warming is an utter myth. Everyone knows our President is a Muslim and has no U.S. birth certificate." These words came out of the mouth from someone that I still believe has an actual brain.
I ask where he got these "facts," and he replied "it's been on Fox News for the past year."

For those of you who know me, no surprise I came somewhat rather unglued. "Did you miss the fact that all Nations of the World just finished a massive conference regarding the horrific and rapidly increase of the effects of Global Warming?", I asked.
"No, I never heard of that," he replied.
"And you still believe that a President could be elected without an actual proven birth certificate... let alone even be elected a Governer or Senator??" I asked.
"Well, that's what all the news channels are still reporting," he replied.
"Which news channels," I asked.

One guess which channel was the only one he named.

How in the HELL do you deal with people like this? I mean, we're talking smart people?
I kinda stooped a bit low and, being late at night told him he was an ignorant young man, that I would be more than happy to discuss this at a time when I wasn't tired, but that he'd need to realize that that Fox News is not the only source of information on the planet and he'd better have an open mind if he really wanted to discuss this.

He got pissed off that I called him ignorant. I didn't apologize and flat-out told him that if he couldn't supply more than one news organization to back up his facts, he was indeed ignorant and needed to widen his scope of information gathering.
That didn't fly, he got pissed off and left.

Will someone PLEASE explain to me how intelligent people can be so utterly single minded, uninformed... and well, ignorant. If he'd been able to site a singe reference beyond Glen Beck or Fox News, I'd have listened, but he couldn't. And for goodness sake... how many friggin' times do we need to see Obahma's official birth record from Hawaii before this bullshit get's put into the frame of rational thinking????

I am SO pissed off.

I just got an email from my chemistry teacher. My overall grade is an A. I'm having a hard time believing it. I was so sure I'd get a B. I'll take the A!

Thanks to everyone who helped, especially trawnapanda for indepth explanations, and to double_ohsteven for putting up with my studying.

If communion wafers were more like ginger snaps - showin' up for a bit of the flesh of the savior would be way more appealing. just sayin'....

When shall I encounter again an incarnate Buddha, faith, human existence, and the ability to practice virtue, all of these things so difficult to find? - Shantideva

We will never again have the chance to be born into a body like this one. - Kala Rinpoche

Finally!

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School starts in about nine and a half hours. Ohboy. What haven't I done that I need to do? I have my backpack loaded with notebook, pens, textbooks and the like; I've given my sick cat her evening pill and I have a note on the counter reminding me to give her the morning one (and pack my lunch, too); my car has gas in it; I even did laundry so I'd have clean socks to wear... what have I forgotten?

Well, okay: I've forgotten most of first quarter Spanish. I took that a year ago. Second quarter Spanish is going to start out a bit rocky. I am arrogantly relying on my Learn Languages superpower to pull my butt out of the fire.

I guess I'm about as ready as I'm gonna get.