Greta Garbo Surfaces at HCC
From: lee decesare [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 2:18 PM
Subject: FW: For maximum delight, read from the bottom up. This is one swell display of academic freedom. BBC Citizens' Question Time can eat its heart out. ldd
From: lee decesare [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 2:06 PM
To: 'Scott Mead'; trustees@hcc.edu.gov; 'Maida Bello'
Cc: Bruce Burnham; Dabonich@aol.com; Doug & Cathy SCW; Edith A Tobul; Frank Sanchez; Margie; montolino; rich; Stein; Tiger Bay Club of Tampa; Warren Rachels; adunn@hccfl.edu; aurrechaga@hccfl.edu; asumner@hccfl.edu; Alan.Zale@sdhc.k12.fl.us; Andrew.Wood@sdhc.k12.fl.us; April.Fiore@sdhc.k12.fl.us; Anthony.Perrone@sdhc.k12.fl.us; Anne.Campfield@sdhc.k12.fl.us; Andrew.Wood@sdhc.k12.fl.us; adunn@hccfl.edu; Angela.DeLoach@sdhc.k12.fl.us; Angel.Diaz@sdhc.k12.fl.us; Agnese.Dull@sdhc.k12.fl.us; Aida.Ferrer@sdhc.k12.fl.us
Subject: For maximum delight, read from the bottom up. This is one swell display of academic freedom. BBC Citizens' Question Time can eat its heart out. ldd
You sound as if you are comfortable not hearing anything but the echo of your own narrow certitudes. How many emails have you addressed to the Board or administration protesting the vile treatment of the bookstore people? Not one is my guess. And have you protested the kicking out of the Head Start kids? I vote not likely.
And you are sunk into solipsistic resentment of a person's doing so because protest inconveniences little you. You could live on the Gulag Archipelago for all the understanding and respect you have for the First Amendment. If a college does not foster free speech, where should we find it?
You have my condolences and my advice to learn the abstruse technology of the delete button instead of indulging in Garbo posturing about wanting to be alone.
I bet that had the word been in circulation then that the collaborators of British tyranny would have called Paine's call to arms posted on barn sides "spam" and sniffed about his annoying them. In every period of the world, such dingdongs have surfaced.
It will be a cold day in rhetorical hell when I can't bat back such puerile ratiocinations (OED: "cinations made by rats") as come from the quidnuncs of the ilk of The Right Honorable Scott Mead.
I am off to the Perverse-thinkers-anti-democracy-shut-up-and-listen-to-the-Gestapo Pound to find me that dog you recommend.
lee drury
de cesare
From: Scott Mead [mailto:Scott.Mead@sdhc.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 12:30 PM
To: lee decesare
Subject: Re: FW: La Elia Blitzkrieg Runs into Teacher Opposition
An argument is constructed on facts Define "facts." , not a series of insults. You are wasting my time comma;compound sentence and you do so for no purpose. You are not going to convince me that I should want spam by sending more spam or by insulting me. You do not write well. We await word of your Pulitzer. I can write rings around you in my sleep. You do not present new or pertinent information. You are merely hurling insults, which is are a poor substitute for a real argument. Your argument is circular genus: I am right, so I am right. If a writer has to resort to insults and name calling, then it usually means that the writer lacks any real foundation for his or her argument. Let me get this straight. You can insult me, but I can't insult you? Who says, Sugarbritiches? No wonder you think it's ok to fire faithful employees for a "business plan." You do not think straight. I do not intend to waste my time reading something that is not written to inform or convince. I am not complaining against what you support, I think you are. I infer that you don't have the guts to say you think it's ok for the administration to dump employees who have worked for the college many years and who will lose their pensions and health care. That is what you are endorsing behind this rote blather. I am complaininog about your poor Bad adjective: "liberated" suits. behavior in sending me unsolicited spam. not spam: the good news about the value of outing injustice as a way to wring its neck If you want to make your views public comma, introductory adverbial clause then either write to a newspaper or take out ad space.
You are not my representative. God forbid. I don't represent numbskulls. You do not represent me in negotiations. Negotiations with whom? When did you negotiate on behalf of your bookstore colleagues with the administration to get it to stop it plan to dump them? Nobody should go over the hill with the flaccid negotiations you would conduct. You were not elected, nor are you a constituent of this district or county. I am an American citizen. That is all the First Amendment requires. Only the otiose think a citizen has no rights to speak out of her or his county or to send emails to Timbuktu for that matter. To think otherwise is technology and First Amendment hillbillyism.
You do not pay my salary with your taxes. Have you asked for a sequestration of my taxes and demanded that your pay does not come from it? I pay your social security capitals: Have a little respect for this ubiquitous deduction and the capital gains I have paid over the years. and your pension with my taxes. Here you show you don't know how the tax system works. Or you show that you are delusional. If you pay my pension, then I want you to increase it. We intellectuals deserve more money to fling about with a hey nonny nonny. Does this Pronoun reference: This what? give me the right to annoy Diction error: "enlighten" is the correct term. you with unsolicited e-mail? No, it does not. Paying taxes is an obligation of citizenship, not a source of rights, no comma: You divide a compound contrasting element. The Constitution is the source of citizen rights, but you find the Constitution inconvenient in your attempt to stifle my rights. Dream on. and certainly not justification for poor behavior. By your reasoning comma: introductory verbal phrase I should be expected to put up with every opinion of every American with an e-mail account and time to waste, regardless of its pertinence or my wishes. You do not get to decide if I want to receive your e-mail. It is not my obligation to block it. Yes it is. But it serves you as delicious opportunity to put your exotic thinking on display. On no account will you block my email: it is too seductive as a platform for you to fulminate in circles. It is your obligation to stop sending me e-mails when I have specifically Redundant adverb: Struck & White eschews these and begs writers to forefend. told you that I do not want them.
It may shock you to learn that it does not constitute a moral failing on my part simply because I do not want to read what you write. A recent CDC study, I regret to report, concludes that such is exactly the case. Not wanting spam does not mean that I am disloyal. Nobody accuses you of being disloyal--to your ego. It is not your place to judge. Yes, it is. The official Seraphim of Judging celestial committee has put me on your ethics committee. I am afraid your results look unpromising. If you want teachers to be respected and not mistreated comma: introductory adverbial clause you may begin by respecting my wishes and not going out of your way to waste my time. From the looks of this energetic outpouring adorned with grammar-an- punctuation errors, I suggest a good piece of your time should go to attending remedial-English seminars with the HCC English faculty.
You are not my representative. God forbid. I don't represent numbskulls. You do not represent me in negotiations. Negotiations with whom? When did you negotiate on behalf of your bookstore colleagues with the administration to get it to stop it plan to dump them? Nobody should go over the hill with the flaccid negotiations you would conduct. You were not elected, nor are you a constituent of this district or county. I am an American citizen. That is all the First Amendment requires. Only the otiose think a citizen has no rights to speak out of her or his county or to send emails to Timbuktu for that matter. To think otherwise is technology and First Amendment hillbillyism.
You do not pay my salary with your taxes. Have you asked for a sequestration of my taxes and demanded that your pay does not come from it? I pay your social security capitals: Have a little respect for this ubiquitous deduction and the capital gains I have paid over the years. and your pension with my taxes. Here you show you don't know how the tax system works. Or you show that you are delusional. If you pay my pension, then I want you to increase it. We intellectuals deserve more money to fling about with a hey nonny nonny. Does this Pronoun reference: This what? give me the right to annoy Diction error: "enlighten" is the correct term. you with unsolicited e-mail? No, it does not. Paying taxes is an obligation of citizenship, not a source of rights, no comma: You divide a compound contrasting element. The Constitution is the source of citizen rights, but you find the Constitution inconvenient in your attempt to stifle my rights. Dream on. and certainly not justification for poor behavior. By your reasoning comma: introductory verbal phrase I should be expected to put up with every opinion of every American with an e-mail account and time to waste, regardless of its pertinence or my wishes. You do not get to decide if I want to receive your e-mail. It is not my obligation to block it. Yes it is. But it serves you as delicious opportunity to put your exotic thinking on display. On no account will you block my email: it is too seductive as a platform for you to fulminate in circles. It is your obligation to stop sending me e-mails when I have specifically Redundant adverb: Struck & White eschews these and begs writers to forefend. told you that I do not want them.
It may shock you to learn that it does not constitute a moral failing on my part simply because I do not want to read what you write. A recent CDC study, I regret to report, concludes that such is exactly the case. Not wanting spam does not mean that I am disloyal. Nobody accuses you of being disloyal--to your ego. It is not your place to judge. Yes, it is. The official Seraphim of Judging celestial committee has put me on your ethics committee. I am afraid your results look unpromising. If you want teachers to be respected and not mistreated comma: introductory adverbial clause you may begin by respecting my wishes and not going out of your way to waste my time. From the looks of this energetic outpouring adorned with grammar-an- punctuation errors, I suggest a good piece of your time should go to attending remedial-English seminars with the HCC English faculty.
How exalted you must be, sugarbritches. Have you won your Nobel laureate yet for huffing and puffing? Is this riposte to an honorable citizen who pays taxes for your salary your first step in a career path as a GK functionary? Be sure to send it round to the GK C- students. They will think that "get-a-dog" musty cliché is rhetorically artful. No faculty member could pen such a chestnut with a straight face. So you must be some kind of back-up personnel cog. You have my condolences.
You might think that protesting the bookstore people's getting's kicked out of their jobs after years of faithful service is "spam." But protesting the book-store people's planned downloading into the minimum-wage ghetto with no medical benefits after losing their pensions and medical care as a sacrifice to Dr. Stephenson's "business plan" is not for them "spam." They don't consider protesting this vile treatment of veteran employees' dumping to be "petty insults and personal attacks" either. Losing their jobs in an offshoring to Barnes & Noble is a major issue to these unfortunates, not spam.
And what about the Head Start children whom Dr. Stephenson and her myrmidons plan to kick out along with the bookstore people? Is protesting the tots' eviction "spam" too? Good God. I refer you to the death of Little Nell to line up your compassion synapses to judge this GK outrage against poor children.
Who knows? If GK kicks out the bookstore people and the Head Start children with nobody's protesting this unethical sally, the success may embolden its Brown Shirts to go further. Your subgroup may be next target of Dr. Stephenson's "business plan." GK has always thought full-time tenured faculty was a monetary luxury that part-timers could reduce. So faculty can expect to wake up one morning with their ranks shrinking. GK's dream faculty is part-time cheap.
Stay on the alert. You may rethink this issue of "spam" when your job and your email account is on their way out the door.
And what deep stuff could a braniac such as you be thinking about if not injustice to bookstore veteran employees and Head Start tots? Don't tell us. You spend your days and nights pondering Plato's Theory of Ideal forms, Elliot's objective correlative, Einstein's Romper Room formulae, and the lucubrations of Mickey Mouse. You are one big-time thinker, cowboy. HCC is too narrow a field for your intellect; Oxford calls.
I have decided not to get a dog as a pet as you advise. I have decided to go to the Double-agent Stray Pound and adopt a specimen of the that despised breed. Your email of blasé betrayal of colleagues in pain has made me curious to observe the species up close.
lee drury de cesare
From: Scott Mead [mailto:Scott.Mead@sdhc.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 6:33 AM
To: lee decesare
Subject: Re: FW: La Elia Blitzkrieg Runs into Teacher Opposition
I do not want to read spam. Take me off your mailing list. I have better things to do than to read poorly written, rambling collections of petty insults and personal attacks. If you are this desperate for attention, get a dog.
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