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   On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:00:39 GMT, reports@scientology.org (Fred^4) wrote   
   in alt.atheism:   
      
   >Free Lunch  wrote:   
   >>On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:28:28 GMT, reports@scientology.org (Fred^4) wrote   
   >>>I remember my history teacher in High School totally confounded by bat   
   >>>echolocation. He got it all wrong, every bit of it. By the time I was   
   >>>through explaining it to him his response was "you failed this semester.   
   >>>The reason? You never argue with the man giving you your grade."   
   >>Any teacher who is so insecure as to do that needs to be fired and   
   >>forbidden to teach ever again.   
   >   
   >It was worse: He also used to rant about scientists constructing black   
   >holes in the laboratory, and he used to rant about how the world was   
   >going to be destroyed through nuclear bombs because a resistor somewhere   
   >in a computer "breaking" and throwing the computer off and killing us all.   
   >   
   >He was a real right wing anti-science loon who *also* could not speak   
   >a truthful word about Christropher Columbus' rampages through South and   
   >North America to save his fat white ass. Yet he taught history.   
   >   
   >I once asked him in class what the difference between Republicans and   
   >Democrats were and he pretended not to hear me. I asked a number of times   
   >and he refused to even acknowledge that I asked the question. Other   
   >students started asking also, wondering why the rightard wouldn't answer   
   >and *they* were ignored as well.   
   >   
   Too bad. I had a couple of great history teachers in both high school   
   and college.   
      
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