It is most certainly true that AR often provides the biggest laugh of the day for me. Such was the case yesterday when I read a blog and comments regarding education in the Great State of Texas. The subject matter is of little relevance here, but what made me laugh so hard was the number of spelling and grammatical errors that we were forced to endure so that we could arrive at the author's quite ridiculous point - which was to attack the ENTIRE State with the words "that's why people from Texas sound so ill-informed".
Is that a racist comment regarding Texans? It certainly sounds similar to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid when talking about the President and his lack of a "negro dialect".
Anyway - as if all that wasn't bad enough, the author then decided the best way to deal with Texans standing up to defend their State and to point out the number of errors in the original blog, was in fact to DELETE the comments. Truly funny!
Regular visitors to my blog know who I am. They know I am a political person who doesn't hide that fact while earning my living by selling real estate. They also know that my daughters are the two most important people in my life. They probably also know that both of them are in college - the younger one having just arrived last Fall in the Honors Program at Florida State University (banner above is a link from fsu.edu).
Education is CRUCIAL to our future. I am a HUGE believer in education and in fact from the moment of my first daughter's birth, job #1 for me has always been to ensure she received the best education I was able to afford to give her. That task was doubled 22 months later when my second daughter arrived. I could not be more proud of them. I know one thing for sure however. Even though they use a whole other language while texting, they would NEVER allow anything they had written to be seen in public with the number of errors we all witnessed yesterday. And they would NEVER shy away from saying "oops" if they did perhaps allow one to slip through.
Edukasion iz vry inpotant!
That's why I try to learn something new every day. And when I do I say "thank you" to the person who enlightened me. That's how normal people behave. We can only hope that those giving people in our industry a bad name in these pages will at least have the decency to post their ignorance on "members only" blogs in the future.
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