I will miss Beth. Best wishes! I just hang on for the rare relevant and useful teaching post.
G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU > On Jan 3, 2016, at 11:03 PM, Beth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sadly, after 22 years on TIPS, I am done. It was a wonderful resource, as it > was intended, for many years. Michael Sylvester started to make it strange > and irrelevant and continually fought off any attempts to keep him on topic > and away frim frivolous posts. Then it was often just a conversational joust > between him, Chris Green and Mike Palij. I am sorry to say that I feel it > was ruined for me by many odd posts. There were occasional good and > interesting posts, but SELDOM were there any good interactions about actual > "Teaching in Psychological Science." > Beth Benoit > Plymouth State University > Plymouth, New Hampshire > > Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 17:03:33 -0800, Professor Dr. Michael Sylvester >> wrote: >>> >>> All hypothetical >>> Donald: at least I believe in God-the God of >>> money and the God of free helicopter rides. >>> Will be glad to fly you to Cyprus.Btw.are you not CanadianA? >>> Do not attempt to cross border. You going back >>> >>> .Raoul Castro: Nice to see a canadian Commie >>> Comrad in the group.However,I may start going >>> to church again. >>> >>> Pope Francis was mad like hell : Isn't this >>> the Canadian dude who is in the same category >>> as "Hitch" like in Christopher Hitchens? >>> Hitch was the Devil's advocate during Mother >>> Theresa canonization. >>> I will not even take a selfie with him.But he could >>> ride one of my Papal bulls in the Winnipeg rodeo >>> with Jerry Mahan. >> >> Yo Dick, I mean Donnie! How's it hanging? Did ya read that >> hatchet job the NY Times did on you? No? See: >> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/us/politics/for-donald-trump-lessons-from-a-brothers-suffering.html?emc=edit_th_20160103&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=389166&_r=0 >> >> The things they say about you and your brother Freddy! Okay, >> so Freddy was a drunk and didn't live up to your and your Dad's >> expectations but, come on, ya got to admit you and your Dad >> did a dick move on Freddy and his family. From the article: >> >> |In 1977, Donald asked Freddy to be the best man at his >> |first wedding, to the Czech model Ivana Winklmayr, an >> |honor Donald said he hoped would be "a good thing for him." >> |But the drinking continued, and four years later, Freddy was dead. >> | >> |Over the next decades, Donald put the Trump name on >> |skyscrapers, casinos and planes. >> | >> |In 1999, the family patriarch died, and 650 people, including >> |many real estate executives and politicians, crowded his funeral >> |at Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue. >> | >> |But the drama was hardly put to rest. Freddy's son, Fred III, >> |spoke at the funeral, and that night, his wife went into labor >> |with their son, who developed seizures that led to cerebral palsy. >> |The Trump family promised that it would take care of the medical bills. >> | >> |Then came the unveiling of Fred Sr.'s will, which Donald had >> |helped draft. It divided the bulk of the inheritance, at least >> |$20 million, among his children and their descendants, >> |"other than my son Fred C. Trump Jr." >> | >> |Freddy's children sued, claiming that an earlier version of the >> |will had entitled them to their father's share of the estate, but that >> |Donald and his siblings had used "undue influence" over their >> |grandfather, who had dementia, to cut them out. >> | >> |A week later, Mr. Trump retaliated by withdrawing the medical >> |benefits critical to his nephew's infant child. >> | >> |"I was angry because they sued," he explained during last week's >> |interview. >> | >> |At the time, he attributed their exclusion from the will to his father's >> |"tremendous dislike" for Freddy's ex-wife, Linda. She and Fred III >> |declined to comment on the dispute. >> >> Hey Donnie, you see the movie "Glen Gary Glenross"? Remember >> the scene where Alec Baldwin comes in and humiliates the real estate >> salesmen/con men? Remember when he pulls out two brass balls >> on a string and says: >> >> "It takes brass balls to sell real estate."? >> >> Well, Donnie, it must take titanium balls (or a titanium heart) to say >> you'll pay for your nephew's medical bills and then take it back. >> Sure, you ultimately made it right but, damn!, it took some kind of >> balls to do that to a kid and his family. >> >> Yeah, you're just the man the U.S. needs as President. >> >> -Mike Palij >> New York University >> [email protected] >> >> P.S. 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