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Ed Poor
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I taught math and English at a private school in New York City until my retirement in 2023.
I believe in being bold, a habit I learned to cherish at Wikipedia. But I also believe in correcting my mistakes.
"one of the greatest and most influential Conservapedia sysops" - Anonymous
"one of the greatest and most influential Conservapedia sysops" - Anonymous
I am first and foremost a believer in science, and yet I believe that God is the First Scientist. I believe Romans 1:20 provides a clue to the fact of God's [[Creation]].
I am first and foremost a believer in science, and yet I believe that God is the First Scientist. I believe Romans 1:20 provides a clue to the fact of God's [[Creation]].
I have made over 20,000 edits to Conservapedia, although a lot of these are merely quoted [[/factoids]]s.
*I have made over 20,000 edits to Conservapedia, although a lot of these are merely quoted [[/factoids]].
:Years at Conservapedia: {{age|2007|3|19}}
:Years at Conservapedia: {{age|2007|3|19}}
Some people regard me as a
Some people regard me as a
[http://www.nationalcenter.org/2005/07/poor-uneducated-and-easy-to-command.html "poor, undereducated and easily led"] religious man.
[http://www.nationalcenter.org/2005/07/poor-uneducated-and-easy-to-command.html "poor, undereducated and easily led"] religious man.
==Favorite movies==
In no particular order:
* [[Old Yeller]] - {{years ago|1957}} years old
==Quotes to add to articles==
===Lack of freedom under Communist rule===
Maltz’s experience with a “thought control committee” of the Hollywood Party [http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8914]
===Global warming theory===
“OVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar. The world added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO2 put there by humanity since 1750. And yet, as James Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, observes, ‘the five-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade. . . .’” [http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/04/28/the-disgraceful-episode-of-lysenkoism-brings-us-global-warming-theory/2/#175bfcee2364]
Reputation of the [[United States]], [[Arab media]], [[Soviet propaganda]], [[Western imperialism]]
*The US fares poorly in Arab media, partly because it was the target of Soviet propaganda for a half century and inherited all the criticism of Western imperialism. [http://www.amazon.com/Un-Civil-War-Words-International/dp/0275993930/ref=la_B001IYVP8S_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381925797&sr=1-1 Choice] - review of ''(Un)Civil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab World'' by [[Mamoun Fandy]]
[[drive-in]] or
[[drive-in restaurant]]
*The drive-in restaurant was a phenomenon that sprang up in the early thirties, and it was becoming very popular. Rather than being invited into a dining room to eat, customers would drive into a parking lot around a small restaurant, place their orders with carhops, and receive their food on trays right in their cars. The food was served on china plates complete with glassware and metal utensils. It was a timely idea in a society that was becoming faster paced and increasingly mobile. [http://www.scribd.com/doc/170418702/The-21-Irrefutable-Laws-of-Leadership-Workbook-Revised-Updated]
==Ideas about leadership==
#"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." - [[Zig Ziglar]]
#"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - [[Napoleon Hill]]
#"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear." - [[Brian Tracy]]
#"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - [[Dale Carnegie]]
#"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats." - [[Og Mandino]]
#"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided." - [[Tony Robbins]]
#"If you can't control your anger, you are as helpless as a city without walls waiting to be attacked." - [[The Book of Proverbs]]
#A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves." - [[Harvey Mackay]]
#"Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience." - [[Jack Vance]]
#"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." - [[Jim Rohn]]
#"The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying." - [[Tom Hopkins]]
#"You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself." - [[Seth Godin]]
==To Do List==
==To Do List==
*[[CPUSA]]
*:The Party tried very hard to present Communist or Socialist ideas as an advance in America’s development that was in fact rooted in American tradition. Well, they failed in this. The American people couldn’t buy it. The association with the Soviet Union was too powerful. I remember one slogan, “Defend the Soviet Union.” It was not “Defend the Socialist Idea” or “Defend a Fairer System.” It was “Defend the Soviet Union.” It was a tough slogan to sell; impossible.
*the so-called anti-[[fascism]] of the CPUSA:
*:Moreover, the radical shifts and reversals in the policy of the CPUSA did not reflect developments on the American socio-economic scene itself, and were not reactions to them. On the contrary, they had their source in a foreign country and its interests, in the specific responses of the government of the USSR to events in Europe. One classic case is of course the American Party’s faithful support of the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939-1941. The alliance was a startling reversal after years of proclaimed Party dedication to ferocious “anti-Fascism.” Instead, the line switched from “anti-Fascism” to “peace,” i.e. a ferocious dedication to keeping the US from aiding the nations fighting Hitler (“The Yanks are NOT coming! We’ll be for peace until the cows come home!” to quote Herbert Biberman). Yet just as the Party’s staunch “anti-Fascism” ended the moment that Stalin became Hitler’s friend, so the Party’s staunch belief in “the peace movement” ended the moment the Soviet Union was attacked by the Nazis on 22 June 1941. Then the war against Hitler finally became justified.20
*[[intellectual control]]
*:the Party in Hollywood not only attempted to control the minds of its members, but that it was a secret organization.
*:#Paul Jarrico in a 1983 interview noted without much comment that it was a Party rule that no one who was in analysis could be a member of the Party: “It was a security rule.” This comes right after he asserts that the claims of Party thought-control over its membership are greatly exaggerated. See Jarrico in McGilligan and Buhle, 344-345.
*[[American Communists]]
*the [[lionization of the Unfriendly Ten]]
*[[Bartley Crum]] was wary of
*:the American Communists, because they were not in fact independent individuals but were men under stern Party intellectual discipline. He found them continually deceptive as to their intentions and motives. Crum was repelled by the Communists’ “rude, plodding dogmatism, their habit of secrecy,” and that included the behavior of the Party lawyers assigned to work with him on the case. [http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8914]
* [[inequality in America]] [http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2011/12/12/if-i-was-a-poor-black-kid/]
* [[inequality in America]] [http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2011/12/12/if-i-was-a-poor-black-kid/]
*[[gun control laws]]
*[[right-to-carry laws]]
*[[gun ownership and crime]]
*[[Castle Doctrine]] - you don't have to retreat as far as possible before defending yourself
*[[federal assault weapons ban]] 1994-2004
*[[gun rights cases]] decided by the [[Supreme Court]]
*[[DC handgun ban]] - struck down in 2008
*[[Chicago handgun ban]]
*[[impact of gun bans on crime and suicide rates]]
*[[gun ownership]] and gov't regulation of it
*[[multiple victim public shootings]]
*[[gun show regulations]]
*[[Brady law]]
==General==
==General==
A: No, but it just so happens that nearly every word I type, link I create, article or template I start - gains instant and widespread acceptance.
A: No, but it just so happens that nearly every word I type, link I create, article or template I start - gains instant and widespread acceptance.
<a name="arrogant"></a>Q: Isn't that a bit arrogant?
Q: Isn't that a bit <span id="arrogant">arrogant</span>?
A: Okay, I guess you're right. Perhaps I should be more humble.
A: Okay, I guess you're right. Perhaps I should be more humble.