Bush Advises Graduates on Technology

[KamaAina]

:rofl:

Poor Oklahoma State. I guess Carrot Top was already booked. :P

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060506/ap_on_re_us/bush_commencement

"Science offers the prospect of eventual cures for terrible diseases — and temptations to manipulate life and violate human dignity," Bush said during commencement exercises at Oklahoma State University. "With the Internet, you can communicate instantly with someone halfway across the world — and isolate yourself from your family and your neighbors."

The nation's young generation will wrestle to resolve these dilemmas, he said.

"My advice: Harness the promise of technology without becoming slaves to technology. My advice is that science serves the cause of humanity and not the other way around," the president said.

After the speech, some graduates said they couldn't make out clearly what Bush said because of an echo in the audio system at Boone Pickens Stadium.

An echo in the audio system?! Or could it be that they couldn't make out what he said because he was sloshed to the gills?

Here, then, is the Maximum Leader demonstrating modern technology to the Class of '06:

[Botany]

1. WTF? Way to skip around topics

"Science offers the prospect of eventual cures for terrible diseases — and temptations to manipulate life and violate human dignity," Bush said during commencement exercises at Oklahoma State University. "With the Internet, you can communicate instantly with someone halfway across the world — and isolate yourself from your family and your neighbors."

Some of his brain circuits have to be misfiring .....
Disease, moral choices, internet, and social interactions put them in a blender and pour out a
* speech.

[Maat]

14. HeeHee.

My husband had to go back to Oklahoma to his parents' 50th, and just got back yesterday. Thursday night, when he was there, the seniors there were busy planning a welcoming parade for Dubya when he landed at the Air Force base in Enid, OK. (where my in-laws live). I asked if he'd told them about a few welcomes we progressives have arranged for the Frat-Boy-peror; he said, "No, I wouldn't have gotten out alive." He said, "It was sheer Hell listening to all the Boooshbots."

[AlamoDemoc]

2. ROTFL....Ah! those newly graduates! Diplomacy, Diplomacy!

:rofl:

[genieroze]

3. Translation, stop stem cell research and get rid of the internet.

"After the speech, some graduates said they couldn't make out clearly what Bush said because of an echo in the audio system at Boone Pickens Stadium.

"I couldn't really hear it because the sound was so bad," said Michelle Ward, who earned a degree in biomedical sciences."

I bet there wasn't a darn thing wrong with the audio system. The sound was bad because * is a bad speaker

[Fridays Child]

4. Excellent implementation of the Segway sequence.

:toast:

[Jane Austin]

5. Yikes. That headline made my head spin around. n/t

[rodeodance]

6. they call me a cowboy. ...

Graduates in the 2,700-member class assembled in Boone Pickens Stadium wore plastic slickers to keep their gowns dry from drizzle. Bush spoke from a covered platform to a crowd of about 20,000 people, many of whom wore orange raincoats made available to those in the stadium. Protesters staged a peaceful demonstration outside.

Laughter and applause greeted Bush's reference to the university's cowboy mascot: "If you read the papers, you know that when some want to criticize me, they call me a cowboy. ... This cowboy is proud to be standing amidst of a lot of other cowboys."

Bush urged the graduates not to become isolationists but, instead, to help enhance education and foster technological advances the United States needs to compete with the world's economic powers.

"We are also seeing the rise of new competitors like China and India, and this competition creates uncertainty," he said.

[xxqqqzme]

19. uncertainty AGAIN?

"We live in a global world and that....that creates uncertainty in some, I
understand that." GW - Guess Who!

[Rex]

7. 'temptations to manipulate life and violate human dignity'

Just like Idiot Leader did in Iraq?

[Turbineguy]

8. Like they need advice

from him!

[Amonester]

9. Did the D-idiot-ecider tell them to stay away from everything...

... that sounds like stem cell research?

Or told them to study "Intelligent Design" instead of reality (re.: Science)? :shrug:


Edit: laptop typos...

[struggle4progress]

10. Protesters wait to greet president in Stillwater

.. About 250 demonstrators held signs as a band played anti-Bush songs. One protester held a sign that read -- quote -- "Worst President Ever."

Protester Laurie Keeley of Tulsa says she had to take advantage of the fact that Bush came to Oklahoma.

Stillwater police and Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers were on hand, but the protest was peaceful ..

http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=4868601

[LibDemAlways]

16. Thanks for posting this. The CNN report made it

seems as though the entire population of Oklahoma welcomed the chimp with open arms. I knew that had to be fiction. Thanks for the confirmation.

As an aside - I can't even imagine how pissed off I'd be if that lying, smirking, warmongering fraud showed up and ruined my college graduation.

[truthisfreedom]

11. "Science offers the prospect of eventual cures for terrible disease" like

the virus that prevents HPV and must be administered to girls aged 12 and 13? come come, now, mr. president. surely you're not advocating sexual permissiveness.

[truthisfreedom]

12. "Science offers the prospect of eventual cures for terrible disease" like

the virus that prevents HPV and must be administered to girls aged 12 and 13? come come, now, mr. president. surely you're not advocating sexual permissiveness.

[WindRavenX]

13. Bush has no right to lecture anyone on science

Period.
Someone who has displayed a gross understanding of what science means at all has no right to say to these students what to do.

I'd have told Bush to get bent.

[DRoseDARs]

15. Could someone tell me how my post and the post it branched off of...

...have disappeared? Someone made a comment this morning, totally innocuous, about online degree factories and I replied "Fake degree for a fake president. Go figure. n/t" and now both are gone. Usually, if there's a problem a post is wiped, though a space remains filled only with a spaceous comment about the forum rules (instead of a useful comment like which rule was broken...yeah, what an amazing concept!) but no, both posts have simply evaporated into the ether. :wtf:

[rainbow4321]

17. Meanwhile, UT Austin will be getting a REAL President to speak...

http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/news/spring2006/clinton.html

Former President Bill Clinton to give graduation address at LBJ School

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs has announced that Former President Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, will give the convocation address at its May 20 ceremony.

“We are delighted that President Clinton has agreed to address our convocation this spring. As our graduates begin their careers in public service, it is fitting that they gain the perspective of someone who has himself had such a long, distinguished public career,” said James B. Steinberg, dean of the LBJ School.

"The LBJ School was formed as an expression of President Johnson's faith in government to serve democracy by building a more just society," said William Powers Jr., president of The University of Texas at Austin. "It is fitting that this year's convocation speaker at the LBJ School is a public servant who has dedicated his life to social justice through his tireless efforts in the area of civil rights, education, health care and world peace. I look forward to welcoming President Clinton to our campus."

Further information about commencement activities and press guidelines will be announced at a later date.

[Maat]

18. He WAS a REAL president ..

we can pick on this or that. Hubby and I prospered during the Clinton years. And his intellect ... he can move from subject to subject at will, coming up with an argument one way or the other and mashalling the facts behind it. What an education he had (and Clinton retained and really LEARNED what was put before him)! Contrast that to ...

Those students are really lucky to hear him speak.

I doubt I'd listen to Emperor Frat-boy to save my job or my education!

[xxqqqzme]

20. "With the Internet, you can communicate instantly

with someone halfway across the world — and isolate yourself from your family and your neighbors." Unless of course your family happens 2 live halfway around the world or on the other side of the country.

His puppet masters think we are all as detached from reality as he is. His pronouncements are always delivered as if they are earth shattering breakthroughs. And they are....to HIM!

[Irreverend IX]

21. WIthout becoming slaves to technology?

Last I checked, the US is utterly dependent on petrochemicals, a condition you and your friends actively encourage. Is that what you mean by enslavement to technology?

[Sadie5]

22. Wonder what brain wrote this speech

It seems like nothing but babble spews from GWBs mouth anytime he speaks. After some fancy pants speech writer puts the words on paper I doubt if Bush really even understands them.