Sometimes, I am wrong..

[CrackpotAmerica]

Ever have a thought pop into your head that for a moment you feel is correct. You sit down and spell it out, turning to those you respect for some agreement?

Suddenly and from the first reply, you realise that you are utterly wrong.

I just had one of those thoughts. I had a notion about the K S speech and foolishly forgot that K S is in all actuallity a University and not the town of Manhattan, Kansas, where it resides..
And so, more foolishly, I made an incorrect assertion relating to the nature of the speech and the air of "support" the President had received. Further, I linked it directly to the town and its population rather than the University..

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong........ Wrong Wrong W R O N G

Please accept my apologies for making this rediculous mistake. I'll do my best from now on not to do something so foolish and insensitive again..

Thx!


:blush:

On Edit: Added a couple more "wrongs"

And fixed U to state<<<< Wrong Wrong

[Mabus]

1. It was K-STATE, not KU

K-State is in Manhattan and KU is in liberally blue Lawrence.

on edit: you think it was a mistake to confuse the population of Manhattan and K-State, wait until you mistake K-State for KU. This one is IMHO a bigger mistake on your part.

[Pirate Smile]

6. I LOL when MSNBC said Bush spoke at the University of Kansas today.

I went to law school at KU so I know both KU and K-State people will love the cluelessness of the MSNBC writer and anchor.

[Mabus]

9. I graduated from KU Law too

After finishing my undergrad on top of the hill I lived in Green Hall for three years. Okay, it was just the first year.

[bryant69]

2. Well it takes a lot to admit you are wrong

So good on ya.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[CrackpotAmerica]

3. Thx... It was my first major DU screwup..

I was even called a bigot.. Man, that really hurt.

Sometimes, I just come up with silly notions and don't realize how absurd they are.

I really feel bad about it and hope that whoever read that thread (now deleted) can forgive me.

[Mabus]

10. Yep, you're forgiven

You gotta realize there's a lot of Kansas bashing fatigue in our state. I didn't think it was fair to compare the population stats of NY to Kansas. They aren't the same.

FWIW, my dad's family was part of the Massachusetts migration to Lawrence to keep Kansas free of slavery. We've got a lot of pride in this state, its people and its history. We have a Democratic governor and she's our second female Democratic governor. We're working really hard "on the ground" and managed to almost have a Democratic sweep in the last election. Nancy Boyda, who ran against Jim Ryun got more votes than any other Democratic challenger in my memory. We're working our asses off and every time someone puts down my state and emphasizes its redness it turns off more people than you can imagine. There are a lot of people who don't even bother to vote anymore because everyone and his uncle keeps reminding that Kansas is red. It is so self-defeating to keep repeating that mantra.

You have to understand that a lot of people came to Kansas to make it a slave state, that's why it is so important that people from the northeast came here and won.

little factoid: KU's school colors reflect our eastern heritage (and the reason we're called "Snob Hill" by some).

KU's Colors
KU's colors have been crimson and blue since the early 1890s. Originally, the Board of Regents had decided to adopt the University of Michigan's colors, maize and sky blue. Maize and blue were shown at oratorical meets, and they may have colored the Kansas crew in rowing competitions in the mid-1880s. But in 1890 when football arrived at KU, a clamor arose for Harvard's crimson to honor Col. John J. McCook, a Harvard man who had given money for KU's athletic field. Faculty members who had graduated from Yale insisted that their academic lineage and Yale blue not be overlooked. In 1896, crimson and blue were adopted officially.
source: http://www.studenthandbook.ku.edu/heritrads.shtml

We're not as backward as people like to think.

[CrackpotAmerica]

14. Thanks for the info.. It helps to quell the taste of my rubber instep!

I come from Philly.

[Mabus]

15. LOL

for clarification, the Democratic sweep was in my county in some GOP strongholds. For example, the county clerk and the DA's office were held by Republicans. The clerk retired so her seat was up for grabs but the Dem beat the incumbent Republican DA. That took a helluva lot of work, phone calls, walking the district, fundraising, sleepless nights, etc.

Howard Dean recognized the hard work we've been doing and kicked off his Red State campaign here in Lawrence. He appeared to two SRO events.

[MuseRider]

4. Honey

if I had a nickle, well you know how that saying goes. :hug:

It is always hard to hear bad things about your state but sometimes the things said are actually quite true. I did not see your thread (I don't think, oops) but whatever it was it takes a really big person to admit a mistake.

[CrackpotAmerica]

5. Thank you...

Thanks for calling me "honey" too...

.. makes me feel all squishy inside!

:)

[MuseRider]

12. Oooh squishy is gooood!

You are welcome. We all do it but we don't all admit it. Really, that is very nice to see. :hug:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

7. Don't Worry, You're In Good Company.

Just look at a bunch of different threads and replies in them. People are wrong here ALOT! LOL :rofl:


Seriously though, I respect the hell out of your honesty and humor in doing so. Just know it's alllll good :)

[CrackpotAmerica]

8. Whew! Thx.. NT

[leftofthedial]

11. I thought I was wrong once

but I wasn't

[CrackpotAmerica]

13. lol...

George, is that you?

It's time for bed!