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What is amazing is that his State of the Union address was still far to complicated for most black people.

Originally Posted by GeorgeForemanRules

What is amazing is that his State of the Union address was still far to complicated for most black people.

Originally Posted by GeorgeForemanRules

What is amazing is that his State of the Union address was still far to complicated for most black people.

Oh... Shit!

Originally Posted by GeorgeForemanRules

What is amazing is that his State of the Union address was still far to complicated for most black people.

I ran part of the address though the Dialectizer using Jive as the "language."

Here it is:

Last mond, ah' went t'Andrews Air Fo'ce Base and welcomed crib some uh our last troops t'serve in Iraq. Ah be baaad... Togeder, we offered some final, proud salute t'de colo's unda' which mo'e dan some million uh our dude citizens fought – and several dousand gave deir lives.

We gada' tonight knowin' dat dis generashun uh heroes gots made da damn United States safa' and mo'e respected around da damn wo'ld. Fo' de fust time in nine years, dere is no Americans fightin' in Iraq. Ah be baaad... Fo' de fust time in two decades, Osama bin Laden be not some dreat t'dis country. Slap mah fro! Most uh al Qaeda’s top lieutenants gots been defeated. De Taliban’s momentum gots been bugger'd, and some troops in Afghanistan gots begun t'come crib.

Dese achievements is a testament t'de courage, selflessness, and teamwo'k uh America’s Armed Fo'ces. At some time when too many uh our institushuns gots let us waaay down, dey 'seed all 'espectashuns. Dey’re not consumed wid sucka'al ambishun. Dey don’t obsess upside deir differences. Dey focus on de mission at hand. Dey wo'k togeder. Ah be baaad...

Imagine whut we could accomplish if we followed deir 'esample. Dink about da damn America widin our reach, dig dis: A country dat leads de wo'ld in educatin' its sucka's. An America dat attracts some new generashun uh high-tech manufacturin' and high-payin' jobs. A future where we’re in control uh our own energy, and our security and prospuh'ity aren’t so's tied t'unstable parts uh de wo'ld. An economy built t'last, where hard wo'k pays off, and responsibility be rewarded.

We kin do dis. ah' know we kin, cuz' we’ve done it befo'e. At da damn end uh Wo'ld War II, when anoda' generashun uh heroes returned crib fum combat, dey built da damn strongest economy and middle class de wo'ld gots eva' knode. Mah' grandBig Daddy, some veteran uh Patton’s Army, gots de chance t'go t'college on de GI Bill. Mah' grandmoder, who wo'ked on some bomba' assembly line, wuz part uh a wo'kfo'ce dat turned out da damn best products on Eard.

De two uh dem shared da damn optimism uh a Nashun dat had triumphed upside a depression and fascism. WORD! Dey understood dey wuz part uh sump'n larger; dat dey wuz contributin' t'a sto'y uh success dat every American had some chance t'share – de basic American promise dat if ya' wo'ked hard, ya' could do well enough t'raise some family, own some crib, drow yo' kids t'college, and put some little away fo' retirement. Man!

De definin' issue uh our time be how t'keep dat promise alive. No challenge be mo'e urgent. Man! No debate be mo'e impo'tant. Man! We kin eida' settle fo' some country where some shrinkin' numba' of sucka's do real well, while some growin' numba' of Americans barely dig by. Slap mah fro! Or we kin resto'e an economy where everyone digs some fair shot, everyone duz deir fair share, and everyone plays by de same set uh rules. Whut’s at ssnatch is not Democratic values o' Republican values, but American values. We gots'ta reclaim dem. WORD!

Originally Posted by min0 lee

State of the Union registers at 8th grade reading level - POLITICO.com
State of the Union registers at 8th grade reading level

The dumbing down of Amerika is in full effect.

But the laughs on him, cause nobody watches that shiite anyway.

I tried, but couldn't get passed 5 minutes of watching that good ole frat boys conglomerate.

Originally Posted by GeorgeForemanRules

What is amazing is that his State of the Union address was still far to complicated for most black people.

Originally Posted by GeorgeForemanRules

What is amazing is that his State of the Union address was still far to complicated for most black people.

this coming from somebody not intelligent enough to not get addicted to alcohol...

Originally Posted by LAM

this coming from somebody not intelligent enough to not get addicted to alcohol...

Oh snap! we just went personal.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

State of the Union registers at 8th grade reading level - POLITICO.com
State of the Union registers at 8th grade reading level

He had to make it easy enough to understand for the average GOP voter so they could get outraged. Although, since most of them think the $150 million we spend annually on welfare is driving the deficit and not the $8 billion we give to companies like Exxon to ship job overseas I think his attempt was frivolous.

Originally Posted by LAM

this coming from somebody not intelligent enough to not get addicted to alcohol...

That's a level of ignorance I haven't see from you before. I'll assume Foreman hurt your feelings and you are blindly retaliating...

Readability index calculator

you can try it here.

my story in ag scored Flesch-Kincaid Grade level: 10.
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease score: 58.

Originally Posted by LAM

this coming from somebody not intelligent enough to not get addicted to alcohol...

LAM, you shouldn't take threads like this personally, just because you're black.
Why stand up for your race/color/ethnicity? Who cares, your not the majority.

Originally Posted by myCATpowerlifts

LAM, you shouldn't take threads like this personally, just because you're black.
Why stand up for your race/color/ethnicity? Who cares, your not the majority.

Originally Posted by LAM

this coming from somebody not intelligent enough to not get addicted to alcohol...

I am 1/4 Native American, you and your people got me addicted to the devil water.

Despite what Jersey Shore may lead you to believe, recent studies have shown that there is a positive relationship between your intelligence level and your level of drinking.

According to various studies, you are boozing it up because a.) you are an early adopter of this marvelous new thing known as “alcohol,” or b.) you are making up for a childhood spent time mastering the intricacies of D&D, or c.) it’s the only way you can deal with stupid people around you.

Correlation between drinking and intelligence? — BlogDailyHerald

Why Intelligent People Drink More Alcohol
More intelligent people are more likely to binge drink and get drunk
Published on October 10, 2010 by Satoshi Kanazawa in The Scientific Fundamentalist

Drinking alcohol is evolutionarily novel, so the Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent people drink more alcohol than less intelligent people.

The human consumption of alcohol probably originates from frugivory (consumption of fruits). Fermentation of sugars by yeast naturally present in overripe and decaying fruits produces ethanol, known to intoxicate birds and mammals. However, the amount of ethanol alcohol in such fruits ranges from trace to 5%, roughly comparable to light beer. (And you can't really get drunk on light beer.) It is nothing compared to the amount of alcohol present in regular beer (4-6%), wine (12-15%), and distilled spirits (20-95%).

Human consumption of alcohol, however, was unintentional, accidental, and haphazard until about 10,000 years ago. The intentional fermentation of fruits and grain to yield ethanol arose only recently in human history. The production of beer, which relies on a large amount of grain, and that of wine, which similarly requires a large amount of grapes, could not have taken place before the advent of agriculture around 8,000 BC and the consequent agricultural surplus. Archeological evidence dates the production of beer and wine to Mesopotamia at about 6,000 BC. The origin of distilled spirits is far more recent, and is traced to Middle East or China at about 700 AD. The word alcohol - al kohl - is Arabic in origin, like many other words that begin with "al," like algebra, algorithm, alchemy, and Al Gore.

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Human experience with concentrations of ethanol higher than 5% that is attained by decaying fruits is therefore very recent. More importantly, any unintentional, accidental, and haphazard consumption of alcohol in the ancestral environment, before the advent of agriculture about 10,000 years ago, happened as a result of eating, not drinking, whereas alcohol is almost entirely consumed today by drinking, not eating. (Deep-fried beer is a very recent exception.) The Hypothesis would therefore predict that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to prefer drinking modern alcoholic beverages (beer, wine, and distilled spirits) than less intelligent individuals, because the substance and the method of consumption are both evolutionarily novel.

Consistent with the prediction of the Hypothesis, more intelligent children, both in the United Kingdom and the United States, grow up to consume alcohol more frequently and in greater quantities than less intelligent children. Controlling for a large number of demographic variables, such as sex, race, ethnicity, religion, marital status, number of children, education, earnings, depression, satisfaction with life, frequency of socialization with friends, number of recent sex partners, childhood social class, mother's education, and father's education, more intelligent children grow up to drink more alcohol in the UK and the US.

The following graph shows the association between childhood intelligence (grouped into five "cognitive classes": "very dull" - IQ < 75; "dull" - 75 < IQ < 90; "normal" - 90 < IQ < 110; "bright" - 110 < IQ < 125; "very bright" - IQ > 125) and the latent factor for the frequency of alcohol consumption. The latter variable is constructed from a large number of indicators for the frequency of alcohol consumption throughout adult life and standardized to have a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.0. The data come from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) in the United Kingdom. There is a clear monotonic association between childhood intelligence (measured before the age of 16) and the frequency of alcohol consumption in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. "Very bright" British children grow up to consume alcohol nearly one full standard deviation more frequently than their "very dull" classmates.



The following graph shows the association between childhood intelligence and the latent factor for the quantity of adult alcohol consumption decades later among the British NCDS respondents. Once again, there is a clear monotonic association between childhood intelligence and the quantity of adult alcohol consumption. "Very bright" British children grow up to consume nearly eight-tenths of a standard deviation more alcohol than their "very dull" classmates.



The following graph shows the association between childhood intelligence, measured in junior high and high school, and adult alcohol consumption seven years later in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data in the United States. The association is clear and nearly monotonic. The more intelligent Americans are in their childhood, the more alcohol they consume as young adults.



It is important to note that both income and education, as well as childhood social class and parents' education, are controlled in multiple regression analyses of these data from the US and the UK. It means that it is not because more intelligent people occupy higher-paying, more important jobs that require them to socialize and drink with their business associates that they drink more alcohol. It appears to be their intelligence itself, rather than correlates of intelligence, that inclines them to drink more.

Indicators of alcohol consumption in the Add Health data include the frequency of binge drinking (drinking five or more units of alcohol in one sitting) and the frequency of getting drunk. That such behavior is detrimental to health and has few, if any, positive consequences, is irrelevant for the Hypothesis. It does not predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely to engage in healthy and beneficial behavior. Instead, it predicts that more intelligent individuals are more likely to engage in evolutionarily novel behavior. Since the consumption of modern alcoholic beverages - including binge drinking and getting drunk - is evolutionarily novel, the Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely to engage in it, and the empirical data from the UK and the US confirm it.

Why Intelligent People Drink More Alcohol | Psychology Today