CHE idiocy
I had a run in with a college girl carrying a Che Guevara pocketbook in a coffee shop where I was sitting to write. Because I lack some sense I asked if she knew who the man was on her pocketbook. She told me Che Guevara. I asked if she knew who he was. She told me not really but the bag looked cool. I explained that he was communist terrorist who murdered almost two hundred people to promote communism until he was killed. Her answer, "I just like the bag."
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
And here was are.
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
And here was are.
Welcome to the Gulch....and I'm glad you 'lack' sense enough to give her a little bit of history...even if she didn't understand the point. I wonder if she'll ever realize that she's advertising who she is by carrying that bag around. Poetic justice.
what issues have you had with your kids' science teachers, besides the fact they don't know much science?
Its easier to list what I've seen/encountered:
1. A school holding an impromptu general assembly MANDATED by the school district promoting the global warming theme without informing parents. If my kids did not mention it to me I would never have known it occurred. There was no opposing viewpoint or Q&A, just indoctrination.
2. Social studies teachers are revising and manufacturing history. A year ago my daughters SS teacher decided to educate the children using copies of historical inventions by black people that changed the world. Oddly enough, she handed out the papers to the kids and collected them as the children left the classroom. My daughter remembered the title and I found it online. In two pages of accomplishments, the teachers course material claimed, among many other things. that black people invented the light bulb and invented combs. While I have no real interest who invented many of the items/gadgets I use today it does concern me that to uplift black people for black history month LIES are manufactured and taught to our kids. Surely there are true accomplisments that can be used to present the contributions of the black race?
3. Bullying. My daughter was being harassed by a young boy in school 3-4 years ago. The school reqired that children anonymously fill out forms and place them in a bully box where they can be collected and counted. Once the bully had enough complaints the school would act. Until the school felt legally covered my daughter would have continued to be called names and ridiculed. I wrote this article chronicling the incident: http://amchron.soundenterprises.net/arti...
4. Schools lauding mediocrity. I received a phone call from my sons match teacher a few year back telling me how well he was doing in Algrbra. I asked what his grade was and was told a "C". It would be laughable were it not so pathetic. I pulled my son out of high school (where he was generally a C student in most subjects) and enrolled him in an online high scholl for his junior and senior year. He graduated last May with a "B" average after essentially teaching himself his lessons AND guitar.
6. Children in Arizona learn more about Mexican, Mayan, and Incan history than they do about American history.
This is just off the top of my head. I'm sure, given a little time, I could easily think of several more incidents.
P C....
Protected Conversation
Puck Conversation
Pointless Co-mingling
Parinoid Conservatism
Public Contraception
what else?
Probably Comatose
Patsy Commie
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities...
As for the comb its invention dates before recorded time. No one knows who invented the comb (though many suspect China).
I have much respect for anyone who can create something. I abhor people who manufacture facts to impress others or to make themselves look more impressive than what they are. Surely there are many accomplishments made by each and every race that junk history need not be fabricated to impress. Were I black the fallacious nature or this and the insidious way it was slipped in and collected again would really annoy me.
great link btw - legitimate history.
The offer is still open for coffee and conversation though. :)
writing in coffee houses -you get an Ernest Hemingway quote
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war,” Ernest Hemingway wrote. “Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
Have you attended the Desert Nights Writing Conference? I went last year. Enjoyed it for the most part.
I write in coffee houses because I find it impossible to focus enough to write at home. As Hemmingway stated (paraphrased) all I need is "a clean well lit place"...I'll add a good cup of coffee, iced coffee, or iced tea (and maybe a bag of salted almonds). :)
so you'd know each other across the room...
oh-this is funny-someone posted on the eddie willers post(pirate's) and so I was reading all the comments again. I misspelled Dagny in every comment. I must have been permalinked
A great way to illustrate our philosophy in action is to see how it applies tangibly in our lives. Turning the economy around is incredibly important to peoples' daily lives.
Himmler line: "Tell a lie often enough.."
Our enemies are saying the downturn is the result of capitalism. this is not even close to capitalism, but a heavily planned economy.