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Big Government : Federalist No. 62: The Senate

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:33:49 +0000

speaking of TOOTH and nail i'm off to the dentist this a.m. to get a crown, so I have to be QUICK... ;-) aaaarrrgghhh. anyway, I have a daughter in 8th grade. I live in a very conservative district in Georgia - actually Newt's old district. Her elementary and middle school are both charter schools, and the high school she will attend is rated one of the tops in Georgia. We had civics in 8th grade - she gets her 'civics' now in Social Studies, which we also had, but her civics is now combined within social studies. So I have a thing where every day, for the last 6 years - after school I ask her to tell me four things she learned in school today, and make one of them false, and I have to 'guess' which one is false. That way I can keep her thinking about what she learned, and I don't have to just ask the simple "how was school today" question, to whcih she would otherwise answer a simple "gooood".... so we make a game out of it. It's actually fun, and she has through the years gotten more savvy about what things she remembers to say. She's stumped me a few times too. So anyway this year I have focused it more on 'civics', and try to teach her more about politics and the government - especially in these times. I have asked her to tell me if any of her teachers give her any of the 'indoctrination' crap, so to speak, and she tells me that with all her teachers, any time someone mentions Oblahma, her teachers either stay very neutral without saying anything one way or another (ie no indoctrination) or they tend to lightly roll their eyes. So anyway, I/she am luckier than many kids in this country. Nonetheless, I am trying to think through this idea of a 'fun' civics type kids school. Of course I will, like you say, face obstacles from the left for 'indoctrinating' kids for teaching them the constitution... :-)

Big Government : Federalist No. 62: The Senate

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:59:54 +0000

I watched a movie a few nights ago on TV, one which I do not remember even playing in 1981 but won all sorts of awards (go figure when you hear of it), called "Reds". Starred, written, produced and directed by Warren Beatty. It was very interesting; a bio/drama of a guy named John Reed during the mid-1910's Bolshevik Revolution and his promotion of the Progressive movement in America. It just happened to be on; It was a good movie, albeit a grueling 3 hours. It was interesting how it paralleled today's times. Go to imdb.com for more information on it. But again, it was not rocket science as to how the movie would have won 21 nominations and 3 awards - freakin lefty movie business... I highly encourage a viewing though, just to see how this crap is digested then and now.

Big Government : Federalist No. 62: The Senate

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:19:45 +0000

Hanzo, my only problem with term limits is the lame-duck term. Seems they could go hog ( or even pork) wild with no fear of retribution... ideas on this? Also, you might want to look a few thread above this for an idea I've been kicking around as to a re-education on the Constitution...

Big Government : Federalist No. 62: The Senate

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:10:14 +0000

I have been considering an experiment in the free market. I agree, where it is evident that schools do not teach much in the way of the Constitution and the Founding; and with the rise of interest in the lack of this education combined with the rise of interest in taking back our government, creating a summer, or after school program for an intense and specific introduction to the founding principles and the Constitution geared for elementary and middle school students. So, how to make it exciting for school children would be the question - probably wrapped up in hiring the right type individuals to teach it and limiting the class to a week - 2 hours a day maybe. The marketing would be by direction toward the parents, couched as a fun program that the parent would have to 'require' of their children, with a cool reward to the child for taking the class. I dunno - just been kicking around the idea... But it is something - somehow, someway - that we have to do to get kids re-educated.

Big Government : Cap N' Trade

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:23:27 +0000

UPDATE (since I couldn't edit my original post due to a reply...) Hereafter the trolls shall always to be referred to, in the BG Kingdom, as.... The Black Knights Also known formally as the "Honorary and Most Esteemed Members of the Black Knight Screaming Poo Flinger Society" (Much thanks to Cardinal Fang and Hanzo) Alas! In keeping with Sheriff Bart's Radical Rules For Conservatives, rule number 7: 7) Mock the trolls. Never engage them in logical debate, for they know not what they know not. In fact (since there will be none of those from their side) have a little fun with them! Most of the time they'll never know the difference! Invite them to return and post more of their thoughts, but never in a serious nor degrading manner. NEVER tell them to go away, and never wish ill will toward them. Invite them out for a clam dinner. In the same breath remind them that they validate us and make us stronger. Dhass? Mika? Fonzie? Ye of The Esteemed Black Knights!

Big Government : President L-Dopa

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:13:11 +0000

I'm absolutely lovin' it! Again, as in keeping with Rule #7 from Sheriff Bart's Radical Rules for Conservatives: 7) Mock the trolls. Never engage them in logical debate, for they know not what they know not. In fact (since there will be none of those from their side) have a little fun with them! Most of the time they'll never know the difference! Invite them to return and post more of their thoughts, but never in a serious nor degrading manner. NEVER tell them to go away, and never wish ill will toward them. Invite them out for a clam dinner. In the same breath remind them that they validate us and make us stronger. Spread the Word! I got in early on the Muddle Comics post... I'll edit it now to reflect the new full group name. That's great!

Big Government : Cap N' Trade

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:24:24 +0000

WOW! LOL! ZAP! This is too funny and I hope will be a regular feature here in the BG Kingdom. I want to see the issue where Cap 'n Rubber fight the trolls, hereafter always to be referred to, in the BG Kingdom, as.... The Black Knights Dhass? Mika? Fonzie?

Big Government : President L-Dopa

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:37:19 +0000

To all who read further, I have outed Fonzie and his loyal Posse. In keeping with rule number 7 from Sheriff Bart's Radical Rules for Conservatives.... Tis hereby decreed; Henceforth and forever more, Fonzie, et al, shalt be known in ye BG Kingdom, as... "The Black Knight" SPREAD THE WORD ON HIGH! You MUST WATCH to understand (if you don't already)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno&NR... And I SAY to you, my OWN brethren, tis not be him, thou shalt SEARCHest more further, lest NOT in vaaaaiinnnn...

Big Government : President L-Dopa

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:07:05 +0000

Good call! I second the motion. Henceforth and forevermore, ye be dubbed, "Fonzie, thee of Black Knight."

Big Government : President L-Dopa

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:17:03 +0000

hey Cowboy, FYI, I found Fonzie... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno&NR... ...and he has henceforth been renamed "The Black Knight" - along with ALL of his dear brethren.

Big Government : President L-Dopa

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:11:43 +0000

And Fonzie, just in case you miss my previous post, we clearly know who you are. Quite to the contrary. I love seeing this maroon and his posse post here. It makes me stronger and further validates us. Fonz and his ilk will never admit defeat, quite like when King Arthur takes on the Knight in "Monty Python's In Search of the Holy Grail"... Watch this and tell me you don't see Fonz under the metal/tin hat... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno&NR... PS, Please post that Rick Steves propaganda video a few more times.

Big Government : President L-Dopa

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:07:09 +0000

Hanzo, just in case you miss my reply above, I send this to you as well... Quite to the contrary. I love seeing this maroon and his posse post here. It makes me stronger and further validates us. Fonz and his ilk will never admit defeat, quite like when King Arthur takes on the Knight in "Monty Python's In Search of the Holy Grail"... Watch this and tell me you don't see Fonz under the metal/tin hat... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno&NR...

Big Government : President L-Dopa

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:05:24 +0000

Quite to the contrary. I love seeing this maroon and his posse post here. It makes me stronger and further validates us. Fonz and his ilk will never admit defeat, quite like when King Arthur takes on the Knight in "Monty Python's In Search of the Holy Grail"... Watch this and tell me you don't see Fonz under the metal/tin hat... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno&NR...

Big Government : Thursday Open Thread: Iran Edition

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:03:59 +0000

I won't call you names, there's no need. You are obviously self-uninformed, since available information says that Iran admits to currently having a 20% enrichment program, while 80% is required for bomb grade. Let me guess, the next thing you'll say is "show me the proof, and include a link" or "I'm a nuclear scientist and my data says otherwise" or "you're just stupid like Sarah Palin" or "if Bush wouldn't have gone to war with Iraq we would all be safe" or ... nevermind... Hey, let's go out for dinner sometime! FREE CLAMS! Everything for Everyone and Nothing for Ourselves!

Big Government : Thursday Open Thread: Iran Edition

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:41:52 +0000

Fonz, I'll watch the rest of this 55 minute propaganda video later - I promise. In the first two minutes I heard Rick Steve say key words like "Iranian's rich and glorious past; a leader in this corner of the world for the past 2500 years; we'll meet the people who's government so exasperates the American people; every country - INCLUDING OUR OWN - limits access to foreign film crews. We're here in Iran with the permission of the Iranian government; We're here to learn, to understand, and to make some friends." I am all for understanding our enemies. It does make me sad to hear him, along with a video clip of the school children, say how 'joyous' those children are. Why? Because I know what those children learn in school; that ALL Americans and Jews are swine and should be killed. That's what they know, because that's what they are taught and what they are ALLOWED to learn - unless of course their parents are the 'subversives' who try to teach them differently, the ones who are currently rioting in the streets in a desperate cry for freedom from this regime that suppresses individual liberty and hangs those who revolt in such manner. The Nutjob has just set up a program for a state run internet which will block information from the outside world, including google's gmail service. I don't expect to somehow "make you see the light." I just want to make the others who read your filth aware of the Nutjob sympathizer that you are. Your mindless type of hate - from the left - is the hate that is destroying our country. As in post-war Germany, you will be the one who I will insist dig the graves for those of whom you have been complicit in their mass murder. I know who you are, so count on it. You deserve a free clam dinner from me.

Big Government : Thursday Open Thread: Iran Edition

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:58:02 +0000

It's not so much that Iran has developed nuclear capabilities; what is crazy is that we - the G7, et al, CONTINUES to "threaten" with sanctions, then does nothing. How many times have we heard, from both sides of the isle, that "these new sanctions are going to deter" this Iranian criminal? And then we don't do ANYTHING! No sanctions, no enforcement, no nothing. One of Oblahma's main planks was going to be his ability to talk it out with our enemies, and at every step every sane individual pointed out that the AchmeNutjob would have none of that BECAUSE he is insane. All that has happened is giving Iran more and more time to develop, all the while KNOWING that his ultimate goal was NOT to develop nuclear energy, but to develop nuclear POWER... THAT is why GWB took out Iraq, when every single UN resolution went completely ignored. When the hell are the Dems and Reps going to take this Nutjob seriously - when he actually drops the bomb?

Big Government : Frances Fox Piven: Thomas Jefferson Would Be 'Stunned' at America Today (But Not For the Reason You

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:58:50 +0000

Yes, Ms Piven, the people ARE rising - just not in the direction you wish them to; we are rising UP, not laying down any longer. Those who wish for LIBERTY, as opposed to oligarchy as you say we are, are finally letting their voices be heard en mass loud and clear. We will stop the nonsense of letting the government confiscate our land, money, jobs. and thoughts. We will STOP the nonsense of calling our 'representatives' our 'leaders'. Fools elect leaders. Americans elect representatives, who had better be responsive to their electorate. And to our own, I say this: one of the first two things that had better change is to require all elected representatives to hold themselves to whatever laws they pass on us, and second that they have to ASK US if they can get a raise. "Sick of it" does not come close to describing how we feel about your roach-and-rat-type method of little-at-a-time destruction. You are in the bright lights now. You better scurry. Quick.

Big Government : New Federal Climate Change Agency Forming

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:26:05 +0000

Wow. I have to give you a point and a reply just for your taking the time to succinctly summarize the lunacy. Good work JGault. Thanks.

Big Government : New Federal Climate Change Agency Forming

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:07:00 +0000

True, what more can you say?!?! I clicked to read the whole article, and it has been taken down or moved. I believe it melted under the heat the writer is taking from realists like us who know he/she is an insane liberal. Hey, when your job depends on writing goofy articles about goofy government plans based on goofy 'science', I guess you gotta do whacha gotta do. I'm still waiting on the proof that man caused global warming 25,000 years ago. HEY LIBS, here's a clue: The Sun Cycles and Cosmic Rays from space have fried your collective brains.

Big Government : You Betcha!… Palin Campaigns For Rick Perry– Writes “Hi Mom” On Her Hand

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:59:41 +0000

wow, sorry I got in so late on this discussion. The last time I made an offer, it was for the REAL Malik Shabazz - the one that vists the White House who is NOT the one of the racist gene-pool - to come forward to receive $3,000. That offer still stands and has been unanswered. I'm prepared to make a new money offer to anyone - and that includes jealous liberals: Anyone that can prove that Obama does not use notes or teleprompters to make his speeches, I will pay the princely sum of $3,000. All you need is proof that when he makes a major speech, he does not use notes or teleprompters, or when there is a lack thereof, he does not use the guttural sounds "uhh" "uuhhmmm" "errr" and the like more than once. Thank you. Thank you very much.