4430 wrote:
Yep if it tastes good spit it out !
I don't know, the "experts" have flip flopped so many times. Eggs are bad, eggs are good. Butter is bad margarine good. Now we find out it's just the opposite. I've decided for me it will be all things in moderation. You only live once why not enjoy it.
eagleye13 wrote:
Since when do Democrats promote Liberty for those they want to control??
Since you took the blue pill, Scooter. ;)
straightUp wrote:
Since you took the blue pill, Scooter. ;)
The blue pill is probably for Democrats.
eagleye13 wrote:
"But we have actual robots for that now and what the Democrats are trying to so is make it possible for student to actually learn how to be thinkers."- straightUp
I bet you actually believe that! LOL
You don't believe we have robots or you don't believe Democrats are trying make higher education more accessible to American students?
Ya know, CounterRevolutionary really put the
limelight on a sentiment I often hear from the right when he said Rockefeller and his schools accomplished more by teaching the 3Rs than those Democrats did with Common Core. The 3Rs are the building blocks for the most basic drone in the workforce. That's what Rockefeller said he wanted... workers, not thinkers. He wanted basic drones who can at least read their schedules and timecard and be able to do basic arithmetic so they know where to cut, rivet, sew or where to dig.
This conservative need to revert to the past is a dangerous idea because we aren't *in* the past. Yes, we DO have robots now. Robots that can do anything Rockefeller wanted his workers to do. So we aren't helping our children by limiting their potential to the level of a household appliance.
Common Core is probably a failure as far as implementations go, but it's not surprising given the fact that it's a federal initiative trying to govern something that has always been governed by the states.
I still think the premise is good. I think we should have a national standard. Or even a federated standard to match our federal system... In this case, the whole point of common core being to make it common to the whole, keep the "common" part minimal. Then allow each state to fill in according to their own legislation.
I would agree that neither side of the Darwin vs Bible standoff would need to be in a common core so we can shelve that argument and let the states decide.
straightUp wrote:
LOL - I read that book 20 years ago and was surprised to see how popular it got considering the obvious BS.
Jonah Goldberg meticulously picked apart the Nazi party in an effort to connect dots to the American Left, while ignoring some very basic facts...
1. Nationalist socialism and democratic socialism are NOT the same thing. The Nazis were national socialists and one of their first orders of business was to execute all the leaders of the democratic socialist parties.
2. The socialist aspect of the Nazi party was not extraordinary by any means. It was a mere component in the bigger system which was still driven mostly by capitalism. Not that different than the socialist component of the American system that FDR was building at the time.
3. What WAS extraordinary about the Nazis was their ethnic cleansing, which the U.S. stopped doing after the Indian Removal Act. This is what the Nazis are famous for, exterminating Jews. That puts them on the right by definition. Right = exclusion of others, Left = include everyone.
You will find every dictionary, encyclopedia, college, international journal, economist, newsfloor, think tank and government referring to groups based on this dichotomy, with the only differences of opinion coming from crackpots and contrarians like Jonas Goldberg.
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God, help us, you just don't get it. There is
NO DIFFERENCE between the NAZI's National Socialism and the Soviet's International Socialism. The NAZIS said they hated us and killed us. The Commies said they loved us and killed us. Socialism is centralized planning. It does not work!
Centralized planning is centralized planning; a Dictator is a Dictator is a Dictator whether he smells like a rose or not.
Which would you prefer, 8 billion of us morons making our own decisions, or one moron making all the decisions?
You couldn't run a corporation of your life depended upon it. Apparently, neither are you capable of working for a corporation. Why wouldn't they hire you????
Corporations have paid me good wages, health insurance and retirement plans and did not force me to join labor unions. And they THANKED me for my hard honest work.
Arrogance is the Achilles heal of the human race.
straightUp wrote:
You don't believe we have robots or you don't believe Democrats are trying make higher education more accessible to American students?
Ya know, CounterRevolutionary really put the
limelight on a sentiment I often hear from the right when he said Rockefeller and his schools accomplished more by teaching the 3Rs than those Democrats did with Common Core. The 3Rs are the building blocks for the most basic drone in the workforce. That's what Rockefeller said he wanted... workers, not thinkers. He wanted basic drones who can at least read their schedules and timecard and be able to do basic arithmetic so they know where to cut, rivet, sew or where to dig.
This conservative need to revert to the past is a dangerous idea because we aren't *in* the past. Yes, we DO have robots now. Robots that can do anything Rockefeller wanted his workers to do. So we aren't helping our children by limiting their potential to the level of a household appliance.
Common Core is probably a failure as far as implementations go, but it's not surprising given the fact that it's a federal initiative trying to govern something that has always been governed by the states.
I still think the premise is good. I think we should have a national standard. Or even a federated standard to match our federal system... In this case, the whole point of common core being to make it common to the whole, keep the "common" part minimal. Then allow each state to fill in according to their own legislation.
I would agree that neither side of the Darwin vs Bible standoff would need to be in a common core so we can shelve that argument and let the states decide.
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There is a very humorous book by a BLACK professor of economics and history at Stanford University, Thomas Sowell, regarding John D. Rockefeller's building 3,000 public schools for the freed slaves at the end of the Civil War:
Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rednecks-Liberals-Thomas-Sowell/dp/1594031436/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1TBLANPCB1DXP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5OtdzKnxR-9kJaiyaE9B_wTEofpVji_kp0bvzxsdTrGJLFFtsdWvK0-aSQWKgOHDiBVLuyg6io-T4rQ8EzIqvbYz7nSqloMUSu0arm7Mc4q980MUCF1DyZI6C_OncYKZA_lVXLSJd4E_GLdPBb3CGjywEn183GpgVDg955CvxeuUG9jo-zW6LwG3i2aWOcrb3nFeuLJvlk5dOT0NBzTUWZZnVEOhq-5pkhxCTmEXF68.fsYcXNIAo6BR1PSAAgkYLMmCbvzyqkPqLnkLSkd7Lrc&dib_tag=se&keywords=Black+Rednecks+and+White+Liberals&qid=1714022056&s=books&sprefix=black+rednecks+and+white+liberals%2Cstripbooks%2C180&sr=1-1Thomas Sowell is my go-to source for Black history.
The 500 Fortune corporations are well established honest businesses, and there are some 9,000 more incorporated businesses that have gone public with stocks and sink their profits into 401K plans for all of us to profit - many of these businesses also reinvest their profits back into their own company for growth, enriching their employees and investors alike.
You have a problem with this???
The handful of monopolies tied to galloping globalism are pro-socialism, often merging with governments and are financed by international government central banks printing reams of counterfeit money out of thin air, bankrupting small nations in the wake. The European Union is the culprit along with the Bank of China. Read Jim Rickard's book "Currency Wars."
There are over 22 million small businesses and self employed who pay the most taxes.
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