Monday, May 26, 2008
Lecture series and book excerpt.
Also, at the pub on Sunday, I referred to "What is Fascism?" which is an excerpt from John T. Flynn's 1944 book As We Go Marching. It is also available on Mises.org as an article and as an audio file. Although the author refers to Italian Fascism as capitalist, I think it shows that Fascism is more about concentrating political power than about being ideologically "capitalist" or "socialist."
Saturday, May 17, 2008
What happened when Israeli Arabs met to remember what happened 60 years ago?
Given our discussion of Israel last Sunday, I would like you all to read this article.
Here is video of the incident that the article describes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-P4LI1ceGA
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Expelled Exposed
http://www.expelledexposed.com/
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Ben Stein Expelled On Intelligent Design
Those Little Rascles
Here is an article I thought worth talking about at the meeting Allan W. Bokros
Children of the Damned: When Third Graders Attack
By Doug Giles
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Nine angelic third graders in a Waycross, Georgia elementary school were harassed by the police this week for plotting their teacher’s bloody demise.
It seems as if these tiny sweethearts had their day ruined when some judgmental kid snitched on them and they were caught—innocently enough—with a steak knife, duct tape, handcuffs, and a to-do list for each of the pre-pubescent playmates. I’m sure they meant no harm.
The industrious wee little honeys were so meticulous in their plans to proactively adjust their instructor’s bellicose behavior that they even had detailed arrangements to scrub the crime scene of any trace of evidence. Those little rascals. Brings a tear to your eye, eh? Now, why were these darlings so righteously indignant that they were compelled to act in such a way that, possibly, might not positively release their full potential in a self-esteem enhancing manner? Well, it appears that their repressive, anachronistic, locked in a 1950s time warp where the teacher in fact ran the class, educator actually crossed the line by correcting one of the honeys who was simply trying to entertain the class by standing in his chair while the instructor was attempting to teach. What a witch. What was that nazi chick thinking? Doesn’t the teacher know that she can’t correct these children who are simply displaying their creativity and releasing their unique gifts in a demonstrative way? Doesn’t the teacher know that such an authoritative and harsh action on her part (e.g. attempting to stifle the child’s free spirit by telling him to sit his butt down) could forever bruise the student’s inner child? Hey, teacher. Leave them kids alone! Y’know, according to the experts, it’s because of a teacher’s power trip, Christian values and lack of sensitivity that students (and their parents, too!) are: • forced to drop the F-bomb upon educators with regularity, • forced to threaten them with lawsuits, • forced to create utter chaos in class, • forced to slit their teacher’s tires if need be, • and, as in this case, left with no other option but to tape ‘em down and carve ‘em up if the school marm ain’t going to bow and kiss the kid’s ring. What sane person among us would fault these wounded leaders of tomorrow? What’s that, you say? You say you would? You think they’re spoiled demoniacs? Yeah, I guess you’re right. Sometimes I get loopy after I watch the Bravo network or listen to too many Reverend Wright sermons. It appears that young students today have now solidly tapped into ancient demons, and I pity the grossly underpaid teachers who have to field their crap in class on a daily basis. I speak to teachers across the nation via my Townhall.com column and ClashRadio.com, and the good ones are at wit’s-frickin’-end because the kids have figured out that they can do whatever the heck they want—and there’s really nothing a teacher can do about it. I was watching a cable talk show featuring a panel of morons sitting around speculating about what had gone wrong in the Waycross, Georgia incident to spawn such children of the damned. I was sitting back thinking, this is easy math, Goober. Are you ready? Here’s your answer: Pathetic parents + kids who’ve never had their butt whipped + psychobabble BS + a whopping entitlement mentality + Johnny can do no wrong attitude from the parental unit + too much self-esteem + blowing off God for secularism + violent movies, music, and video games + educators getting their hands tied behind their backs (both figuratively and now, nearly literally) = demonic third graders who’ll plan to duct tape a teacher and slit her throat if she happens to righteously rebuke them. • Log on to http://www.ClashRadio.com and check out Doug Giles’ latest video – “The Audacity of Hype!”. |
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
"The Immorality Of Voting"
Monday, March 31, 2008
Compare results, anyone?
My score on The "What Type of Intellectual are You?" Test:
The Dialectician
(You scored 18% empirical, 40% public, and 45% teaching-oriented)
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You are The Dialectician!
You've accepted long ago that gaining knowledge is a lifetime project. In fact, in your mind, you've just barely scratched the surface. But you feel an urge to learn everything you can from whomever you meet, and to encourage others on their own pursuits.
People may find you unconvincing, or are so confident in their knowledge they don't recognize the challenges you can produce. But the dialectician has usually been recognized as ahead of her time, eventually.
Link: The "What Type of Intellectual are You?" Test