We need a thread about politics.....

[Berry Sweet]

Reading, grammar and math are overrated anyway. Grade one students need to know about protection.

I don't care about politics, it will never get us anywhere.  Every person in politics is a joke.  I just live my life the way I have to to survive.



LO is in grade 2 this year..really growing up fast!  And it's true, these kids need to learn about protection at that age...in grade 1, LO noticed a lot of bullying and bad behaviour on the play ground....the only 2 things she really did in grade 1 was a lot of reading work and art....at home I teach her more large words, and of course my physiology and anatomy....but I also teach her how to protect herself and some self defense moves.  Not only that....I taught her how to say certain things if other kids should bully her....hopefully she will never have to use those words or actions...but best she know it anyway.

[Anonymous]

Reading, grammar and math are overrated anyway. Grade one students need to know about protection.

I don't care about politics, it will never get us anywhere.  Every person in politics is a joke.  I just live my life the way I have to to survive.



LO is in grade 2 this year..really growing up fast!  And it's true, these kids need to learn about protection at that age...in grade 1, LO noticed a lot of bullying and bad behaviour on the play ground....the only 2 things she really did in grade 1 was a lot of reading work and art....at home I teach her more large words, and of course my physiology and anatomy....but I also teach her how to protect herself and some self defense moves.  Not only that....I taught her how to say certain things if other kids should bully her....hopefully she will never have to use those words or actions...but best she know it anyway.

I feel the same way about politics as you do Ms. Berry Sweet..



My children are attending a private Christian school which has a zero tolerance policy for any kind of bullying..



This is a relief to me as a parent to know my children won't have to experience that..



It gives them more time and to spend on their studies, athletics or extracurricular activities.

[Obvious Li]

"This was spot on. I've been saying similar things about the state of ignorance, illiteracy and the racial attitude in the black community for years. It was also dead accurate about the media and the role it plays in society and race relations.



BTW, I'm very surprised Romero hasn't jumped all over this with shrill accusatory screams of racism. You know this kind of in your face truth about blacks and minorities in general burns his ass. "



i suspect he his wracking his peanut to come up with some spectacular rebuttal...but as we read in a previous lesson..."liberals know fuck all about logic" so be prepared for something along the lines of.....centuries of oppression, no opportunity, systemic discrimination, poor home life, white mans foot on the neck, good old boys club......(i'm sure you can add a bunch)....in any case the fault ALWAYS lies with the white man.....white MEN are evil and need to be exterminated...wait a minute...i think i am getting my affirmative action groups mixed up lololol.. :mrgreen:

[Obvious Li]

by the way Renee..you said you were from the PNW...where abouts...i lived on Mercer Island for about 6 years back in the 90's......loved loved loved it there...population was made up of 30-40% jewish lawyers....lived down the street from Paul Allen.(not a jewish lawyer) i think.

[Obvious Li]

ok Homy...if that one pushed you into apoplexy this one will stroke you out....for Renee...



Race Hucksters

July 30, 2012



I read, with the joy that I usually reserve for recurrent migraines, that Precedent Obama will establish an Office of African-American Education, thus furthering the racial Balkanization of the country, providing makework jobs for useless bureaucrats and, predictably, accomplishing nothing. I read also that the NAACP has filed complaint with the Department of Education against Fairfax County, Virginia, just outside of Washington, because its high school for the very bright, Thomas Jefferson High, doesn't have enough blacks.



Probably I should give up reading.



It never ends. Charges of discrimination, demands for special privilege, endless laws, wringing of teeth and gnashing of hands, lowered standards, no positive results, and start over again.



Readers may not know this, but I suffer from a rare mental condition called "predictive clairvoyance," that lets me read newspaper headlines from far in the future. Really. I'm serious. Psychologists know about it. This morning I channeled a story from the Beijing Times from the year 5012 (Beijing being the world capital):



"NAACP files suit against school board over test scores, citing discrimination and lingering effects of slavery."



One Charisse Espy Glassman of the NAACP says (of the Fairfax complaint, not the Beijing, though the two are barely distinguishable) that the county needs to pour resources into the early grades, find gifted blacks and Hispanics, and funnel them into Thomas Jefferson High. It's because, see, discrimination starts in kindergarten, blah, blah, blah.



What is the woman smoking? Somebody must have put something in her drugs. Her delusion is beyond Paraquat. Yes, racial discrimination exists. This I concede. Racial discrimination pervades American society, apparently ineradicably, rising over window sills, clogging storm drains—and all of it in favor of blacks. Try:



Head Start, the federal Department of Education, NCLB, forced integration, forced busing, free after-school programs, Youth Scholars, welfare, grants given to universities,medical schools, and law schools for developing minority outreach programs, affirmative action in school admissions, government contracts, government and private-sector jobs, unidirectional hate-crime laws, and so on. And on. And on.



Everything in America aims at somehow keeping blacks happy. Think this is just my idea? Walter Williams, the black and sensible columnist, has written, "Academic intelligentsia, their media, government and corporate enthusiasts worship at the altar of diversity. Despite budget squeezes, universities have created diversity positions, such as director of diversity and inclusion, manager of diversity recruitment, associate dean for diversity, vice president of diversity and perhaps minister of diversity."



Exactly, observably, undeniably. The United States has tied itself into knots that would baffle a wind-era sailor to keep thirteen percent of the population placated. And done it unsuccessfully. All we hear is slavery, send money. We be discriminate, send money. Give us a job we can't do very well, or perhaps at all. That is what affirmative action is.



No nation has ever made such desperate, soul-wrenching efforts to convince a large minority to for God's sake do your homework. And this is what it comes to. I say to black parents: Your kids do not do poorly in school because of discrimination, but because they don't know the answers. We evil whites can give you schools and books. We can't read them for you. And we can't make your children read them. That's your job.



Now, since Ms. Glassman is in Fairfax County, where I once lived, she might look next door to the District of Columbia. The schools in DC are entirely under the control of blacks, and the per capita expenditure is very high. Yet the schools are almost the worst in the country. Why is that, Ms. Glassman? Might it—just conceivably, you understand: I don't want to fall into wild speculation—have something to do with the quality of teachers hired by the black government, the degree of orderliness required of the black students, and the degree of insistence by their parents that they do their homework?



Now, as I look at the figures for Thomas Jefferson High, I see that 64.2 percent of the students are Asian, though Asians are a tiny part of the population, and only 26.2 percent are whites, who are a huge part of the population. That is, Asians are wildly overrepresented with respect to my pale species, in fact by a factor of about ten. Ms. Glassman, do you hear me whimpering that I be discriminate? That everything is someone else's fault? That Asians are mistreating me, send money?



No. I figure that the Asian kids got there because they were smarter than the whites, or studied harder, or both. I don't argue that it's because my Anglo-Saxon ancestors were mistreated by the Norman French under Henry II.



Actually it is whites who suffer discrimination. Blacks get into Ivy schools ahead of us because they can't do the work, and Asians get in ahead of us because they can, so we get sqwoze out from above and below. I feel very sorry for us, send money.



Implicit in all the solemn trumpery about race is that vile and malevolent whites want to exploit blacks, or see advantage in holding them down. Oh? I suspect that if rationality were oil, race hustlers would be about a quart low, so let me explain some facts. Most whites do not want to hold blacks down. On purely selfish grounds, it is very much in the interest of whites for blacks to prosper. If all blacks shot into the middle class tomorrow, we could tax them instead of paying for welfare. We could fire three-quarters of most urban police departments. We could live in the cities. We could take the wrong exit into Newark and expect to come out alive.



I don't know how many blacks could get into Thomas Jefferson if they tried, you know, like, studying. I do know that the pathetic illiteracy of so many urban blacks is unnecessary, and that they don't have to speak that awful he be, we be, muhfuh, muhfuh linguistic goulash sometimes called ebonics. In France, blacks speak French and in Mexico, Spanish, not Franbonics or Hisbonics. Why not English in America?



I know. I'm a dangerous radical.



And I know that anyone who really wanted to improve education for blacks could look to the Catholic schools of Washington, which do, or did when I last looked, a far better job than a dimwitted, vote-for-me Office of African-American Education. How did the artful mackerel-snappers do it? By demanding courtesy, expelling trouble-makers, insisting on done homework, and assuming that students were capable of it. Duh.

[Anonymous]

Reading, grammar and math are overrated anyway. Grade one students need to know about protection.

I don't care about politics, it will never get us anywhere.  Every person in politics is a joke.  I just live my life the way I have to to survive.

Berry, I see what you thought I meant. No, I was making a joke about OL's post. Yeah, I agree kids should know how to defend themselves or at least have lots of friends that do.

[Renee]

by the way Renee..you said you were from the PNW...where abouts...i lived on Mercer Island for about 6 years back in the 90's......loved loved loved it there...population was made up of 30-40% jewish lawyers....lived down the street from Paul Allen.(not a jewish lawyer) i think.

Mercer Island is a beautiful place; expensive to live there though but you already know that; because living near Paul Allen screams "expensive".  



I'm actually not all that far from there. I'm in Snohomish County not far from Snohomish itself.  It's relatively quiet here, it's great if you like antiques, old homes and mediocre restaurants with over-priced menus. The only rich or famous person I've seen around here is John Popper and he isn't much to look at. :P



In case you can't tell, I think it's kind of "meh" around here. :|

[Obvious Li]

by the way Renee..you said you were from the PNW...where abouts...i lived on Mercer Island for about 6 years back in the 90's......loved loved loved it there...population was made up of 30-40% jewish lawyers....lived down the street from Paul Allen.(not a jewish lawyer) i think.

Mercer Island is a beautiful place; expensive to live there though but you already know that; because living near Paul Allen screams "expensive".  



I'm actually not all that far from there. I'm in Snohomish County not far from Snohomish itself.  It's relatively quiet here, it's great if you like antiques, old homes and mediocre restaurants with over-priced menus. The only rich or famous person I've seen around here is John Popper and he isn't much to look at. :P



In case you can't tell, I think it's kind of "meh" around here. :|

all i can remember about snohomish is that there was a lot of crafty places there that made stuff out of twigs...also crappy fair food.......but a straight shot to seattle so what the hey..........................

[Renee]

by the way Renee..you said you were from the PNW...where abouts...i lived on Mercer Island for about 6 years back in the 90's......loved loved loved it there...population was made up of 30-40% jewish lawyers....lived down the street from Paul Allen.(not a jewish lawyer) i think.

Mercer Island is a beautiful place; expensive to live there though but you already know that; because living near Paul Allen screams "expensive".  



I'm actually not all that far from there. I'm in Snohomish County not far from Snohomish itself.  It's relatively quiet here, it's great if you like antiques, old homes and mediocre restaurants with over-priced menus. The only rich or famous person I've seen around here is John Popper and he isn't much to look at. :P



In case you can't tell, I think it's kind of "meh" around here. :|

all i can remember about snohomish is that there was a lot of crafty places there that made stuff out of twigs...also crappy fair food.......but a straight shot to seattle so what the hey..........................

I really miss living in close proximity to NYC; plus most of my family lives there. If it wasn't for the fact that my husband's business is here and his family are all from around here I would ditch this place and go back to the east coast in a heartbeat, permanent like. Unfortunately this is where my husband grew up and my kids have really come to like it here. From my point of view, if you are not some kind of tree hugger or leftwing elitist douche nozzle this end of the country kinda sucks.  :(

[Anonymous]

Mercer Island is a beautiful place; expensive to live there though but you already know that; because living near Paul Allen screams "expensive".  



I'm actually not all that far from there. I'm in Snohomish County not far from Snohomish itself.  It's relatively quiet here, it's great if you like antiques, old homes and mediocre restaurants with over-priced menus. The only rich or famous person I've seen around here is John Popper and he isn't much to look at. :P



In case you can't tell, I think it's kind of "meh" around here. :|

all i can remember about snohomish is that there was a lot of crafty places there that made stuff out of twigs...also crappy fair food.......but a straight shot to seattle so what the hey..........................

I really miss living in close proximity to NYC; plus most of my family lives there. If it wasn't for the fact that my husband's business is here and his family are all from around here I would ditch this place and go back to the east coast in a heartbeat, permanent like. Unfortunately this is where my husband grew up and my kids have really come to like it here. From my point of view, if you are not some kind of tree hugger or leftwing elitist douche nozzle this end of the country kinda sucks.  :(

The whole West coast of North America is populated by those types. This is why I can't wait until that big promised earthquake that is supposed to strike Vancouver. :D

[Chickenfeets]

Politics. Meh.



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[Anonymous]

^^Oh yum, more anti-oilsands propaganda. You really are a VFer. Is it TYEE, Rabble or HP?

[Obvious Li]

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