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Permalink Reply by Jason Tuccio on July 13, 2011 at 9:07am

Lin, you hit the nail on the head when you describe the public education system and how it beats to death political correctness.  We now live in a world where our schools teach children that no one fails and they get as many tries as they want to pass a test.  In sports there is no loosing team.  If you so much as draw a gun or gesture one with your hands your are suspended and forced into therapy.

 

Children need to realize that life is not a fairy tale and it's going to be great for some and suck for others.  Their going to win AND loose in life and with out loss they'll never know how to deal with it. 

 

I'd say it's amazing that more parents are home schooling or sending their kids to private schools but then I remember that many (not all) parents could really care less about what their kids are learning and are out of their hair for the day.

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Permalink Reply by Craig S. Andersen on July 13, 2011 at 1:50pm

Although the liberals have been dumbing our kids down and promoting mediocrity, popular music, commercials, films and the media all have pink on their hands. Music, for example, in Eisenhower's time was innocent. Sure it dealt with falling in love and crushes and all of young people dating. However, it did not talk about "booty shaking" "Tapping dat" dancing on tables, "Hittin' it and quitten it." or any of the other x-rated crap we hear in modern pop music. T.V. shows back in the 50's and early 60's showed the romantic side of love and courtship and the rest was rightly left to the imagination. Now we have adultry on TV, we have single parents, drug dealing, abortion, murder and any twisted fable Hollywood wants to pitch at us and our kids. Now in California, kids in elementary school are taught about the gay lifestyle. I can imagine the uproar over teaching first-graders about hetrosexual sex. I have notihing against gays or lesbians. But decency expects that to stay in the bedroom just as any sex should be especially aroung children who lack the emotional maturity to cope with such issues. All of this is part of the Secular Socialist goal of running our lives from cradle to grave; making everyone a ward of the state. Well, in the words of Dylan Thomas, "I will not go quietly into that good night" or should I say nightmare?

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Permalink Reply by Gary L. Emch on July 14, 2011 at 10:23pm

Craig I agree with you. I remember the shows of my younger days when they were funny and made you laugh. Today I can't turn on  the t.v. without seeing a mutilated body or someone being murdered in some fashion. This is today's standards due to lack of talent. Whatever happened to the shows like "Green Acres" and others of that time that made you feel good. I see a society of fake tough guys and idiots that are a far cry from what I remember. Like you I will not go quietly into the night!

I am a disabled veteran with old school standards and values that will not take any of this liberal crap from anyone. We need to bring back the values and standards of our grandfathers generation.

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Permalink Reply by Craig S. Andersen on July 15, 2011 at 12:07am

There are enough of us that we can make a difference. We can use the liberals tactics against them. Boycott Hollywood and their talentless, formulaic movies, Don't see remakes. Get your friends to do the same. We are the majority. Nixon called us the "silent majority" but we are silent no more. They don't have anything over us. I'm a practicing attorney, a singer a songwriter, a guitar player and a poet. Oh and I'm an NRA-certified pistol instructor and a former prosecutor. The left thinks we are a bunch of knuckledraggers. They think a university degree makes a person superior. I have two and I still put my Wranglers on one leg at a time. I'd rather hang out with a machinist or a Vietnam vet than any university professor. In fact I do. Unlike the loony left, I appreciate the brave Americans who defend this country and police our streets. What I'm sick of is finger-pointing politicians and Democrats who are actually Socialists. We are America and we will not lie down and let Islamists or Socialists to take over this country. I have 762 reasons why that won't happen. If you get my drift.

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Permalink Reply by Gary L. Emch on July 15, 2011 at 12:47pm

I absolutely get your drift as I am in the same boat. I just read that the Muslim community refuses to build their mosque anywhere else and that they plan to go ahead with the plan to build it on ground zero. This is what your cowardly Bloomberg types allow. These are people who never put themselves in harms way for anyone nor for their country. I pray that the silent majority rises up and takes government and the left out for good and replaces them with true Americans who respect our country and those who protect it and those who have died for it. Like you I am sick of the politicians and Democrats who have no regard for the foundations of our country. I once said I would die fighting for my country and I say it again as I see the enemy within.

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