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That would be cruelty to animals.Abraham wrote:(I wouldn't let my dog attend a public school)
Your source for this is what again?Abraham wrote:Today the quality of public schooling is dreadful.
Public education in Texas means primarily teaching to pass the TAKS test at the expense of overall learning.
Self esteem is set as a major goal at the expense of learning.
Problem students aren't dealt with at the detriment of what teaching there is to be offered.
Drugs and violence are common in public schools.
Police have to be stationed in public schools.
Required text books are loaded with a left leaning slant on history.
What's not to like?
(I wouldn't let my dog attend a public school)
That looks like the only warning received. Thank you for the highly embarassing response to such an obviously heated issue.Purplehood wrote:Deleated.
Get it off the schools & back on topic or it will be locked. Last warning.
LT
idrathernot wrote:So I was reading Neal's "Nuze" today and I ran across an argument I hadn't quite put together myself.
Neal wrote an article about healthcare here: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/neal-boortz- ... 96817.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Following that, the letter to the editor below was published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
"POLITICAL RIGHTS
Clearly, Boortz will give up some of his 'rights'
I was startled and immensely delighted to read Neal Boortz's column ("Moochers need free-market dose," Opinion, Nov. 14). Startled at his novel definition of a "right" as excluding anything that involves a second of someone else's labor or skills.
I am delighted that he has voluntarily given up his right to bear arms -- unless he mines the ore, forges the steel and makes the guns himself in his backyard. After all, he cannot lay claims to the skill of the workers at the Colt factory, can he? Even then, I am not sure he has that right, unless he designs the gun and its firing mechanism. Oh, and he also has to figure out the laws of thermodynamics that govern explosions -- all by himself, without the help of his science teacher.
Obviously, this also means Miranda rights are also kaput for all except lawyers. Right to freedom from illegal search and seizure? Forget it. Where do I get off demanding the time of a cop to protect me from a break-in? "Clearly I nailed this 'right to health care thing,' '' he says. Clearly.
Suresh Krishnamoorthy, Marietta"
Failing as it does to make a logical argument, it presents a great counter-argument that was not illustrated to me until now (real face-palm moment for me).
If we have a "right" to health care that the gov'ment is responsible to provide for, do we all get free guns and ammo too?
That about sums it up for me. As far as I am concerned, they are playing with OUR money, not the government's money; and I don't care how necessary or good a thing may be, if you (the senator or representative) refuse to read it and you ridicule me for insisting that you do... ...and you have no idea of everything that's in it or what it will actually cost the taxpayer.... ....and you still vote for it? You do that, and I'm going to do everything in my power to see to it that you are unemployed in 2010 and 2012. Then you can know a little bit of what it is like for the rest of us...From Henry Birdwell:
Let me get this straight...
We're going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts itself from it...
...signed by a president who also hasn't read it, and who smokes...
...with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes...
...overseen by a surgeon general who is obese...
...and financed by a country that is nearly broke.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Annoyed Man wrote:BTW, as a semi-amusing sidebar...
I was at my urologist's office this morning, having a PSA drawn, and they had the following taped to the counter top where you pay up on the way out. I asked them to print me a copy of it, and it goes like this:That about sums it up for me. As far as I am concerned, they are playing with OUR money, not the government's money; and I don't care how necessary or good a thing may be, if you (the senator or representative) refuse to read it and you ridicule me for insisting that you do... ...and you have no idea of everything that's in it or what it will actually cost the taxpayer.... ....and you still vote for it? You do that, and I'm going to do everything in my power to see to it that you are unemployed in 2010 and 2012. Then you can know a little bit of what it is like for the rest of us...From Henry Birdwell:
Let me get this straight...
We're going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts itself from it...
...signed by a president who also hasn't read it, and who smokes...
...with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes...
...overseen by a surgeon general who is obese...
...and financed by a country that is nearly broke.
What could possibly go wrong?
...EXCEPT that even after we The People fire your skanky butt, you still get to have your cushy taxpayer provided health insurance and retirement plan; while the rest of us get bupkis except being rid of your narrow behind.
But I'm not BITTER or anything!
