lol

Why are some people so afraid of the Religious
Right?--Because it is very dangerous. Many of them want to have the government acknowledge a
supernatural Being, and to set up faith, rather than
reason, as the method by which government is to operate. I do not believe the government is
properly an arbiter of ideas; ideas can be com-
municated here, on earth, only by some physical
medium (writing, sounds which operate on the
eardrum, sign language, etc.)--and therefore, it
is improper for government to refer to some
realm which contradicts this medium;it is im-
proper for government to be an arbiter of ideas;
and government, as such, should not hold o-
pinions about it, even to the extent of the exis-
tence or nonexistence of such a realm.
I remember well before the Supreme Court's
outlawing of compulsory prayer in school, how I
was treated in second grade in my (public,tax-
supported) school; my second grade's teacher
asking us how many of us had been to church
that Sunday; asking my why I hadn't been; her
threat to me that in the upper grades I would be
graded on whether I went or not (which was de-
nied by another adult, who told me that was only
in Bible class, but still she had no right to threat-
en my that way); don't tell me that the Religious
Right would not like to return us to the status
quo ante.
However, as I believe in freedom of thought,
I do not approve of the leftist indoctrination
taking place now; I simply favor the abolition of
the public schools; as it serves no function of
protecting man against force and violence, and
also teaches through processes, I definitely do
not want the government in charge of that, a
it can, and will, and does, and must, lead to
government thought control.

Don't you realize that the liberal agenda IS the "common welfare" as defined by most university professors?

I so like that. But I am not good at math (and I am very grateful for spellchecker).

Jan

I don't get it...why are some people SO afraid of the religious Right?

I'm not a Christian, but I'm even farther from being an Atheist. As far as I'm concerned, an Atheist is just as bad as pushy religious fanatics...just going in the opposite direction. As an Agnostic, I believe in "live and let live" and my Christian wife of 36 years has never had any complaints.

The Constitution mentions God in a good many places and I would have no problem with a President who took great pride in his religious beliefs. I think the country could stand to gain a little morality.

I would consider Scott Walker because of the following:
1. He successfully fought the state employee unions in an effort to fix some serious budget woes. The fact that several Democrat legislators ran and hid, during this period, indicates that what he did must have been worthwhile
2. He comfortably beat a costly recall election.
If not Presidential material, I would gladly have him replace our current Governor in Washington (and I'm a state employee)!

The other candidate I would gladly vote for is Marco Rubio. I was blown away by his speech after Obama was elected, the first time. Maybe he's just a good speaker, but he gained my support from that moment on.

My thoughts on the greatest changes to Universities would be to pull state funding all together and get them out of the entertainment business (i.e. sports). Push education into the private sector where it has purpose. Most state university boondoggles are nothing more than a good'ole boy network of cronies siphoning money into their own pockets from the taxpayer funded research grants into bogus research projects (not to mention "God Particles"!) If companies had to educate their employees it would be difficult for them to let other companies raid their brain trust and would probably think twice about laying off an investment. As one very susccessful man put it "Take care of your employees, They will take care of your company."

K-12 teachers generally graduate from "teacher college" with very high GPA's, but have very low-average IQ's (ave. IQ of students = 100; average IQ of teaching college graduate = 85; average IQ of education administrator= 100).

Tenure is teacher's job insurance. After passing varying degrees of esoteric nonsense they are rewarded with the assurance that they can never lose their jobs. In many cases, this creates poor, slovenly and outright useless instruction. It's about time someone stood up to this nepotic process and made teachers base their jobs strictly on performance. And by the way, while we're at it, let's get rid of terms such a professor and doctor. What do professors profess to? What are PhDs doctors of?Get rid also of honorary degrees and titles such as emeritus. Let's not only give up false employment, but false titles.

Excellent!

If I had not been compelled to take courses such as sociology, psychology, and journalism, how would I have learned what a useless bunch the people who practice in those fields are?

I realize journalists should be useful contributors to the common welfare, but the way it was taught at Colorado State University, it was nothing but a course in learning how to twist facts to suit the liberal agenda :-(

Stop hiring "fresh" Ph.D's. Hire only people who have actually had a career doing something useful. At the college/university level there is no need for any full time faculty, though if someone is a retired mathematician (for example, e.g.such as Herman Cain) they could teach a "full load" on a class by class basis. Probably don't need a full time position in any institution of higher learning. Even at the k-12 level hire college educated people who have done something with their lives (e.g. retired military officers (or enlisted if they do have some formal education -- not including having attended a college of teachers). Tenure is a non-issue for people who have already provided for their retirement. First they are less likely to say the absurdly stupid things often said by tenured faculty and if they do and get fired they didn't need the job AND they believed what they said enough to risk their position.

And you only have to look at the Political Correctness dominating nearly all university campuses to know that that argument is completely true. Their administrators might as well be a Communist Party Central Committee.

At least this time, Bernie Sanders is running, and he will likely take his votes away from Hillary.

If the Repubs wouldn't eat their own during the debates and would come together during them highlighting each other's strengths I think that there might be a chance that we could reinvigorate conservatism in this country.

However, I know better how this will go...

The documentary: "WAITING FOR SUPERMAN" is an excellent film which depicts and explains the woes associated with the teacher's unions.

I highly recommend it.

AUDACIOUS! I already liked Scott Walker, but I
didn't dream he'd have the guts to try this!--He's
the one I want to vote for. I am afraid that Ted
Cruz and Mark Rubbio are too much in favor of im-
posing religion by law.--Still, I wish that Walker were not so much in favor of limiting legal im-
migration.Illegal is one thing; but legal foreigners
should not be automatically excluded. But still,
I don't think he could get too far with that, any-
way. I have been impressed with him for a long
time; look what he accomplished in Wisconsin;
he showed he had guts and a spine.

I'm with you on this Freedom! Slow death or fast death doesn't matter, still dead. When we vote lesser evil we give either party the political will to do what they want, even when it is wrong. I was an elected county board member for 4 years and saw it first hand.

You just have to love this guy... BUT how can he succeed without a hidden agenda?????

Have you made sure he sees what you wrote here? I just hope "they" talk about what they are going to do much more than what each other is not going to do. Hopefully someone like Walker will have great advisors that will speak the truth and not tell him what he might like to hear. He didn't seem like a politician at first, but more and more he seems to be acting like one, even in his hand gestures.

I guess this is what happens when the silent majority doesn't speak up enough. Candidates change and do not stick to their beliefs and their morals.

The general ed classes were mostly worthwhile for me. I'm glad they had classes like history of science and history of biology that provide some context for engineering. I wish we could have taken them one class at a time, instead of all general ed at the beginning of undergrad and all engineering at the end.

I kind of like that idea. It supports my T-Shirt:

I am an ingener (strikethourgh)
I am an enginer (strikethourgh)
I am an engener (strikethourgh)
I'm good at math

Scott Walker WAS my to go guy until he said "taxpayers should pay for professional teams stadiums in their cities as it brings in many $$$."
Hogwash on him now.