"I have one life to live...let me live it as a blond"

Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 5 months ago to Education
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I was pondering about the enthusiasm for socialism and collectivism in todays youth.
One of The major causes is a lack of honest information taught to students , not studying both sides of issues or all angles I believe it is the public and the collegiate schools that promote those "ism's". Essentially students being brainwashed. These young folks and old folks who really never grew up can't connect or won't in the case of the latter , The forfeiting of their individualism and rights
but more importantly mine and of course yours.
Thinking about the sacrificing of the individual ,if these folks related that and the evidence of increased poverty and dispare (to be short with the list of failures) with their political leanings would they change their minds?

If they thought about their one life.

Then the ad campaign from the 60's popped into my head.
Is that also a result of brainwashing?

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  • Posted by mia767ca 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    my mother always said that if the had known how wonderful grandchildren were, she would have had them first...
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  • Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sorry for the delayed ..................congratulations!!! I have 3 grand kids two boys and one little angel, smart as a whip.
    They melt my heart.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    true...and after the debate concluded i would discuss that and other possibilities with the two debators...i enjoyed watching their eyes glow with imagination at realizing it...
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    but there are usually more than two sides!
    Rand took a "side" which was unique. -- j
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  • Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The school district above has a policy for
    non-board member opinions. To speak you must inform them of your intent, topic and your name, address phone # ,email address . You must limit your talk to 3 minutes. If you have spoken to the board in the last three months You will get to speak only if no other speakers have reserved their time . You cannot say the name of any school employee, can't say the name of the school or even talk about a subject like math or science.
    It is insanity.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A few more years and the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new looking out the window building ...... built with no windows.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sad, very sad.
    My grandson, now 22 informed me that what you described is worse than here in western Florida but not by much.I used to be at the schools complaining every month or so about varied subject. I should have been accompanied by dozens more parents, but I was too involved with keeping my business going than to organize a sort of anti-PTA.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Michaelangelo started with a large block and whittled it down to a masterpiece. I suspect you will do the same.
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And grow. I've often said that if you assigned an employee to sit at a desk and look out the window, you would come back in 5 years and find the "looking out the window" department with a manager, an administrative assistant, and three "viewers".
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If I can ever finish the freaking thing.
    I'm rewriting a large portion and then will come the final draft.
    I hope.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Its not likely that we could actually stage a real revolution in the USA. There is too much NSA power and all the government troops out there. Plus something like 20% of the people work FOR the government and get paid by them. That said, the prospect of having to fight an armed insurrection might keep the government a bit more under control.

    Pity the people in Venezuela. Its going to get harder and harder for them to dump Maduro. Being hungry makes it harder to fight.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    At the request of my son, yesterday I loaned his mother and my ex a revolver, since she is afraid of a mooching boyfriend she very recently kicked out of her house.
    Needs for an equalizer can arise and sometimes unexpectedly.
    Don't know what the gun laws are in your state, but maybe you could at least get a shotgun.
    I have a 12-guage pump gun that I consider to be my primary home defense weapon.
    Thing to remember is to pull it very tight into the small of your shoulder to reduce the recoil.
    A 20-guage may be better for the inexperienced. I never fired one of those. .
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  • Posted by mia767ca 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    just found out that my oldest son (30) and his wife are going to make me a grandfather for the first time early next year
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  • Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I look forward to your upcoming novel
    Particularly enjoy the old Dino's perspective.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Given the socialistic tendencies of our government, guns will be a good investment too
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In anticipation to you somehow responding to "peasant," I thought that up while driving to and from the drug store this afternoon.
    Me dino got an A in creative writing a long time ago, a three hour drive away.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    yeah ...my kids rolled their eyes at me, but eventually thanked me...i also put 6-10 years between them, so the last teenager was told dad's right...
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