Next you'll suggest I wear a b.o. shirt. I'd sooner carve out my own eyes with a melon baller.

ohhhhh I didn't think of that. (Moocher). :) sigh...Fine. I'LL do it.

lol custom made bumper sticker. Is duct tape a component?

The Constitution is about procedure. They did not enumerate rights. It's more a study in governmental systems. I agree with your first point.

Philosophy is the bedrock of a society. The Founding Fathers knew this and established the three branches of government to preserve their philosophy.

At this time I'm still a moocher (I've only been here 2-3 days) so I can't PM. I may remedy that soon. I'm on the west-side of Phoenix and spend a fair amount of time in coffee houses writing.

what would be funny is to wear a Che shirt while carrying a copy of AS. see if you spark any questions. you probably won't. sigh

Just look for my CRV with my custom-made Liberals Make Me Sick bumper sticker. :) More than a few have flipped me the bird and one has tried to run me off the road. Liberal tolerance at its best(?).

I'm going to wear a Che shirt. (not)

you both could wear a "Who is John Galt?" Teeshirt
so you'd know each other across the room...

Parents need to wake up and stop thinking school is free daycare and give a crap about what they're being fed (besides their 'free' lunch). Until then the UN will continue to spoon feed. How did States lose control of their own schools' curriculum ? Fed fund bribery? Lack of parental involvement?

the comb. snort. and yes, we also know who invented the wheel. it's in the Smithsonian!

There are many repeated lies that need to be truthed out. A fantasy is easier to swallow than reality for too many. There's no consequences in fantasy, no chance of failure, just happily ever after. That's why I've always hated fairy tales....bliss, the end.

You just wrote MY bio. I've been married 23 years next month, have two sons, and a brand new grandson born last week :) I felt the same way after the election and still do. Where in AZ are you? (private message me...it's okay. lol)

fair enough. I've been married 23 years and have 2 mostly grown kids, I just don't think that way anymore. It wouldn't be impossible to say something off the cuff and accidently imply. Besides , after the last election I felt like a stranger in my own land, like I'm in a bizzaro-style world where I just don't fit in.

The offer is still open for coffee and conversation though. :)

Most of those I've seen sporting Che think it's saying 'I'm so much more intellectual than you'. These are the same people who think Nelson Mandela was just a 'prisoner of conscious' and not a communist. Revisionist history is a convenient tool of indoctrination. Besides what can you expect from a culture that celebrates those who are famous for being famous because they made a sex tape rather than those who create useful things that move the world forward.

I was talking about this very thing with my dad the other day. We are both astonished by how little is being taught about anything in schools. Some even basic things are unknown to high school seniors. What is the last car on a train called? Not one in a group could answer "caboose". He revisionist "history" being taught is laughable. The conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan! No, they're WARS. Against TERRORISTS. Not insurgents. PC-ness is the ruination of facts. It needs to be abandoned.

Okay..you don't know me at all, sorry... we are ALL desperate to find others who think like us who can carry on an informed conversation in person. I was making a funny. :)

LOL, I never thought it would be taken that way. DOH! So much for neighborly. LOL

remarkably the "sheet" was immediately taken down when I reported the incident to the principal. The teacher was not reprimanded in any way. The inventor in question was Lewis Howard Latimer. He was a member of Thomas Edison’s “Edison’s Pioneers” team when he discovered a filament which extended the life of the light bulb. However, as portrayed by the "sheet" (and apparently endorsed as history by this history teacher), people would not be living in the dark without this invention, since lights existed –albeit less efficiently - before Latimer’s filament, and was extended to glow for an even longer duration after Latimer’s contribution was improved upon.

As for the comb its invention dates before recorded time. No one knows who invented the comb (though many suspect China).

I have much respect for anyone who can create something. I abhor people who manufacture facts to impress others or to make themselves look more impressive than what they are. Surely there are many accomplishments made by each and every race that junk history need not be fabricated to impress. Were I black the fallacious nature or this and the insidious way it was slipped in and collected again would really annoy me.

great link btw - legitimate history.

LOLOL you sound desperate. lol I have questions...I always have questions. (Does the private message thing not work both ways...now everybody will KNOW.) just kidding.

contact me privately. Perhaps we can get together for coffee. sometime. Please, my name is Allan. AJ are my initials. :)

Yeah...I'd have a problem with the bully box too. Name your offender.

I normally would agree with you on all points. For example: bully behavior is up for a vote and not determined objectively? crazy. and while I have no love for Scholastic, if this is the "sheet" on black inventors, it is well done and accurate. As well, there are several hard work stories and successes by these individuals who never attended college. I LOVE self-taught success stories. If it was something else-let me know, but here is what I found:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities...

Hey AJ... I'm in AZ and I work at a school. We're going to have GREAT talks I think. :)