Really Mark? Would you consider the statements, made public today, from Britain’s ambassador to Iraq “leftwing propaganda”?
William Patey, Britain's ambassador in Baghdad:
"The prospect of a low intensity civil war and a de facto division of Iraq is probably more likely at this stage than a successful and substantial transition to a stable democracy.
"Even the lowered expectation of President Bush for Iraq - a government that can sustain itself, defend itself and govern itself and is an ally in the war on terror - must remain in doubt."
Posted by: Barneyg2000 at August 3, 2006 10:43 AM
Ever more to the point of Patey's comments.. from todays news.....
The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East told Congress on Thursday that “Iraq could move toward civil war” if the raging sectarian violence in Baghdad is not stopped.
“I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I have seen it,” Gen. John Abizaid, the commander of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Posted by: OhioGolfer at August 3, 2006 11:22 AM
Mark, here are the ranting of more leftwing “cut and run” traitors (from today’s armed services committee hearings):
"I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I have seen it," Gen. John Abizaid, the commander of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"Shiite and Sunni are going to have to love their children more than they hate each other," Pace said, before the tensions can be overcome. "The weight of that must be on the Iraqi people and the Iraqi government."
Abizaid also said under questioning that it was possible that U.S. casualties could rise as a result of the battle to contain sectarian violence in the capital.
"I think it's possible that in the period ahead of us in Baghdad that we'll take increased casualties _ that's possible," he said.
Posted by: Barneyg2000 at August 3, 2006 11:25 AM
Barneyg2000, OhioGolfer,
Yes... good news from the liberal viewpoint.
Maybe tens of thousands -- hundreds of thousands -- could be killed to feed your liberal propaganda mill.
You liberals have done all you can by your incessant propaganda to encourage the terrorists to blow up American troops and Iraqi families and to set the ground work for a civil war. The terrorists blow up one side or another and wait for the other side to retaliate and kill more. With each attack, the looney left calls for more retreat. The terrorists watch the news, and blow up even more to support the liberal left Democrat's goals! And with each terrorist attack -- in support of the spineless weak willed liberal Democrats -- that pushes the country closer to civil war.
It's up to the Iraqi people to decide what happens now. If they want to stop the violence and turn in the perpetrators, they can. If they want to sit back and blow each other up, they can. If the minority Sunnis want to commit suicide -- that's their choice. Otherwise, they can face the facts that they no longer run the country!
The main concern we have is that the final outcome does not allow terrorists to control the country and use it as a base of operations for more terrorism -- that includes not permitting Iraq to be run by Iran or Syria.
Yes you liberals... if there is a civil war... you can take personal pleasure and gleefully rejoice in knowing that you have done everything you can to encourage it!
AAR
Posted by: AAR at August 3, 2006 11:39 AM
I love the way that the right feels it can co-opt anything, and everything to do with the military; That soldiers and actions with regards to war are somehow part-and-parcel of the Republican ideology.
This administration still refuses reality to instead grasp at imaginary straws which will somehow, someway, someday prove their ideology of 'remaking' the ME into a gentri-passive oil-producing, homogeneous bastion of democracy, is possible and should be repeated.
Instead of actually argue the premise behind the idea, they fall-back on the worn-out tactic of hiding behind the earned-honor of those in uniform, to deflect the pointy sticks of facts from their zeppelin of absurdity.
let me remind you that the most senior of military personel is still lower on the food-chain than the lowliest of civilian, and while the old addage of not asking 'why, but only to do and die' is strong with these folks, the civilians are getting pretty damn restless of turning corners whiel we watch civil war mount, while Iraq is losing more people in a month, than we lost in 9/11, so let's start focusing on the policy, and stop living your GI Joe fantasies vicariously through the nubile bodies of those you paraded to a senseless war.
Posted by: Third Eye Open at August 3, 2006 11:43 AM
AAR, not sure why you respond to their innane comments. In fact, I just need to stop reading the comments. The only thing left on this board is liberal drivel. I like to read Mark and Matt's news reports and commentary however! It's very good.
Posted by: Art Patscheck at August 3, 2006 11:43 AM
Today Gen. Abizaid, said the number Sunni insurgents was between 10,000 and 20,000 fighters. Let’s see what he said in 2003:
On 14 November 2003 General John Abizaid, the head of US Central Command, estimated the number of fighters operating against US and allied forces at no more than 5,000, and said the insurgency remained a loosely organized operation.
Maybe things were better in 2004? According to a report in the NY Times, the number of fighters increased to 12,000:
The New York Times reported on 22 October 2004 that senior American officials believed that “hard-core resistance” comprised between 8,000 and 12,000 people,
So progress in Iraq is measured by the increasing number of Iraqis trying to kill us?
Posted by: Barneyg2000 at August 3, 2006 12:01 PM
Everything bad that happens seems always to be a liberal or democrats fault huh?
How about owning up and taking responsibility for what has happened. I believe Iraq is already in civil war and denial,for some people,is the easiest.
Posted by: Morphie at August 3, 2006 12:17 PM
What's this "us against them" crap? We are all in this together. The plan that the Rightwing warmongers gave to "us" isn't working out, so it's time to move along. As for the 19 year old kid; statistics indicate that there have been more deaths in the age group 30-50 then in the 20 and under age group in Iraq. Peace
Posted by: steve at August 3, 2006 12:25 PM
Golly gee, the war has spun out of control -- better get Matt and Mark over there to tell those folks what a great time they're really having. It's a beautiful Republican world!
Posted by: Salvelinus at August 3, 2006 12:34 PM
Art Patscheck,
RE: "AAR, not sure why you respond to their inane comments. In fact, I just need to stop reading the comments. The only thing left on this board is liberal drivel."
Only to give the readers something to think about other than the "liberal drivel". That's all most people get from most of the news and liberal Democrats. If that's all people hear, read, and see... it's no wonder people believe the way they do. Liberals make some "sound good" statements and people are taken in by them. Most people today can't think -- they have been trained by our liberal education system in "how to put condoms on cucumbers" but not in history, civics, English, math, science, and in all of the other areas that they need. People have been indoctrinated by the left and lack the ability or knowledge to think for themselves.
Personally, I would prefer they go somewhere else and talk among themselves -- preferably France! I don't agree with anything they say and they are destroying America.
The only purpose liberals serve on this blog is to dump their loads of mental garbage so we can see it without having to go to another site and sort through the "mother load". Their inane and idiotic thoughts, opinions, comments, and beliefs also provide unlimited opportunities for more comments from others. And... without the liberal drivel posted their by their own hands, who would ever believe that such insanity actually exists!
Liberals offer and specialize in "brain candy" which is just as destructive to the mind and society as sugar filled candy is to the body!
AAR
Posted by: AAR at August 3, 2006 12:35 PM
Morphie,
Liberals and liberalism are enablers of terrorists and terrorism!
AAR
Posted by: AAR at August 3, 2006 12:39 PM
AAR,
Neo-Conservative cheerleaders are the ones who have the same talking points as OBL et. al, both are frothing about the jowls for this war of Liberal-West vs. Militant-East, so why are you and OBL so ideologically close?
Posted by: Third Eye Open at August 3, 2006 01:12 PM
they have been trained by our liberal education system in "how to put condoms on cucumbers" but not in history, civics, English, math, science, and in all of the other areas that they need.
Yeah, I remember the good ol days of high school. 7 hours a day of putting condoms on cucumbers. What a great time that was.
Honestly, how crazy do you have to be to believe that history, english, math and science are not being taught in high schools and colleges?
I wonder where all the conservatives who post here and obviously think so highly of their intellectual abilities think they got their education from? Were you all home scholed? Did you teach yourself math and science? Wait a minute, science... Nah, most of you deny science.
I have to hope AAR is a spoof, because otherwise that is some scary beliefs you have.
Posted by: Brokeback at August 3, 2006 01:26 PM
TEO seems to forget that every time OBL and his cronnies put out a video, they use identical left wing talking points. Makes me sick.
Notice how not one of the left loonies on this blog said anything good about our troops. Not surprising, though.
God bless all of our wonderful troops!
Posted by: kimberly4bush at August 3, 2006 01:27 PM
Noonan, do you know this individual? Do you know that he is a conservative? Do you believe that only conservatives serve in the military? You seem to be jumping to a lot of conclusions without any evidence.
Did you get permission from this individual to use his likeness for your republican propaganda? You don't want soldiers' names printed on t-shirts, but it is OK to print their names on your extremist, conservative propaganda website which you profit from.
Can we all say it together: HYPOCRITE!!!
Posted by: Brokeback at August 3, 2006 01:32 PM
Broke,
What AAR is hitting at is that more pressure has been put on teaching kids how to put condoms on cucumbers, and how to substitute other ways of fulfilling sexual "needs" than has been put on the major subjects of life. So, what do I say to you? Plug in brain before opening mouth!!
AAR never insinuated that the four subject regions aren't being TAUGHT he merely stated they weren't being TRAINED. There is a much bigger difference. And it's all thanks to the Clinton administration and their "safe sex" SICK idiotology, that has brought the schools down to this. Yet at the same time they preach that if an accidental pregnancy does occur, then the baby should have its brains sucked out because it isn't "a confirmed human life".
Do a little more thinking before posting next time, Brokebrain.
---------------------------------------------
To Kimberly:
I'll say AMEN to that!! GOD BLESS THE TROOPS AND THE NATION!!
Posted by: Lucas at August 3, 2006 01:36 PM
"I wonder where all the conservatives who post here and obviously think so highly of their intellectual abilities think they got their education from? Were you all home scholed? Did you teach yourself math and science? Wait a minute, science... Nah, most of you deny science."
No, brokebrain, We went to SCHOOLS unlike yourself!!
We were taught how to read, write, AND THINK, and we were taught good manners, and how to treat people with RESPECT!!
Take your idiocy elsewhere, abomination!!
If you want to come back and learn something and take it to use, and make it worth OUR time, then that would be excellentiay el chico!!
AND...........LEAVE AAR ALONE!, HE IS NOT A SPOOF!
AND NEITHER AM I!! So, hit the road jack and don't come back!!
Jeremiah
Posted by: Jeremiah at August 3, 2006 01:50 PM
Kimberly,
It makes me sick too, to hear all the same excuses for why war is innevitable.
Have you been paying attention to this crap recently appearing on your local cable news channel? Talk of WWIII or IV, or the march to nuclear war with Iran and Syria...these are teh same points that OBL and AQ are making, talking about the impending war between East and West...so why are you guys walking lockstep with these guys, asking for the same war they want?
Posted by: Third Eye Open at August 3, 2006 01:53 PM
A little more thinking? AAR makes an absolutely ludicrous, no basis in fact statement and you ask me to think more?
Do you believe kids spend more time learning about sex or all the other subjects in school? How much time do you think the average kid spends a day learning about sex from a teacher? Do you have any evidence to prove any of these points or do you only have what rush, oreilly, and hannity have told you. If you have some nationwide statistic showing kids spend more time in school learning about sex than all the other topics then I will go along with AAR and start blaming liberals for all the problems in the world.
And what do you define as being the difference between being taught and being trained? How are you supposed to train in history? What do you think happens in math and science classes all day? Maybe the teaching of theories and formulas and then training in how to apply them.
Tell me exactly how you would change schools from what they do now. But first, you must show me, using evidence and sources, exactly what schools are doing now. Do you even know?
Don't point out an individual case, show me what the average student classes are and how they are being taught. Then explain how you would do that.
Let me guess, you don't want to spend the time to actually find out what goes on for most students throughout this country; you would rather just assume it is all about cucumbers and abortions. Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Brokeback at August 3, 2006 02:01 PM
Jeremiah, you are a riot. But tone things down just a bit. I mean, the conservatives on this site are quite often hypocritical, but you may not want to make it so blatently obvious. That would be more convincing.
Posted by: Brokeback at August 3, 2006 02:04 PM
TEO,
You are hopeless!, You have got to realize that we are going to deal with OBL, Just like we did SH, and AL.Z. This war has nothing to do with what OBL has to say!, but about what WE the American people want, and what might that be? well, you think about it, would'nt it be in the interest of this great country we live in to try to protect it, the way we always have!!, You are listening to hillry to much!, she lied numerous times this morning in an interview with, Donald Rumsfeld, she lied straight to his face, and he told her right there!!
So stop the hypocrisy!!
You want "peace" for YOU!! and could care-less about the American people!!, let alone the rest of the world who is under the hands of communist dictators!!
The terrorist will get the justice they are due and I am super glad that my President, George W. Bush is the one doing it!!
If it was left up to Big Billy, We would all be in our graves!!, OBL would have already bombed every power grid, and every major city in the U.S.A!!
So do me a favor!, Go hide under a rock and stay there!!
Jeremiah
Posted by: Jeremiah at August 3, 2006 02:12 PM
TEO,
You are hopeless!, You have got to realize that we are going to deal with OBL, Just like we did SH, and AL.Z. This war has nothing to do with what OBL has to say!, but about what WE the American people want, and what might that be? well, you think about it, would'nt it be in the interest of this great country we live in to try to protect it, the way we always have!!, You are listening to hillry to much!, she lied numerous times this morning in an interview with, Donald Rumsfeld, she lied straight to his face, and he told her right there!!
So stop the hypocrisy!!
You want "peace" for YOU!! and could care-less about the American people!!, let alone the rest of the world who is under the hands of communist dictators!!
The terrorist will get the justice they are due and I am super glad that my President, George W. Bush is the one doing it!!
If it was left up to Big Billy, We would all be in our graves!!, OBL would have already bombed every power grid, and every major city in the U.S.A!!
So do me a favor!, Go hide under a rock and stay there!!
Jeremiah
Posted by: Jeremiah at August 3, 2006 02:14 PM
Yeah, I remember the good ol days of high school. 7 hours a day of putting condoms on cucumbers. What a great time that was.
Must be where you got your "nick" too, right? Your last name IS "Mountain" right?
Posted by:
Reverend Scaramonga at August 3, 2006 02:20 PM
Brokebrain,
NO!, I want to make it absolutely clear to you!!
We, and when I say (we) I mean conservatives, including myself!!,are NOT hypocrites!!, and only demand the truth be told by "HYPOCRITES" SUCH AS YOURSELF!!
You are clueless about what it means to be trained for battle!!, and you like all the rest of the hypocritical left here who hate freedom and mercy for other countries you are exactly like them you could care less about those who are in oppression! and you hate your country the good old U.S. of A! the land of the free and home of the BRAVE!!
So, do me an honor!! hitch a ride on the wing of a 747, and go with god-speed!!
war.
Jeremiah
Posted by: Jeremiah at August 3, 2006 02:29 PM
Mark,
Your desperate rearguard efforts to the contrary, most sentient Americans (and indeed most rational people around the world) correctly assess the Bush policy in Iraq as a colossal disaster. To take nothing away from our fighting men, the bottom line is that they are the ones who are paying the consequence for the misguided, fraudulent, immoral and, ultimately, doomed Mideast misadventures by the Bush team of morally handicapped incompetents..
Even our military leaders can no longer perpetuate the Bush myth that you love retelling so well, that everything is going great, just wait a little longer and it will all work itself out.
Well Mark, it's not working out. Iraq is in a civil war of our making, the infrastructure is ruined, over 2700 of our boys have died, and we have destroyed any standing we had in the Arab world in the process. It is a disaster by any rational measure, and it's getting worse. All Bush and his shills like you can do is to blame it on others while at the same time asking for patience.
Why don't you tell people the truth, Mark. Like the truth about the costs of the Iraq operation. That's something they might be able to understand. Here's some numbers for you...
Excepting costs for social programs, 72% of the US budget is paid for by individiual taxpayers, people like you and me.
Including costs spent for rebuilding, our expenditures so far in Iraq are $436 billion.
72% of $436 billion is $313.92 billion, that is the cost of the Iraq operation borne by individual US taxpayers.
There are 103 million families in the US
The average individual burden per US family of the Bush Iraq operation is $30,477 to date.
Our costs on an ongoing basis in Iraq are currently at $3 billion per week.
$3 billion per week is a weekly burden per US family of $210...that's each week, Mark.
This operation is an unmitigated disaster, Mark. It's time you were honest with your readers...and with yourself.
Too bad you won't have the guts to post this...
Posted by: phil at August 3, 2006 02:38 PM
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=91
Broke,
Just copy and paste the above hyperlink into your web browser, I'm not sure how to exactly "hyperlink" it, but I think the information on this site says oodles about how people have come to realize the dangerous things dems have put into place in the public education system!
The statistics say it all, buddy! So again, I say, PLUG IN BRAIN! The most noted parental comment for home-schooling was "A desire for more Christian related education" and "A lack of safety in public school environment".
This search didn't take long, and it's very easily accessible to the public. The only reason I can find that you choose to differ from the Christian Conservatives opinion on this issue is that you just choose to remain BLIND to the facts.
So, I'll stop telling you to think. I do apologize for getting upset if I did. You can go on remaining blind if you want, it's actually quite fun to sit here and keep re-butting every false arguement that you bring up. So, what do I say now? Keep up the good work! ha ha. You're helping to educate many on the dangerousness of the Liberal way of thinking.
Lucas.
Posted by: Lucas at August 3, 2006 02:48 PM
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=91
Broke,
Just copy and paste the above hyperlink into your web browser, I'm not sure how to exactly "hyperlink" it, but I think the information on this site says oodles about how people have come to realize the dangerous things dems have put into place in the public education system!
The statistics say it all, buddy! So again, I say, PLUG IN BRAIN! The most noted parental comment for home-schooling was "A desire for more Christian related education" and "A lack of safety in public school environment".
This search didn't take long, and it's very easily accessible to the public. The only reason I can find that you choose to differ from the Christian Conservatives opinion on this issue is that you just choose to remain BLIND to the facts.
So, I'll stop telling you to think. I do apologize for getting upset if I did. You can go on remaining blind if you want, it's actually quite fun to sit here and keep re-butting every false arguement that you bring up. So, what do I say now? Keep up the good work! ha ha. You're helping to educate many on the dangerousness of the Liberal way of thinking.
Lucas.
Posted by: Lucas at August 3, 2006 02:50 PM
Broken,
RE: "Yeah, I remember the good ol days of high school. 7 hours a day of putting condoms on cucumbers. What a great time that was."
I'm sure you do! I wonder if you learned anything else!!!
Washington Times, March 05, 2005 --
"The Montgomery County [MD] public school system yesterday announced the three high schools and three middle schools that will participate in a pilot program for a sex education curriculum that has riled some parents and activist groups throughout the county."
"Bethesda Chevy-Chase High School in Bethesda, Seneca Valley High School in Germantown and Springbrook High School in Silver Spring will take part in the high school course in which 10th-graders will be shown how to put condoms on cucumbers."
Washington Post, November 13, 2002 --
"Montgomery County, MD, schools will begin allowing teachers to give condom demonstrations in high school health education classes, school board members agreed in a 4 to 1 vote Tuesday. The vote comes after board members deferred voting in March, saying they needed more information. Since then, school officials learned that four of the eight school systems in the region not only teach about the condom's role in preventing pregnancy and STDs but also demonstrate its proper use. School officials said high school health teachers will use two fingers to demonstrate how to roll and unroll condoms to combat students' 'significant misperceptions' about how they are used. The demonstration will also include a video..."
And after the day's demonstrations, we encourage everyone to go out and practice what you've learned for the day... Tomorrow, we will teach you about abortions... (my comments).
AAR
Posted by: AAR at August 3, 2006 03:17 PM
The problem (and there are many) with the loony left is they don't understand the war on terror (heck, they don't even think there is a war on terror!). They also don't believe we are involved in WWIII ... and we are ... New York, London, Madrid, Bali, all over Africa and the enemy is Islamic extremists.
Posted by: kimberly4bush at August 3, 2006 03:27 PM
AAR,
Whats the problem, if you wrote a note, i'm sure they wouldn't make your kid participate...why are you trying to deprive children from an education...you bastard. or are you just a Fruit-ist?
/s
Posted by: Third Eye Open at August 3, 2006 03:38 PM
TEO,
The problem is liberals and liberalism -- in all things and everything!
For one, we need liberals and liberalism removed from our school systems. We need school vouchers so people can send their children to REAL schools, not the liberal controlled propaganda mills which indoctrinate our children in the ways and views of liberalism. We don't need liberal educators using our own schools and our own tax dollars to brain wash our children contrary to our beliefs and desires!!!
You want your kids taught liberalism, fine. But Conservatives, Christians, and others DO NOT WANT THEIR CHILDREN TAUGHT YOUR LIBERAL AGENDA and [lack of] values!
Liberalism weakens and destroys societies and nations!
AAR
Posted by: AAR at August 3, 2006 04:02 PM
"If you click on the link, you'll see a photo of a Marine on patrol in Barwanah - he's 19 year old Pfc Ethan Nagel.......that is courage - that is what gives us all faith in the future of our nation - that in spite of relentless leftwing propaganda, there are still Americans who will step up and do their duty."
And if Pfc Nagel manages to get out of Iraq alive and decides to have a beer or two back home to celebrate his good fortune, this 19 year old "defender of freedom" can be arrested and thrown into jail in his own country for underage drinking.
Isn't that amazing - a 19 year old soldier old enough to be sent into a foreign war to kill or be killed - yet not old enough to have a beer in his own country without getting arrested.
Instead of worrying about "freedom" in Iraq, maybe we should be worrying about the loss of freedom in our own country.
Posted by: jack at August 3, 2006 04:05 PM
AAR,
"we need liberals and liberalism removed from our school systems. We need school vouchers so people can send their children to REAL schools, not the liberal controlled propaganda mills which indoctrinate our children in the ways and views of liberalism"
--If you remove the liberals, how are they still going to be "liberal controlled propaganda mills"?
"Liberalism weakens and destroys societies and nations!"
--What about the conservative ideologies which destroy societies and nations...Afghanistan, Iran, Nazi Germany, North Korea, Stalinistic Russia, etc. etc. etc.
Posted by: Third Eye Open at August 3, 2006 04:06 PM
Lucas & AAR...
I don't understand how you are responding to what I wrote. Lucas, your site shows nothing about what kids are being taught in public schools, only why parents pulled their kids out of schools. Of course some parents do not like the public school system. Most of these people would probably not be happy with public school short of teaching the Bible, posting the 10 commandments, and christian prayer. Your site shows that 1.1 million kids were homeschooled in 2003. While that number is growing it is still quite small compared to how many kids are school age.
AAR, I never stated that schools do not teach sex education. I find it funny because you make it sound like this is the only thing being taught in schools. Sex education is an exremely small portion of what kids are learning in school. To refresh, here is what you said:
they have been trained by our liberal education system in "how to put condoms on cucumbers" but not in history, civics, English, math, science, and in all of the other areas that they need.
See, you act like students are not being taught anything else except safe sex. This is simply wrong.
I want to see statistics showing what percentage of time kids are taught the various subjects, from sex to history, etc. and for it to show that sex is being taught more than the other subjects. Then I will blame liberals for all the world's problems.
Anyway, I'm more interested in why Noonan thinks it is OK for him to profit off of the likeness of a soldier.
Posted by: Brokeback at August 3, 2006 04:12 PM
Lucas & AAR,
You have not even come close to showing want I need to see to join your crusade. Here is what I asked for:
If you have some nationwide statistic showing kids spend more time in school learning about sex than all the other topics then I will go along with AAR and start blaming liberals for all the problems in the world.
Yes, sex ed is being taught in schools. I never argued that point. But it is an extremly small portion of what kids learn. You make it sound like it is the only thing.
And yes, some parents don't like public schools Lucas, so what? It does not show what kids are being taught in schools and how much in relation to other subjects. There will always be freaks that don't like public schools unless they teach the bible, post the 10 commandments, and allow school sponsored prayers. Your site states 1.1 million kids are homeschooled, still a small percentage of kids of school age.
Posted by: Brokeback at August 3, 2006 05:08 PM
I find it quite amusing who the CONs here change the subject to schools and sex education when they can't comment on the actual subject,, that is iraq and it civil war, as noted by their heros,, the generals over there. not the so called liberal press ..but their own heros... so they change the subject and more on thinking they are so clever and smart
Posted by: OhioGolfer at August 3, 2006 05:30 PM
make that HOW the CONS,,, sorry for the fat fingers before they ignore my statements and tell me i had a bad liberal education
Posted by: OhioGolfer at August 3, 2006 05:32 PM
and to brokeback and TEO you are playing into their game,, when you can't successfully argue the point in discussion, change the subject.. DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!!!!
Posted by: OhioGolfer at August 3, 2006 05:36 PM
(Could be a double post... hopefully not.)
Broke,
RE: "I don't understand how you are responding to what I wrote."
Go back through the comments and maybe you will see the link. But... you missed the point I was making. Kids aren't being taught to think, nor are they being taught the information on which to think. They are being taught the liberal version of subjects including history, civics (government), and the Constitution. Go back and check some of the history books from the 50's and compare them with those written today. Liberals concentrate on things that mean something to them -- sex education, gay education, abortion enlighten, etc. -- when our children are falling further behind as we spend even more on education. Listen to some of the simple questions teenagers and young adults are asked on Jay Leno. It's pathetic some of the things they don't know. Look back at some of the findings on today's education. Many kids can't even find New Jersey, Iraq, or the Pacific Ocean on a map. They can't see the facts in our war on terror. They support the terrorists and ignore what terrorists doing. They don't understand that people and nations can't just sit down and talk to terrorists or people like Hezbollah and Hamas and "make them understand" or "act like we want them to act". They don't understand that sometimes we must fight. They don't understand the ramifications of encouraging terrorists by avoiding a confrontation with them. And to top it off, our children are trapped in those public schools. But that's just a start....
You're right. That is not the topic of this thread. Perhaps we will continue on the open thread tomorrow. If not, another time.
OhioGolfer,
I wouldn't have expected you to understand where I was leading -- and you didn't!
You do have to fill in some of the blanks and work out some of the relationships to the subject at hand. That's part of thinking.
AAR
Posted by: AAR at August 3, 2006 07:52 PM
A segment of the Presidents Inaugural address January 20, 2005.
"From the perspective of a single day, including this day of dedication, the issues and questions before our country are many. From the viewpoint of centuries, the questions that come to us are narrowed and few. Did our generation advance the cause of freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cause?
These questions that judge us also unite us, because Americans of every party and background, Americans by choice and by birth, are bound to one another in the cause of freedom. We have known divisions, which must be healed to move forward in great purposes--and I will strive in good faith to heal them. Yet those divisions do not define America. We felt the unity and fellowship of our nation when freedom came under attack, and our response came like a single hand over a single heart. And we can feel that same unity and pride whenever America acts for good, and the victims of disaster are given hope, and the unjust encounter justice, and the captives are set free."
"May God bless you, and may he watch over the United States of America." by: George W. Bush
A round of applause for Mr. President George W. Bush, The Greatest! President EVER!!!!
He said right there why we fight for freedom, and all that America stands for, and apply appropriately to why the army and marines are at there finest, to be all we can be!!!
And I thank him many times over, for his dedication to the American people!
:)
Jeremiah
Posted by: Jeremiah at August 3, 2006 11:07 PM
Jeremiah....
We have known divisions, which must be healed to move forward in great purposes--and I will strive in good faith to heal them.
Please tell me just what actions your Greatest! President EVER!!!! has done tp "heal" those divisions??
Posted by: OhioGolfer at August 4, 2006 07:56 AM
Mr Golfer,
Sometimes in order to heal up the wounds, you must open old wounds first. If that means removing the Taliban, the Hezbollah then so be it.
And as far as trying to explain something to the opposing party, the only wound is the Democrats that have taken that ONCE great foundation and literally destroyed it.
You cannot reason with the likes of Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Michael Moore, Robert Byrd, Bill Clinton, Barbara Streisand, John Murtha (a traitor to our American Armed force men on the battle front-and America).
and others I won't name.
These people have one agenda CONTROL..CONTROL..if that means joining with the enemies of this nation so be it.
That's sad, don't you think?
As far as the greatest President, sir George W. Bush will go down into History as our Greatest President, because it prevented you from possibly "Licking the Boots of the Taliban".
Isn't freedom sweet............
I hope you appreciate that when you swing those clubs on those beautiful greens.
Trying doing that in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan,
try moving to Iran and speak against their great beloved leader and see what you lose.....
God help America
Posted by: truthisright at August 4, 2006 10:41 PM
Mr Golfer,
Sometimes in order to heal up the wounds, you must open old wounds first. If that means removing the Taliban, the Hezbollah then so be it.
And as far as trying to explain something to the opposing party, the only wound is the Democrats that have taken that ONCE great foundation and literally destroyed it.
You cannot reason with the likes of Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Michael Moore, Robert Byrd, Bill Clinton, Barbara Streisand, John Murtha (a traitor to our American Armed force men on the battle front-and America).
and others I won't name.
These people have one agenda CONTROL..CONTROL..if that means joining with the enemies of this nation so be it.
That's sad, don't you think?
As far as the greatest President, sir George W. Bush will go down into History as our Greatest President, because it prevented you from possibly "Licking the Boots of the Taliban".
Isn't freedom sweet............
I hope you appreciate that when you swing those clubs on those beautiful greens.
Trying doing that in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan,
try moving to Iran and speak against their great beloved leader and see what you lose.....
God help America
Posted by: truthisright at August 4, 2006 10:45 PM
OG - How is he supposed to overcome the blind hate of the wacko left? Any suggestions?
Posted by: Kahn at August 4, 2006 11:20 PM
"Please tell me just what actions your Greatest! President EVER!!!! has done tp "heal" those divisions??"
OhioGolfer,
Let me ask you a question, How can the president heal these wounds that the democrats have created?
When the President tries to talk to the democrats he is so doggedly bombarded by insults and slander that he can't even get a word in edgeways!!
All the while he continues to be patient with them and baby-sit them!
The president wants better schooling for our children, the liberals say NO!!
The president wants to help those less fortunate by removing the evil forces surrounding them, the liberals say NO!
The president wants marriage to stay within the confines of man and woman ONLY, so as to have a means in which children have the proper and necessary up-bringing!! the liberals say NO!
The president wants to raise the minimum wage so that people will have enough to live a decent living, the liberals say NO!
The president wants to ban the abhorrent murdering of un-born children, the liberals say NO!
The president wants to keep illegals out of America so the AMERICANS! will have more oppotunities for jobs, the liberals say NO!
The president wants to drill for oil in America so we can become less dependent on foreign supplies and save AMERICA! TRILLIONS OF TAX-PAYER DOLLARS!!, the liberals say NO!!
So how can he heal the wounds if the liberals stand in the way?
The liberal democrats have caused so much damage to America, that we are split wide open and have no strength or means in which to join the broken peices together!!
If there is ever a wound to America it is the Liberal Democratic party, bar none!!
They are terrorist communers praising them when they kill our troops, so they will have and excuse in order to spit on, and spew lies about the president, the democratic party is nothing but a mere peice of rotten sewage!! they reak of poison to the very arteries that have kept America safe in times of danger!!
I hope Mr. Murtha gets the justice he deserves!, and told that he cannot serve in any way for government purposes!!, because he is a PATHETICAL LIAR TO THE CORE!!
The American people need to be made aware of the TRUTH!!
They are being fed so many bare-faced lies by the democrats it isn't worth the cause of another tax-payer dollar to support one of them for a government position, but America has got to wake up to this sense; and see through these idiotologist terrorist minded liberal demoncrats, But sadly to say so many in America have chosen this path, that only leads to the eventual downfall of a strong and prosperous country!!
No, the only way is the hard way, the safe way,THE GEORGE BUSH WAY, THE MORAL AND RIGHT WAY! and that is to fight for what is right with all our might to save America from these terrorist loving liberal government dictators!!
And that is why I quote my Presidents words because I greatly appreciate his un-wavering struggle to free the innocent civilians from the hands of terrorists, because he he's got what it takes to see through these sick people! and because of his enduring love of this great land and country that we live in, because HE IS a TRUE; AMERICAN!! WORTHY OF the RESPECT AND PRAISE! that he is long overdue by so many in America!!
So!, OhioGolfer, if you wonder why we have not been able to heal the wounds to the civil debate at home? it is because of YOU!! YOU LIBERAL DEMOCRATS!!
LET'S FIGHT THE AMERICAN WAY!, THE CONSERVATIVE WAY, WITH JESUS ON OUR SIDE!!
Jeremiah
Posted by: Jeremiah at August 5, 2006 12:07 AM
Really Mark? Would you consider the statements, made public today, from Britain’s ambassador to Iraq “leftwing propaganda”?
William Patey, Britain's ambassador in Baghdad:
"The prospect of a low intensity civil war and a de facto division of Iraq is probably more likely at this stage than a successful and substantial transition to a stable democracy.
"Even the lowered expectation of President Bush for Iraq - a government that can sustain itself, defend itself and govern itself and is an ally in the war on terror - must remain in doubt."
Ever more to the point of Patey's comments.. from todays news.....
The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East told Congress on Thursday that “Iraq could move toward civil war” if the raging sectarian violence in Baghdad is not stopped.
“I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I have seen it,” Gen. John Abizaid, the commander of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Mark, here are the ranting of more leftwing “cut and run” traitors (from today’s armed services committee hearings):
"I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I have seen it," Gen. John Abizaid, the commander of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"Shiite and Sunni are going to have to love their children more than they hate each other," Pace said, before the tensions can be overcome. "The weight of that must be on the Iraqi people and the Iraqi government."
Abizaid also said under questioning that it was possible that U.S. casualties could rise as a result of the battle to contain sectarian violence in the capital.
"I think it's possible that in the period ahead of us in Baghdad that we'll take increased casualties _ that's possible," he said.
Barneyg2000, OhioGolfer,
Yes... good news from the liberal viewpoint.
Maybe tens of thousands -- hundreds of thousands -- could be killed to feed your liberal propaganda mill.
You liberals have done all you can by your incessant propaganda to encourage the terrorists to blow up American troops and Iraqi families and to set the ground work for a civil war. The terrorists blow up one side or another and wait for the other side to retaliate and kill more. With each attack, the looney left calls for more retreat. The terrorists watch the news, and blow up even more to support the liberal left Democrat's goals! And with each terrorist attack -- in support of the spineless weak willed liberal Democrats -- that pushes the country closer to civil war.
It's up to the Iraqi people to decide what happens now. If they want to stop the violence and turn in the perpetrators, they can. If they want to sit back and blow each other up, they can. If the minority Sunnis want to commit suicide -- that's their choice. Otherwise, they can face the facts that they no longer run the country!
The main concern we have is that the final outcome does not allow terrorists to control the country and use it as a base of operations for more terrorism -- that includes not permitting Iraq to be run by Iran or Syria.
Yes you liberals... if there is a civil war... you can take personal pleasure and gleefully rejoice in knowing that you have done everything you can to encourage it!
AAR
I love the way that the right feels it can co-opt anything, and everything to do with the military; That soldiers and actions with regards to war are somehow part-and-parcel of the Republican ideology.
This administration still refuses reality to instead grasp at imaginary straws which will somehow, someway, someday prove their ideology of 'remaking' the ME into a gentri-passive oil-producing, homogeneous bastion of democracy, is possible and should be repeated.
Instead of actually argue the premise behind the idea, they fall-back on the worn-out tactic of hiding behind the earned-honor of those in uniform, to deflect the pointy sticks of facts from their zeppelin of absurdity.
let me remind you that the most senior of military personel is still lower on the food-chain than the lowliest of civilian, and while the old addage of not asking 'why, but only to do and die' is strong with these folks, the civilians are getting pretty damn restless of turning corners whiel we watch civil war mount, while Iraq is losing more people in a month, than we lost in 9/11, so let's start focusing on the policy, and stop living your GI Joe fantasies vicariously through the nubile bodies of those you paraded to a senseless war.
AAR, not sure why you respond to their innane comments. In fact, I just need to stop reading the comments. The only thing left on this board is liberal drivel. I like to read Mark and Matt's news reports and commentary however! It's very good.
Today Gen. Abizaid, said the number Sunni insurgents was between 10,000 and 20,000 fighters. Let’s see what he said in 2003:
On 14 November 2003 General John Abizaid, the head of US Central Command, estimated the number of fighters operating against US and allied forces at no more than 5,000, and said the insurgency remained a loosely organized operation.
Maybe things were better in 2004? According to a report in the NY Times, the number of fighters increased to 12,000:
The New York Times reported on 22 October 2004 that senior American officials believed that “hard-core resistance” comprised between 8,000 and 12,000 people,
So progress in Iraq is measured by the increasing number of Iraqis trying to kill us?
Everything bad that happens seems always to be a liberal or democrats fault huh?
How about owning up and taking responsibility for what has happened. I believe Iraq is already in civil war and denial,for some people,is the easiest.
What's this "us against them" crap? We are all in this together. The plan that the Rightwing warmongers gave to "us" isn't working out, so it's time to move along. As for the 19 year old kid; statistics indicate that there have been more deaths in the age group 30-50 then in the 20 and under age group in Iraq. Peace
Golly gee, the war has spun out of control -- better get Matt and Mark over there to tell those folks what a great time they're really having. It's a beautiful Republican world!
Art Patscheck,
RE: "AAR, not sure why you respond to their inane comments. In fact, I just need to stop reading the comments. The only thing left on this board is liberal drivel."
Only to give the readers something to think about other than the "liberal drivel". That's all most people get from most of the news and liberal Democrats. If that's all people hear, read, and see... it's no wonder people believe the way they do. Liberals make some "sound good" statements and people are taken in by them. Most people today can't think -- they have been trained by our liberal education system in "how to put condoms on cucumbers" but not in history, civics, English, math, science, and in all of the other areas that they need. People have been indoctrinated by the left and lack the ability or knowledge to think for themselves.
Personally, I would prefer they go somewhere else and talk among themselves -- preferably France! I don't agree with anything they say and they are destroying America.
The only purpose liberals serve on this blog is to dump their loads of mental garbage so we can see it without having to go to another site and sort through the "mother load". Their inane and idiotic thoughts, opinions, comments, and beliefs also provide unlimited opportunities for more comments from others. And... without the liberal drivel posted their by their own hands, who would ever believe that such insanity actually exists!
Liberals offer and specialize in "brain candy" which is just as destructive to the mind and society as sugar filled candy is to the body!
AAR
Morphie,
Liberals and liberalism are enablers of terrorists and terrorism!
AAR
AAR,
Neo-Conservative cheerleaders are the ones who have the same talking points as OBL et. al, both are frothing about the jowls for this war of Liberal-West vs. Militant-East, so why are you and OBL so ideologically close?
they have been trained by our liberal education system in "how to put condoms on cucumbers" but not in history, civics, English, math, science, and in all of the other areas that they need.
Yeah, I remember the good ol days of high school. 7 hours a day of putting condoms on cucumbers. What a great time that was.
Honestly, how crazy do you have to be to believe that history, english, math and science are not being taught in high schools and colleges?
I wonder where all the conservatives who post here and obviously think so highly of their intellectual abilities think they got their education from? Were you all home scholed? Did you teach yourself math and science? Wait a minute, science... Nah, most of you deny science.
I have to hope AAR is a spoof, because otherwise that is some scary beliefs you have.
TEO seems to forget that every time OBL and his cronnies put out a video, they use identical left wing talking points. Makes me sick.
Notice how not one of the left loonies on this blog said anything good about our troops. Not surprising, though.
God bless all of our wonderful troops!
Noonan, do you know this individual? Do you know that he is a conservative? Do you believe that only conservatives serve in the military? You seem to be jumping to a lot of conclusions without any evidence.
Did you get permission from this individual to use his likeness for your republican propaganda? You don't want soldiers' names printed on t-shirts, but it is OK to print their names on your extremist, conservative propaganda website which you profit from.
Can we all say it together: HYPOCRITE!!!
Broke,
What AAR is hitting at is that more pressure has been put on teaching kids how to put condoms on cucumbers, and how to substitute other ways of fulfilling sexual "needs" than has been put on the major subjects of life. So, what do I say to you? Plug in brain before opening mouth!!
AAR never insinuated that the four subject regions aren't being TAUGHT he merely stated they weren't being TRAINED. There is a much bigger difference. And it's all thanks to the Clinton administration and their "safe sex" SICK idiotology, that has brought the schools down to this. Yet at the same time they preach that if an accidental pregnancy does occur, then the baby should have its brains sucked out because it isn't "a confirmed human life".
Do a little more thinking before posting next time, Brokebrain.
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To Kimberly:
I'll say AMEN to that!! GOD BLESS THE TROOPS AND THE NATION!!
"I wonder where all the conservatives who post here and obviously think so highly of their intellectual abilities think they got their education from? Were you all home scholed? Did you teach yourself math and science? Wait a minute, science... Nah, most of you deny science."
No, brokebrain, We went to SCHOOLS unlike yourself!!
We were taught how to read, write, AND THINK, and we were taught good manners, and how to treat people with RESPECT!!
Take your idiocy elsewhere, abomination!!
If you want to come back and learn something and take it to use, and make it worth OUR time, then that would be excellentiay el chico!!
AND...........LEAVE AAR ALONE!, HE IS NOT A SPOOF!
AND NEITHER AM I!! So, hit the road jack and don't come back!!
Jeremiah
Kimberly,
It makes me sick too, to hear all the same excuses for why war is innevitable.
Have you been paying attention to this crap recently appearing on your local cable news channel? Talk of WWIII or IV, or the march to nuclear war with Iran and Syria...these are teh same points that OBL and AQ are making, talking about the impending war between East and West...so why are you guys walking lockstep with these guys, asking for the same war they want?
A little more thinking? AAR makes an absolutely ludicrous, no basis in fact statement and you ask me to think more?
Do you believe kids spend more time learning about sex or all the other subjects in school? How much time do you think the average kid spends a day learning about sex from a teacher? Do you have any evidence to prove any of these points or do you only have what rush, oreilly, and hannity have told you. If you have some nationwide statistic showing kids spend more time in school learning about sex than all the other topics then I will go along with AAR and start blaming liberals for all the problems in the world.
And what do you define as being the difference between being taught and being trained? How are you supposed to train in history? What do you think happens in math and science classes all day? Maybe the teaching of theories and formulas and then training in how to apply them.
Tell me exactly how you would change schools from what they do now. But first, you must show me, using evidence and sources, exactly what schools are doing now. Do you even know?
Don't point out an individual case, show me what the average student classes are and how they are being taught. Then explain how you would do that.
Let me guess, you don't want to spend the time to actually find out what goes on for most students throughout this country; you would rather just assume it is all about cucumbers and abortions. Prove me wrong.
Jeremiah, you are a riot. But tone things down just a bit. I mean, the conservatives on this site are quite often hypocritical, but you may not want to make it so blatently obvious. That would be more convincing.
TEO,
You are hopeless!, You have got to realize that we are going to deal with OBL, Just like we did SH, and AL.Z. This war has nothing to do with what OBL has to say!, but about what WE the American people want, and what might that be? well, you think about it, would'nt it be in the interest of this great country we live in to try to protect it, the way we always have!!, You are listening to hillry to much!, she lied numerous times this morning in an interview with, Donald Rumsfeld, she lied straight to his face, and he told her right there!!
So stop the hypocrisy!!
You want "peace" for YOU!! and could care-less about the American people!!, let alone the rest of the world who is under the hands of communist dictators!!
The terrorist will get the justice they are due and I am super glad that my President, George W. Bush is the one doing it!!
If it was left up to Big Billy, We would all be in our graves!!, OBL would have already bombed every power grid, and every major city in the U.S.A!!
So do me a favor!, Go hide under a rock and stay there!!
Jeremiah
TEO,
You are hopeless!, You have got to realize that we are going to deal with OBL, Just like we did SH, and AL.Z. This war has nothing to do with what OBL has to say!, but about what WE the American people want, and what might that be? well, you think about it, would'nt it be in the interest of this great country we live in to try to protect it, the way we always have!!, You are listening to hillry to much!, she lied numerous times this morning in an interview with, Donald Rumsfeld, she lied straight to his face, and he told her right there!!
So stop the hypocrisy!!
You want "peace" for YOU!! and could care-less about the American people!!, let alone the rest of the world who is under the hands of communist dictators!!
The terrorist will get the justice they are due and I am super glad that my President, George W. Bush is the one doing it!!
If it was left up to Big Billy, We would all be in our graves!!, OBL would have already bombed every power grid, and every major city in the U.S.A!!
So do me a favor!, Go hide under a rock and stay there!!
Jeremiah
Yeah, I remember the good ol days of high school. 7 hours a day of putting condoms on cucumbers. What a great time that was.
Must be where you got your "nick" too, right? Your last name IS "Mountain" right?
Brokebrain,
NO!, I want to make it absolutely clear to you!!
We, and when I say (we) I mean conservatives, including myself!!,are NOT hypocrites!!, and only demand the truth be told by "HYPOCRITES" SUCH AS YOURSELF!!
You are clueless about what it means to be trained for battle!!, and you like all the rest of the hypocritical left here who hate freedom and mercy for other countries you are exactly like them you could care less about those who are in oppression! and you hate your country the good old U.S. of A! the land of the free and home of the BRAVE!!
So, do me an honor!! hitch a ride on the wing of a 747, and go with god-speed!!
war.
Jeremiah
Mark,
Your desperate rearguard efforts to the contrary, most sentient Americans (and indeed most rational people around the world) correctly assess the Bush policy in Iraq as a colossal disaster. To take nothing away from our fighting men, the bottom line is that they are the ones who are paying the consequence for the misguided, fraudulent, immoral and, ultimately, doomed Mideast misadventures by the Bush team of morally handicapped incompetents..
Even our military leaders can no longer perpetuate the Bush myth that you love retelling so well, that everything is going great, just wait a little longer and it will all work itself out.
Well Mark, it's not working out. Iraq is in a civil war of our making, the infrastructure is ruined, over 2700 of our boys have died, and we have destroyed any standing we had in the Arab world in the process. It is a disaster by any rational measure, and it's getting worse. All Bush and his shills like you can do is to blame it on others while at the same time asking for patience.
Why don't you tell people the truth, Mark. Like the truth about the costs of the Iraq operation. That's something they might be able to understand. Here's some numbers for you...
Excepting costs for social programs, 72% of the US budget is paid for by individiual taxpayers, people like you and me.
Including costs spent for rebuilding, our expenditures so far in Iraq are $436 billion.
72% of $436 billion is $313.92 billion, that is the cost of the Iraq operation borne by individual US taxpayers.
There are 103 million families in the US
The average individual burden per US family of the Bush Iraq operation is $30,477 to date.
Our costs on an ongoing basis in Iraq are currently at $3 billion per week.
$3 billion per week is a weekly burden per US family of $210...that's each week, Mark.
This operation is an unmitigated disaster, Mark. It's time you were honest with your readers...and with yourself.
Too bad you won't have the guts to post this...
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=91
Broke,
Just copy and paste the above hyperlink into your web browser, I'm not sure how to exactly "hyperlink" it, but I think the information on this site says oodles about how people have come to realize the dangerous things dems have put into place in the public education system!
The statistics say it all, buddy! So again, I say, PLUG IN BRAIN! The most noted parental comment for home-schooling was "A desire for more Christian related education" and "A lack of safety in public school environment".
This search didn't take long, and it's very easily accessible to the public. The only reason I can find that you choose to differ from the Christian Conservatives opinion on this issue is that you just choose to remain BLIND to the facts.
So, I'll stop telling you to think. I do apologize for getting upset if I did. You can go on remaining blind if you want, it's actually quite fun to sit here and keep re-butting every false arguement that you bring up. So, what do I say now? Keep up the good work! ha ha. You're helping to educate many on the dangerousness of the Liberal way of thinking.
Lucas.
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=91
Broke,
Just copy and paste the above hyperlink into your web browser, I'm not sure how to exactly "hyperlink" it, but I think the information on this site says oodles about how people have come to realize the dangerous things dems have put into place in the public education system!
The statistics say it all, buddy! So again, I say, PLUG IN BRAIN! The most noted parental comment for home-schooling was "A desire for more Christian related education" and "A lack of safety in public school environment".
This search didn't take long, and it's very easily accessible to the public. The only reason I can find that you choose to differ from the Christian Conservatives opinion on this issue is that you just choose to remain BLIND to the facts.
So, I'll stop telling you to think. I do apologize for getting upset if I did. You can go on remaining blind if you want, it's actually quite fun to sit here and keep re-butting every false arguement that you bring up. So, what do I say now? Keep up the good work! ha ha. You're helping to educate many on the dangerousness of the Liberal way of thinking.
Lucas.
Broken,
RE: "Yeah, I remember the good ol days of high school. 7 hours a day of putting condoms on cucumbers. What a great time that was."
I'm sure you do! I wonder if you learned anything else!!!
Washington Times, March 05, 2005 --
"The Montgomery County [MD] public school system yesterday announced the three high schools and three middle schools that will participate in a pilot program for a sex education curriculum that has riled some parents and activist groups throughout the county."
"Bethesda Chevy-Chase High School in Bethesda, Seneca Valley High School in Germantown and Springbrook High School in Silver Spring will take part in the high school course in which 10th-graders will be shown how to put condoms on cucumbers."
Washington Post, November 13, 2002 --
"Montgomery County, MD, schools will begin allowing teachers to give condom demonstrations in high school health education classes, school board members agreed in a 4 to 1 vote Tuesday. The vote comes after board members deferred voting in March, saying they needed more information. Since then, school officials learned that four of the eight school systems in the region not only teach about the condom's role in preventing pregnancy and STDs but also demonstrate its proper use. School officials said high school health teachers will use two fingers to demonstrate how to roll and unroll condoms to combat students' 'significant misperceptions' about how they are used. The demonstration will also include a video..."
And after the day's demonstrations, we encourage everyone to go out and practice what you've learned for the day... Tomorrow, we will teach you about abortions... (my comments).
AAR
The problem (and there are many) with the loony left is they don't understand the war on terror (heck, they don't even think there is a war on terror!). They also don't believe we are involved in WWIII ... and we are ... New York, London, Madrid, Bali, all over Africa and the enemy is Islamic extremists.
AAR,
Whats the problem, if you wrote a note, i'm sure they wouldn't make your kid participate...why are you trying to deprive children from an education...you bastard. or are you just a Fruit-ist?
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TEO,
The problem is liberals and liberalism -- in all things and everything!
For one, we need liberals and liberalism removed from our school systems. We need school vouchers so people can send their children to REAL schools, not the liberal controlled propaganda mills which indoctrinate our children in the ways and views of liberalism. We don't need liberal educators using our own schools and our own tax dollars to brain wash our children contrary to our beliefs and desires!!!
You want your kids taught liberalism, fine. But Conservatives, Christians, and others DO NOT WANT THEIR CHILDREN TAUGHT YOUR LIBERAL AGENDA and [lack of] values!
Liberalism weakens and destroys societies and nations!
AAR
"If you click on the link, you'll see a photo of a Marine on patrol in Barwanah - he's 19 year old Pfc Ethan Nagel.......that is courage - that is what gives us all faith in the future of our nation - that in spite of relentless leftwing propaganda, there are still Americans who will step up and do their duty."
And if Pfc Nagel manages to get out of Iraq alive and decides to have a beer or two back home to celebrate his good fortune, this 19 year old "defender of freedom" can be arrested and thrown into jail in his own country for underage drinking.
Isn't that amazing - a 19 year old soldier old enough to be sent into a foreign war to kill or be killed - yet not old enough to have a beer in his own country without getting arrested.
Instead of worrying about "freedom" in Iraq, maybe we should be worrying about the loss of freedom in our own country.
AAR,
"we need liberals and liberalism removed from our school systems. We need school vouchers so people can send their children to REAL schools, not the liberal controlled propaganda mills which indoctrinate our children in the ways and views of liberalism"
--If you remove the liberals, how are they still going to be "liberal controlled propaganda mills"?
"Liberalism weakens and destroys societies and nations!"
--What about the conservative ideologies which destroy societies and nations...Afghanistan, Iran, Nazi Germany, North Korea, Stalinistic Russia, etc. etc. etc.
Lucas & AAR...
I don't understand how you are responding to what I wrote. Lucas, your site shows nothing about what kids are being taught in public schools, only why parents pulled their kids out of schools. Of course some parents do not like the public school system. Most of these people would probably not be happy with public school short of teaching the Bible, posting the 10 commandments, and christian prayer. Your site shows that 1.1 million kids were homeschooled in 2003. While that number is growing it is still quite small compared to how many kids are school age.
AAR, I never stated that schools do not teach sex education. I find it funny because you make it sound like this is the only thing being taught in schools. Sex education is an exremely small portion of what kids are learning in school. To refresh, here is what you said:
they have been trained by our liberal education system in "how to put condoms on cucumbers" but not in history, civics, English, math, science, and in all of the other areas that they need.
See, you act like students are not being taught anything else except safe sex. This is simply wrong.
I want to see statistics showing what percentage of time kids are taught the various subjects, from sex to history, etc. and for it to show that sex is being taught more than the other subjects. Then I will blame liberals for all the world's problems.
Anyway, I'm more interested in why Noonan thinks it is OK for him to profit off of the likeness of a soldier.
Lucas & AAR,
You have not even come close to showing want I need to see to join your crusade. Here is what I asked for:
If you have some nationwide statistic showing kids spend more time in school learning about sex than all the other topics then I will go along with AAR and start blaming liberals for all the problems in the world.
Yes, sex ed is being taught in schools. I never argued that point. But it is an extremly small portion of what kids learn. You make it sound like it is the only thing.
And yes, some parents don't like public schools Lucas, so what? It does not show what kids are being taught in schools and how much in relation to other subjects. There will always be freaks that don't like public schools unless they teach the bible, post the 10 commandments, and allow school sponsored prayers. Your site states 1.1 million kids are homeschooled, still a small percentage of kids of school age.
I find it quite amusing who the CONs here change the subject to schools and sex education when they can't comment on the actual subject,, that is iraq and it civil war, as noted by their heros,, the generals over there. not the so called liberal press ..but their own heros... so they change the subject and more on thinking they are so clever and smart
make that HOW the CONS,,, sorry for the fat fingers before they ignore my statements and tell me i had a bad liberal education
and to brokeback and TEO you are playing into their game,, when you can't successfully argue the point in discussion, change the subject.. DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!!!!
(Could be a double post... hopefully not.)
Broke,
RE: "I don't understand how you are responding to what I wrote."
Go back through the comments and maybe you will see the link. But... you missed the point I was making. Kids aren't being taught to think, nor are they being taught the information on which to think. They are being taught the liberal version of subjects including history, civics (government), and the Constitution. Go back and check some of the history books from the 50's and compare them with those written today. Liberals concentrate on things that mean something to them -- sex education, gay education, abortion enlighten, etc. -- when our children are falling further behind as we spend even more on education. Listen to some of the simple questions teenagers and young adults are asked on Jay Leno. It's pathetic some of the things they don't know. Look back at some of the findings on today's education. Many kids can't even find New Jersey, Iraq, or the Pacific Ocean on a map. They can't see the facts in our war on terror. They support the terrorists and ignore what terrorists doing. They don't understand that people and nations can't just sit down and talk to terrorists or people like Hezbollah and Hamas and "make them understand" or "act like we want them to act". They don't understand that sometimes we must fight. They don't understand the ramifications of encouraging terrorists by avoiding a confrontation with them. And to top it off, our children are trapped in those public schools. But that's just a start....
You're right. That is not the topic of this thread. Perhaps we will continue on the open thread tomorrow. If not, another time.
OhioGolfer,
I wouldn't have expected you to understand where I was leading -- and you didn't!
You do have to fill in some of the blanks and work out some of the relationships to the subject at hand. That's part of thinking.
AAR
A segment of the Presidents Inaugural address January 20, 2005.
"From the perspective of a single day, including this day of dedication, the issues and questions before our country are many. From the viewpoint of centuries, the questions that come to us are narrowed and few. Did our generation advance the cause of freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cause?
These questions that judge us also unite us, because Americans of every party and background, Americans by choice and by birth, are bound to one another in the cause of freedom. We have known divisions, which must be healed to move forward in great purposes--and I will strive in good faith to heal them. Yet those divisions do not define America. We felt the unity and fellowship of our nation when freedom came under attack, and our response came like a single hand over a single heart. And we can feel that same unity and pride whenever America acts for good, and the victims of disaster are given hope, and the unjust encounter justice, and the captives are set free."
"May God bless you, and may he watch over the United States of America." by: George W. Bush
A round of applause for Mr. President George W. Bush, The Greatest! President EVER!!!!
He said right there why we fight for freedom, and all that America stands for, and apply appropriately to why the army and marines are at there finest, to be all we can be!!!
And I thank him many times over, for his dedication to the American people!
:)
Jeremiah
Jeremiah....
We have known divisions, which must be healed to move forward in great purposes--and I will strive in good faith to heal them.
Please tell me just what actions your Greatest! President EVER!!!! has done tp "heal" those divisions??
Mr Golfer,
Sometimes in order to heal up the wounds, you must open old wounds first. If that means removing the Taliban, the Hezbollah then so be it.
And as far as trying to explain something to the opposing party, the only wound is the Democrats that have taken that ONCE great foundation and literally destroyed it.
You cannot reason with the likes of Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Michael Moore, Robert Byrd, Bill Clinton, Barbara Streisand, John Murtha (a traitor to our American Armed force men on the battle front-and America).
and others I won't name.
These people have one agenda CONTROL..CONTROL..if that means joining with the enemies of this nation so be it.
That's sad, don't you think?
As far as the greatest President, sir George W. Bush will go down into History as our Greatest President, because it prevented you from possibly "Licking the Boots of the Taliban".
Isn't freedom sweet............
I hope you appreciate that when you swing those clubs on those beautiful greens.
Trying doing that in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan,
try moving to Iran and speak against their great beloved leader and see what you lose.....
God help America
Mr Golfer,
Sometimes in order to heal up the wounds, you must open old wounds first. If that means removing the Taliban, the Hezbollah then so be it.
And as far as trying to explain something to the opposing party, the only wound is the Democrats that have taken that ONCE great foundation and literally destroyed it.
You cannot reason with the likes of Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Michael Moore, Robert Byrd, Bill Clinton, Barbara Streisand, John Murtha (a traitor to our American Armed force men on the battle front-and America).
and others I won't name.
These people have one agenda CONTROL..CONTROL..if that means joining with the enemies of this nation so be it.
That's sad, don't you think?
As far as the greatest President, sir George W. Bush will go down into History as our Greatest President, because it prevented you from possibly "Licking the Boots of the Taliban".
Isn't freedom sweet............
I hope you appreciate that when you swing those clubs on those beautiful greens.
Trying doing that in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan,
try moving to Iran and speak against their great beloved leader and see what you lose.....
God help America
OG - How is he supposed to overcome the blind hate of the wacko left? Any suggestions?
"Please tell me just what actions your Greatest! President EVER!!!! has done tp "heal" those divisions??"
OhioGolfer,
Let me ask you a question, How can the president heal these wounds that the democrats have created?
When the President tries to talk to the democrats he is so doggedly bombarded by insults and slander that he can't even get a word in edgeways!!
All the while he continues to be patient with them and baby-sit them!
The president wants better schooling for our children, the liberals say NO!!
The president wants to help those less fortunate by removing the evil forces surrounding them, the liberals say NO!
The president wants marriage to stay within the confines of man and woman ONLY, so as to have a means in which children have the proper and necessary up-bringing!! the liberals say NO!
The president wants to raise the minimum wage so that people will have enough to live a decent living, the liberals say NO!
The president wants to ban the abhorrent murdering of un-born children, the liberals say NO!
The president wants to keep illegals out of America so the AMERICANS! will have more oppotunities for jobs, the liberals say NO!
The president wants to drill for oil in America so we can become less dependent on foreign supplies and save AMERICA! TRILLIONS OF TAX-PAYER DOLLARS!!, the liberals say NO!!
So how can he heal the wounds if the liberals stand in the way?
The liberal democrats have caused so much damage to America, that we are split wide open and have no strength or means in which to join the broken peices together!!
If there is ever a wound to America it is the Liberal Democratic party, bar none!!
They are terrorist communers praising them when they kill our troops, so they will have and excuse in order to spit on, and spew lies about the president, the democratic party is nothing but a mere peice of rotten sewage!! they reak of poison to the very arteries that have kept America safe in times of danger!!
I hope Mr. Murtha gets the justice he deserves!, and told that he cannot serve in any way for government purposes!!, because he is a PATHETICAL LIAR TO THE CORE!!
The American people need to be made aware of the TRUTH!!
They are being fed so many bare-faced lies by the democrats it isn't worth the cause of another tax-payer dollar to support one of them for a government position, but America has got to wake up to this sense; and see through these idiotologist terrorist minded liberal demoncrats, But sadly to say so many in America have chosen this path, that only leads to the eventual downfall of a strong and prosperous country!!
No, the only way is the hard way, the safe way,THE GEORGE BUSH WAY, THE MORAL AND RIGHT WAY! and that is to fight for what is right with all our might to save America from these terrorist loving liberal government dictators!!
And that is why I quote my Presidents words because I greatly appreciate his un-wavering struggle to free the innocent civilians from the hands of terrorists, because he he's got what it takes to see through these sick people! and because of his enduring love of this great land and country that we live in, because HE IS a TRUE; AMERICAN!! WORTHY OF the RESPECT AND PRAISE! that he is long overdue by so many in America!!
So!, OhioGolfer, if you wonder why we have not been able to heal the wounds to the civil debate at home? it is because of YOU!! YOU LIBERAL DEMOCRATS!!
LET'S FIGHT THE AMERICAN WAY!, THE CONSERVATIVE WAY, WITH JESUS ON OUR SIDE!!
Jeremiah