The New Classics

Forgive me on this one for my mind was clustered with ideas about schools. Among the courses I think that should be taught and how one's currently taught should be changed this was the fruit of my thinking:

Kids like doing fun things. Fun may be riding bike, playing Playstation, or chatting on IM (with Congressmen?). Not to be excluded is the child book and now movie series Harry Potter. These fictional tales of a young sorcerer in school teach kids a lot of things about responsibility and cooperation and well as adding creative imagination. Where Harry Potter does not belong, however, is in schools as curriculum.

You wonder why some kids are crazy? Because the parents are crazy! This woman doesn't want to ban HP from school because she wants them to read the classics (which they should be reading). Instead, she thinks its an attempt to indoctrinate wiccans. She's nuts - end of story. But why are we allowing this to be part of their learning? Shouldn't HP be leisure reading? Shouldn't they be perusing Canterbury or Beowulf? And we wonder why our reading and writing scores lack luster.

The one thing, if any, that a student in America should graduate with is an absolute command of the English language in speaking, reading, and writing it. In all honesty, look at yourself and the 10 closest people nearby (they don't have to be family). Now let me ask, do these people have a remarkable capacity to compose their thoughts cogently and scribe them to paper? Can they do it with proper spelling and flawless grammatical semblance? Do they have a presence when they speak and do they enunciate properly? To they understand context and word origin? Is their vocabulary limited or do they impress you with wording out of trite conversation exchange? Are they convincing and do they speak and write with zest and fervor? Do they enjoy it? These are just a few questions to ask yourself and unfortunately the answers to many are probably no. And this is what the standard normal should be!

We may be Americans, and we may speak the language, but that comes up far short to where we should be. Slang, ebonics, etc...a joke. We need to start respecting ourselves, our language, our culture, and our educations a lot more as Americans. We have neglecting this most innate and basic of drives for far to long. Bill Cosby has it right.

Fun is doing what you love and loving doing it. Kids like this Harry Potter so schools think this makes learning more fun. Albeit it may, this is not what they should be doing with their time.
Do it at home. So sure this woman is right in her goal she just has the wrong argument.

So basically, by having HP as a course in school what kind of value on our learning and language does that engender with the student? They say you cant fix stupid - and they're right...even using magic spells.

5,000 Children

The Pro-Death campaign is trying to make a comeback. Ms. Magazine will feature 5,000 women (you can hardly call them mothers, I call them muthers [murder + mother]) who have had abortions. This move which has the potential to be the magazines career ending publication will certainly draw attention to the issue. Here's the catch liberals, it's only going to draw negative attention.

Despite the fact that these killers may be proud of their decision to abort in no way reflects the moral cost on society. Instead, the issue is politicized to the point of selfishness and arrogance on the part of women. If I were a women I'd be ashamed. If I were one of the 5,000, I'd be even more ashamed. But the thing Ms. doesn't understand is that 5,000 is hardly impressive. Thousands and thousands take place every year and these women still remain in the shadows of fear, guilt, and shame.

Ironically, our society in which the media is run by liberals wants to aggrandize this issue to the point of being a monumental moment in history and in women's rights. The same media who would want this to be a proud occasion in the forward progress of feminism and women's rights. They want this to be an energizing reference point for mothers considering future abortions. They want this to the pivotal strike in bringing abortion to the mainstream from the gutter. They want this to be a hallmark moment in sociopolitical embracing of the issue. They couldn't be more wrong. An act where children die by having their brains sucked out...and yet they question the acts of our military (i.e. interrogations) as torture?

The same media who glorifies the 2,000 plus dead brave American soldiers who died in the Iraq war that they are against will not sensationalize 5,000 plus dead fetuses but instead their muthers.

The truth is I think Americans are going to find this repugnant filth repulsive and not purchase this publication. There will be boycotts and moratoriums across the country. Not because of Bill O'Reilly or other pundits, but because of the American tradition and ideal. No country and no American wants abortion to come into their home. Even if it exists in society albeit right or wrong, no one wants this garbage under their roof.

Instead, the magazine should publish an article about the 5,000 children whose lives have no meaning and whose memory bears no name. In fact, less these women's testifying to have had an abortion, no one would even know they were missing. I have always said that if your going to find a legal umbrella like right to privacy to protect abortion then at least demand these children be given proper burials and identity's. Give them a name not a number (1-5,000). Give them a burial instead of a hospital bag reading "infectious waste." That's where the magazine belongs.

What's black and white and red all over?

On the Fence?

For those of you liberals against putting up a fence between the US and Mexico: now's your chance to leave. The 700 mile fence is coming. Despite your whining and Vincente Fox's pouting, it is en route.

The advent of the greatest border delineating factor in years comes after much pressure from the vast majority of Americans to see their interests protected and that the government, to that end, do its job.

Mexico pleaded with President Bush on Monday to veto a Senate proposal to build a fence to keep illegal immigrants out, saying it could backfire by making the border less secure. Yah, that makes sense. That's like saying, "I'm not putting my money in the bank, it could backfire." Not to mention, but if Grandma had balls...she'd be Grandpa!

Fox further claims that it hurts the relations we as nations share. Um, let me give it to you like this one-on-the-other-side, our nation rejects YOUR rejects, your drugs, your contraband, your misanthropes, your poverty-stricken welfare recipients, and your job stealing among others. Guess what else? Your NOT part of America! Your part of the continent.

If your residents and immigrants want access to America to visit, come on in. We have many tourist places they could use the economic surge. If your residents want to move here, they can do it legally like many before them! Not to mention that if your residents all want to come here so badly, don't you think either they like what they see in us or they dislike what your doing?

America is the land of immigration not exodus. People want IN not OUT. To the opposition telling us how bad we are as a nation. Your people want in. To the liberals who claim we're fundamentally flawed. I don't see you packing your bags.

Stats

The liberal opposition to the war in Iraq contests that thus far over 2,700 Americans have died and over 2,900 coalition forces total have died in Iraq since it started. This statistical use of soldiers to politicized ones position is grotesque at best and well illustrates the party who engenders such debate. Our soldiers are the embodiment of the land on which we live and the providers of the security we possess while doing so. Meanwhile, our soldiers are being undercut by liberals who believe our cause is deleterious to the world at large and are more concerned with the lives of those who want us dead than those who want to protect us.

The sad truth is that if your not for us...you MUST be against us. The one thing I have contended all Americans should be in accord with is our commitment to securing our borders and protecting our nation. What can be so objectionable in that regard? Liberals have a penchant for attacking the Administration for a reason I believe I have discovered: they realize they cannot win in any other way. If I were a liberal I would become more introspective and analyze the positions I stand for. After only minutes of rational thought I would come to realize that I had been disillusioned for far to long. I would reject all of my former and/or preconceived pretenses about politics. I would no longer allow myself to be brainwashed by liberal media outfits. I would begin thanking soldiers when I would see them out in uniform or overhear them in public. I would raise a flag in my back yard and embrace my country and give thanks to those who've made it such a tremendous place. I would be more grateful for the gifts I have as an American. I would read more history books to learn more about my culture than that of others. I would teach my children to follow suit and raise them in a respectful minded way. I would vote Republican.

If we all opened our eyes and began thinking with our heads and hearts - that would be some truly remarkable statistics.