The War Party’s two headed monster:
The Emperor sets himself up for another fall:
Some encourage and/or enlist children to fight their battles:
Will Obama pray at this wall, as well?
Call in the Haz-mat team to clear away the toxic myths:
Superheroes as real as Batman:
Untimely death- the most convenient method of government cover-up…..
….when the media isn’t doing it for you:
The always sharp and perceptive Root Striker Stefan Molyneux recently taped a great discussion with Brad Spangler and Wendy McElroy on the topic of the “Ron Paul Revolution” for Molyneux’s Freedomain Radio series. There are some really excellent points raised by everyone involved. This should be of particular interest to longtime veterans of the libertarian movement who are supporting and planning to vote for Paul.
(And there’s some other great stuff discussed besides the Paul movement.)
Thanks to Brad Spangler for the link.
Happy Pearl Harbor Day, everybody!
After all, if it wasn’t for that Jap-attack snapping this “isolationist” country from its slumber, “We” would never have transformed into the Mighty American Empire, and who then would have protected “Us” from not only the Japs, but the Russkies, the Chinks, the Koreans and all other assorted Commie-Gooks, the Mexican landscapers, and most importantly, the Islamo-Nazis????
Yes, it’s quite sad that a few thousand individuals had to die on that fateful day, but isn’t that a small price to pay in exchange for a permanent cocoon of complete security??? It is due to their glorious sacrifice that today we are all free to play video games, sing along with Don’t Forget the Lyrics! and just generally have a good time partying with our “capitalist” system.
God Bliss America!!!
Today’s lesson- how to prepare and execute an ambush:
Not everyone is high on Rudy:
Queen Hillary’s book, Living History includes illustrations for the simple minded voter (who could that horse‘s ass be?):
Mr. Bush, tear down this wall (and that one….and that one…..and that one….and that one……)!
The IDF takes aim at the Palestinians:
A Gore-tista listens closely to Mother Earth:
Don’t mi
ss this special report from WFAA in Dallas about a local, Palestinian family being held for deportation. Not just the husband, but the wife and young children are being held in 8 foot jail cells in a Homeland Security gulag.
Make sure to click the “Brett Shipp reports” video as well as his video blog about the hate mail he has received from the boobeoisie. The Kansas City Star has a worthy article about this atrocity, as well.
Bill O’Reilly is, of course, known for saying incredibly boneheaded things with astonishing regularity. Once in awhile, he even writes an excrementitious book or two. Trust me: I used to read them in my personal Dark Age as a “God’n'Country Republican.” Please forgive me.
The latest one is really rich. A caller said this:
[Immigrants] also bring corrupting influences, too, like a third-world value system, which may not place much value on education, that can corrupt the education system.
To which O’Reilly responded:
Absolutely. And that’s why the dropout rate is so high. But let me just make one point: If you say “F you,” to a teacher in Mexico, that teacher can go out and beat the hell out of you — and worse, if you do it in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and those places. So, those kids would never dare, because there’s no, like, rules down there. You disrespect a teacher down there, you’re gonna be bleeding.
So, first off, in the “No Spin Zone,” more people would stay in school if they were bloodied on occasion by teacher-taskmasters.
It goes without saying that that’s ridiculous. The drop-out rate is high because American public schools - and public schools in general - are alienating for many groups of people, especially the exceptionally bright and the not-so-bright who have no interest in school. Dropouts occur simply because people - especially the latter group - lose interest in what happens in government “schools.”
It’s already been ably argued that higher education is grossly oversold (.pdf) in the United States. The same is true of high school; think of all your friends from high school - or maybe yourself - who simply detested school.
It has nothing to do with whether or not one my freely curse at “teachers.”
But, for a moment, let’s take on face value the contention that immigrants are poisoning the American “educational ethic.”
It raises the question: how would that be different from the present situation?
You see, some of us who aren’t shills for the State realize that schools are not about “education” or “social justice” or anything of the like. They really never have been. The American public education system was modeled (even if its architects wouldn’t admit it) on the tyrannical Prussian model of compulsory education and other evil devices. The Prussian system in turn probably drew some of its inspiration from the state-worshiping “ethic” of ancient Sparta, where children were stolen from their mothers by the state at an early age, and then placed in barracks to be readied for fighting and dying for tyrants. John Taylor Gatto writes:
First, though, we must wake up to what our schools really are: laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the habits and attitudes that corporate society demands. Mandatory education serves children only incidentally; its real purpose is to turn them into servants.
O’Reilly and his caller are concerned that immigrants are “importing” an anti-education attitude. But, in response they should ask themselves this: even if this “values import” is really taking place, what would it replace?
America’s very own anti-education ethic, of course.
I for one wish that pupils would say “F you” to their teachers more often.
Further reading: Inside American Education, Sowell; “Against School”, Gatto, “Enterprising Education”, Young and Block; and Education: Free and Compulsory, Rothbard.