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This video is hilarious. WWII “social guidance” film telling high-school kids how to be popular and win the ladies.

Equally hilarious (and very scary) is this film tell kids what to do in case of a atomic attack – “duck and cover when you see the bright flash!”

Wow … such a different era.

So pull yourself out of the notion of American Education and try to look at it objectively.

When has there ever been a governemnt agency devoted to teaching and training it’s citizens that turned out well? Doesn’t The Department of Education have “evil government plot” written all over it? Orwellian.

How is it that our Government compells us to send our children to school and penalizes us when we don’t send them to the Government schools? That’s what it is. Send you kids to get taught by Government workers or else you’re SOL with finding how to pay for it.

That’s criminal AND immoral.

And of course the government has a self interest in self preservation and will certainly train our children to defend that notion. Kinda like some fascist training camp.

Allow me to be blunt.

Government education is immoral and parents should be ashamed of themselves for sending their children there.

No good thing can come out of a government forcing (in this case financial pressure) its citizens to relinquish control of their children.

Is it any wonder that teachers unions and the department of education despise home educators and their ilk?

“Election Pushed the Church State Envelope”

Ms. Duncan’s 11/12/04 article entitled “Election Pushed the Church State
Envelope” is a grand example of irresponsible and inaccurate thinking. Ms.
Duncan bases her article on the often misunderstood and generally
inaccurate idea of “seperation of church and state.” This phrase comes
from a quote of Thomas Jefferson in a letter addressed to a church. He was
assuring them that there would be no movement towards a national religion.
The First Amendment of our constition assures us that, “Congress shall
make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof … ”

The First Amendment IN NO WAY restricts, “what religious bodies can do
with the government,” as Ms. Duncan suggests. It simply assures that no
laws will be set up establishing the religious practices of one group over
the other.

Ms. Dancan likes to think that, “ones morals should not … [be] allowed
to impose on the government.” However I would like to point out that that
is a moral viewpoint of Ms. Duncan that she wants to impose on the
government. This is self refuting.

Morality is a standard of right and wrong – of what one aught to do.
Religious people the same as secular people can, and do, “cause the
government to adopt their doctrines as policy for everyone else.” That is
the entire basis of law. All law legislates morallity, or what one should
or should not do.

Ms. Duncan goes on to make a flawed case for same-sex marriage based on
the idea that, “not all of Americans hold themselves to this same
religious standard.” I would point out that that is why the same-sex
debate is addressed as a civil liberties case and not a religious case.
Homosexuals have the exact same liberties of hetrosexuals. Hetrosexuals
can’t marry whomever they want – not their dog, or their mom, or their
cousin, or their favorite friends at once. “Love” is a very poor criteria
for arbitrating who should marry.

The state of traditional marriage doesn’t have any bearing on the argument
either. Ms. Duncan’s absolutely wrong statement that, “nearly all
marriages end in divorce,” goes to show she has put very little thought
into her arguments.

While Ms. Duncan thinks that, “[t]he Constition guarantees American’s
freedom to make their own decisions regarding their minds and bodies …,”
our legal system disagrees with her. This is why suicide, mind altering
drugs, and other such practices are illegal. Very seldom do our actions
only affect ourselves, and this is the main argument against abortion -
that it takes away the Constitionally protected life of a human being.

I would encourage Ms. Duncan and everyone else to take another look at the
logic and reasoning in this article and realize that simply writing
something doesn’t make it true.

… on much movie watching:

It is always difficult to smell the atmosphere you breath. If you grow up near the railway, you can’t hear the trains. Now it is not necessary to smell the atmosphere you breathe, provided it is healthy. But if you live downwind of the paper mill, the fact that you can’t smell anything anymore is not a good sign.

Someone who can’t handle a handgun shouldn’t walk across the city at two in the morning with $500 in his wallet.
http://www.credenda.org/issues/14-2childer.php

Hmmm …. good balance.