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Ten Reasons Why I Am No Longer a Leftist by Danusha V. Goska at American Thinker. Excerpt:

How far left was I? So far left my beloved uncle was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party in a Communist country. When I returned to his Slovak village to buy him a mass card, the priest refused to sell me one. So far left that a self-identified terrorist proposed marriage to me. So far left I was a two-time Peace Corps volunteer and I have a degree from UC Berkeley. So far left that my Teamster mother used to tell anyone who would listen that she voted for Gus Hall, Communist Party chairman, for president. I wore a button saying “Eat the Rich.” To me it wasn’t a metaphor.

Also:

My favorite bumper sticker in ultra-liberal Berkeley, California: “Think Globally; Screw up Locally.” In other words, “Love Humanity but Hate People.”

Interesting read.  Pay particular attention to reason #1.

RIP Jim Garner

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I’ve always enjoyed the film and television work of James Garner. He passed away yesterday.

Back in 2012, I posted this:

I watched an interesting interview of actor/producer James Garner from 1999 recently, and I’ve extracted three significant pieces from that interview that I wanted some feedback on.  Please watch the short (2:50) video, and give me your thoughts.  I’m really interested.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MruAzbUve9k?rel=0]

In the comments, TheGeekWithA.45 described it thus:

My initial thought was “cognitive dissonance”. Giving it a little more consideration, I’m going to go with “the triumph of indoctrination over reason”.

Edumacation

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So the New Yorker magazine does an article about the recent Atlanta school system standardized test cheating conspiracy:  Wrong Answer.  This used to be the thing that would inspire hours of research and writing to create an überpost, but I’m going to resist that.  Instead, I’m just going to quote this little excerpt:

“Without even reading the question, I could tell you just by the shape of the graph, ‘Oh, my kids know that,’ ” (Damany Lewis, a math teacher at Parks Middle School, in Atlanta) told me. He put the test in his fireplace once he’d confirmed that he had taught the necessary concepts. But he worried that his students would struggle with questions that were delivered in paragraph form. Some of his seventh-grade students were still reading by sounding out the letters. It seemed unfair that the concepts were “buried in words.”

Seventh grade.  They’re 12-13 years old, assuming none had been previously held back.

And some can barely read.

But the tests are at fault.

Quote of the Day – Billy Beck Edition (Paraphrased)

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It is training and doctrine that have stripped people of the power to reason to a moral conclusion on their own powers. They are forbidden to think, this is why they now exist on the same moral plane as abject animals.

From a Facebook comment to this story about police shooting dogs, but it’s applicable pretty much to all “Zero Tolerance” and other “RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAH!” B.S. foisted on us by our “Civil Masters.”  The Book says “Do X,” so that’s what they do.  They can’t get in trouble for doing what the book says, and it’s easier than thinking.