What Your Kids are Actually Learning in School

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What Your Kids are Actually Learning in School

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If you want to understand how that leftist tactic has penetrated deeply into the culture, let me tell you a personal story. Recently, I was involved in an animated discussion with my daughter about her schoolwork. Things got a little heated, and in typical teenage fashion she became flustered when I pointed out some facts about her study habits that she did not like.

“Yeah?” she yelled, “Well you’re a….racist!”

Somewhat taken aback at this insertion of this word into our conversation, I must have momentarily appeared deeply shocked, because she abruptly started laughing and the tension was broken. Which, of course, made me laugh too at the ridiculousness of her words.

Still laughing, she said that she had learned at school that the best way to end a discussion you did not like was to accuse the other person of being a ‘racist’, ‘sexist’ or ‘homophobe.’ “Calling someone one of those names is a sure way to end the discussion,” she explained with a smile. “Kids at school use it all the time.”

Dr. Sanity, Like His Grandmother, Perhaps?

Oh, and check the cartoon at the link. Classic!

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Every nation has a number of founding myths. Britain’s principal myth is that it is the birthplace of modern democracy and a land where the law is supreme. The shocking realization that “the mother of parliaments” may have been acting as the rudest of street sluts is not easy to stomach. Some of the same politicians who go around the world lecturing others, especially in the “developing world”, against corruption, have been exposed as practioners(sic) of petty larceny. – Amir Taheri, Coming Soon: An English Revolution

Great. When do we get ours?

$2,287,706,658,821 ($2.29 Trillion)

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$2,287,706,658,821 ($2.29 Trillion)

I received an interesting email today.

It turns out that the number $2.2 trillion is not an uncommon one. It seems that in 2007 the country spent $2.24 trillion on health care.

The IMF estimates that worldwide bank losses on U.S. assets topped $2.2 trillion.

The projected cost to repair America’s infrastructure is estimated at $2.2 trillion.

Oil companies have paid a combined total of $2.2 trillion in taxes over the last 25 years, adjusted for inflation.

There’s more, but that gives you a taste.

But how do you visualize that much money?

My correspondent was ingenious. According to WikiAnswers, a single crisp new dollar bill has dimensions of

6.6294cm (2.61″) wide, by 15.5956cm (6.14″) long, and 0.010922cm (0.0043″) in thickness

Not much help.

Here’s a visual:


That’s Kheops’ pyramid, the Great Pyramid at Giza. Click for a bigger version of the image.

It has a volume of 2,583,283 cubic meters.

Now imagine all that stone was instead stacks of $1 bills:

$2,287,706,658,821.00
$2.29 trillion.

Boggles, doesn’t it?

I Have Something for All Who Voted for Obama

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I Have Something for All Who Voted for Obama

Granted, I didn’t think his victory would be quite as bad as it’s so rapidly turned out to be, myself, but now that the fringe left is disowing the Obamessiah, here’s something I’d like to give to those who saw a Chicago machine politician as the beacon of HopenChange:


And I’d like to give it to you good and hard.

I’d also like to give it to the people who thought that John McCain was the best we could do on the Republican side, and every bit as hard.

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Instapundit commenting on a story where “the Tennessee Firearms Association is seeking to publicly identify each law enforcement officer and prosecutor who attended Gov. Phil Bredesen’s veto of a bill to allow people with handgun carry permits to take their weapons into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol”:

If government officials do it to citizens, it might be an effort to chill people’s speech. But when citizens do it to government officials, it’s called political accountability.

Damned straight.

Forget Glenn Greenwald

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Forget Glenn Greenwald,

. . . when you’ve lost Ted Rall, it’s all but over:

Obama is cute. He is charming. But there is something rotten inside him. Unlike the Republicans who backed George W. Bush, I won’t follow a terrible leader just because I voted for him. Obama has revealed himself. He is a monster, and he should remove himself from power.

Yeah. Like that’s gonna happen.

And remember who is next in line, anyway.

But still – WOW.

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Has it ever occurred to malignant and thuggish do-gooders like Nancy Pelosi, I wonder, that she and the other idiots in Congress were elected to take responsibility for dealing with lunatic regimes like North Korea and Iran–and NOT for regulating every aspect of the lives of those who elected her?

WHY WHY WHY are we electing people like this?? It’s suicidal in more ways than one….

Dr. Sanity, THE SUICIDAL IMPULSES OF THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE

Psssst! Hey, Still Wanna Win One of These?

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Psssst! Hey, Still Wanna Win One of These?
OK, here’s the deal as it stands so far:

I’m personally contributing one of these pistols for a raffle to raise money for Project Valour IT. As I mentioned previously, Project Valour is the charity that the Gun Blogger Rendezvous has adopted, so the drawing will take place on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at the GBR IV pizza dinner, the difference here being that you don’t have to be present to win. We should be blogging it live, so you’ll know immediately if you won or not. I’m still working out the details, but the plan is to have 100 entries at $10 each for a total maximum contribution of $1k for Project Valour. The gun will be shipped to the FFL of the winner’s choice, but the transfer fee will be up to the winner to handle.

Oh, and it won’t be a virgin gun when you receive it. The Gun Bloggers are going to fondle it and put some rounds downrange earlier that same Saturday most likely. It will be cleaned, however, before it ships. (Perhaps not well, but cleaned.)

Hey, it’ll be a $10 1911 – you going to complain?

I’ll have more information on how you can enter the raffle later on. Still interested?