crankyhead wrote:Some recent headlines from the alternate universe of modern conservatism:crankyhead wrote: Rush Limbaugh claims the bad guy in the new Batman movie was named Bane to remind voters of Mitt Romney's controversial tenure at Bain Capital.
Ahhh…he’s just a political commentator…Howard Stern of politics…it’s not like he’s a major news paper like say the Daily News. It’s not like he just accused the President, GOP nominee, NRA, and all of us that know we have a right to defend ourselves as being responsible for mass murder.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bloo ... -1.1119049That was actually the front page! Kids don’t just walk into a store to buy candy and see Rush’s show laying on display…
crankyhead wrote: Michelle Bachmann, citing zero credible evidence, accuses a Muslim-American aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Hillary needs to be more careful about making any comments that can be construed as supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt…it happens…remember the criticism that Bush got for allowing the Saudis out of the US after 9/11?
crankyhead wrote: Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio's crack investigators announce that President Obama's long-form birth certificate is a fake.
People still believe Romney was calling the shots at BAIN after he left despite Obama supporters within Bain verifying that he was not. Sure he submitted documents but the explanation was as good and solid as Obama’s explanation for the typo of the bio he had to submit stating he was born in Kenya…
crankyhead wrote: In other words, it's just an average week down there in Crazy Town.
But fortunately this election is about runaway spending, the debt, and repealing Obamacare before it costs even more healthcare professionals their jobs, and forces the rest of us to pay more for our good coverage…public unions that endorsing the DNC are exempt of course.
crankyhead wrote: And that lends a certain context to a tidbit brought to national attention last week by Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." Meaning a plank from the 2012 platform of the Republican Party of Texas which, astonishingly enough, reads as follows: "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
Will these CT skills be used in the classroom to pick apart the fact that all redistribution of wealth via the government is nothing more than theft? That is rewards bad decisions and penalized good decisions?
Will it address the corruption of the UFT, the indoctrination of students to vote for the party that awards them with sweeter contracts?
Will it address this?
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/dispositi ... ege/14604/crankyhead wrote: Holy wow.
I know, I had that professor…she was a nut and completely unethical…she forced her class to watch “Fahrenheit 911” prior to the 2004 election…all those that missed class FAILED.
crankyhead wrote: That is, without a doubt, the most frightening sentence this side of a Stephen King novel.
That’s nothing…it’s rampant within our education system but it is a frightening reality…I
t was frightening that Pelosi thought the Holder contempt was really to keep him from preventing non-citizens from voting.
crankyhead wrote: The Texas GOP has set itself explicitly against teaching children to be critical thinkers. Never mind the creeping stupidization of this country, the growing dumbification of our children, our mounting rejection of, even contempt for, objective fact. Never mind educators who lament the inability of American children to think, to weigh conflicting paradigms, analyze competing arguments, to reason, ruminate, question and reach a thoughtful conclusion. Never mind that this promises the loss of our ability to compete in an ever more complex and technology-driven world.
We have been doing all those things…we suck at math and science…kids don’t know the constitution as well as you, a Canadian…BUT they know how to be critical of our American principles, how to be critical of someone keeping their assets…how to be critical of anyone that thinks theft is wrong…how to be critical of upholding the law…how to be critical of the Bill of Rights….how to be critical of the consequences of our defense treaties….although they NEVER learn about the treaties in the first place!
crankyhead wrote: Never mind. The Texas branch of one of our two major political parties opposes teaching critical thinking skills or anything that might challenge a child's "fixed beliefs." So presumably, if a child is of the "fixed belief" that Jesus was the first president of the United States or that Florida is an island in an ocean on the moon, educators ought not correct the little genius lest she (gasp!) change her "fixed belief," thereby undermining mom and dad.
My kids are taught fixed beliefs too…all people are born free, no government nor majority can deprive you of your individual rights…etc etc…you have heard this all from me already.
I send my kids to private school so I don’t have to worry some loser will try to brainwash them into thinking Marx was anything other than a very sick man.
crankyhead wrote: For what it's worth, the Texas GOP says that language was not supposed to be in the platform. Spokesman Chris Elam says its inclusion "was an oversight on the subcommittee's part."
If that explanation leaves you cold, join the club. That such an asinine position was even under consideration is hardly comforting. And the fact that something so neon stupid escaped notice of both the subcommittee and the full platform committee suggests the Texas GOP could use a little critical thinking instruction itself.
It’s a wonderful thing…I plan on hammering the UFT in NYC once I finish making sure everyone in Florida knows what Obamacare is going to do to them.
crankyhead wrote: Remember when Republicans were grown-ups?
We still are…grown-ups have to pay for what the dependent children want and need…and we still have to do that…
crankyhead wrote: Agree with them or not, you never thought of Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, even Richard Nixon as less than serious, substantive adults, susceptible like all serious, substantive adults, to logic and reason. The party has since devolved. A toxic stew of faith-based politics, biased "news," and echo chamber punditry has reduced it to an anti-science, anti-reason, anti-intellect caricature of itself. Thoughtful conservatives -- thoughtful Americans -- ought to be alarmed.
But Obama is the president and a member of the DNC…is there anyone more idealistic, more insane, more of a failure?...other than Jimmy Carter I mean…
crankyhead wrote: How can you have a healthy democracy when a major party not only tolerates lunacy, but elevates it to positions of power? In what sane nation does someone like Rush Limbaugh have a mass audience, Michelle Bachmann an elected office, Joe Arpaio a badge?
Democracy is for collectivists….we are a constitutional republic that holds democratic elections. Clearly having a majority vote on everything is evil…how else are gay people supposed to have the rights they were born with?
crankyhead wrote: Well, the Texas GOP just came out against critical thinking.
Because “critical thinking” as taught in public schools is ONLY critical of one ideology…the American one.
crankyhead wrote: That explains a lot.
Yep…some people actually are sick of tax dollars and public schools being used to subvert American principles…it’s not like they are critical of socialism and the rest of the world.
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