Politics: Onward from New Hampshire

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by sgtclub

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...type=printable

[CA legislature to consider bill to allow 16 and 14 year olds a fractional vote]

You're just chomping at the bit for the home schooled kids to start voting. Although 18-24 year olds generally don't vote, home schooled 18-24 year olds do. And they generally vote republican.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Originally posted by sgtclub



You're just chomping at the bit for the home schooled kids to start voting. Although 18-24 year olds generally don't vote, home schooled 18-24 year olds do. And they generally vote republican.

That's because they actually learn how to think rather than feel.

[ltl/fb]

If there is no Iraqi government, who approved the Constitution? Does this seem problematic to anyone?

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by sgtclub
That's because they actually learn how to think rather than feel.

Funny, I thought it was because they did exactly what their mommies and daddies want them to do.

[Atticus Grinch]

There goes another mayor, usurping the legislative function. Clubby's outrage at this constitutional transgression shall commence forthwith.

Now Slave has two good reasons to avoid the Patch.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
There goes another mayor, usurping the legislative function. Clubby's outrage at this constitutional transgression shall commence forthwith.

Now Slave has two good reasons to avoid the Patch.

I'm just surprised that a guy named Fagot was elected Mayor in Lexington, Nebraska.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm just surprised that a guy named Fagot was elected Mayor in Lexington, Nebraska.

It doesn't make him a bad person. Bigot.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm just surprised that a guy named Fagot was elected Mayor in Lexington, Nebraska.

Were you surprised his first act was to start telling all the men how they should look?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Were you surprised his first act was to start telling all the men how they should look?

He's just getting back at everybody. Can you imagine what a childhood in Nebraska must be like for a kid named Fagot? The bitterness . . .

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by sgtclub
That's because they actually learn how to think rather than feel.

You may eventually learn that following in lockstep with your parents' ideology does not make one a rational, discerning adult.

S_A_M

{ETA: Dammit Sppokyfish!}

[Hank Chinaski]

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Spooky sez
Funny, I thought it was because they did exactly what their mommies and daddies want them to do.

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
You may eventually learn that following in lockstep with your parents' ideology does not make one a rational, discerning adult.

S_A_M

The two of you think independantly?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
You may eventually learn that following in lockstep with your parents' ideology does not make one a rational, discerning adult.

S_A_M

Yes, but, in fairness, you may eventually learn that your stereotypes are rarely more than that.

(Meaning, I know quite a few home-school types, and what you imply is so far from the truth as to be funny.)

[bilmore]

Remember the "Voting is for Old People" T-shirts?

They created quite the stir:

http://nationalreview.com/goldberg/g...0403100940.asp

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by bilmore
Yes, but, in fairness, you may eventually learn that your stereotypes are rarely more than that.

(Meaning, I know quite a few home-school types, and what you imply is so far from the truth as to be funny.)

I know two types- one is "I want my child to read Chinese in Kintergarden, and the public school just won't challenge him"- think Fringey's parents. This type is not lockstep, and the parents would force them to be different it they were.
The other type is, "I don't want evolution or other anti-god stuff taught to my kids"- this type might be more lockstep.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I know two types- one is "I want my child to read Chinese in Kintergarden, and the public school just won't challenge him"- think Fringey's parents. This type is lockstep, and the parents would force them to be different it they were.
The other type is, "I don't want evolution or other anti-god stuff taught to my kids"- this type might be more lockstep.

I don't know any of the religious-incented (is that a word now?) home schoolers - they're all people dissatisfied with what the public schools have to offer, the lack of discipline, and the constantly changing "standards". Parents of one set of kids are still upset that Kucinich did so poorly.

Looking to the ideological basis of the NEA, the general political cant of most every teacher in (at least) our district, and all of the huge inefficiencies that are now built in to our education system, I think it's laughable to call people who want to get out of that system the ideologues. I guess it's only "lockstep" when it's not the system YOU would choose. When it's your own system, apparently it's a "consensus."