Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Thursday, July 07, 2011 12:30:29 PM
I've got a half-hour left of lunch, so here goes...
I read an article by Selwyn Duke on the American Thinker website regarding school adminis-traitors (spelling deliberate) who say that the sight of the American Flag in an American school "might offend" someone. Much can be said here, but I'll restrict myself to two points:
When a flag-banning teacher or other such "liberal" says "That may offend someone", what they are actually saying (in a cowardly fashion) is "That offends me!"
My late, great father taught me that people who want to restrict other peoples freedoms so that they can go through life unoffended are in fact in dire need of being offended -- as often as you can accomplish it. Dad was right -- as always.
It is not as well remembered as it should be (particularly by me) that July 4th, in addition to being the brithday of our nation, is the birthday of an under-rated President, Calvin Coolidge. It is a mystery to some I'm sure that Coolidge's reputation and fame are undergoing something of a revival these days, but it doesn't surprise me. With the vacuous, babbling, pompous, media-hogging
highbinder President we have now, how can anyone be surprised that many of us long for a President nicknamed "Silent Cal"?
Want to see a politician sputter himself into a knot? Ask the obnoxious Barney Frank "What do you have to say to those who say you are condescending, rude, and abusive to people who disagree with you in public?"
I recently encountered someone who remembered me from high school. I didn't remember her, since they were two years behind me at school and also because no-one called the Hermit Crab can possibly be a "people person". She said I haven't changed -- that I look the same as I did in school. So I guess I've looked 51 years old for 34 years.
Tony the Libertarian sent me this article on the unfolding
Atlanta Public School teaching scandal. It seems that employees of the school system at all levels have been changing students' answers on tests to make the schools look far better than they are. Question for the teachers' unions -- why is it we never see a scandal like this exposed by unionized teachers or their representatives? They were being asked, (and in some cases coerced) to break the law. Shouldn't the union have stood up for them? Of course, it's the kids who get hurt when they go on in life and discover too late that their teachers and schools have cheated them of the education they should haqve received in their youth. Of all the pretentious cant that thinking Americans have to put up with today, that of the teachers' unions claims that they are saints who say they do it all "for the children" is perhaps the most offensive.
Re the last item, I guess we now know where the Democrats get their vote counters (read "stealers" and
Stealing Elections by John Fund).
You know, there are husbands in America whose wives refuse to even speak to them? I must find out how they do it...