Sunday, March 11, 2007
Pissing People off Department
Did you ever watch a movie and check out the credits? Did you ever notice that some names you can’t pronounce? Since all show biz people change their names, why don’t they use a name that’s easy to pronounce? After all, their audience is made up, for the most part, of people that need a laugh track while watching a sit-com to know how to respond.
Also speaking of movies, have you noticed the FBI warning that precedes the movie that states, “should not be duplicated under penalty of law”. Why doesn’t that warning apply to the producers of these films who get their ideas from such notables as Shakespeare, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Jane Austin, and the Grimm Brothers or for that matter, Jesus Christ? And not to mention, the remaking of such old classics as, Pride and Prejudice, Postman Always Rings Twice, Titanic, and everyone’s favorites Batman and Superman.
This year on February 2nd, 2007, the groundhog got politically correct, that is, he didn’t see his shadow; therefore, we will not have six more weeks of winter.
The West Pennsylvania Theater caved to the global warming nuts. Well, five weeks later, the average evening temperature this week is 20 degrees, we had a snow/ice storm last week and the ice on my pond will hold a car. Hell, there’s still snow in the wooded areas.
Since we have Driving Education in our high schools, why don’t we have a course on: “How to use a shopping cart”? For example, they should teach how to park the dam thing along the side of the aisle so people can get by. This inconsiderate moronic affliction seems to affect, for the most part, the female of the species. This same species will push the cart with their completed order right down the middle of the driving area of the parking lot, maybe they’re afraid some someone will jump out from between the parked cars and steal their soup.
I have also noticed a number are too lazy to put their empty carts in the area provided for them. I think, after at least three violations, these inconsiderate people should loose their shopping cart privilege and carry their stuff in their oversized “hand bag”.
Also speaking of movies, have you noticed the FBI warning that precedes the movie that states, “should not be duplicated under penalty of law”. Why doesn’t that warning apply to the producers of these films who get their ideas from such notables as Shakespeare, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Jane Austin, and the Grimm Brothers or for that matter, Jesus Christ? And not to mention, the remaking of such old classics as, Pride and Prejudice, Postman Always Rings Twice, Titanic, and everyone’s favorites Batman and Superman.
This year on February 2nd, 2007, the groundhog got politically correct, that is, he didn’t see his shadow; therefore, we will not have six more weeks of winter.
The West Pennsylvania Theater caved to the global warming nuts. Well, five weeks later, the average evening temperature this week is 20 degrees, we had a snow/ice storm last week and the ice on my pond will hold a car. Hell, there’s still snow in the wooded areas.
Since we have Driving Education in our high schools, why don’t we have a course on: “How to use a shopping cart”? For example, they should teach how to park the dam thing along the side of the aisle so people can get by. This inconsiderate moronic affliction seems to affect, for the most part, the female of the species. This same species will push the cart with their completed order right down the middle of the driving area of the parking lot, maybe they’re afraid some someone will jump out from between the parked cars and steal their soup.
I have also noticed a number are too lazy to put their empty carts in the area provided for them. I think, after at least three violations, these inconsiderate people should loose their shopping cart privilege and carry their stuff in their oversized “hand bag”.
I was in a Dollar Store some time ago to pick up some paper material. About six ladies were clustered around the greeting card display with, of course, their empty carts blocking the area pretty much completely.
One lady remarked to me:” It’s pretty crowded in here”. I responded to her, “Are you sure those 3 greeting cards are going to fit in your cart?”
Sunday, March 04, 2007
What happened to the 3-R's???
From The Anchoress (a great blog I read several times a week):
If my kids were little and just beginning in elementary school, I would seriously consider home-schooling for a variety of reasons - mostly because now that I’ve seen how quickly it all went, I want more time with them! But I’d have considered it sooner had this been what they were taught.
“…the students had been building an elaborate “Legotown,” but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore “the inequities of private ownership.” According to the teachers, “Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.”
The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown “their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys.” These assumptions “mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.”
They claimed as their role shaping the children’s “social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity … from a perspective of social justice.”
So they first explored with the children the issue of ownership. Not all of the students shared the teachers’ anathema to private property ownership. “If I buy it, I own it,” one child is quoted saying. The teachers then explored with the students concepts of fairness, equity, power, and other issues over a period of several months.
At the end of that time, Legos returned to the classroom after the children agreed to several guiding principles framed by the teachers, including that “All structures are public structures” and “All structures will be standard sizes.” The teachers quote the children:
“A house is good because it is a community house.”
“We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes.”
“It’s important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building.”
Betsy Newmark writes:
How Orwellian is that lesson? It sounds like something out of Animal Farm but now it’s being taught to children as what is optimal rather than to be condemned.
These teachers are so ignorant that they don’t realize that the rights to private property are not only the essence of our democratic system as well as the best guarantee for a thriving economy. Who would want to invest and improve anything in an economy if they didn’t have guarantees that they would be able to reap the profits from their invested time and money?
This is pretty scary to me. It is funny though that many of these types of stories are coming from the west coast. Maybe CA, OR, and WA should form their own country and we can provide military protection from the Chinese/Mexican/Canadians for a nominal annual fee.
If my kids were little and just beginning in elementary school, I would seriously consider home-schooling for a variety of reasons - mostly because now that I’ve seen how quickly it all went, I want more time with them! But I’d have considered it sooner had this been what they were taught.
“…the students had been building an elaborate “Legotown,” but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore “the inequities of private ownership.” According to the teachers, “Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.”
The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown “their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys.” These assumptions “mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.”
They claimed as their role shaping the children’s “social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity … from a perspective of social justice.”
So they first explored with the children the issue of ownership. Not all of the students shared the teachers’ anathema to private property ownership. “If I buy it, I own it,” one child is quoted saying. The teachers then explored with the students concepts of fairness, equity, power, and other issues over a period of several months.
At the end of that time, Legos returned to the classroom after the children agreed to several guiding principles framed by the teachers, including that “All structures are public structures” and “All structures will be standard sizes.” The teachers quote the children:
“A house is good because it is a community house.”
“We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes.”
“It’s important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building.”
Betsy Newmark writes:
How Orwellian is that lesson? It sounds like something out of Animal Farm but now it’s being taught to children as what is optimal rather than to be condemned.
These teachers are so ignorant that they don’t realize that the rights to private property are not only the essence of our democratic system as well as the best guarantee for a thriving economy. Who would want to invest and improve anything in an economy if they didn’t have guarantees that they would be able to reap the profits from their invested time and money?
This is pretty scary to me. It is funny though that many of these types of stories are coming from the west coast. Maybe CA, OR, and WA should form their own country and we can provide military protection from the Chinese/Mexican/Canadians for a nominal annual fee.
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