He who controls education controls the future. The Koch brothers are a major danger to the US system. If they are successful the future will be one that the founders would only recognize as a nightmare.
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Iād bet on the Jesuits. I came across an interesting article in the Omaha paper. I really appreciated this comment from the senior pastor at Boys Town.
In a report sent to the Vatican, the Rev. Clifford Stevens, senior pastor in residence at Boys Town, said the Creighton institute is part of a Koch-supported campaign to āunseat Pope Francis as the moral voice of Catholicism ... by a band of nominal Catholics whose devotion to free market economics is almost religious." http://www.omaha.com/money/of-two-minds-on-economics-does-teaching-at-creighton-institute/article_e6a8e72e-130c-5c49-a257-a32f55530905.html
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Sneak?
Thereās no āsneakingā with the KochBoys these days.
Theyāve got their loyal band of the Confederacy of Dunces willing and anxious to do their biddingā¦
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Not addressing any of these items in particular, I believe you can include the general view so long as two things are true, one, they are included as questions, not as assertions, as any opposing view should be, and two, you include a very broad range of primary and secondary material. Education is supposed to be teaching people how to think, not indoctrinating them. If this was the case, I believe the transparent effort here would largely be toast.
No longer content with āmerelyā poisoning our land, our air and our water, the Koch brothers are now determined to poison our childrenās minds as well.
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The national teachers unions need to boycott Koch funded programs. This is indeed a āteachingā moment.
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Remember the real old TV commercial of the Soviet Union student with the chain rapped around his head? The GOP wants to take up this soviet styled attitude.
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We had company stores in the coal industry in the 20th century also.
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The astonishing thing is how the cultural lag in the U.S. is proceeding along the lines of those very things which will destroy us, with age-cohorts unable to relate to each other because of vastly different life experiences (see todayās posts on the article on Millennialsā¦see the fighting across generations with few attempts to cross generational linesā¦and TPM has the most intelligent posters on the Web).
While at the same time, the Old Age Voting Cohorts (O.A.V.C.), driven by FOX and Talk-Radio and criminally empowered by Gerrymandering in the U.S. House of Representatives inhabit a world in which the Confederacy as practiced in 1957 still is invoked and praised. As a Stop-Gap, we have the U.S. Supreme Activist Court.
While at the same time, there is very little real loathing for the 0.01% among people here. Not like there is in Latin America.
Leading up to the 2014 election I pleaded with Millennials to vote, using the wrong technique: āyoungsters, hereās what you SHOULD doā. If I were to have received a riposte from a Millennial during this time (I didnāt), I would have probably snapped back, but the right thing to do would have been to try to get some sort of accommodation such that both of us could agree upon the gravity of the Republican menace (regardless of who is āto blameā).
The inroads of the Kochs (described in this article) are one more indication of the precarious state we are in.
- Americans donāt mount coups in 2014
- Demonstrations are not ballots
- We have to vote our way out of this
- We have to do what the Baggers did: take over an established party/The Democrats are IT
If ALL generation work together, we have a chance.
But if anyone has a better course of action, I would love to see it.
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Not all the old farts are lost. Iām 68.
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The curriculum is supposed to be about teaching history, the content of which can be debated about how much of one interpretation or set of facts is applied over the other. The fact that the ACA is even mentioned, especially in context of the separation of powers and states rights just gives proof positive that this is a political hack jobā¦ obviously.
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My wife is such a spiritual person who believes in the Arc of Justice. The very existence of the Kochs belie this premise. We have discussed this. Along with others in our family. And I have to admit that I have broken off some of those talks, not because of my loathing for the Kochs, but because of what their depravity does to decent people who have to reconcile the Evil of the Kochs and the beliefs of decent people.
Much as I could not imagine what went through the minds of people like Hitler, I cannot fathom to any degree the depravity of this entire family.
Or what passes for āthoughtā between their ears
But, lately, I have begun to understand that, in terms of damage, far greater blame lies with whatās left of the āPressā, which enables people like the Kochs to live relatively un-blamed and, essentially, unknown in a country like ours which adores unbridled capitalism.
In a stunning scene from the film āJudgement at Nuremburgā, Spencer Tracyās character essentially lays at the feet of Burt Lancasterās character the nub of the responsibility for the Nazi menace, as it began:
Otherwise āordinary peopleā allowed it.
Allowed a monster like Hitler to start, proceed and grow. Yes, by the time Hitler assumed totalitarian control, no one was going to be able to stop him, but what about WHEN HE STARTED?
And, here, in the MIllennium, our āPressā is turning a blind eye to the monstrous Kochs. Ordinary people calling themselves ājournalistsā are giving them a pass. Americans are not being educated about the Kochs. Can one imagine a stenographer like Chuck Todd doing any investigative journalism here?
And what kinds of new Americans will be around years from now, after having been āeducatedā by the Kochs?
Will they be able to right themselves?
Remember, the Allies liberated the Germans in 1945.
Who is going to liberate the Americans in 2030?
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I rejoice in your existence and applaud you. Please stay āun-lostā. What I am concerned with is the relative voting strength of those who can stop the Republicans. I am 67. But if more 67 year-olds are voting Republican, then the low-voting kids canāt stop Republicans from getting elected.
And whatās worse is that these are not the Republicans of the past. In the 1960s and 1970s we had Republicans like Javits, Weicker, Dirksen (who worked with LBJ on the Civil Rights Act). Even recently, there were people like Specter and Hagel.
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Confederacy, and dunces. Fixed it/s
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US History in a nutshell: George Washington and Moses crafted the Constitution, then we mucked around for 180 years until Ronald Reagan rescued us. Then he went all senile and the commies have screwed things up since then.
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"Iām not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou. "
Actuarials and demographics will eventually surround the castle with a sea of fresh brown, and other shaded faces.
The reason there is a hard (fascist?) push, which is being abetted by SCOTUS, Roger Goebbailes, the Fred C. Koch twins, ALEC and the Federalists IS because the changes are imminent to an electorate that will not suffer this ignorance once empowered by the numbers.
When that occurs, folks will look back on the first two decades on the 21st century as a āland grabā of the highest order.
Look for conservatives to deplete their numbers by irrational advances like Brownbackās Kemp-o-nomics and eventually be boxed in and have to laud the Republican morals of Teddy Roosevelt to champion societal advances (Federal command of broad band expansion, bridges and highways, alternative energy, making the web a public utility), or wither away like the Whigs.
There will be a time, after the angry whites (generalization but letās say the demographic which supports FOX viewership) are no longer in command of mid term outcomes.
I may be around, may not but it will happen despite the crafty gambits of the Robertās Federalist members of SCOTUS and other stacked (Rove enabled) courts, the Fred C. Koch twins, ALEC, Norquist and the rest of the Teahaddist and or Evanjihaddists who continue to regale and enable, AND stupefy the so called conservative base.
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ASUās new Center for Political Thought and Leadership, which was seeded in part by a five-year grant of $1.129 million from the Kochs.
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Donāt you mean indoctrination?
I believe the Kochs also funded the Mercatus Center at George Mason Law School. Phil and Wendy Gramm were members of that cult and itās paid off well for them.
on a macabre side note, one GOP geriatric voter dies every 30 seconds.
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That made me laugh !
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