Last week, we learned that the Great Depression was caused by government regulation of free enterprise, and that while it was a tad uncomfortable for some, there was no need for any government interference in the wonderful job that private charities were doing to help people. Or at least, that's how the Great Depression unfolds in the pages of our eighth-grade textbook from A Beka,
Hah. New Pope insinuates himself into another Wonkette thread to which he has no apparent connection. I just enjoy watching some lefties tie themselves in intricate knots explaining why he's a Good Thing.
The Dark Lord has no need of a gender; he requires only a neverending supply of replacement hearts to hurl into the Stygian void at his core in a short-term and ultimately futile attempt to appease his dark masters.
The real problem with Zinn is that he's all interpretation, not facts. For a student with no background in the names and dates, they are lost. When I was a student teacher, way back in the mists of time, my associate teacher used Zinn as the only text in his US history class- and this is in Canada, where the students would have had no previous exposure to US history. I spent most of my time there creating additional materials, like timelines, so the kids would know what Zinn was actually talking about. The teacher thanked me profusely and said he would use those materials from then on- which begs the question, why hadn't he done so himself?
Don't standardized tests get marked by some agency outside the school? I know in Ontario the gr 10 literacy test gets marked anonymously in Toronto.
next you'll be telling me that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea isn't actually a democracy or run by the people and isn't therefore a classic example of the failure of socialism
Grandma got run over by a reindeer because those nasty tree huggers and their save the whales brethren meddled with the Gawd given right of patriots like Sarah Palin to shoot reindeer from a helicopter
if the free market is so great and so powerful, why didn't we just buy all those Panzers and Tigers from the German armament companies by outbidding the Nazis for their own weapons? Can't start a war if ya got no tanks...
I do take credit for their anti-intellectualism.
Upbringing and education sounds suspiciously elitist to me, but I am of course just a pointy-headed librulz.
Hah. New Pope insinuates himself into another Wonkette thread to which he has no apparent connection. I just enjoy watching some lefties tie themselves in intricate knots explaining why he's a Good Thing.
You obviously know your financial history well!
One thing never changes: bankers are not very nice.
It's like a calvary general can't even go for a ride anymore....
The Dark Lord has no need of a gender; he requires only a neverending supply of replacement hearts to hurl into the Stygian void at his core in a short-term and ultimately futile attempt to appease his dark masters.
The right kind of Americans, naturally.
best thing Carter did?
legalized home brewing- you can thank him for the explosion of craft breweries we have today
The real problem with Zinn is that he's all interpretation, not facts. For a student with no background in the names and dates, they are lost. When I was a student teacher, way back in the mists of time, my associate teacher used Zinn as the only text in his US history class- and this is in Canada, where the students would have had no previous exposure to US history. I spent most of my time there creating additional materials, like timelines, so the kids would know what Zinn was actually talking about. The teacher thanked me profusely and said he would use those materials from then on- which begs the question, why hadn't he done so himself?
Don't standardized tests get marked by some agency outside the school? I know in Ontario the gr 10 literacy test gets marked anonymously in Toronto.
you forgot Botulism- for those who pray at the porcelain altar
next you'll be telling me that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea isn't actually a democracy or run by the people and isn't therefore a classic example of the failure of socialism
Or republics? (hint: it is the same number)
Grandma got run over by a reindeer because those nasty tree huggers and their save the whales brethren meddled with the Gawd given right of patriots like Sarah Palin to shoot reindeer from a helicopter
Microcephalic management- trust me, I know...
if the free market is so great and so powerful, why didn't we just buy all those Panzers and Tigers from the German armament companies by outbidding the Nazis for their own weapons? Can't start a war if ya got no tanks...