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Jes Beard

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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
« Reply #495 on: March 15, 2016, 06:20:16 pm »

davep

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« Reply #496 on: March 15, 2016, 06:47:06 pm »
Can you point to the post?

Jes Beard

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« Reply #497 on: March 15, 2016, 06:49:01 pm »
Can you point to the post?

Why bother?  If you deny saying it, I doubt that I care enough to look for it, but my memory is you have posted that at least once.

Jes Beard

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« Reply #498 on: March 15, 2016, 06:53:24 pm »
It was easier than I thought:

I agree.  But I also don't understand why intelligent, thoughtful people would prefer Hillary to Trump.  They would both be equally horrible.  It is rather like choosing which incurable cancer you wish to die from.

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« Reply #499 on: March 15, 2016, 07:33:20 pm »
Thanks.  It certainly was, and is my belief, but I didn't remember posting it.

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« Reply #500 on: March 15, 2016, 07:38:15 pm »
I'm no fan of Hillary Clinton.  But the choice between her or Trump is an absolute no-brain-er. (Which, I guess, excludes me from the Intelligent/Thoughtful club.)

davep

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« Reply #501 on: March 15, 2016, 07:43:50 pm »
If Rubio had been as eloquent in the debates as he was in his suspension speech, he might have won.

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« Reply #502 on: March 15, 2016, 07:48:48 pm »
True.  But he would have been a true Republican.  Kennedy could never win the Democratic nomination today, with the loony left taking over the party.


Donald Trump is about to be the GOP candidate.... who has gone loony???

Jes Beard

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« Reply #503 on: March 15, 2016, 08:00:19 pm »
Thanks.  It certainly was, and is my belief, but I didn't remember posting it.

I actually thought you had posted it twice, but stopped searching after finding that.

Jes Beard

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« Reply #504 on: March 15, 2016, 08:09:54 pm »
On a completely different topic, but still in the political vein, today I gave students in my four study skills classes a very simple reading comprehension exercise.

They are 7th and 8th graders.  They have all either recited or heard recited to them the Pledge of Allegiance every morning in the first period of school for more than 1,300 times since they started school.  The exercise was to explain what the Pledge means.

Not one came close, and that was with all of them allowed to work together and to use dictionaries.

Not one.

I pretty much expected as much, and it is one of the reasons why when I hear people complaining that "kids don't learn the Pledge anymore," I think those complaining are wildly misguided.  The kids generally have no understanding at all as to what it means.  Having them mindlessly recite something they do not understand is pointless.  The other reason most of those complaining are misguided is because I believe most schools still do have the kids recite the pledge.... even if they have no idea what a "pledge" is, let alone understanding the rest of it.

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« Reply #505 on: March 15, 2016, 08:14:07 pm »
What did they say that the pledge meant?

Jes Beard

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« Reply #506 on: March 15, 2016, 09:40:56 pm »
Clueless.  The words are a mishmash to them.  The closest I can recall at the moment is one kid who thought it was a promise of loyalty to dead soldiers.

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« Reply #507 on: March 15, 2016, 09:47:36 pm »
Im old enough to remember when my 2nd grade teacher would read us the bible every morning.

She'd get shot if she did that now.

Jes Beard

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« Reply #508 on: March 15, 2016, 09:53:35 pm »
Im old enough to remember when my 2nd grade teacher would read us the bible every morning.

She'd get shot if she did that now.

You are quite wrong.

It still happens.  It shouldn't, but it does,  It shouldn't have been happening when you were in school, unless you were in a private school.

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« Reply #509 on: March 15, 2016, 10:09:43 pm »
I know I will get hammered for this but the constitution does not state that you can not have prayer in school...it's meaning is that it can not have a state sponsored religion that everyone is forced to partake in.  Our founding fathers believed in GOD and put his name on our money, in our pledge etc.  Now for the bashing from the liberals because I have a different opinion then they do.   But we live in a free country and they have that right.