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When I was in Seventh grade, I found a copy of Capote's In Cold Blood on a shelf in the school library. I guess if that happened today, a kid would need therapy and the school would have to form some sort of commission to do something or other. Maybe call out SWAT for good measure. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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But that would require thinking and reasoning far above what the "educated" libtards have crammed into their cement block like heads. I am convinced that their heads are so full of crap that the introduction of a single coherent thought would cause those heads to explode. Personally? Looking forward to it. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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Probably the same thing that a nice old black GENTLEMAN said about all that horse shit going on up in DC. "Bunch of those high-toned Negroes up in DC gonna get a whole bunch of us poor ol' niggers in a whole bunch of trouble." Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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When I was in the 6th Grade (1962-63), I saw the book “Animal Farm” on the school library shelf. I checked it out, thinking it was going to be about some cute story about farm animals, kinda like what the movie “Babe” (“Sheep-Pig” is the book upon which the movie is based) would be like in 20+ years. Little did I know that I stumbled upon a social commentary on the history of Communist Russia. “All animals are equal, but some animals are ‘more equal’ than others.” --------------------- DJT-45/47 MAGA !!!!! "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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Great idea... you beat me to it. Why don't we remove the "public" from schools and let parents decide how and where to educate their children? "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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A lot of schools have already banned all Shakespeare. Because there are more of those than there are of us? flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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I think the ominous aspect is that there are more of them and their number is increasing. What these episodes create is a society both ignorant and emotive. That is a volatile combination that usually results in millions of deaths beginning with the educated and formerly wealthy/powerful. I believe antifa is the nascent iteration of was is to come. It is tyranny by outrage and violence justified. For most of my life I didn't understand how a culture could become openly murderous of a target. How could an average citizen let deathcamps happen? Well now I understand. It is dreadful and disappointing. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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In Hannibal, Missouri, setting of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, there are bronze markers identifying places that were the inspirations for events in the books. One of the important characters was a slave, later a runaway slave, named by Twain "Nigger Jim". Now, the offensive word has been ground off each marker that had featured him. So you see a weathered bronze marker with a really shiny spot followed by "Jim". ridiculous | |||
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Saw this today and thought how sad that it's so true:  “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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The school library is about the safest place to store these books if you want to eliminate, or at least minimize, the risk of someone reading them. The main risk is that every 20-25 years, some sanctimonious idiots will make fools of themselves demanding the books be removed. Now they are available on the internet, along with nearly every other classic, free, why have a school library? Or even a school? Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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