tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post3027963619556681226..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Signs Of UneaseFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-41865672957047653032020-10-14T12:21:00.604-04:002020-10-14T12:21:00.604-04:00Get your kids out of the government schools. That&...Get your kids out of the government schools. That's an easy and instant fix, but most people will do anything to avoid personal responsibility.Paul Bonneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15279129269584372919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-11505041639822353572020-10-14T08:18:20.081-04:002020-10-14T08:18:20.081-04:00Peace in the neighborhood? There’s another politic...Peace in the neighborhood? There’s another politician this school might disagree with but let me paraphrase Ben Franklin. Those who would sacrifice freedom for peace deserve neither.CT Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06764736116963475850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-1142020947389372992020-10-13T14:06:00.435-04:002020-10-13T14:06:00.435-04:00America periodically goes on emotional rants, when...America periodically goes on emotional rants, when the very idea of dissident opinion is 'righteously' forbidden. Usually, the enforcers are those in the upper-middle classes. Since around the 1880's or so, the main actors have been under-employed women (not necessarily without a job, just not terribly engaged with any useful work).<br /><br />From the 'blue-stockings' days, through the suffragettes/temperance/Goo-Goos/Progressives/Leftists/Womyn-Feminists/Woke, these harridans have displayed their complete dedication to suppressing contrary views. They are seldom married, often childless, and rarely in a relationship with a man who enjoys being a man.<br /><br />They took over education, which used to be primarily a responsibility of men, after the primary/elementary school level, and imposed their tedious mandates on the hapless children. Of late, they have become positively Stalinesque in their refusal to hear any contrary opinion to their many rants.<br /><br />They are also the ones behind the shutdowns of schools; their hysteria about close contact with the filthy little urchins they teach has led them to their current distance-only work situation.<br /><br />And, that's going to be the undoing of their enforced cultural mandates. Parents are seeing that many of the teachers are far exceeding their area of expertise/responsibility, and that the stories their kids told of their crazy teacher was no exaggeration.<br /><br />Many have turned to online education, separate from the local schools. Others, to flat-out home schooling. After the election, teachers will be quite surprised that many of them will be facing pink slips.Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-50581081074670639602020-10-13T13:27:13.373-04:002020-10-13T13:27:13.373-04:00Plus ca change... In 1962 or thereabouts I got kic...Plus ca change... In 1962 or thereabouts I got kicked out of a high school World History class for starting a fight... meaning that I said desegregating the schools wouldn't necessarily be the end of civilization, and the other 30 kids started yelling at me. <br /><br />It's always been possible to get thrown out of class for stating an opinion that the majority doesn't want to hear. Although it's probably easier now because there are so many sacred cows.Margaret Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048775257764349955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-82523257294410777062020-10-13T12:30:30.801-04:002020-10-13T12:30:30.801-04:00For years now I have wondered what the hell happen...For years now I have wondered what the hell happened to Minnesota. I attended college for a year at Mankato, MN. Most classmates and other people I met were pretty conservative. It was a party school for cryin' out loud. There wasn't a night of the week where you couldn't find a keg party somewhere. (That was the reason I transferred to Kansas University. I knew if I stayed at Mankato State I would never graduate.) It was not at all a hotbed of radical leftism such as UC Berkeley, for example. It was blue class middle America all the way. A lot of my frat brothers kept shotguns in their rooms, and after classes they would head out to the lakes or woods to see if they could bag whatever was in season. It was not uncommon for us to have fresh killed duck or goose for dinner.<br /><br />So that is why I wonder how in the name of all that is good and holy did Minnesota, of all places, become this hardcore leftist Blue state that elects the likes of Keith Ellison, Hijab Omar, Al Franken, etc. How could a state filled with hard-working people, a state that symbolized all that was right and good and normal about America, become such a wretched den of leftist anti-Americanism? I mean, what the hell happened? Did my one year experience of living there some forty-five years ago somehow give me a wrong impression? Or is it just that over the last fifty years the left has successfully infected and rotted from the inside every single one of these United States? <br /><br />George Truehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352709031834067303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-50539968174771898492020-10-13T08:22:26.344-04:002020-10-13T08:22:26.344-04:00The Twin Cities is a cesspool of commie/libtards. ...The Twin Cities is a cesspool of commie/libtards. "Minnesota nice?" There's nothing "nice" about them. It's called passive aggressive. Adriennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01562944653624224107noreply@blogger.com