Posted by swamphawk22 on 7/19/2010 4:46:00 PM (view original):
My mom is the oddball Science Fiction fan. I assume their is a Freudian reason I made that error, but that is another topic I only dabble in.

So lets correct and reask....and expand the parameters....

Should kids be reading Animal Farm, Atlas Shrugged, neither or both?

{spelling error corrected}

Posted by swamphawk22 on 7/21/2010 1:33:00 AM:
She admits to a racist act about 20 years ago. Obama forced her to resign

Posted by antonsirius on 7/21/2010 11:22:00 AM (view original):

Posted by swamphawk22 on 7/21/2010 1:33:00 AM:
She admits to a racist act about 20 years ago. Obama forced her to resign

Both those statements are lies.

That'll teach me to give you a chance.

Posted by jastrial on 7/21/2010 8:57:00 AM (view original):

Posted by swamphawk22 on 7/19/2010 4:46:00 PM (view original):
My mom is the oddball Science Fiction fan. I assume their is a Freudian reason I made that error, but that is another topic I only dabble in.

So lets correct and reask....and expand the parameters....

Should kids be reading Animal Farm, Atlas Shrugged, neither or both?

{spelling error corrected}

I think they should read both...but there are lots of other things they should read too.  My short list below:

Common Sense -- Thomas Paine
The Republic -- Plato
1984 -- Orwell
Democracy in America -- Tocqueville

and since you mentioned science fiction I'll also throw in Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress...both by Heinlein. 

Whether you agree or disagree with the premises of these books all of them think pretty deeply about the relationship of an individual with society at large.  I believe it can only benefit kids to think through these issues so that they can figure out where they personnally stand on the issue. 

Posted by antonsirius on 7/21/2010 3:28:00 PM (view original):
swamp, until you start to vet the news sources to trust better, there is no point whatsoever in discussing politics with you.

Posted by antonsirius on 7/21/2010 3:28:00 PM (view original):
swamp, until you start to vet the news sources to trust better, there is no point whatsoever in discussing politics with you.

Posted by antonsirius on 7/21/2010 5:23:00 PM (view original):
Yesterday? On the Sherrod thing? Let's see... Breitbart of course since that's where it started, Beck, Jonah Goldberg, Ed Morrissey, plus poking in on the #tcot feed a couple of times. Even Beck and Goldberg couldn't get behind Breitbart's bullshit.

You got suckered in by a serial liar -- snookered, to use the NAACP's nod to Malcolm X - and passed on Breitbart's lies without blinking.

You are a dupe, and until you wise up to the fact that you are being routinely lied to by the people you have decided to trust, your opinion is worthless because it's poisoned at the source.

I've said this to you before, in many different ways on many different occasions, but it never sticks. If it isn't obvious to you at this point that you were lied to when you were told that Sherrod was a racist, then you are truly hopeless.

Basically it comes down to whether you are OK being lied to or not. Most people would tend to get angry. You seem more inclined to defend the liars. That's just sad.

Posted by antonsirius on 7/22/2010 12:44:00 AM (view original):
3 - another lie. Fox was on the story about an hour after Breitbart posted it, and before Sherrod resigned.

In fact, you even contradict yourself here:

"The rest of the Cons, like FOX, didnt jump on until she got fired. The main reson that I believed it wasnt any Right wing source, it was the Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack. If Fox reports and an Obama apointee confirms for me that is the definition of truth."

First you say Fox didn't jump on it until after she was fired, then you say Vilsack's reaction was confirmation of what Fox was reporting. Oops.

**** off, tool. You opinions are worthless.