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(Jonathan Ganz) wrote:
Dave wrote:
On 4 Oct 2004 17:35:18 -0700, (Frank Maier) said:
We have "Pravda" for the entire nation. It's called Fox "fair and
balanced" (How can they not choke when they say that?) "news". choke

Would you allow as how there may be a difference between the ways we should
treat government-directed information and the way we treat private news
organizations? Anyone who doesn't want to hear the side of the story Fox
provides has plenty of outlets of the opposite persuasion (though
increasingly they seem to be turning to Fox instead of the Dan Rathers and
Jayson Blairs).
woeful state of learning in our schools, I'm amazed anyone would
be so blinded by ideology that he would want the name of the current
President kept a deep dark secret from the kids.

True enough, but of course there are some school board who are letting
in the theory "Intelligent Design," as opposed to evolution. Did we
solve this 140 years ago?

There are individual teachers who insist that their kids all pray...
or recite the pledge with the offensive and inaccurate "under God"
phrase... or like Jon sez, wanna teach creationism... and I'll just
bet there are more examples of that than there are of the type cited
originally. Abusus non tollit usum applies here. Conservatives are
desperately quick to point out any example they find of "Bush bashing"
and are willing to overlook the manifold evils promulgated by radical
right-wing ideologues. It's the mote and the beam, pal.

Once upon a time I was a teacher. We homeschool (unschool)our kids...

Frank