This is just stupid. What kind of people invest in a yacht, anchor it
in a foriegn cove, and go to sleep leaving their important items all
over the place and things unlocked, as if they are in their livingroom?
And what kind of people commit this idiocy, and then spend all night
and the next day calling "mayday", and thinking it is something the
local police can, or even ought to try, to investigate & solve? But
worst of all, what kind of people go further and propagate all this
stupidity and ignorance all over the world?

Yep, it sure is getting dangerous - the increasing danger of idiots
with crusing boats, that is...

wrote:
snippage
you sound like an angry person
time to go sailing
or perhaps you have a gun or three that need cleaning?

prodigal1 wrote:
wrote:
snippage
you sound like an angry person
time to go sailing
or perhaps you have a gun or three that need cleaning?

Your inference is amiss, I am a happy and contented person. I simply
do not suffer fools who blame others for their own behavior easily, and
I feel such are a detriment to the sailing world and ultimately to
those of us who sail in prudence and peace.

wrote:

Your inference is amiss, I am a happy and contented person. I simply
do not suffer fools who blame others for their own behavior easily, and
I feel such are a detriment to the sailing world and ultimately to
those of us who sail in prudence and peace.

then I stand corrected

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:18:56 -0400, prodigal1 wrote:

wrote:

Your inference is amiss, I am a happy and contented person. I simply
do not suffer fools who blame others for their own behavior easily, and
I feel such are a detriment to the sailing world and ultimately to
those of us who sail in prudence and peace.

then I stand corrected

Amazing.......................
And, in the meantime, the people on the yacht in Vevezuela whose misfortune to
be attacked and with no homeschoolers or other children aboard started this
thread, have supposedly not heard any more from the police.

Good discussion though.

FWIW,
Our two children (now 29 and 30) who completed their high school years on the NZ
government correspondence system seem to be doing OK. Our daughter has a good
job in IT, has just bought her second house in Sydney Aus and has just gotten
engaged - unfortunately or otherwise toan Englishman (could have been worse -
could have been from the US). The reason why we sent our 13 year old back to
school was for socialisation reasons, not academic after 1 week, the school put
him up a grade - not at our behest either. You can homeschool your kids - we
took him off correspondence as we considered it too unchallenging and rather
boring/tedious.

Also FWIW - I once saw a gathering of homeschoolers on Boston Common. I was
interested to note that many said that they homeschooled their children for
religious reasons whereas in New Zealand and Australia it is generally because
we believe we can better educate our kids.
Peter

Peter Hendra wrote in
:

Also FWIW - I once saw a gathering of homeschoolers on Boston Common.
I was interested to note that many said that they homeschooled their
children for religious reasons whereas in New Zealand and Australia it
is generally because we believe we can better educate our kids.
Peter



Not long ago the local Weather Bureaucrats had the NOAA Hurricane Hunter
aircraft come to Charleston for show and tell. A bunch of us hams went out
and stood in the pouring rain all day to help with crowd control and
communications because they bussed school kids in from all over eastern SC
and Savannah schools to take the tours. About 800 kids showed up.

In the pouring down rain, it WAS noteworthy that less than 5% of the kids
from the awful SC public schools had any raingear at all, while 90% of the
homeschooler group that came in later were all dressed out in their
slickers, boots, useless umbrellas in the 30 knot winds blowing the rain
and umbrellas all over. In a practical sense, the homeschoolers were much
better prepared....and much more interested in the meteorologist's
presentation (given over my stepvan's DJ sound system because they didn't
have one).

Homeschoolers - 90
Public Schoolers - 5

(c;

PS - The navigator and I were talking about his comm problems inside the
storm, so I got a little more detailed tour than the kids did...(c;
Yes, they DO have HF SSB on the plane and yes, I did make 4 ham contacts on
20 meters from a hurricane hunter aircraft...(c;

DE W4CSC/Aeronautical Mobile

Plane needs more antenna.....(sigh)


--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and you're outlined in
chalk.

Peter Hendra wrote:

Also FWIW - I once saw a gathering of homeschoolers on Boston Common. I was
interested to note that many said that they homeschooled their children for
religious reasons whereas in New Zealand and Australia it is generally because
we believe we can better educate our kids.

Some homeschool to protect their children from being dehumanbized by
the behaviorism which drives the globalist workforce training system
wrongly called "education."

wrote in
oups.com:

globalist workforce training system
wrongly called "education."


I disagree. If public education were the "globalist workforce training
system" you say, public education would actually be teaching these kids to
DO something. It's not. It teaches them to become liberal arts college
students, a dead-end way to nowhere. The "gwts" would be teaching them
plumbing, electrical repair, carpentry, how to be a cashier and handle
money. Test my theory. Ask 10 high school seniors to make change for a
$7.43 restaurant bill out of a $20 bill. GWTS students would do this very
easy...as part of the cashier apprenticeship program. High school seniors
on their way to a liberal arts education have no idea how to make change or
fix a kitchen faucet that leaks. Try that too...()c;

The liberal arts students are easy to spot at McDonald's. Just turn off
the computers and open the cash drawers to see how many can make
change....(c;

--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and you're outlined in
chalk.