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“[State controlled] education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” – Joseph Stalin

"[I]f you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever.  But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with."

--Ronald Reagan

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)

 

“No Taxation Without Respiration.”

– Steve Forbes’ call to end the death tax

Comments on the news:  1.Katrina  2.Labor Day  3.Fletcher’s Pardons           By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

1.       Hurricane Katrina – 

The Katrina disaster has many lessons for us:

First, when people along the gulf coast saw hurricane Katrina coming toward them with 175-mph winds, they should have known they were in serious trouble, and they should have left the area.  Fortunately, most people did.  Sitting in New Orleans, a city below sea level, and waiting for Katrina to hit was like sitting in the middle of a highway with cars speeding past – not very smart.  It amazes me that so many people took no responsibility for their own safety and then complained when others were not fast enough in rescuing them.  It is a lot easier and more economical to leave when the streets are clear than to be sitting on a rooftop waiting for a helicopter to rescue you, not to mention the fact that you might not survive to get to the rooftop.  Being poor is not an excuse.  Even poor people could have gotten themselves to a shelter in the city.         (click to read more)

D-DAY FOR THE DEATH TAX        By Rod D. Martin, 31 August 2005

Tuesday is D-Day.  The Senate votes on whether to do what the House has long since done:  end the Death Tax, the most obscene tax in America.  And we may -- just may -- have the votes to win.

Since its enactment in 1916, the Death Tax has actually cost more jobs and destroyed more small businesses and family farms than it’s raised in government revenue.        (click to read more)

Simply unacceptable          By Caleb O. Brown

How long does it take to get last night’s baseball scores? Many Web sites allow you to get results with a few clicks of the mouse. You can even monitor games – pitch by pitch – as they are being played.

Thanks to the Internet, you can follow the statistics of your favorite teams and players more easily than ever before. And you can do it all without actually seeing any games.         (click to read more)

Charles Augustus Lindbergh and War      By Gordon F. Corbett (gordon@harborside.com)

    Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born on 4 February 1902, the son of farmer, attorney, and future Member of the U. S. House of Representatives Charles August Lindbergh.  Working on his family’s farm let a World War I program give him enough credit to graduate from high school.  He dropped out of the University of Wisconsin, underwent an Army training program, and flew the mails.

    His parents seem to have taught him no transcendent philosophy, although he absorbed some populist politics from his father.         (click to read more)

Clearing the air about smoking bans        From the Bluegrass Institute

Kudos to the Scott County Fiscal Court for refusing to consider a smoking ban.

A recent motion to ban smoking in “public” places by Magistrate Gary Perry was met with silence after several people addressed the body, many of whom spoke of the importance of protecting property rights and personal freedom.         (click to read more)

*New Orleans: The Nanny State’s Bitter Fruit.*       By Justin Darr

Two days. 48 hours. 2,880 minutes. This was all the time it took for the fabric of 6000 years of civilization to unravel in New Orleans. Streets which just last week were lined with the fans of Blues clubs and theaters are now patrolled by gangs of what in any other country would be called terrorists looking for their next innocent victim or store front to pillage. Rapes and gang wars in the Superdome, gun fire at rescue helicopters, and the efforts to search and rescue trapped survivors of hurricane Katrina have been abandoned in a near hopeless effort to restore some semblance of public order. Think of it. In just two days time, authorities have been forced to desert innocent people to almost certain death because New Orleans has become unsafe for rescue operations. Two days.        (click to read more)

25 People Who Are Screwing Up America         by Jonathan David Morris

Best-selling author Bernard Goldberg has a new book called 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, in which he lists… well, 100 people who are screwing up America. I guess the name is self-explanatory. Anyway, I like this idea, so, not to be outdone, I’ve put together a list of my own. Here now, in no particular order, are 25 other people who are screwing up America. Feel free to disagree with my choices. Just know that any complainers will be added to the second edition.

18. Former NJ Governor Jim “James” McGreevey. This guy hands out a Homeland Security post in exchange for homosexual services, steps down, and disappears. I’m sorry, sir, but this is America. It doesn’t work that way. Get out here and shamelessly exploit yourself. You’re setting a bad precedent for disgraced former governors everywhere.         (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits        By Terry Gray 

Bang!

Gunshot wounds are sucking dry indigent care?  Was the money that was earmarked for indigent care earmarked for everything but gunshot wounds?  It sure sounds that way.

Chief White said, “Obviously we’re targeting the right places” in reference to the areas that have the most gunshot wounds in Louisville.  Hey chief, how hard can that be?  Just listen for gunshots and hey…        (click to read more)

Not Yours to Give

One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Mr. Crockett arose:

"Mr. Speaker --- I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this house, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.         (click to read more)

“It is only from a special point of view that "education" is a failure. As to its own purposes, it is an unqualified success. One of its purposes is to serve as a massive tax-supported jobs program for legions of not especially able or talented people. As social programs go, it's a good one. The pay isn't high, but the risk is low, the standards are lenient, entry is easy, and job security is still pretty good. ...In fact, the system is perfect, except for one little detail. We must find a way to get the children out of it.”— Richard Mitchell

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