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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) |
Yes, there is a “secret to happiness” – and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person. – Dennis Prager (from Happiness is a Serious Problem)
How To Feel Morally Superior – Part 2 By Theresa Fritz Camoriano Last week, I provided several suggestions for ways that you could feel morally superior at no cost to yourself. The basic plan was to select a cause, lobby the government to promote that cause at someone else’s expense, and then sit back and feel morally superior. Just in case last week’s suggestions did not connect with you, here are a few more you might want to consider: (click to read more)
More Light Rail Nonsense By John Riley More trash reporting. (see article below) This "news article" is more of a propaganda piece than anything else. Just read the headline. ("Public likes light rail..") Ask the public if they would like to have a new Cadillac Escalade, and most of the public would of course say yes. But just like this "light rail" proposal, it's not affordable and is the least cost effective for our overall transportation needs. Especially when items of a far greater need are delayed or scrapped because of it. In this case it's many other important road and highway projects. (click to read more)
Send the ACLU a Christmas Card By Anonymous Here's a GREAT idea ! Have some fun and do something really worthwhile too! Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD! As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of
"There was a time when Thanksgiving meant an occasion for counting our blessings. But, now that we have so many blessings that previous generations could hardly have dreamed about, we take them all for granted and are much more likely to count our grievances and the ways in which others have been unfair to us." ---Thomas Sowell
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"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." ---Aesop
"[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." -- Samuel Adams
"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?" ---Thomas Jefferson
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