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I think the smut should be removed from classrooms, too. I remember in my 1st grade primer it said,” See Spot.
See Jane.
Jane went to the corner to get Dick.”

What????????? What? I’m not following this article, what outside classroom matierals are teachers supposed to be reviewing?

shortly after the beginning, if ya ain’t figured it out. Was thinking before any real action began.

While I worry about children having access to the Anarchist’s Cookbook, I do feel it should be in everybody’s library. Along with a copy of Henley’s Formulas and Grey’s Anatomy.

i thought republicans loved smaller government and lower taxes.

too bad mccain doesn’t have to pay taxes on all the under the table pay-offs he gets.

“Clean” Movie Maven Arrested For Teen Sex
Utah Man Who Sold R-Rated Films Shorn Of Skin Arrested For Sex With 14-Year-Old Girls

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/25/national/main3753682.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_3753682

“(CBS) A Utah retailer of family-friendly tapes and DVDs – Hollywood films with the “dirty parts” cut out of them – has been arrested for trading sex with two 14-year-old girls. … Thompson’s Flix Club was one of several Utah-based video outlets that traded in edited versions of R- and PG-13-rated films, catering to clientele who wanted to watch hit movies without nudity, sex, language or graphic violence.” They’d rather sit around imagining it in their perverted, little minds.

As always, the fanatical right needs to clean up it’s own house before attacking other people’s morals.

Just one more step closer to Farenheit 451.

Hiya Mod,

Sound advice. But I’m wondering – does the “Mod” in your nic mean “moderate Republican?” If so, I’d go a step further, and say that as long as moderate Republicans of good concience continue to support what the KSGOP has become, the leadership will continue to be right-wingers like Kris Kobach and Iris Van Meter. Kobach’s “Loyalty Committee” and Van Meter’s KRA are destroying that party, and anyone with sense and self-respect will think twice about supporting it.

Wow, Tom, not just a little leap there associating my nic with “moderate Republican.” Not that I disagree with your assessment of the choices Kansas’ moderate Republicans make.

Personally, I believe “good conscience” and support of right-wingers are necessarily exclusive. I perceive it as being about power and the right-wingers being too devoid of real morality to effectively organize their power for the good of the people of this state. But then, the 85% of the people of this state don’t have formal educations beyond high school and really don’t care to as long as the manufacturing base of the economy is in tact are drawn to the right-wing lust for power, especially if it’s wrapped in “moral values.”

The People get what they want.

So mod, did you just throw in the link about the family friendly fare for the hell of it mod?

Does your demonstrated dishonesty reflects the morals of liberals??? Hmm…?

outlander, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Ted Haggard and that band of pro-family evangelicals were getting George W. Bush to ask the Salvation Army headquarters who their gay employees were, but didn’t bat an eye at Mark Foley – the Republican who preyed on male, congressional pages – for his well known sexually inappropriate behaviors toward young males, because Foley was a huge fundraiser for right-wing interests. That immorality is bred into the religious right and hides in the guise of “family values.” If you don’t like it and you’re a part of it then it’s YOUR responsibility to change it. You know, “party of personal responsibility.” Calling me names is really no substitute for that.

“Don’t forget Blackwater in that.”

The Bush/Republican equivalent of every petty dictator’s private paramilitary force that answers only to him outside of oversight by the legitimate armed services or the people’s elected representatives, the the US Congress.

Thanks for bringing that up, ghotiphaze. It’s important to mention.

“Never mind mod.”

Your ignorance does not serve you well, outlander. I wish you were the only person it touched.

Last word from me, mod. Ronald Reagan sure had you pegged when he said; “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

Have a good afternoon.

I doubt that the $4 a gallon milk

A bit of thought makes you realize the price of milk is a direct result of Proxmire not squashing the entire NASA and science budget anymore.
*ducks*

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A great indication of the “family values” the religious right have wrought

‘zactly my point LOL

Oh except for not mentioning dishonesty. Reagan forgot to add that to peg you perfectly.

The ends justify the means, right mod? You remind me of a couple of other posters who also believe that who don’t post when you do mod.

“And we know how stinkin’ bad those French are, stealing the tanker deal out from under us and all.”

We won’t call them “French” tankers. We’ll call them “Freedom” tankers. … Direct from France… Yeah, that’s it. And Sam Brownback FULLY supports that contract. Because he’s on the side of John McCain. … Didn’t John McCain call the religious right “agents of intolerance”?

… Well, the religious right certainly stand by their “moral values.” Because if they weren’t doing that, I’d almost get the impression that the last people the religious right can trust are themselves. Go figure.

“not squashing the entire NASA and science budget anymore.
*ducks*”

LOL.

Well, I’d laugh more, but when the scientists finished watching those meteor catastrophe movies and, out of natural curiosity, did some figures on the odds the earth might really be hit by a meteor – and the figures said the odds, actually, are really good that the earth will have just such a catastrophic encounter – AND SO, we really do need to be prepared and get into space because we really can’t stop a meteor from here. But Bush and the Republicans have decimated the nation’s economy so much that we can’t afford to prepare for such an encounter …

Oh wait, no never mind, the earth is only 6,000 years old and meteor collisions never happen, really.

Outlander, come ON now. YOu’re not going to sit here and pretend that those aren’t your people now are you?

You’re a good Christian, make them say a few hail Mary’s (Or Hail Joseph Smiths), and you can forgive em.

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Also with the Webkinz games you have Go Fish with the trading cards. This is a classic game with one change. You have Webkinz pets and items to match rather than face cards. This game is typically best with two players who have six cards each. The player to run out of cards is going to win. You can also play that the player with the most books will win. It depends on how long you would like this Webkinz game to last.

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“Well there must be a problem because just a few days ago there was news about how over 25% of teenage girls have STD’s. Don’t we have enough sexualization going on? We have to have the crap in schools too? You mean school boards don’t have enough time to review school curriculum?! What?! What are you talking about?! That’s their job Rhonda!
Rhonda, what do you think about the rise in STD’s in teenage girls? Do you care?”

Reviewing the curriculum is not the same thing as reviewing all materials that a teacher might use. School boards do not have the time or the expertise to micromanage curriculum. That’s what you pay teachers for.

As for the connections between STD’s and school materials, don’t be ludicrous (oops, too late). The idea that literature that contains a few damns or references to sexual activity are a primary factor in encouraging girls to have sex is (here’s that word again) ludicrous. If anything, evidence indicates that lack of information (e.g., abstinance only verses comprehensive sex education) has a higher correlation with consequences for sexual activity.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people there are who think it’s their business to tell other people what they shouldn’t read. Obviously, they themselves must have read them so they could know that we shouldn’t read, and if what we shouldn’t read is so corrupting, those self-appointed censors must be thoroughly corrupt from reading so much of it. So we’re supposed to take the word of a thoroughly corrupt person as fact on all matters of morality?

“Besides, is classroom smut really a problem in Kansas?”
Only to dirty little minded people.

Hey Rhonda keep up the good work. You’ve got some really intelligent followers! Hey by the way were you an advisor for the movie “Idiocracy”?
Wow!

ksagnostic aspires to be an intellectual.

Aspirations are sometimes never achieved. :)

“Well there must be a problem because just a few days ago there was news about how over 25% of teenage girls have STD’s.”

Ya gotta LOVE that good ol’ right-wing fundamentalist abstinence education! Introducing that curriculum into schools has protected the children from the evils of sin! Amen! I say amen! Anyone else?

DanB,
Maybe it’s you who needs a bit of perspective here. In the 1890’s (at the height of the Victorian morality you seem to espouse) a survey in New York found that over 75% of men and over 50% of women were suffering one or more STD’s.
Humanity has been “sexualized” for at least as long as it’s been human. Various social and religious groups have tried to harness sexuality in one way or another as a means achieving control and/or raising funds for the entire of recorded history and probably for a long time before.
While our understanding of sex and representations of sexuality are more openly presented in recent decades, the underlying sexualty has remained pretty much as it always has; the difference being that medicine has become more proficient at decoupling sexual expression from reproduction and at treating STD’s, both to the howlings of religious bodies who wanted to keep sexual expression under the purview of the church, and were outraged over losing that means of controlling society. Before and during WWII many churches violently opposed the advent of antibiotics because they treated STD’s, God’s scourge on fornicators, and in the 1960’s opposed the pill for the same reason; they didn’t want people having sex without their express permission!
The current “wave” of STD’s is in no small part increased by a number of newly discovered diseases that have been added to the traditional syphilis and gonorrhea, and better reporting, and is only slightly due to increased sex/decreased monogamy. In years past, STD’s were shameful and often neither diagnosed or treated in time. Hopefully we’re getting past that and more people are getting treated.

ksag,
Even drug use is not as recent as we like to think- recently an archeology dig at an abandoned 1870’s Nevada mining town turned up loads of old syringes and other opiate paraphernalia. Also, I was regaled many years ago by an old gentleman from Montana who described the strike he winessed as a child in 1910 by miners there when the company pharmacy ran out of cocaine.
Of course I also saw a collection of company tokens used to pay miners in Colorado that were redeemable at the local houses of ill repute. Madams often paid the companies for exclusive rights to the workers. So much for Victorian morality.

Victorian morality in the Old West, Jed??

A lot of what you have written is correct but it contains, as always Jed, your misrepresentations and generalizations about the motives of those who believe in God.

It’s interesting that we have old hippies here who supported the sexual revolution, drug use etc…, who now support essentially the same hedonistic, do whatever feels good philosophy. They laugh at the 25% STD rate among teenage girls, BLAMING abstinence education when actually, it is only an attempt at a solution to a problem that they themselves helped create.

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