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I saw Lorax with the Grandkids...here's my review
March 11, 2012
| Jeff Head
Posted on 03/11/2012 7:40:44 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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My review and experience with the grankids and "Lorax."
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:40:51 AM PDT
by
Jeff Head
To: Jeff Head
Even my DAUGHTER (who hates me and I am so stupid and she can make her own decisions because
SHE'S FIFTEEN NOW) said it was communist propaganda
SKIP THIS ONE FOLKS
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:43:13 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Were the Soviet-Era propagandists as gleefully willing as our Lame-stream Media?)
To: Jeff Head
Even my DAUGHTER (who hates me and I am so stupid and she can make her own decisions because
SHE'S FIFTEEN NOW) said it was communist propaganda
SKIP THIS ONE FOLKS
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:43:25 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Were the Soviet-Era propagandists as gleefully willing as our Lame-stream Media?)
To: Jeff Head
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:43:53 AM PDT
by
svcw
(CLEAN WATER http://www.longlostsis.com/PI/MayanHelp2012.html)
To: Mr. K
Or, see it...because all of the young ones want to see it...and then use the moment to teach. It worked out great!
Anyhiow, clearly a left wing propoganda piece...but one that is easy to refute by having kids just look around and think of things they really already know...and helping them now be caught up in the emotion.
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:44:53 AM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: Jeff Head
but it was a good teaching moment for grandpa and I thought I should shareYou may have mentioned it, but be sure to tell the kids trees live on Carbon Dioxide. Without CO2 the trees and plants die. Without trees and plants making oxygen, we all die.
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:46:38 AM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: Jeff Head
Beautifully done, Jeff. Teachable moments as only a (favorite) granddad can do.
What a view!!!!! Never been to Idaho..yet...but it’s on my list.
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:47:56 AM PDT
by
SueRae
(Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
To: Jeff Head
You did an excellent job with the “Teaching Moment”!
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:48:45 AM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Jim Robinson; Noumenon; joanie-f; Dukie; Squantos; JohnHuang2; RobFromGa; k.trujillo; ...
Lorax...a Dr. Zeuss hit piece on our way of life and capitalism and the free market.
And how to effectively deal with it.
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:49:18 AM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: Jeff Head
“The forests must be, and will be, not only preserved but used, and the experience of all civilized countries that have faced and solved the question show that the forests, like perennial fountains, may be made to yield a sure harvest of timber while at the same time all their far-reaching beneficent uses may be maintained unimpaired.”
John Muir, 1895
To: Jeff Head
Sounds like it was just like the way the book written.
To: Jeff Head
Driving through Idaho in Grandpa’s V8. Man, those are some lucky grand-kids.
I remember the original Lorax on TV, which played at the very start of the enviro movement’s takeover of our economy. Yeah, left-wing drivel. And as a kid, I ate it up (sigh!).
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:54:25 AM PDT
by
tanuki
(Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
To: FatherofFive
We did talk about it. The message of the movie (one of them) was that without trees we have no air. When they clear cut all the trees in the story...a really bad capilatlist came along selling people clean air. I showed them the forests right before their eyes to show them that there are plenty of trees, even though in Idaho it is one of our major job and product producers. They understood intrinsically that the timber companies are not cutting down all the trees and destroying our air...but that they are planting more...in fact more than they take. Also, I explained how good harvesting actually improves the forest and the habitat for the animals.
Anyhow, we had a good talk about all of this and they came away from it understanding that there are people with causes who will slant the trth in order to influence them and that they should be critical thinkers and look around them to see the trugh of these things...and then talk to epople who are involved and people they trust.
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:56:18 AM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: Jeff Head
Good for you, Grandpa.
For any readers who have a few minutes to kill, do a search on how and why the Magruder Corridor got its name.
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:58:32 AM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
To: tanuki; Jeff Head
Driving through Idaho in Grandpas V8. Man, those are some lucky grand-kids.Yeah. I only get to drive mine around Idaho in a V6.
And with me being a carpenter/cabinetmaker, The Lorax doesn't stand a chance.
To: Jeff Head
Ya gotta get em when they are young.
Whether it’s Radical enviromentalism (quasi-science and anti-human pro-nutbarism) I would say its anti-God in my not so humble opinion,too.
Or, anti-capitalism is delusional and historically ignorant. Compare capitalism to any other system.
But lets all listen, and follow, a bunch of dingwads who would have us return to the pre-industrial era.
No wiat, correction: they want everyone else to return to the pre-industrial era.
They want to fly around in jets and spend other people’s money on lavish galas and so forth while they spread the word.
Thanks for letting me ramble..:)
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posted on
03/11/2012 8:00:22 AM PDT
by
Leep
(Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
To: Jeff Head
I loved The Lorax. It was well made.
I disagree with many who have already posted. People need to take care of the environment and not abuse it. Some on the left and right go to both extremes of the spectrum. Thanks to many environmental policies I can visit nature not too far from my house in the city.
I think many here read too much into things and forget to have a good time and enjoy life. They do not think critically.
To: tanuki; Jeff Head
“Driving through Idaho in Grandpas V8”
And I hope grandpa educated the kidlets about how much more expensive it is to run his V8, thanks to the very same environmental whackos. We all like clean air and water; then there are those who just don’t like business and/or capitalism.
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posted on
03/11/2012 8:03:53 AM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: Jeff Head
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posted on
03/11/2012 8:06:42 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: moviefan8
I kept thinking people were talking about this guy:
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posted on
03/11/2012 8:11:45 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(Sofa King Mitt Odd Did Obamneycare)
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