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My Son's Textbook "Screws" Ronald Reagan and John Paul II
The Lid ^ | 3/11/2010 | The Lid

Posted on 03/11/2010 11:00:57 AM PST by Shellybenoit

I have spent much time during the past few evenings helping my son study for his History test later in the week. As I worked with him through his studies, I found that his class is presenting a new version of History, a version that never occurred. And while you can make a case for different interpretations of events that happened centuries ago, his text book and curriculum distorts events that I saw with my own eyes.

The Book in question is published by McDougal Littell and is called World History Patterns of Interaction. The test covers much of the period from the end of WWII through the 1980's. It sets up the Cold War period with the mistaken explanation that both sides were aggressors. On page 983 it says "both sides believed that they needed to stop the other side from extending its power, rather than a what it was, a battle between the Soviet side wanting to expand its communist philosophy across the world and the west trying to prevent the takeover."

(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: History; Politics
KEYWORDS: coldwar; godsgravesglyphs; history; indoctrination; popejohnpaulii; reagan; textbooks
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To: AnAmericanMother
Great response yourself American Mother! Your legal background and perspective is especially persuasive.

I like and am intrigue by your tagline (additional translation appreciated). Based on what I surmise from it, I think you would like to know about this - (my daughter has been involved in the Pure Fashion Model Training Program since last Fall and the Pure Fashion Show is next month!) ...

Pure Fashion: Promoting the virtues of modesty and purity and fostering the dignity of the female 'genius' that God created (clothing that is pretty but not provocative, trendy but still tasteful).

61 posted on 03/12/2010 8:27:20 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross
My daughter loves Pure Fashion! (She is now 22 and a very good Catholic girl - in fact she's pretty funny: "I've got Convert Zeal, stand back and let me work!")

My screen name dates back a long long time (in fact to long before I was Catholic). I was lurking here and posting on a couple of other (since defunct) boards with that name as early as the Clinton impeachment.

Its origin was with a regular letter-writer in the old Baltimore Sun. The author took a tongue-in-cheek position as an elderly, somewhat eccentric evangelical lady with a good heart but sometimes defective reasoning. (He was actually the Danish Consul in Baltimore.) But there was usually a good idea at the bottom of it, under all the fun.

To the Editor of the Evening Sun: Sir—Some time ago I wrote you to reccommend the holding of prayer meetings on streetcars while our young folk were coming and going to work morning and evening. I felt that so much good could be accomplished through these prayer meetings and that it would help our young folk to start their workday and to finish it in a beautiful frame of mind. Unfortunately nothing came out of my loving recommendation at the time, but I see now that masses are going to be done on the trains that are carrying people to the Eucharistic meeting in Chicago, Ill. Now, I do not hold with Popishness, but aside from that I think this a most beautiful idea, and if these people can have masses done on the trains, why cannot we here in Baltimore, a Protestant city, have prayer meetings or sermons on the streetcars for the good of our working boys and girls? …

AN AMERICAN MOTHER

Read all about it here. (Never mind that "Baltimore, a Protestant city" was thrown in just to provoke a response from everybody who grew up on the Baltimore Catechism or went to Mass at the Basilica)

62 posted on 03/12/2010 8:36:45 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother
LOL. Thanks for sharing. I'm thrilled to hear about Pure Fashion reaching larger audiences. Our young ladies (like our daughters) know the truth "in their soul" when they hear it. They know the depravity of this culture's objectification of women. They know that their Creator made a beautiful creature interiorly first (and outwardly second) and that it wasn't to be object of the secular culture or cads who give real men a bad name. Pure Fashion lets them be them courageously and confidently. In the world, but not of it!

"an elderly, somewhat eccentric evangelical lady with a good heart but sometimes defective reasoning ... "?


I couldn't resist ....

63 posted on 03/12/2010 8:52:56 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: AnAmericanMother
oh ... and I meant the tagline - "(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)) ..."
64 posted on 03/12/2010 8:55:18 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Oh, yeah! I'm convinced that Dana Carvey got the idea from the correspondent with the Sun . . . if I believed he ever read history.

They're a definite type, the equivalent of the Italian "pia donna". They are mostly good-hearted but can be scary.

The tagline (sorry I read too quickly - that's the danger of iPhones!) is the Tomas Torquemada Gentlemen's Club . . . which makes an appearance from time to time on FR. The Ladies' Auxiliary required hats and gloves last time I checked. I was a recess appointment to handle any questions that might arise pertaining to dogs, horses, or hunting (whether birds, deer, or the fox) hence the title.

65 posted on 03/12/2010 11:25:15 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother
The only reason you don't read all sorts of scandal about that outfit is because the media knows that TEC is on its side and will not report any of it.

I agree. The Roman Catholic Church is a major target of the media, because she teaches against much of what the media supports.

66 posted on 03/12/2010 7:18:38 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

” The Roman Catholic Church is a major target of the media”

And simply because she is Satan’s strongest opponent on Earth.


67 posted on 03/13/2010 11:32:11 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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And simply because she is Satan’s strongest opponent on Earth.

Exactly!

68 posted on 03/13/2010 6:21:23 PM PST by SuziQ
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