Posted on 07/30/2010 4:47:22 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Like the traditional family, America's school calendar is old-fashioned, says Education Secretary Arne Duncan. "In all seriousness, I think schools should be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week, 11-12 months of the year." Go ahead -- re-read that. I'll wait.
Are you convinced yet? Are you finally convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that America is under the leadership of not just left-wingers, but communists. You should no longer be afraid to use that word. Not after this.
"The days of telling kids to go home at 2:30 and having mom there are gone," says Duncan. "Whether it's a single parent working one, two, three jobs or two parents working, that's why we have to keep our schools open longer."
And to think: It all began with one woman's deep psychological torment. Betty Friedan ushered in this new world of ours with her book, The Feminine Mystique -- in which she urged women to leave their homes in search of greener pastures. For mothers, she said, the home is a "comfortable concentration camp."
It only took four decades for the most significant social revolution of our time -- feminism -- to systematically ruin the American family.
Wake up, America. You are just as guilty as Duncan if you do not act. If you do not do something, you will regret it. I truly believe the Obama administration is asking for a civil war.
All other issues -- all of them, even terrorism -- cease to matter if there is no such thing as the American family. This is sick.
Interpretation:
Keep kids away from their parents as much as possible so Big Brother can brainwash them and turn them against their parents and the traditional values they teach.
About the same time Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique (New York: Norton, 1963), Helen Andelin was promoting an alternative view in Fascinating Womanhood (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Pacific Press, 1963) in which she argued that women will enjoy happier marriages if they embrace their traditional roles as wives and mothers.
Betty Friedan easily won the battle of the books. Her opus was published by a big New York firm and soon got the attention of America's cultural elite, while Helen Andelin's was put out by a mom-and pop press in a somnolent Southern California coastal town. However, Fascinating Womanhood has maintained a grassroots following and is still in print. For more information on the "Fascinating Womanhood" movement or Helen Andelin, surf over here.
What sound is sweeter than the sound of kids playing outdoors in the summer?
It’s a lot sweeter if it’s five blocks away.
I think you are what we commonly refer to as a curmudgeon.
Ah, yes...the sound of silence. Love it...
I remember those days very well. I think band directors run true to type!
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I think you are what we commonly refer to as a curmudgeon.
Noted.
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