Posted on 04/18/2021 10:40:04 AM PDT by knarf
History MUST be taught in the public schools, or shut 'em down
Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie!
TWANG!
Hiya kids, hiya hiya!
Same here...and Midnight the Cat. "Nice."
Never forget Squeaky and Midnight
What about Froofie the Dog?
(”You can’t watch Froofie the Dog, because he’s dead!”)
Sad to say, it might depend on who is teaching history. A Marxist history teacher may be worse than none at all.
Dennis Prager made an aside that the left ruins everything that it touches. He did not explain. I think I know the reason.
Marxism teaches that there is “a higher morality” than telling the truth. It’s “advancing the cause.” The left, it all it’s various forms, has adopted the view that truth is, at best, secondary. They even deny the existence of truth by advancing an imaginary distinction between absolute truth and relative truth.
In my view most everything, at its best is a search for truth. That certainly applies to history. It also applies to journalism, the judicial system, to science, and academia.
Old enough to remember Eisenhower.
Richard Nixon too.
Now, old enough to have seen a stolen general election (twice).
5.56mm
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
“Same here...and Midnight the Cat. Nice.”
Or was it Fritz? I’m old...get those two mixed up.
wy69
Just was talking to the missus about that this morning.
I lived through the 60’s protests, Vietnam, assassinations, urban renewal, scandals, upheavals, runaway stagflation, etc.
I learned a lot about the Great Depression, WWII & WWI from parents & grandparents. As well as culture (music, art, etc.)
I’ve read hundreds of books, traveled all over the planet, walked many walks of life, hobnobbed with the muckity mucks, dealt with friends & relatives as they suffered with divorce, illness, substance abuse. Worked with every race, creed, nationality, color, etc.
But according to the current crop of self-anointed know-it-alls, I’m just and old racist or somesuch and should just shut up.
Sounds right. An American communist visits Moscow and Cuba, returns and assassinates an anti-communist President. Can it be so simple? Yes it can.
WW II..........me too.
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But Cronkite just *knew* it had to be a right-winger, since “right-wingers” beat up Adlai Stevenson in Dallas just a few weeks before.
I DID mean to imply that the same "power(s) took out both administrations.
Kenney got a bullet because he could.
Neither obama nor Trump got one because they no longer can get away with it.
Kennedy most certainly WAS into draining the swamp ... and doing away with the FED, too.
The shepherd will tend his sheep
The valley will bloom again
And Jimmy will go to sleep
In his own little room again
That did not go as I expected. Thanks.
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
My favorite: “We’ll Meet Again”. To all those we’ve lost ... friends family, children ... 1.35m
https://youtu.be/T5C4meGkNyc
Vietnam is one wordl
I had to look that one up. I don’t remember ever watching Bill Cosby, his stand-up sketches, or his TV show. Maybe I saw him if he was on the Ed Sullivan Show, but other than his “Fat Albert” character, I’m not familiar with any of his sketches. I grew up on Abbott and Costello, Martin & Lewis, Ed Wynn, Jimmy Durante, Red Skeleton, Martha Raye, and others. I also remember Señor Wences and his lipstick hand-puppet Johnny who used to be on Sullivan’s show on a regular basis. I’m also not a big fan of sit-coms either. Never watch them.
I had every Cosby album growing up. Yes he’s a douche in real life, but then again, I’m convinced now pretty much every celebrity is.
I saw Ike give a speech endorsing Nixon (weakly) at Roosevelt Field on a 4th grade field trip in September or October 1960.
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