Posted on 09/22/2005 7:43:27 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
That is my BOY you are talking about! Yes, my teenage son, homeschooled and a potential founder of the Young Freeper Corps!
I AM SO PROUD OF HIM!
he is going to be upset that I wrote this, but this post of his was brilliant.
BUMP!
Alright alright, no more horn-tooting. Don't want to be accused of being biased, do ya? ;-P
Why not, exactly? Love is the highest virtue - and love is not being "unbiased."I'm put in mind of Seven Stars for Aslan, a thread by Nattie Shea - a homeschooler at the time. You can read that thread and critique it; it's fine work for a HS student. But Nattie Shea turns out to be (as of that writing) eight or nine years old. Nattie Shea wanted to be judged without reference to her age, and the work was good for anything less than college-level work. But it reads entirely differently if you understand that the writer was literally in diapers seven years before she wrote it.
As long as you are in your teens, adults will make allowances and be the more impressed with good writing when they know that allowances properly should be made. Nothing else makes sense to an adult. It's easy for a conservative adult to be impressed with a teenager who articulates a sense of historical perspective as clearly as you did. After all, we're used to seeing millionaire journalists on TV (you mentioned Phil Donahue) who by comparison strike us as raving idiots.
Not that I had any reason to suspect that any allowance at all was called for, when I read your excellent piece.
There is a large disconnect in the liberal mind to ever comprehend sacrifice. In history they have always been reactive rather than proactive when our country needs protection most. Sadly that has always put them on the wrong side of history and they continue to lack embarrassment.
They look at our Constitution as a living breathing document fit to be changed to suit their hidden agenda. We all know they want the Constitution eradicated completely so they can implement socialism.
Ends justify the means for these unpatriotic nitwits.
I know. We just tend to joke with each other that way. I saw that Aslan thread; somehow, it doesn't surprise me that a young'un wrote it. Excellent piece.
Not surprising. They want to be able to sacrifice their own child's life so they don't have to go with less twinkies in their cyupboards...
The only sacrifice the left believes in is the killing of the pre-born.
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player05.html?092205/oreilly_donahue2_092205&OReilly_Factor&O%27Reilly%20vs.%20Donahue&acc&O%27Reilly%20Factor&-1&new
Video Url to Phil and Bill exchanging words on Fox News.
Bill O'Reilly talks about his debate with Phil Donahue
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player05.html?092205/views_oreilly_092205&OReilly_Factor_Talking_Points&Bill%27s%20Talking%20Points&acc&Opinion&-1&new
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