Posted on 12/29/2008 8:54:49 AM PST by IrishMike
Whatever, whatever, whatever. Your kids are grown, and it’s great you help out at the Sunday School. But it’s time for you to do more. Start a school. Or a daycare. Do something besides snarl on-line all day at other conservatives. Put your money where your big mouth is, woman.
Your kids are grown, and it’s great you help out at the Sunday School.
I know that you an honest person and I conclude that you accidentally missed a sentence in my previous post. I stated that my husband and I are missionaries to our denomination's local Spanish ward. This will require about 20 hours a week. I fully expect that much of that time will be spent teaching reading and English to both adults and children. In addition we help with our grandchildren's homeschool. This adds up to being far more in unpaid service than merely "helping out" on Sunday.
Ideas are very powerful and the pen is often far mightier than starting one school. Also...Please read my tag line.
The pen is mightier than the sword. Bulwer-Lytton was not the only one, nor was he the first, to have the thought. The Greek poet Euripides, who died about 406 B.C., said, "The tongue is mightier than the blade." In 1600 Shakespeare had Rosencrantz in Hamlet say that "... many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills." In 1621 Robert Burton wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy, in which he stated: "From this it is clear how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword." Also preceding Bulwer-Lytton was Thomas Jefferson, who in 1796 sent a letter to Thomas Paine in which he wrote: "Go on doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword."
http://www.trivia-library.com/b/origins-of-sayings-the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword.htm
So this, then, is why you’re authorized to tell the rest of us that what we are doing is not good enough? Because we aren’t simply doing exactly what you are doing?
I can not defend a strawman argument of your creation.
Please post the link where I or anyone has claimed that you or anyone else was not “good enough”.
On the contrary, I have stated that you are honest, moral, and ethical and my posts have **clearly** implied that your would only do the very best for your students and would never do anything to mislead or harm them.
Don’t even try that, anyone can see what you’re up to. Singing your own praises all day, cutting others down, making arch accusations ... please. Pharisee. You’re not a conservative. You’re just a religious fanatic. We’re done, I have no more time for this. Go ahead and have the last word.
No I don't. I wish one of the conservative think tanks would pick up on the idea....Or...Maybe the Rose and Milton Friedman foundation.
Conservatives **must** stop waiting for Godot. Government vouchers and tax credits will never come soon enough to save our nation. We must act now and do so privately.
The one draw back that I see would be zoning and health regulations being thrown against the conservative “mini-school” teachers. But...Honestly, why should they be held to stricter standards than ...say...home daycare providers?
Thanks for the ping!
Because even if we now balance the budget and make spending equal to taxes, we will still have trillions in debt unfortunately.
I missed that one also. I said to decrease both taxes and spending, but what do I know. Anyway, now we have the Democrats.
Oh, I guess that was a poorly worded question as I took it to mean that those things were in effect from the word go.
Actually that is a pretty good list of questions - The only one I really had to think about was the Socrates/Plato one.
Makes you think that Americans need to pass refresher courses before they are allowed to vote every four years
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