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1 posted on 01/16/2013 3:49:43 AM PST by Kaslin
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no


2 posted on 01/16/2013 3:50:42 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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School integration overlaps the same period. There are all sorts of social implications.


3 posted on 01/16/2013 3:55:36 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Kaslin
Rudyard Kipling described it a century ago:

AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

4 posted on 01/16/2013 4:15:44 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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The dude who shot the kids in CT was a scitzo.

The dude that shots rat Congresswoman Giffords was a lunatic as well.

These dangerously mentally ill people who are being allowed to walk around free seem to the “the problem”.


5 posted on 01/16/2013 4:16:25 AM PST by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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When I attended primary and secondary school -- during the 1940s and '50s -- one didn't hear of the kind of shooting mayhem that's become routine today. Why?

Here's a theory my wife threw out there a few years ago. Today's kids are never allowed to fail. Everyone wins, everyone gets a trophy. So,as has happened in the recent past, a kid gets jilted by his first girlfriend. Well, he's never failed before, he doesn't know how to handle it, grabs a gun and goes nuts.

Of course this isn't always the case but it's happened enough. The point is, how can today's kids learn to overcome adversity and become better people if they're never allowed to fail?

7 posted on 01/16/2013 4:45:33 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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Liberal tax & spend policies begun after WWII forced mothers into the workplace, leaving the raising of the children to schools, babysitters, TV, & to the children themselves.

It is the mothers & motherly love that civilize the children the most, & the fathers to enforce that love & civilization. Now, the mother works all day & there is no father. Little time is left in the day to spend with the kids. Civilizing the kids is left to paid strangers who have little stake in civilizing your kids. They are there primarily for the money & little else. There is no love from strangers to re-enforce the lessons learned.

It is my belief that if you haven't civilized your kids by age 6-7, then you have failed. At 6, the "system" takes over with it amoral attitudes that kill any sense of right & wrong. Add to that the growing influence of other kids who are just a morally ignorant.

Yet now, many new parents turn their kids over to the "system" right after birth. My own niece put her new born twins in day care so she could begin teaching in elementary school. Teaching other kids is more immediately important that spending precious time with your OWN twins?

8 posted on 01/16/2013 4:52:18 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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My mother, now 95, said that children who rode their horses a long way into school sometimes brought their rifles and hunted on the way home. But I’m thinking these children were “expected” to behave as adults. Today’s society keeps children as children until 26. (That’s how long you have to keep them on your insurance. I have a friend whose adult “child” sued him for insurance coverage and won.) The ability to carry a gun goes with a self-responsible adult word view. Even adults today don’t have a self-responsible worldview. But taking away guns isn’t going to help.


9 posted on 01/16/2013 4:53:22 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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When I was in high school, many times I had a shotgun in the trunk of the car, or in the gun rack of my truck. Used to go hunting before class during dove and quail season in Az.

In college the shotgun was in my dorm room at all times. Used to to rabbit and bird hunt in northern Arizona.

It was just accepted and we had no problems like we do today.
I kept my guns under control and they never killed anybody.

The problem is the deterioration of morals brought about by liberal social policies and soviet/socialist/nazi indoctrination taught in our schools and the liberal political agenda.

bobo


11 posted on 01/16/2013 5:00:53 AM PST by bobo1 (the KDE plasma desktop is awesome!)
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The problem is people whose “value system” allows them to murder.
Thanks to years of liberal propaganda that there is no right and no wrong.


13 posted on 01/16/2013 5:31:00 AM PST by I want the USA back
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The question I ask is,” Why are we raising children that want to kill us+” When I was in High School, I used to bring my deer rifle to school to show my friends. I could keep it in my locker.


15 posted on 01/16/2013 6:00:20 AM PST by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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Dr. John Lott, author of "More Guns, Less Crime," reports that until the 1960s, some New York City public high schools had shooting clubs where students competed in citywide shooting contests for university scholarships. They carried their rifles to school on the subways and, upon arrival, turned them over to their homeroom teacher or the gym coach and retrieved their rifles after school for target practice.

I can confirm that - my uncle was in such a club at school. He, however, didn't take the subway - he walked to school, carrying his gun the entire way. Somehow, neither he nor any of his fellow club-members shot anyone, even by accident.

We are living in a thoroughly pussified society. God help us.

18 posted on 01/16/2013 6:46:44 AM PST by Ancesthntr (Banning guns to prevent crime is like banning cars to prevent drunk driving.)
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In the fifties, my brother and I rode the school bus. On rifle club day he brought the rifle on the bus and I carried the box of fifty cartridges for the shoot ... which took place after school in the ravine behind the football field. But of course, I was living in East Tennessee then and liberalism was not yet the disease it has become.


19 posted on 01/16/2013 6:56:08 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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H... NO! evil people are....mother of child beat to death with a fence post to see what it felt like by a sociopathic drugie.


20 posted on 01/16/2013 7:07:20 AM PST by GailA ( those who do not keep promises to the Military, won't keep them to U)
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The City of Chicago High School system used to have award-winning rifle clubs for students. Somebody had the gall to point out that students enrolled in these classes had never been involved in a crime over the decades and this included high schools in high crime, high gang and high gun violence areas.

Mayor Daley II canceled the programs just a few years back. Can't have reality intruding on our politics can we?

24 posted on 01/16/2013 7:54:03 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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The left is the problem. Their fascism trumps any reality. Reality, however, is truth and it is reality that always defeats the left.


25 posted on 01/16/2013 2:59:34 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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Great Article!


26 posted on 01/17/2013 10:48:05 AM PST by Pagey
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