[meadsjn]

You sir, are an ignorant ass; determined and destined to remain so.

[BlackElk]

No, I am a person who strongly disagrees with your desire for diplomacy in place of sensible action and who was not taken in by your transitory lip service to private education and homeschooling while pleading for me to lay off the poor tax-gorged and despicable public skewel system. If you don't agree with me, you don't agree. I'm a big guy. I can take such minor disappointments. You sure don't take your own advice. I have gotten along fine without you before ever hearing of you and I will get along fine with or without you now.

You are yet another gummint skewel apologist without the capacity to address issues. No surprise there. Unsubstantiated insults do not constitute an argument but you knew that.

What is it that you admire about gummint skewels (and their apologists)? Their hideous cost paid for by taxes? Do you also draw a paycheck from the taxpayers' gummint skewel sush fund? Their leftist propaganda posing as curricula? Their ever-declining test scores? Their obdurate refusal to reform in any way? Their everlasting buck-passing to blame anyone but the incompetent officials and teachers for the constant failure of the gummint skewel experiment? Their pathetic performance in science and math which places our nation at risk?

Instead of singing the Kumbaya chorus, try to address the issues. Holding hands around the campfire and feigning a "unity" that does not exist and probably won't exist is no substitute for sensible action. If that makes me an ignorant ass, so be it but then those qualities must, like beauty, be in the eye of the beholder. Your disapproval will be a credit and not a demerit.

And again, you are very efficient at stating editorial conclusions but woefully short (nonexistent really) on substantive arguments. If conservatism has become that flabby a movement, it is in worse trouble than we think, but I don't think we are a pack of Kumbaya diployakkers yet.

[Mr. Silverback]

Which of his points make him “an ignorant ass,” the log established FFACT that government schools are academically inferior to private and home schools, or the fully-supported assetion that a public school with hundreds of potential victims and no guns makes a dandy terror target compared to a home school with a few victims and the possibility of flying lead?