Have you ever watched a country and a civilization go to hell before?
Stick around . . . we are well on the way, and you've got a front row seat!
What is your particular preference . . . creation or evolution?
Well, I happen to think that if our God wanted us to start out as a bunch of single-cell beings floating around in a vat of warm salt water, from which we evolved to our present greatness(?), I have no quarrel with that course of events! In fact, it might very well be that He liked the idea so much that He preserved it and uses it today, after having first accelerated the warm water bath in its change to amniotic fluid, and the period of evolution to, initially, nine months, of gestation, after which we are permitted our first glance of the wide open spaces, and our final phases of evolution into the magnificent animals that we are today!
Except that, now, we seem to be moving in a sort of reverse evolution, where all of the magnificent bulls of our species vie with the less magnificent bulls to see who can impregnate the most cows of our species, and where the product of the gestation period is soon left to fend for itself in those great barnyards we choose to call cities, while the cows resume wandering around, flashing their tails to attract the next bull!
So much for giving the human animal the intelligence to fly to the moon, and to explore space!
So much for giving him the stupidity to reject education and learning in favor of the purely animal instincts of the flesh!
Can anyone explain to me why any person of reasonable intelligence would choose the route by which we now choose to travel to our destinies? I can find no argument with the theory that the dominant urge in all of the species is to reproduce and thus keep the species alive and growing in numbers. But should not this higher level of the species, the human being who is so blessed with the highest level of brainpower, have, by this time learned from experience that competing to bed all the broads eventually leads to such delights as AIDS and all the numerous sexually transmitted diseases that are so well known to man? Should he not be able to see that such behavior simply leads to the destruction of the family unit that is so essential to the continued growth of the species? Should he not be able to see that continually copulating can only result in the degradation of the species to the same level as the other animals of lower intellect?
Can anyone tell me why we are so determined to pursue this course to our own destruction such that we elect jackasses to our highest leadership positions . . . the presidency and the Congress of our beloved country because they make it easy for us to enjoy the pleasures of today instead of building toward the greatness that tomorrow could bring?
Yes, they pass laws that encourage fornication . . . that encourage pregnancy with no one being responsible for the product of that pregnancy except a government that really doesn't give a hoot? It is a government, in fact, that seems to wish to encourage the citizens to grow to maturity with the mental capabilities that have never grown beyond that of a seven year old child . . . correct me if I am wrong, but did I not read somewhere that Madison Avenue points all advertising programs at a seven year old's level of intelligence, because that is where the great masses of our citizens seem to stop seeking knowledge and just vegetate! Can it be that our politicians want our citizens to remain barely post embryonic in intelligence, because it makes it easier for the politicians to lead us around by the rings in our noses? Do you suppose that this is the reason why neither the president nor the Congress is doing anything about the invasion of the illiterate from Mexico . . . because they need the dumb votes to keep them in office while they trade back and forth to channel our tax monies into their own pockets, thus growing fat on pork? Do you suppose that this is the primary driving force that caused the Democratic Congress that we voted into office to save us from those dishonest Republicans, to pass legislation that unrealistically sets a time schedule to end a war, when any damn fool knows that no war can be so realistically programmed except through complete surrender? Do you suppose that, in their zeal to get the legislation passed, they agreed to all those pork deals because they had to do so, or they could not have got the votes to pass that stupid bill?
Does not anyone realize that, sooner or later, the numbers of 'citizens' who produce nothing of value, including offspring, will so far out-number those who pay the taxes, that those who have been paying the taxes will ask themselves if they are not on the wrong side of the equation?
Yes, they will all give up, and quit working, and, therefore, quit paying taxes, and will get in line for a share of the goodies from the government!
So then the government will have to take over all businesses, make it illegal for anyone to remain unemployed, and our present socialistic state will have evolved into the very kind of state that Representative McCarthy used to hold his meetings to criticize!
Communism, here we come!
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
What about the Mexican invasion?
Yes, what about it?
Our president has made it known that he is disposed in the direction of amnesty for the Mexicans who have already entered this country illegally. Since the Congress has shown little or no inclination to stop it, it can reasonably be assumed that there is no objection to amnesty from that quarter.
So what comes next?
After amnesty, it can also be reasonably assumed that these people will be treated much the same as legal immigrants, and that taxpayer monies will be used to help them get settled!
So what comes next?
Legally, they will have no voting status, yet each party would like to claim them as its own. To effectively do this, the Democrats, who now control both houses of Congress, will want to next revise the laws of the land such that they can have the right to citizenship and the vote much sooner than the current law allows, and will begin moving in that direction. It is also probable that the president will not want to go on record as having used his power of veto to keep this from happening. The Republicans in Congress will be divided, adding to the very favorable movement in the direction of changing the law, but the Democrats will go down in history as having first advocated the change. Whenever that change occurs, the Democrats will make political hay, assuring these new citizens that they were responsible for their new voting status,
the Republicans will claim that it was their idea in the first place, and a great many votes will be placed on the block for whichever party is most convincing.
It is well, now, for the reader to remember that an important part of the rather lengthy time period that new immigrants must wait prior to being allowed to vote, was placed there in order to give the prospective new citizens time to learn our language, something of our history, and the fundamentals of the way our government works. If they are made citizens too soon, and especially true in the case of the huge numbers of immigrants involved, the effect will be that this particular bloc of new citizens, many of whom will not speak our language, and will know little about our history, will be more easily manipulated by clever talking politicians, thus assuring that we will have a Congress of even more inept membership and cupidity than is presently the case.
Dear reader, that is a thumbnail sketch of what can be expected in the next few years. Our leaders, our employees that we will have voted into office, will be devoting more of their time to jockeying for favorable times to introduce new legislation to secure the vote for these uninvited immigrants that to the business of running our country, which should be their primary interest!
So what comes next?
You, dear reader, come next! You will need to be ever alert to what is really going on in Congress, rather than what appears to be going on! If this all develops into the power play that I have just described, you will need to use your vote wisely to maintain a balance of sanity in our government!
Think about it!
Henry http://henry-letsgetreal.blogspot.com
Our president has made it known that he is disposed in the direction of amnesty for the Mexicans who have already entered this country illegally. Since the Congress has shown little or no inclination to stop it, it can reasonably be assumed that there is no objection to amnesty from that quarter.
So what comes next?
After amnesty, it can also be reasonably assumed that these people will be treated much the same as legal immigrants, and that taxpayer monies will be used to help them get settled!
So what comes next?
Legally, they will have no voting status, yet each party would like to claim them as its own. To effectively do this, the Democrats, who now control both houses of Congress, will want to next revise the laws of the land such that they can have the right to citizenship and the vote much sooner than the current law allows, and will begin moving in that direction. It is also probable that the president will not want to go on record as having used his power of veto to keep this from happening. The Republicans in Congress will be divided, adding to the very favorable movement in the direction of changing the law, but the Democrats will go down in history as having first advocated the change. Whenever that change occurs, the Democrats will make political hay, assuring these new citizens that they were responsible for their new voting status,
the Republicans will claim that it was their idea in the first place, and a great many votes will be placed on the block for whichever party is most convincing.
It is well, now, for the reader to remember that an important part of the rather lengthy time period that new immigrants must wait prior to being allowed to vote, was placed there in order to give the prospective new citizens time to learn our language, something of our history, and the fundamentals of the way our government works. If they are made citizens too soon, and especially true in the case of the huge numbers of immigrants involved, the effect will be that this particular bloc of new citizens, many of whom will not speak our language, and will know little about our history, will be more easily manipulated by clever talking politicians, thus assuring that we will have a Congress of even more inept membership and cupidity than is presently the case.
Dear reader, that is a thumbnail sketch of what can be expected in the next few years. Our leaders, our employees that we will have voted into office, will be devoting more of their time to jockeying for favorable times to introduce new legislation to secure the vote for these uninvited immigrants that to the business of running our country, which should be their primary interest!
So what comes next?
You, dear reader, come next! You will need to be ever alert to what is really going on in Congress, rather than what appears to be going on! If this all develops into the power play that I have just described, you will need to use your vote wisely to maintain a balance of sanity in our government!
Think about it!
Henry http://henry-letsgetreal.blogspot.com
Saturday, March 24, 2007
What is going on in Washington, DC?
This past November, the citizens of this great country voted to take control away from the Republican party, and give it to the Democrats. No one was greatly surprised at the outcome, for there was good reason to look for a change.
Actually things weren't all that bad . . . the economy was in good shape, the bottom had not yet dropped out of the housing market, unemployment as a percentage of the total populace was not all that bad . . . we had several million unemployed, most of whom were unemployed by choice, but that could have been handled easily by a few simple laws that would set limits on how many relief checks an individual could collect over a reasonable period of time, and by prosecuting those who were receiving more than one check at a time. The war in Iraq was being badly mismanaged, we were allowing Iran to spit in our faces in the Mid-east, and the Columbians were shipping drugs by the plane load into our markets. The biggest problem that most of us were concerned about, aside from the war, was the influx of millions of Mexicans across our borders, which our president said he found no fault with, because we had no labor force to do the kind of stoop labor that the Mexicans were willing to do. Of course, we did have millions of citizens drawing relief checks who were not even looking for jobs, and could not have found them anyway, because they hadn't learned the three R's in school . . . that is, they couldn't have found jobs that paid what they would have liked, but they could have done the same work that the Mexicans were coming over here to do!
Be that as it may. We just kicked out the Republicans and hired the Democrats to clean up the mess in Washington and now, here we are, going into the second quarter of the first year the Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress, and what have they accomplished? Why, instead of working on the problems mentioned above and others not mentioned, they are sitting up there drawing big salaries to argue among themselves, and to conduct a big political investigation into why 8 prosecutors were fired a short time ago!
Let me ask each of you a question: Do you believe that an employer does not have the right to discharge any employee for good reason? When air traffic controllers refused to go to work, tying up the nations primary transportation system, and all over a wage dispute, President Reagan fired the whole lot of them! Do you believe that the man who invests his money in a business has no right to run that business in the way that he feels he needs to, if he wants to stay in business? Did we hire 400 plus Congressmen and 100 senators to sit up there on their posteriors and haggle over the jobs of 8 prosecutors who were fired by their boss for what he thought was good reason. If any of the 8 felt that he had been wrongfully or illegally fired, why hasn't he sought protection under the laws of the land? I seem to recall that, during the election campaign last year, that everytime we asked the Democrats to define their plans for running the country if they were elected, none stepped forward to offer a plan! Please understand that I am not saying that we should have kept the Republicans in office. I am simply pointing out that, having thrown them out, how have things improved? As a matter of fact, once any politician gets into office, he seems to forget everything that he was supposed to do to improve things when he got elected, and so he sits up there, each of them shooting at the members of the other party, and leaves the country to run itself! And we, poor fools that voted them into office, cannot do a thing about it!
Well, now wait a minute . . . I have allowed myself to get slightly carried away! Here I sit at my computer, blogging away, hoping to arouse some enthusiasm on the part of fellow bloggers to stir things up, and get these misguided politicians back to work! Now, it is an accepted fact that bloggers have become a major influence on events and such in just a few years. If you think, as I do, that when a person is hired to do a job, and he doesn't do it, he should at least be strongly reprimanded by his employer, and aren't we the employers of those politicians? And if we speak as a unified voice loudly enough, does it not seem reasonable that we can get them worried about the next election? After all, that is only a year or so away for many of them, and so why don't we just speak loudly and say that if they do not get their act together, we will fire every incumbent who runs for election in the next four years, and in every election thereafter? And, beleive me, if we get them to really understand that this is not just idle talk, but exactly what we will do, they will get their act together, and they will handle any miscreants amoung them who do not toe the line!
What do we want them to do? Well, how about closing the borders of our country, and if the president of Mexico doesn't like it, then we can revoke NAFTA, as well. And what about doing something real about the Social Security mess, instead of just talking about it? And how about firing all the incompetent federal judges scattered around the country? And how about either putting a large enough force of troops in Iraq to do the job, or pulling all of them out? And how about throwing the United Nations out of our country . . . they are trying to get us to agree to a sort of one nation rule in the world, with the UN running everything. They want to have the right to raise taxes on the citizens of this country, when we are already paying most of the costs of operating that den of two-bit nations who always vote against us, no matter what! And what about giving the President the line-item veto, which would bring a halt to a lot of the taxpayer money that is being used to get these politicians re-elected?
So have I rattled your cages long enough? Is there anyone out there with the courage to stand up for his rights, besides this 85 (almost) year old man? And do we need to run our own candidate for president and congressman and senator in future elections? Hey, if you want to do big things, you have to think big!
O.K., now it is your turn . . . let's see what you are made of!
Actually things weren't all that bad . . . the economy was in good shape, the bottom had not yet dropped out of the housing market, unemployment as a percentage of the total populace was not all that bad . . . we had several million unemployed, most of whom were unemployed by choice, but that could have been handled easily by a few simple laws that would set limits on how many relief checks an individual could collect over a reasonable period of time, and by prosecuting those who were receiving more than one check at a time. The war in Iraq was being badly mismanaged, we were allowing Iran to spit in our faces in the Mid-east, and the Columbians were shipping drugs by the plane load into our markets. The biggest problem that most of us were concerned about, aside from the war, was the influx of millions of Mexicans across our borders, which our president said he found no fault with, because we had no labor force to do the kind of stoop labor that the Mexicans were willing to do. Of course, we did have millions of citizens drawing relief checks who were not even looking for jobs, and could not have found them anyway, because they hadn't learned the three R's in school . . . that is, they couldn't have found jobs that paid what they would have liked, but they could have done the same work that the Mexicans were coming over here to do!
Be that as it may. We just kicked out the Republicans and hired the Democrats to clean up the mess in Washington and now, here we are, going into the second quarter of the first year the Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress, and what have they accomplished? Why, instead of working on the problems mentioned above and others not mentioned, they are sitting up there drawing big salaries to argue among themselves, and to conduct a big political investigation into why 8 prosecutors were fired a short time ago!
Let me ask each of you a question: Do you believe that an employer does not have the right to discharge any employee for good reason? When air traffic controllers refused to go to work, tying up the nations primary transportation system, and all over a wage dispute, President Reagan fired the whole lot of them! Do you believe that the man who invests his money in a business has no right to run that business in the way that he feels he needs to, if he wants to stay in business? Did we hire 400 plus Congressmen and 100 senators to sit up there on their posteriors and haggle over the jobs of 8 prosecutors who were fired by their boss for what he thought was good reason. If any of the 8 felt that he had been wrongfully or illegally fired, why hasn't he sought protection under the laws of the land? I seem to recall that, during the election campaign last year, that everytime we asked the Democrats to define their plans for running the country if they were elected, none stepped forward to offer a plan! Please understand that I am not saying that we should have kept the Republicans in office. I am simply pointing out that, having thrown them out, how have things improved? As a matter of fact, once any politician gets into office, he seems to forget everything that he was supposed to do to improve things when he got elected, and so he sits up there, each of them shooting at the members of the other party, and leaves the country to run itself! And we, poor fools that voted them into office, cannot do a thing about it!
Well, now wait a minute . . . I have allowed myself to get slightly carried away! Here I sit at my computer, blogging away, hoping to arouse some enthusiasm on the part of fellow bloggers to stir things up, and get these misguided politicians back to work! Now, it is an accepted fact that bloggers have become a major influence on events and such in just a few years. If you think, as I do, that when a person is hired to do a job, and he doesn't do it, he should at least be strongly reprimanded by his employer, and aren't we the employers of those politicians? And if we speak as a unified voice loudly enough, does it not seem reasonable that we can get them worried about the next election? After all, that is only a year or so away for many of them, and so why don't we just speak loudly and say that if they do not get their act together, we will fire every incumbent who runs for election in the next four years, and in every election thereafter? And, beleive me, if we get them to really understand that this is not just idle talk, but exactly what we will do, they will get their act together, and they will handle any miscreants amoung them who do not toe the line!
What do we want them to do? Well, how about closing the borders of our country, and if the president of Mexico doesn't like it, then we can revoke NAFTA, as well. And what about doing something real about the Social Security mess, instead of just talking about it? And how about firing all the incompetent federal judges scattered around the country? And how about either putting a large enough force of troops in Iraq to do the job, or pulling all of them out? And how about throwing the United Nations out of our country . . . they are trying to get us to agree to a sort of one nation rule in the world, with the UN running everything. They want to have the right to raise taxes on the citizens of this country, when we are already paying most of the costs of operating that den of two-bit nations who always vote against us, no matter what! And what about giving the President the line-item veto, which would bring a halt to a lot of the taxpayer money that is being used to get these politicians re-elected?
So have I rattled your cages long enough? Is there anyone out there with the courage to stand up for his rights, besides this 85 (almost) year old man? And do we need to run our own candidate for president and congressman and senator in future elections? Hey, if you want to do big things, you have to think big!
O.K., now it is your turn . . . let's see what you are made of!
The Mountain Lion Attack
In checking the blogsite this morning to see if anyone had taken umbrage at any of my remarks, I found a couple of supportive comments, both very welcome, and the last one even intriguing! I knew from the reference to a mountain lion attack that it had to be from a friend or relative with whom I had shared a story of a cougar attack some years ago. However, the comment was signed "Anonymous", so I have since been speculating on which friend or relative might have sent the comment!
About the time the attack was reported to have taken place, there had been a number of sightings of cougar in our small town during the winter and spring months just passed, most likely due to the heavy snow in the mountains. This usually makes it difficult for the deer to find adequate forage, and so they come down out of the mountains to our valley areas where the snow rarely falls, and where there can always be found the farmer's and rancher's haystacks and other suitable forage. Since the cougar depend primarily on the deer for their sustenance, they tend to follow them down to the valleys. This does not necessarily solve the cougar's problem, as the more open valleys make it difficult for the cougar to successfully stalk the always alert deer. It is not the nature of a hungry cougar to put of eating any longer than absolutely necessary, so they sometimes venture into town in search of the unwary dog or cat . . . or . . .?
Those were younger days whe I fancied myself to be something of a story teller, and so I came up with an idea for an April Fools day story about my being attacked by a cougar. All this by way of putting the reader's mind at rest . . .
Of course, if I ever figure out for sure who the author of that comment was, I will not reveal his or her name, thus respecting his or her wish to remain anonymous.
Henry
http://henry-letsgetreal.blogspot.com
About the time the attack was reported to have taken place, there had been a number of sightings of cougar in our small town during the winter and spring months just passed, most likely due to the heavy snow in the mountains. This usually makes it difficult for the deer to find adequate forage, and so they come down out of the mountains to our valley areas where the snow rarely falls, and where there can always be found the farmer's and rancher's haystacks and other suitable forage. Since the cougar depend primarily on the deer for their sustenance, they tend to follow them down to the valleys. This does not necessarily solve the cougar's problem, as the more open valleys make it difficult for the cougar to successfully stalk the always alert deer. It is not the nature of a hungry cougar to put of eating any longer than absolutely necessary, so they sometimes venture into town in search of the unwary dog or cat . . . or . . .?
Those were younger days whe I fancied myself to be something of a story teller, and so I came up with an idea for an April Fools day story about my being attacked by a cougar. All this by way of putting the reader's mind at rest . . .
Of course, if I ever figure out for sure who the author of that comment was, I will not reveal his or her name, thus respecting his or her wish to remain anonymous.
Henry
http://henry-letsgetreal.blogspot.com
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Getting to know me . . .
Yes, as you can see from the small photo, I am an old man . . . soon to be 85 years old, if the Lord is willing!
I am content to believe that senile dementia has not yet seriously eroded my mental capabilities.
I have a high school education, spent slightly more than four years in the military during WWII, became proficient in electronics by reading everything I could find on the subject, and, when I was discharged from the Air Force at the end of the war, I was able to find work as an electronic technician, repairing radios, phonographs, and television receivers when television became locally available. I took and passed the tests for an FCC Radiotelephone Operators license, and for an Amateur Radio Operators license, as well. I later was able to get a better job as a Field Service Manager for Magnavox, calling on its dealers in all or parts of seven states, and helping them to solve any service problems that they might be having with Magnavox products.
Later, I applied for a job as a Regional Sales manager for Magnavox, and was accepted for that job.
The balance of my business career was spent at factory level with various national producers of consumer electronics products. When the off-shore manufacturers began to dominate the business, I was able to continue in my chosen field, even after most of the national companies had closed their doors or sold out to the offshore companies. I was out of work for the main part of two years after age fifty, finally getting my last job prior to retirement because I was the only applicant for the position that could meet all the requirements. After about nine years with that company, I retired from a position as the Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Communications and Test Equipment for The Kenwood USA Corporation.
During the war, I trained to become an aircraft pilot, and was subsequently qualified to fly nineteen different types of military aircraft. I logged over 1000 hours of flight time, with about half of it being in the old DC-3 type aircraft. Periodically, since my retirement, I have purchased a flying lesson, just to see if I could still handle an aircraft, and I always do the flying, including takeoff and landing, even though I may never have flown the type before.
Don't you think that this sounds much like a Horatio Alger, Jr. story? I bet most of my readers have never even heard of that once popular author. He wrote countless stories about young men, who rose from the lowest paying jobs in the company to become the president of the company, or, at least, the manager of one of its main offices. He did all his writing around the start of the twentieth century, just about 100 years ago! I think I have read them all, as a young boy.
That is my life's story, in a nutshell, and it has been fun! I hope that all who read this enjoy their lives as much!
Henry
I am content to believe that senile dementia has not yet seriously eroded my mental capabilities.
I have a high school education, spent slightly more than four years in the military during WWII, became proficient in electronics by reading everything I could find on the subject, and, when I was discharged from the Air Force at the end of the war, I was able to find work as an electronic technician, repairing radios, phonographs, and television receivers when television became locally available. I took and passed the tests for an FCC Radiotelephone Operators license, and for an Amateur Radio Operators license, as well. I later was able to get a better job as a Field Service Manager for Magnavox, calling on its dealers in all or parts of seven states, and helping them to solve any service problems that they might be having with Magnavox products.
Later, I applied for a job as a Regional Sales manager for Magnavox, and was accepted for that job.
The balance of my business career was spent at factory level with various national producers of consumer electronics products. When the off-shore manufacturers began to dominate the business, I was able to continue in my chosen field, even after most of the national companies had closed their doors or sold out to the offshore companies. I was out of work for the main part of two years after age fifty, finally getting my last job prior to retirement because I was the only applicant for the position that could meet all the requirements. After about nine years with that company, I retired from a position as the Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Communications and Test Equipment for The Kenwood USA Corporation.
During the war, I trained to become an aircraft pilot, and was subsequently qualified to fly nineteen different types of military aircraft. I logged over 1000 hours of flight time, with about half of it being in the old DC-3 type aircraft. Periodically, since my retirement, I have purchased a flying lesson, just to see if I could still handle an aircraft, and I always do the flying, including takeoff and landing, even though I may never have flown the type before.
Don't you think that this sounds much like a Horatio Alger, Jr. story? I bet most of my readers have never even heard of that once popular author. He wrote countless stories about young men, who rose from the lowest paying jobs in the company to become the president of the company, or, at least, the manager of one of its main offices. He did all his writing around the start of the twentieth century, just about 100 years ago! I think I have read them all, as a young boy.
That is my life's story, in a nutshell, and it has been fun! I hope that all who read this enjoy their lives as much!
Henry
Photo of old Grumpy!
You will note that I have added a photo of myself on this page, so that, now the reader will have something to put on his dartboard!Did you ever notice how, in our post-WWII generations, no one seems to want to take responsibility for his(her) actions? In my own family, yes, my own offspring, if something goes wrong, they always seem to contrive some logic that proves that it is not their fault! I feel sorry for such persons . . . they will never know the feeling of pride and satisfaction that comes from standing before a judge and saying, "It was my fault!" as I did at a hearing on an automobile accident that I caused in a moment of carelessness at a lonely crossroads one time, years ago. Not pride that I had caused the accident to happen, but pride that I had the guts to stand up and take the consequences, whatever the judgement might be. Fortunately, no one was injured, so the damage to the other car, which struck my car over the left rear wheel as I ran a stop sign that I just didn't see, was limited to rather light front end damage. I had rather an exciting ride down off the side of the road and into the ditch after the collision, but I was able to drive my car out of the ditch. The other fellow's car had radiator damage and had to be towed. The judge gave me a rather stern lecture on the dangers of not watching more carefully, adding that I could be killed in such cases. I was appropriately contrite, and he made a judgement in favor of the other fellow, which was as it should have been. I have often wondered if my being taught the three answers in the Air Corps . . . yes, sir, no, sir, and no excuse, sir . . . when I was a flying cadet during WWII had anything to do with my unhesitating acceptance of responsibility for my actions. I am not sure how my insurance company felt about my response, but they paid to fix the other man's automobile, and my own, as well! Since then, I have often enjoyed the look on some of the younger generation's faces when I confess to being responsible for some incident or policy that they found to be less than pleasurable . . .Comments? Henry http://henry-letsgetreal.blogspot.com
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
So what is real?
Well might you ask! It seems patently evident that our politicans and the educational community could use a little coaching on exactly what is real! To paraphrase a comment once made by Douglas MacArthur, to wage war is foolish and is always a losing proposition, even if you absolutely win! What are we doing in Iraq these days? There is very little evidence that our political leadership is trying to win the war, and don't ask what war. I know that our president declared that the war was over some years ago, but our troops in Iraq are daily fighting for their lives, trying with limited manpower to ferret out the insurgents who are trying to win back Iraq for themselves. On top of those disquieting facts, Iran keeps supplying arms and manpower to the so-called insurgents and we sit here doing nothing about it! It is incredible to me that we choose not to build up our armed forces and move into Iran and subdue them in no uncertain terms. They are as much our enemy as are the insurgents in Iraq! I am sorry that we went into Iraq, but now that we are in there, there can be no satisfactory end to it other than to completely crush all opposition! If our leaders are concerned about our image as it appears to the rest of the world, they certainly do not give evidence of true concern.
And how do our educators come into this picture? Simple enough! They refuse to acknowledge that all men are not equal! How do they expect to teach children who are assigned to classes where substantial numbers of the students do not even speak or understand the English language? If the teaching curriculum is programmed to concentrate on teaching the students who cannot even communicate in our language, what are they doing meanwhile to teach the students who CAN read and write in the language of our land? Is it so hard to understand that those classes have to be split into groups (classes) so that those who are able to learn more rapidly are challenged to do so, and that failure to do this leaves the best student material languishing in the background, listening to the teacher trying to get through to those who have no idea what he(she) is talking about!
Now I may not have done a proper job of making my point, but surely there are those of you out there who know what I am talking about. We have got to learn to stop kidding ourselves and face facts. We are rapidly losing "face" in the rest of the world because we do not insist that our educational system be run efficiently to get the job done of educating our children, and until we do, that system will continue to put out an inferior product.
O.K., I have opened the can of worms . . . now let's hear what some of the rest of you think!
Henry
http://henry-letsgetreal.blogspot.com
And how do our educators come into this picture? Simple enough! They refuse to acknowledge that all men are not equal! How do they expect to teach children who are assigned to classes where substantial numbers of the students do not even speak or understand the English language? If the teaching curriculum is programmed to concentrate on teaching the students who cannot even communicate in our language, what are they doing meanwhile to teach the students who CAN read and write in the language of our land? Is it so hard to understand that those classes have to be split into groups (classes) so that those who are able to learn more rapidly are challenged to do so, and that failure to do this leaves the best student material languishing in the background, listening to the teacher trying to get through to those who have no idea what he(she) is talking about!
Now I may not have done a proper job of making my point, but surely there are those of you out there who know what I am talking about. We have got to learn to stop kidding ourselves and face facts. We are rapidly losing "face" in the rest of the world because we do not insist that our educational system be run efficiently to get the job done of educating our children, and until we do, that system will continue to put out an inferior product.
O.K., I have opened the can of worms . . . now let's hear what some of the rest of you think!
Henry
http://henry-letsgetreal.blogspot.com
Welcome to me!
Voila! I seem to have figured out how to get my material posted on my new blogsite! "Nuff said!
I have also received some good advice from a friend to the effect that I should sign all comments with my name and blog address.
Part of the problem I have been experiencing has to do with the need for me to learn an entirely new language . . . Bear with me, dear readers (if any?) maturity comes with the passing of time!
Now I will sign off, and try to concoct something to post that is worthy of the reader's time!
Henry
http://henry-letsgetreal.blogspot.com
I have also received some good advice from a friend to the effect that I should sign all comments with my name and blog address.
Part of the problem I have been experiencing has to do with the need for me to learn an entirely new language . . . Bear with me, dear readers (if any?) maturity comes with the passing of time!
Now I will sign off, and try to concoct something to post that is worthy of the reader's time!
Henry
http://henry-letsgetreal.blogspot.com
There ain't no justice!
I don't know why I keep trying to put something on my blog site . . . somehow or other, what I type seems to sort of evaporate and float off into the deep dark recesses of the site operator's manufacture, never to be seen or heard of again! A word of caution to other new bloggers . . . Be especially carful when you choose to edit your material . . . I lost a half hours typing, and several days of mental composition that way! And don't give up! I did, and found a place where I could contact the blog operators . . . I asked them to just cancel my application and clear their records of anything I had written . . . they advised me that there was no provision for new bloggers to cancel, but if I would just go to the page where I had entered all the data for my profile and erase everything I had put in there, that would do the trick! I never found out if it worked or not . . . I could never find the "My Profile" page!
Does anyone care?
Does anyone care?
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