I read his book, "The Underground History of American Education," about ten years ago. It was a real page-turner. It was then that I REALLY realized that calling public schools, "child prisons" was not an exaggeration.
To this day I cringe when I see adult voters demand MORE government involvement in raising their kids, including "free" universal daycare. It's like watching someone eat glass.
I don't think it would be a stretch to imagine that if the government "education" system were to get hold of children the instant they emerged from the womb they would never learn to walk and talk. (With the insanity coming out of left field these days, it wouldn't even be that much of a stretch to imagine that the faster learners were making the other students "feel bad," and that therefore, they should be held back. To hell with the "white supremacist" meritocracy. Let's all just crawl and grunt. A true socialist utopia.)
My suspicion of public ed grew before I had much familiarity with Gatto, as my own kids served out their mandatory sentences in that system.
One thing I noticed was how tired they always looked when they got home with those zombie eyes. These were the same kids I had watched learn to walk, run, jump, and talk, and rip their fingers across a computer keyboard faster than I. All without a single hour of government instruction. (To them, keyboarding was just the "next level" in the game of learning.) Up until JK, they had already learned series of highly complex skills. And they had done so joyfully, which lead me to believe that the desire to learn is as natural as the desire to breathe.
After exposing them to the public school prisons for a few years and that joy in learning had been almost completely extinguished. Only the strongest survive. (Maybe that's the actual reason I got the strap almost every year and never won a "Citizenship Ward.")
I also remember the time when my son was in grade 8. I asked him what he was taking in science. I expected him to tell me about basic stuff, like precipitation, evaporation, and sublimation.
When he answered, "global warming" I almost blew a gasket. Those slimy Liberals were using their power over their young captive's minds to push political propaganda. They were cultivating little Liberals. Around the same time, I had a similar experience with my daughter. We were in the car and Al Gore's name was mentioned on the radio. I asked her if she'd ever heard of him. "Yes, we saw his movie in school."
OMFG! Public money was being used to enrich that climate shyster Al Gore.
It's time to turf this destructive notion that Government Inc. ought to play a key role in the business of education. Phase it out.
Now that I am no longer "working," (Like driving a cab could ever be considered a serious form of work,) I spend most of my time learning.
Learning is something you choose to do. No one can just give it to you.
I first realized this when I was a student at Mohawk College. (1981-83) I noticed many of my classmates complaining about some of the teachers. Those teachers could not teach.
And they were right.
Some of the teachers could barely speak English. Of course, they couldn't teach. I knew even then that their presence, and their salaries, depended more upon politics than economics.
But I decided I would not let that stop me. So I stopped attending the classes of the politically selected teachers, and instead, started reading the textbooks and doing the exercises.
It worked!
Instead of being confused by faltering attempts, in broken Engish, to explain subjects like physics and organic chemistry, I decided I would learn the shit on my own. (Diversity ISN'T our strength.)
It wasn't easy. Some of the texts were almost as fucked up as the teachers. But by using my own brain, I managed to figure things out and did quite well on the exams.
There is an old western saying, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."
And that is one reason why I am not impressed with the anti-Ford commie zealots who are currently freaking out over his cutbacks to the public indoctrination system.
Especially today, with cheap computers and internet connections, people don't need commie politicians funneling their money through phony government programs to get an education.
That old, anti-libertarian argument, that without "government-run schools," poor people could not get an education, has been revealed to be complete bullshit, on a par with the notion that Justin Trudeau can control the climate.
Ford should initiate MORE CUTS to the phony "Higher Education" cartel.
This Just In
Assault on the West
News from the Southern Front
"The strategy is to collapse the financial system. The tactic is chaos. If a crisis does not exist, create one. The more chaos the better. The solution is always couched in empathetic words like “fair,” “equal,” “humane” and “just.”" <Source>
"Joseph Stalin reacted extremely slowly to the invasion of his country by German forces in 1940. Indeed, not only did he react slowly, but he also ignored warnings that the Germans planned to attack his country. Stalin's response to the German invasion has perplexed historians for many years." <Source>
Tucker asks Jorge Ramos: "How many of these people are you taking in to your own home, and are supporting once they get to the United States?"
Watch how Horgey Boy answers. He refuses to provide a direct answer, he does the usual pivot and squirm moral flatulation dance so typical of liberals, but in the end his answer is inescapable, none.
How to spot a liberal? A liberal is someone who would give a refugee the shirt off of someone else's back.
On the "Good News" front, I finally found a "Proud Liberal" who claims he would "gladly" pay more money to save the Basic Income welfare program to demonstrate his "compassion."
There would be money for these pilot projects if Doug Ford would stop cancelling taxes like the 1 penny per litre increase scheduled for this month. I gladly pay a little extra to help others. That’s what a compassionate society does.
"At last! I found one. A "Proud Liberal" who would "gladly" pay a little extra in the name of "compassion!" You'll be happy to know that YOU can save BI without spending a dime of other people's money. And it will only cost YOU $1.40 per month."
How much you wanna bet that if you asked "Proud Liberal" how many poor people he is personally supporting his answer would sound exactly the same as Horgey Boy's answer?
Friday, October 12, 2018
Questions about Spanish Supremacy
I have some questions, just off the top of my head. As we all know, Canada and the U.S. have a lot of Indian reservations.
The question germinated in my mind as I observed, in particular, all of the controversy surrounding Hispanic (as in, a Spanish-speaking person living in the US, especially one of Latin American descent) immigration to the U.S.
It seems to me that Spain and Portugal, just like Britain and France, "stole" the land they now live on, from indigenous peoples. Stuff I learned about Pizzaro and Cortez in public school, grade five or six, and what they did to the indigenous people's of South America and Mexico used to make me sick to my stomach.
Yet, I hear absolutely nothing about *Hispanic Supremacy*. Even more bizarrely, the progeny of the villainous conquerers of Peru and Mexico who stole their countries from the Incas and the Aztecs, are often touted as heroes by the left as they come to increasingly occupy the lands "stolen" by the British and French(!)
I am confident enough to say that the reason why so many treaties with natives were broken by northern whites was due, in part, to the fact that treaties had been made in the first place. And like all agreements made with any government in the history of the planet, those treaties (promises) were eventually broken to some degree.
Which finally brings me to my questions.
1 - Did the Spanish invaders make treaties with the indigenous people of the lands they occupied and....
2 - Are there any Indian reservations in Mexico or places further south?
If you know the answers to these questions, please respond in the comment section below.
In the meantime, you might want to acquaint yourself with another one of many stories of lands stolen by militarily superior ethnic groups.
After using Twitter for about three years now, I have mixed feelings about the platform. I don't like the way they flex their economic muscles to interfere with the flow of information and opinion through shadow banning, the dishonest "mute" feature, and outright banning of certain, mostly conservative and libertarian, points of view.
But I still use it.
First of all, they can go ahead and censor all of the people I like. That won't stop me from finding out what I want to know. They can ban Alex Jones, but so far, I can still visit his website or his BitChute channel.
So, no matter how intellectually insulting it may be to me that the Twitter gods have to taken it upon themselves to decide for me the type of information and opinion I shall be permitted to consume, it has had zero impact. Zero.
But even worse, from my point of view, would be if they banned the people I have nothing but contempt for. That would be those on the left, like the communists and those who hate the entire Western model of civilization. (Freedom, equal rights, property rights, the presumption of innocence, freedom of speech.) In other words, just about everyone in the mainstream media, politics, and academia.
If the Twitter gods decided to cut me off from seeing what they are saying, it would be a greater insult than the banning of Alex Jones. Mathew Green, John Tory, Desmond Cole, Andray Domise, Chris Schaeffer (Uber,) Uber and a few others already understand this. They have already gone ahead and blocked me from seeing their stuff, obviously because they don't want anyone else to see my replies. It gives new meaning to the term, "self-censorship."
But I am distracting myself.
What I wanted to talk about is my newly found use for Twitter.
As you may know, Twitter only gives you 280 characters with which to express yourself. I am almost never able to express myself under that limit. One thing it has motivated me to do is to re-read and edit my Tweets, with the aim of distilling my main point. So I scan for unnecessary phrases, replace words like "and" with "&" and so on.
Hence my newly hatched theory that, for me at least, Twitter can be seen as a valuable writing aid. My desire is to deliver my message in as short and concise a manner possible, and I know some people are laughing at this, but I don't believe in wasting time or resources under any circumstances.
So, this morning I came across a Tweet that was blaming the tragic death of an Uber passenger on the lack of taxi driver training.
The Tweeter, and the author of the Globe and Mail article have it totally wrong.
Predicting outcomes is easier than math if you know where to look. I warned people about this ten years ago. This had nothing to do with some bogus "taxi driver training program."
From the report,
"After a few minutes, the driver’s phone fell off his dashboard. He was using the phone’s GPS to navigate, so he pulled over."
Enough said.
This tweet was from Julia.
"So important to know what you are getting yourself into with #Uber. Toronto raised my friend. Then it failed him /via @globeandmail"
@Hans_Wienhold
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Replying to @julia29taylor @OttawaTaxiFleet @globeandmail
Let's identify the real problem. The use of MDT's (Mobile Data Terminals) and other distractive technologies caused this tragedy. I predicted it ten years ago. - Compounded by myopic supply management policies leading to seriously reduced incomes, therefore high driver turnover.
Compounded further by an increasingly schlerotic labour market caused by increasingly intrusive govt. intrusions, including mandatory min. wages (cab drivers, Uber and non-exempt, are not covered,) as well as federal importation of an endless supply of new, inexperienced cabbies.
My final comment, reduced to less than 280 characters,
Almost no one who feels competent to comment on the issue of safety in taxi cabs has a clue about the real contributory factors.
By the way, as a last thought. The Twitterverse is tailor-made for the left. It rarely takes more than 280 characters to dispose of your opponent by calling them a "racist," or a "Nazi," or a "white supremacist."
Just sayin'
"Many of the dissenters were women who couldn't be intimidated by the threat of military service."
I love history for the little buggets of information it provides. It broadens your perspective.
Friday, September 28, 2018
This is not News
It's my opinion.
One of Tucker's best shows yet.
As usual, Tucker invites a couple of crypto-commies onto the show. Sometimes, these segments can be a bit cacophonous as they talk all over each other, but I love that he has them on the show because, ultimately he is able to expose them for the utter fools, or dishonest slimeballs they are.
Even though I can't stand them, I value being given the opportunity to watch and study them in action.
By the way, this is why I am 100% opposed to censorship. If, for example, two of tonight's guests, Chris Hahn and Jason Nichols had been silenced or de-platformed, (like Alex Jones or Faith Goldy and many others have been,) as someone who almost never finds their opinions have any merit, I still value the opportunity to hear what they have to say. And to study and familiarize myself with their sophistic techniques.
Censorship does a disservice, not only to the fans and supporters of the affected pundits but to their opponents as well.
You cannot intelligently criticize anyone unless you have knowledge of what they actually say.
From my "Who the Fuck are You Jivin' with that Cosmic Debris?" File
Since we're all playing this game....
Here's a thought, just off the top of my head. Four witnesses were cited by Christine Ford - Kavanaugh, Leland Keiser, Patrick Smith, and Mark Judge.
Now, if Chris Garrett, her reputed boyfriend at the time (Squi,) was also there, why did she not include him in her list of witnesses? Was her recollection of the events so bad that she couldn't remember her own boyfriend being there?
Some asshole journalist has to dig up the "fact", from Kavanagh's calendar, that Ford's boyfriend *might* have been at the party?
Give me a break.
Of course, it will be interesting to see if they dig up Mr. Squi to see what he has to say on the matter. I hope he's not a Democrat.
"Death solves all problems. No man, no problem." -- Joseph Stalin
Widespread social media censorship is the digital equivalent of Stalin's quote. Just ask Alex Jones. (Alex who?)
Definitions
[Oxford] - Communism: A theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.
Collins - Fascism: is a set of right-wing political beliefs that includes strong control of society and the economy by the state, a powerful role for the armed forces, and the stopping of political opposition.
Mine - Communism: Left-wing fascism. In Canada, it is the core principle of the Liberal, New Democrat, and Green Parties. In the U.S., a core principal of the Democratic party.
Everything is Not A-Okay
The stink this week over the way Zina Bash was sitting at the Kavanaugh hearings demonstrates just how stupid, insane, or just plain dishonest the leftist race-baiters have become in their attempts to stir up trouble between the races. I follow a few of these professional race-baiters on Twitter.
I would follow even more, but Desmond Cole, Andray Domise, and Hamilton's own Matthew Green have all blocked me. Still, there are a few others I follow who have either not blocked me, or have used the cowardly, dishonest "muting" feature. These include the insane and hysterical Shree Paradkar, familiar to Toronto Star readers, who sees white supremacists under every coffee table, the idiotic, self-hating, Nora Loreto, who caught my attention when she barfed her indignation about the degree of mourning accorded to the victims of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash because they were too, "male, young, and white," and the stream of anti-white garbage that is offered on a daily basis by that flaming, charlatan who calls himself "StanceGrounded." (I call him StenchGrounded, or Stench for short.)
Anyway, Stench squeezed out a real stinker this week with his broadcast of a segment of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing making the preposterous, racially divisive claim that Mexican born with a Jewish father, Zina Bash, was signaling to all of her friends in the KKK. The SPLC, if you can believe anything from them, estimates that the KKK currently has about 5,000 to 8,000 members. They had about 5 million members in the 1920's. Given the actual credibility of the SPLC, I would estimate that the actual number of KKK members in the USA today is between 5 and 8. You might wonder how such a small group of people could have elected Donald Trump, right? Well, they were backed by Vladimir Putin.
Supreme Court Confirmation hearing
Zina Bash, Assistant to Brett Kavanaugh signaling WHITE POWER!#SCOTUS
Then he targets a kid at Trump's Montana rally. Maybe this kid is savvy enough to be aware of the stinks coming out of the left over the A-Okay signal, and he is deliberately flashing this sign to drive the Stinkos of the world crazy. If so, it's working.
Or...
He could be excited about being on TV with the president, which would be A-Okay for a lot of smart kids.
Or...
He is the newest member of the KKK. Number 9?
Trump's Montana Rally
This little kid is signaling white power. Even this little kid knows the White power signal! This is so disturbing! This is not the fault of his own but the fault of his parents!
Nobody is born a racist. Being a racist is learned.
That is what it has always meant. Actually "A-Okay" You see the dirty underhandedness of Stench's MO as he attempts to turn a perfectly innocent gesture into something evil. And worse. As his poisonous ilk gain more attention, the "A-Okay" gesture WILL become verboten. Sickening.
It's not a US thing. It's a race-baiter thing designed to intimidate the host population into bowing their heads in perpetual shame over fictitious guilt. If they could get away with it, they would claim??is an affirmation of white power and racism. Don't be fooled by it.
"Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors." -- Ayn Rand.
Even the indefatigable Shree couldn't resist a demonstration of just how deeply delusional she has become in her determination to "prove" that the country she immigrated to is full of evil white racists.
Oh c'mon now @ShreeParadkar. Did you go to university to learn this vomit? Are you also into numerology? What is the number for white supremacy? If anyone would know, it would be you. By the way, has anyone ever shown you their middle finger? That one is not ambiguous.
I'm trying to not get cynical about what is a totally devastating tragedy but the maleness, the youthfulness and the whiteness of the victims are, of course, playing a significant role.
The War on Honesty: Twitter Bans Alex Jones and Infowars for Conducting Actual Journalism
Why Does Laurie Penny Hate Steve Bannon?
White House Traitor Rats, Fake News Gutless NYT, Has-Been Woodward, Journo Trolls, Libel Law Tweaked
The Immigration Debate
On Septermber 1st, I wrote a short essay detailing a sure-fire way to put an end to 90% of the Canadian immigration debate by simply withdrawing all free government money for immigrants.
Real Canadians would no longer be able to complain about being forced to subsidize foreigners. The argument that we need immigration from the third world to pay for senior's pensions and healthcare would gain credibility with the knowledge that none of the people flooding into the country are just here for the freebies.
Every Canadian wins.
The Chemnitz Protests & the Lying Media
Paper Canadian
The Naivety Of The West | American Girl Murdered By Illegal, Father Praises Mexican Food
I know how you felt. I was jogging down by Main & Wellington Sts. in Hamilton the other day when a sweating homeless guy pushing a stolen shopping cart stopped me & asked me where the welfare office was. I pointed to the OW building across the street. I felt so good about myself.
Note: If you visit the link to Martin's self-ingratiating tweet, you may find that my comment is strangely absent. Go figger! No man, no problem.
What would Doug Ford do if he encountered a family of Colombian asylum-claimants trying to cross the border into Canada? What would you do? Here's what I did in an unexpected encounter on my summer vacation. Tuesday's column: https://t.co/uwU89tuNx2
Back when I went to public school we focused on things like math, science, literature, history, reading, and writing. Students who tuned out 80% of what they heard would fail. I'm guessing your time in public schools was much more recent. You passed, right?
The Sixties - The Years That Shaped a Generation (TV) [2005]
I was only a kid in the 1960's and most of the stuff that flashed across the TV screen in those days didn't really engage me, at least consciously. Sometimes, when I see the examples of leftist hysteria on the screen today, as peaceful liberals and leftists promote tolerance, inclusiveness, and diversity by smashing the heads of non-conformists with bicycle locks and pepper spray, I get the feeling that things are starting to really fall apart and civil war is, perhaps, imminent. As this documentary shows, things were much crazier back in the 1960's.
After looking back, it seems as though Donald Trump's America is actually a very peaceful place compared to the Johnson-Nixon years.
