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Earlier this week, a Virginia-based organization came under fire for leading 3rd grade students at Woodbrook Elementary in Charlottesville to write a song titled “We Are Part of the 99.”
The song, with its reference to the 1 percent and 99 percent was obviously talking about the Occupy protests that occurred around the country.
According to the school district’s story, the students wrote:
The song, with its reference to the 1 percent and 99 percent was obviously talking about the Occupy protests that occurred around the country.
According to the school district’s story, the students wrote:
I used to be part of the 1 percent
I worked all the time
Never saw my family
Couldn’t make life rhyme
Then the bubble burst
I worked all the time
Never saw my family
Couldn’t make life rhyme
Then the bubble burst
#822
holy **** that is sooo wrong brain
if i go to work, and particularly if i work extra hard in hopes of reaching a goal
then i am part of the "evil" one percent?
thats effed up
i remember in high school i asked my teacher what was the difference between republican and democrat. she or he said that dem's are for the people and repub's are for the government. honestly i can't believe a teacher was allowed to tell a young and impressionable myself such a thing. that was pure opinion and super vague
btw everybody
check this out
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if i go to work, and particularly if i work extra hard in hopes of reaching a goal
then i am part of the "evil" one percent?
thats effed up
i remember in high school i asked my teacher what was the difference between republican and democrat. she or he said that dem's are for the people and repub's are for the government. honestly i can't believe a teacher was allowed to tell a young and impressionable myself such a thing. that was pure opinion and super vague
btw everybody
check this out
pass it around
#826
it is not bad at all
u know im a RP supporter
it's just interesting to know what the reporters wont say on a broadcasting camera
edit: its as if the reporters know that there will be less pentagon crap to report on if RP is president. and not more crap as many of the main streams would have us to believe
u know im a RP supporter
it's just interesting to know what the reporters wont say on a broadcasting camera
edit: its as if the reporters know that there will be less pentagon crap to report on if RP is president. and not more crap as many of the main streams would have us to believe
#827
it is not bad at all
u know im a RP supporter
it's just interesting to know what the reporters wont say on a broadcasting camera
edit: its as if the reporters know that there will be less pentagon crap to report on if RP is president. and not more crap as many of the main streams would have us to believe
u know im a RP supporter
it's just interesting to know what the reporters wont say on a broadcasting camera
edit: its as if the reporters know that there will be less pentagon crap to report on if RP is president. and not more crap as many of the main streams would have us to believe
The reporters are seriously bitching about less war. Which means less lives (Both American and non) lost.
They care about their jobs more than American Lives? What the BRAINY?!?
The more I think about it, the angrier I get. This should be a cause of celebration - military action costs lives on all sides. Minimizing or ceasing military action directly translates to lives saved. Have some people fallen so much as to value their jobs more than lives?!? ESPECIALLY American Troops?
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Yes. Human life is cheap. If 5000 Indians (or whatever) die, do you even notice unless you see it on the news? 6 billion people could cease to exist, and chances are pretty damn good you'd never heard of any of them. Life is cheap, because it is now so comon as to be taken for granted.
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The more I think on this, the angrier I get about it.
The reporters are seriously bitching about less war. Which means less lives (Both American and non) lost.
They care about their jobs more than American Lives? What the BRAINY?!?
The more I think about it, the angrier I get. This should be a cause of celebration - military action costs lives on all sides. Minimizing or ceasing military action directly translates to lives saved. Have some people fallen so much as to value their jobs more than lives?!? ESPECIALLY American Troops?
The reporters are seriously bitching about less war. Which means less lives (Both American and non) lost.
They care about their jobs more than American Lives? What the BRAINY?!?
The more I think about it, the angrier I get. This should be a cause of celebration - military action costs lives on all sides. Minimizing or ceasing military action directly translates to lives saved. Have some people fallen so much as to value their jobs more than lives?!? ESPECIALLY American Troops?
Yep, everyone calls him weak. but he's the most peaceful moral person in congress and his policies will keep us safer and freer and wealthier.
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Anyway, that reminded me of something I read today about a famous economist:
Originally Posted by Peter Drucker
"He had two basic motivations," Drucker explained in a 1991 interview with Forbes. "One was to destroy the labor unions and the other was to maintain the free market. [He] despised the American Keynesians. His whole idea was to have an impotent government that would do nothing but, through tax and spending policies, maintain the equilibrium of the free market[...]"
#840
Here is why religious politicians like Santorum are dangerous:
Their number one loyalty is to their god, number two is their country, i.e., your rights, the law, any responsibility they hold. Everything that has to do with YOUR rights and the laws that govern the society we live in are tainted with the views that he/she holds because of his/her number one loyalty, g-o-d.
Therefor if you happen to be gay and want to get married, if we have a "leader" like Santorum then your civil rights mean sh*t, because "god" said when a man lyes with another man it is an abomination. Or maybe your a godless heathen like me and you don't want your kids getting taught bullsh*t like "intelligent design" in schools, too goddamn bad, now your biology book comes with an added section and a warning sticker. That's why we're behind the rest of the world when it comes to science.
Their number one loyalty is to their god, number two is their country, i.e., your rights, the law, any responsibility they hold. Everything that has to do with YOUR rights and the laws that govern the society we live in are tainted with the views that he/she holds because of his/her number one loyalty, g-o-d.
Therefor if you happen to be gay and want to get married, if we have a "leader" like Santorum then your civil rights mean sh*t, because "god" said when a man lyes with another man it is an abomination. Or maybe your a godless heathen like me and you don't want your kids getting taught bullsh*t like "intelligent design" in schools, too goddamn bad, now your biology book comes with an added section and a warning sticker. That's why we're behind the rest of the world when it comes to science.