Left And Right Politics

Yes, I know….you’re thinking “What does unschooling have to do with politics?”.
Or you might even be asking “um…..what is unschooling?”.

Second question first…..
In it’s simplest terms, unschooling is a form of homeschooling. There’s lot of different ways to homeschool (which is the beauty of it) and unschooling is one way. It’s the way that works for us (and a lot of others also).

In unschooling we don’t break activities up into ‘educational’ and ‘not educational’. We know that we can learn from everything. We learn from Nintendo, we learn from books, we learn by going shopping….in essence, we learn through living interesting, full lives. We also don’t break things up into separate subjects. For unschoolers, math is science is reading is history…it’s all connected.

Now on to the first question….what does unschooling (or homeschooling in general) have to do with this a political blog like this?

One of the reasons I adore homeschooling (unschooling) is that the government can’t get their hands on my kids. As a Libertarian, I believe in each of us should have every opportunity to pursue our dreams and to realize our full potential. Libertarians believe that each person owns their own life and property, and has the right to make their own choices as to how they live their life and they want the same rights for others.

And children should have those rights also.

I am raising my children with Libertarian values and to be free thinking individuals. And I want that for them right now, not only when they become adults. As a Libertarian parent I believe that children should be empowered to set their own agenda for learning.

For me, unschooling and Libertarianism go hand in hand and I may spout off on the topic again here. For now, you can read about our unschooling life at my blog. It’s in the process of being moved and I’ll update this link when we do. An Unschooling Life

From cnet.com.
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With newspapers cutting back and predictions of even worse times ahead, Rupert Murdoch said the profession may still have a bright future if it can shake free of reporters and editors who he said have forfeited the trust and loyalty of their readers.

“My summary of the way some of the established media has responded to the internet is this: it’s not newspapers that might become obsolete. It’s some of the editors, reporters, and proprietors who are forgetting a newspaper’s most precious asset: the bond with its readers,” said Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp. He made his remarks as part of a lecture series sponsored by the Australian Broadcast Corporation.

Murdoch, whose company’s holdings also include MySpace and the Wall Street Journal, criticized what he described as a culture of “complacency and condescension” in some newsrooms.

“The complacency stems from having enjoyed a monopoly–and now finding they have to compete for an audience they once took for granted. The condescension that many show their readers is an even bigger problem. It takes no special genius to point out that if you are contemptuous of your customers, you are going to have a hard time getting them to buy your product. Newspapers are no exception.”

“It used to be that a handful of editors could decide what was news-and what was not. They acted as sort of demigods. If they ran a story, it became news. If they ignored an event, it never happened. Today editors are losing this power. The Internet, for example, provides access to thousands of new sources that cover things an editor might ignore. And if you aren’t satisfied with that, you can start up your own blog and cover and comment on the news yourself. Journalists like to think of themselves as watchdogs, but they haven’t always responded well when the public calls them to account.”

To make his point, Murdoch criticized the media reaction after bloggers debunked a “60 Minutes” report by former CBS anchor, Dan Rather, that President Bush had evaded service during his days in the National Guard.

“Far from celebrating this citizen journalism, the establishment media reacted defensively. During an appearance on Fox News, a CBS executive attacked the bloggers in a statement that will go down in the annals of arrogance. ‘60 Minutes,’ he said, was a professional organization with ‘multiple layers of checks and balances.’ By contrast, he dismissed the blogger as ‘a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.’ But eventually it was the guys sitting in their pajamas who forced Mr. Rather and his producer to resign.

“Mr. Rather and his defenders are not alone,” he continued. “A recent American study reported that many editors and reporters simply do not trust their readers to make good decisions. Let’s be clear about what this means. This is a polite way of saying that these editors and reporters think their readers are too stupid to think for themselves.”

Murdoch’s comments come at a time when the media landscape looks increasingly bleak both for print-based and online news organizations.

Hey you! Yeah, I’m talking to you Obama supporters.

King Barack knows you paid for his Greek columns, trip to Europe and infomercial and I’m sure you’ve pleased him.

But he needs more.

Didn’t you get the email he had his campaign manager David Plouffe sent you? Stop whining about having to put gas in your tank and pay your mortgage…you’re annoying the king. Didn’t you read what David Plouffe said. What? You forgot because you were to busy figuring out how you were going to pay your bills? You ungrateful bastards. Let me refresh your memory:

We’ll get to work transforming this country. But first, we need to take care of the DNC. Before we do anything else, we need to pay for this winning strategy.””

That’s right-you heard him. Take care of the Democratic National Committee FIRST! Then….they’ll put on their superhero costume and transform the country. But only after you give them some more money.

What’s that? You heard King Barack ended his campaign with extra cash? Well, yes as a matter of fact he did.

But that’s his money now. You gave it to him. And he decided to give it to his staff. You have a problem with that?

So open up those wallets and show him the money! Yes, he knows Christmas is coming but you weren’t silly enough to think hope and change came without a price, were you?

Sadly, this is becoming more and more common.

From American Thinker:

After taunting 18-year old freshman Annie Grossmann for wearing her McCain-Palin campaign button at an election night get-together, and “getting in her face,” four women beat her for political views which, obviously, they did not share. Grossmann took verbal abuse at the party, then left for her dorm after it was clear, about 10 p.m., that her candidates had lost. She was followed by the four women into the shadows of a nearby skyway.

There she was beaten. The four women, all black, called Grossmann a “racist.” She knew none of them. Nor did they know her, to her knowledge. It was that damn campaign button that evidently caused their frenzy. Their earlier taunts proved that. They were, Grossmann said, “rubbing her face in Obama’s win.”

“Why do you call me a racist when you don’t even know me?” she screamed. Made no difference. Grossmann was felled by the largest of the four. She hit her head on the brick wall, and staggered back to her dorm. The other three black women at the beating chucked at this dark manifestation of partisan evil. They walked away laughing, offering no help to their victim. The banality of evil had asserted itself. And at four-to-one, it was also a cowardly act of mindless violence which, presumably, the four thought “normal.”

I guess their just following their orders from King Obama when he told his supporters to get in their face and argue with them.

From Obama, “just because the President of the United States happens to be a Black man.” This, of course, presents the argument that Steele — an African-American — could be a more effective critic of Obama than could his white Republican colleagues.

Responding to a follow-up question I asked him, Steele responded that “the Obama campaign played the race card beautifully.” He said it hurt Bill Clinton and that it also hurt John McCain because he wouldn’t mention Reverend Wright. Steele argued that in taking Rev. Wright off the table, McCain surrendered the one issue that might have helped him win.

Word on the street is that the anti-gay church Westboro Baptist Church (a Kansas-based group which claims the United States is being punished by God for being friendly to homosexuals), that’s led by Fred Phelps, planned on picketing Obama’s grandmothers funeral today.

The Obama robots are up in arms and want to “teach them a lesson” and are screaming that this is a “new low for Westboro”.

Where were you idiots when Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church were planning on protesting at the funeral of Army helicopter pilot Kyle Jackson, Pfc. James M. Yohn, soldier John Sigsbee or Cpl. Carrie French, to name a few? I’ve got a newsflash for you…everything Westboro does is low. It didn’t just start. Calm down and get a grip on yourself.

You didn’t care before but now that it has to do with your King Obama all of a sudden you care. Do they think people don’t see through your hypocrisy? Why is this suddenly a “new low”? Those brave military soldiers gave their LIFE. Where was their outrage then?

On a related note…it seems that Barack and Michelle were just to busy to even attend the funeral of the person he called a “typical white person”. The media was feeling so sorry for him when she died….I guess the joke was on them because he never really cared, and it shows.

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