My daughter made me proud today

[JJFlash]

Most excellent

The "accept without resistance" tirade is especially eye opening.....

True story:

When I was in 5th grade, we had an AWFUL teacher named Mr. D'Amore who would call the kids names like "stupid" and "dummy". One day, as we were being taught grammar, he went off on a tangent about the similar-sounding words "two", "too", and "to". He made the statement that NO sentence could end with the word "to". I raised my hand, to which he said "put your hand down stupid, before you make an azz out of yourself." I briefly put my hand down, thought for a second, and raised it again. He said "don't you understand English?? I said that NO sentence can end with the word to. Put your hand down." At this point, I was insulted enough to risk his wrath by keeping my hand up. Finally he bellowed "OK dummy.....go ahead and say something stupid so the whole class can laugh at you.....Better yet, write it on the board so we can make fun of you all week."

I mustered up all of my courage, went to the black-board and wrote:

"Twenty minutes after my dad knocked him out, Mr. D'Amore finally came to."

Five minutes later, I was in the Principal's office, my doom seemingly sealed. Once the Principal had heard the story, he looked at the teacher and said "sounds like he beat you fair and square Pat". The teacher cursed at me in Italian and stormed back to class. The Principal mussed up my hair and said: "Dave, don't ever be afraid to challenge authority, bullies, or bullies who have authority. Nine times out of ten, they're full of $hit."

I'll remember it forever....

 

[mrquick68]

Challenge authority.

Sounds like a democrat teacher...

And for the guy that asked me if i thought the LEFT was to blame for everything - HELL NO. There is plenty of mistakes to go around on both sides. But when it comes to (man-made) Global Warming HELL YES the LEFT is to blame for every bit of that AGENDA. You are more of the problem of our current economic problems than you'll ever know. Is the RIGHT perfect - bah ha - NO. BUT the RIGHT is much more in line with the principals this great nation was based upon and why it has prospered so much.

And don't kid yourselves lefties - you've bought the lies. Global Warming is in Agenda based on profit. The Richiest Leftiest are only lefties because they make a TON of money feeding the open mouths of you gullable Obama supporters.

I hope i've offended a few of you.

But seriously now, why do we buy into these lies? Think critically people. The letter attached that i quoted is a perfect example of someone get punished for thinking for themselves. That's what our LEFTY government is trying to do to us.

We are supposed to be represented, not CONTROLLED!!!

 

[mrquick68]

The "accept without resistance" tirade is especially eye opening.....

True story:

When I was in 5th grade, we had an AWFUL teacher named Mr. D'Amore who would call the kids names like "stupid" and "dummy". One day, as we were being taught grammar, he went off on a tangent about the similar-sounding words "two", "too", and "to". He made the statement that NO sentence could end with the word "to". I raised my hand, to which he said "put your hand down stupid, before you make an azz out of yourself." I briefly put my hand down, thought for a second, and raised it again. He said "don't you understand English?? I said that NO sentence can end with the word to. Put your hand down." At this point, I was insulted enough to risk his wrath by keeping my hand up. Finally he bellowed "OK dummy.....go ahead and say something stupid so the whole class can laugh at you.....Better yet, write it on the board so we can make fun of you all week."

I mustered up all of my courage, went to the black-board and wrote:

"Twenty minutes after my dad knocked him out, Mr. D'Amore finally came to."

Five minutes later, I was in the Principal's office, my doom seemingly sealed. Once the Principal had heard the story, he looked at the teacher and said "sounds like he beat you fair and square Pat". The teacher cursed at me in Italian and stormed back to class. The Principal mussed up my hair and said: "Dave, don't ever be afraid to challenge authority, bullies, or bullies who have authority. Nine times out of ten, they're full of $hit."

I'll remember it forever....

YES! PERFECT story.

 

[mrquick68]

I thought the same exact thing when I read that.....Huh????


I must have missed that part of chemistry class.... LOL

i think his point was that the ICE is already in the water...

I'm not saying i agree with him, but i also don't agree that the sea is rising either...

 

[Uller]

Global Cooling

Im feeling rather argumentative today so I feel like i should point out the fact that the Earth is getting warmer on average than the recent past, and thats just a fact. HOW or WHY it is warming is completely arguable. People or Nature? Yet to be solidly proven.

Also as freshmen in college I agree that you should never take the teacher word as the word of god. Everyone has their opinion.

akmclean,

Bud I really think you need to research some climate data before posting on here about it.

Here are some interesting facts for you:

*the 20th Century temperature increase was .6 degrees. In 2007, world temperatures declined .7 degrees according to the 4 most respected sources of temperature tracking, HadCRUTT. RSS. UAH, GISS This is the fastest cooling ever recorded. The 20th Centuries global warming of .6 degrees was reversed in a single year.

*earths temperatures are not constant. There were 23 periods of cooling and warming in the past 500 years with the average cycle being 27 years long. There were two cooling and warming periods in the past 100 years alone. 1880-1915 was a period of cooling 1915-1945 was a period of warming 1945-1977 was a period of cooling 1977-1998 was a period of warming 1998-the present, it has been cooling, all related to changes in solar activity and the Pacific El Nino and La Nina cycles link

*The increase in CO2 as a percentage of the atmosphere since 1750 is only 1/10,000th, or (100ppm). link

*CO2 is a trace gas. It is less than 4/100ths of one percent of gases in the atmosphere. link

*of the 186 billion tons of CO2 that enters into the atmosphere yearly only 3.2% is from human activity, the rest is from the oceans, volcanoes, and decaying plant matter. link

*After the Medieval Period the world cooled 4 degrees centigrade, causing the "Little Ice Age". This was a period of glacial advance from the mid 1400's to mid 1800's. Then the world began to warm once again. Many of the glaciers that are now retreating were ones that grew during this "Little Ice Age".

If you would like to learn some more check this site out.

http://www.isthereglobalcooling.com/


I think one of the most interesting links off of the site is the one about 650 prominent scientists disagreeing to the UN's Global Warming Report.

US Senate Minority Report, over 650 internation scientists dissent over man made warming claims and why http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=83947f5d-d84a-4a84-ad5d-6e2d71db52d9

Or the articles about the SUNS impact on our earths temperature. http://www.spaceandscience.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/relationalcyclestheoryssrcresearchreport12008.doc

 

[1Fast68]

I got a lecture today in class about how if a teacher teaches something in a way other than the normal, that doesn't mean he/she is wrong. This after me supposedly giving the teacher a look of scepticism.

And I am a senior in COLLEGE aka the 16th grade. WTF?

 

[akmclean]

Haha okay I surrender. I give up. Apparentlly i've been brainwashed by the lefties. All I know is it certainly isnt hurting anyone to be a little more friendly to the environment. I would rather be doing somethig to be clean, and be wrong about man induced global warming, than be right and be caught not doing anything.

 

[EEEK FACTOR]

The "accept without resistance" tirade is especially eye opening.....

True story:

When I was in 5th grade, we had an AWFUL teacher named Mr. D'Amore who would call the kids names like "stupid" and "dummy". One day, as we were being taught grammar, he went off on a tangent about the similar-sounding words "two", "too", and "to". He made the statement that NO sentence could end with the word "to". I raised my hand, to which he said "put your hand down stupid, before you make an azz out of yourself." I briefly put my hand down, thought for a second, and raised it again. He said "don't you understand English?? I said that NO sentence can end with the word to. Put your hand down." At this point, I was insulted enough to risk his wrath by keeping my hand up. Finally he bellowed "OK dummy.....go ahead and say something stupid so the whole class can laugh at you.....Better yet, write it on the board so we can make fun of you all week."

I mustered up all of my courage, went to the black-board and wrote:

"Twenty minutes after my dad knocked him out, Mr. D'Amore finally came to."

Five minutes later, I was in the Principal's office, my doom seemingly sealed. Once the Principal had heard the story, he looked at the teacher and said "sounds like he beat you fair and square Pat". The teacher cursed at me in Italian and stormed back to class. The Principal mussed up my hair and said: "Dave, don't ever be afraid to challenge authority, bullies, or bullies who have authority. Nine times out of ten, they're full of $hit."

I'll remember it forever....

Doesn't that sentence end in the word to?....as does mine...lol

 

[Freak]

The "accept without resistance" tirade is especially eye opening.....

True story:

When I was in 5th grade, we had an AWFUL teacher named Mr. D'Amore who would call the kids names like "stupid" and "dummy". One day, as we were being taught grammar, he went off on a tangent about the similar-sounding words "two", "too", and "to". He made the statement that NO sentence could end with the word "to". I raised my hand, to which he said "put your hand down stupid, before you make an azz out of yourself." I briefly put my hand down, thought for a second, and raised it again. He said "don't you understand English?? I said that NO sentence can end with the word to. Put your hand down." At this point, I was insulted enough to risk his wrath by keeping my hand up. Finally he bellowed "OK dummy.....go ahead and say something stupid so the whole class can laugh at you.....Better yet, write it on the board so we can make fun of you all week."

I mustered up all of my courage, went to the black-board and wrote:

"Twenty minutes after my dad knocked him out, Mr. D'Amore finally came to."

Five minutes later, I was in the Principal's office, my doom seemingly sealed. Once the Principal had heard the story, he looked at the teacher and said "sounds like he beat you fair and square Pat". The teacher cursed at me in Italian and stormed back to class. The Principal mussed up my hair and said: "Dave, don't ever be afraid to challenge authority, bullies, or bullies who have authority. Nine times out of ten, they're full of $hit."

I'll remember it forever....

great story, difficult to believe its true, but great story!

 

[Snorider]

Haha okay I surrender. I give up. Apparentlly i've been brainwashed by the lefties. All I know is it certainly isnt hurting anyone to be a little more friendly to the environment. I would rather be doing somethig to be clean, and be wrong about man induced global warming, than be right and be caught not doing anything.

well if you want to do something send me 5 grand and i will keep a bunch of carbon from getting in the air by making one less pass in the tractor this summer. we'll both be helping the enviroment and we can both feel good.

 

[JJFlash]

great story, difficult to believe its true, but great story!

Totally true......The teacher in question was so hated by kids, parents, and other teachers, people used to call in to our local radio talk show to complain. PTA was no help either......Tenure back east is a powerful thing.

The principal was a short, stocky Muslim immigrant from Lebanon who was also a former Golden Gloves amateur boxing champion. He didn't take crap from anyone, including Mr. D'Amore, who was over twice his size. I once saw him yank a long-haired vandal off of a dirt bike, who was doing donuts on our freshly prepped Little League field, and physically shake him until he was too dizzy to stand.

Back to the original topic: I believe that the best thing we can teach our kids is how to figure out who is full of $hit and who is not. Teach them how to put themselves into someone's shoes, and discern what that person's motives might be and what gain is to be had for them. It's not 100% foolproof, but it's a good start to understanding people.

If pollution/climate change was the real issue, there would be no buying, selling, or trading of carbon credits.

 

[kiliki]

Good for her!!

Speakin' of green let's pass some around. Now I need to go watch bullridin'

 

[Papa Highmark]

If global warming is a fact then why has Spokane washington had 6feet of snow already and I think 10 days below 0? Just a thought. Papa H.