Before he was President, he was our state’s Governor.
My friend Michael Quinn Sullivan from Empower Texans was at the Capitol today, where he spends a lot of time while the Texas Lege is in session, when he ran into a typical low-information Obama voter. Via his Facebook page, Michael writes:
I was at the Capitol this afternoon, standing in the Rotunda waiting for someone.
A woman (wearing a big “Support Public Schools” button) was beside me, and asked (to no one in particular) why there was a picture of George W. Bush hanging there and not a picture of Barack Obama. “These are Texas governors. Bush was governor,” I explained. “No he wasn’t,” she said definitively.
Ok.
First — anybody doubt that this woman voted for Obama?
Second — scary thought: what if this lady is…gulp…a public school teacher?
I could definitely back this idea from one of the comments:
This is why I think every election should start with 10 random questions from the naturalization test. Your votes are then weighted based on how many correct answers you get. If you don’t know at least the basics, your vote is not sufficiently informed to be fully weighted. If you want your vote to count full weight, you need to study enough to know the basics.
Hey, if you leftist want there to be myriad regulations, test, certifications, etc. to practice our second amendment rights, you won’t mind if we put a little test in place for you to practice your right to vote, do you?
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“Support Texas Schools”? WTF does that idiot think we do with our school taxes? Buy condoms and bananas?
Robbie, maybe you can find out where we stand with our Texas Voter I.D. law? I understand the judge put it on hold until after the Nov. elections. Well, those have come, and gone. We need to put them into place along with the question “Can you tie your shoes?”
It’s the schools that buy the condoms and bananas.
Though considering the number of teachers caught in flagrante delicto with their pupils, it may be that the purchases of the former outweigh the purchases of the latter.
The question is: how far should any school system across the country proceed with the sex-education curriculum? The parents are namely to blame for any school system having to pick up this parental task in the first place. Someone has to teach these kids and if parents don’t they will go to their friend’s house and seek advise that may not be beneficial to them to say the least. If it has to be bananas and condoms to practice the “skill” so be it.
Personally, I’d rather have the talk with my sons instead of some teacher who may as you point out, proceed flagrante delicto (although statistically the number is not significant).
Since we seem so intent on teaching kids to do what comes naturally, perhaps we can also teach them how to breath. Wouldn’t want kids passing out from not breathing because their parents didn’t teach them how to, now would we? And my gosh, how did our ancesters learn how to procreate without sex education in their one room school houses? It’s a wonder we survived as a nation until the modern educational system came into our lives.
You are missing the entire point of it. In today’s environment there are too many bad influences around our children. Sexuality, although natural, is not something a 12 year-old can handle when faced with a demanding situation. How many 12 year-old girls physically look as 18 year-old and are “naturally” seeking to fulfill their newly acquired sexual tension? And than we wonder why we have “unwanted” pregnancies.” We are here to guide our children in times that require this guidance. Not to do so, opens a young child to experiences that may destroy their lives forever…
I do like the idea of some “weighted competency” in voting, however no matter how sensible and appropriate such a concept may be, it will be derailed by the complaint that is is culturally biased. One cannot expect uniform education results from the vast majority of public school districts nation wide.
If the “local” culture values sports over academia then asking what is the square root of 9, would be considered unfair. Where as asking what Michael Jordan’s jersey number or shoe size would be a much more pertinent and applicable screening question.
The Romans had bread and circuses to entertain them through the demise of the empire.
We have NFL, NBA, American Idol, and…oops I almost said twinkies. What do we have to replace twinkies with? What will be the defining food in a declining America, corn chips?
Well, whatever it is, it obviously won’t be 32 oz. sodas.
Little Debbie™ Oatmeal Creme Pies.
I prefer the good old – fashioned apple pie.
.nay…my own home made chocolate chip cookies.
You may have something there with the Little Debbie stuff.
She may become the junk food “hostess” of America.
Let’s hope that most of her employees are illegals instead of bakers union goons, that way the supply will never be in jeopardy.