Utterly Meaningless

ONE FOR SCOTT

Filed on November 2, 2006 at 6:23 am under by dcobranchi

Last trade was at 31.1

The price will go to zero or 100 on Nov. 8th. My money is on zero. So far, I like the trend.

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LETTER OF THE DAY

Filed on at 6:10 am under by dcobranchi

Because we all know that the GOP is the pro-environment, anti-Big Energy, anti-developers party:

Delaware needs to change to Republican office holders

As we vote on Nov. 7, it becomes imperative to change from Democratic political control in Delaware to Republican.

Delaware has the highest cancer rate in the nation. Air, water and soil pollution are rampant. Delaware is sixth on a list of states with health risks from air pollution. Twenty of the nation’s most hazardous waste sites are in Delaware. The Indian River Power Plant in Millsboro emits 186,896 pounds of chemicals into the air every day.

Our landscape is being decimated by housing developments with inadequate roads, trash removal and other services. What are local, state and national representatives doing to solve these problems?

I urge support for Republican candidates, especially Jan Ting, Kirk Pope and Ferris Wharton.

Willard R. Croney, Rehoboth Beach

I guess the Kool-Ade in DE is polluted with mind-numbing chemicals, too.

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THE BEST REASON TO HOMESCHOOL?

Filed on November 1, 2006 at 9:05 pm under by dcobranchi

No fund raisers.

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AVP II

Filed on at 7:40 pm under by dcobranchi

Another lousy sequel where you wish both sides could lose. I’m not sure which one is the Predator, though.

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SO VERY SAD

Filed on at 9:03 am under by dcobranchi

The ever-entertaining Rev. Jim, writing at the misnamed Mainstream Baptists, writes about what he neither knows nor understands:

It’s simply heartbreaking to me to see so many people so afraid. Make no mistake, it’s fear that drives the homeschooling movement. Fear that children are incapable of being raised well enough by their parents that they can’t make right choices when away from home; fear that the Gospel itself is too weak to convert hearts and lives; fear that someone may have more power over young people than their parents, Church, and Christian peers; and most of all, fear that God will somehow let them down and leave them alone in the midst of wolves, those poor little sheep.

Yeah, I wake up every day afraid of the big, bad g-school teachers. Just a bit of a stereotype there, Jim. Does fear motivate some home educators? Sure. But the driving force of the “homeschooling movement”? Hardly. I dare say there’s not a hardier group than home educators. Fearful people go along to get along. They do not go against the mainstream like we do.

I really don’t understand Rev. Jim’s obsession with homeschooling. Rob Reich, I get. There’s (grant) money in them thar hills. But Rev. Jim routinely insults a large segment of Baptists, probably including a few in his own local church. I’m really kind of surprised that he’s able to hold a job. [Tip credit: Jeanne]

UPDATE: I’m amazed that my comment showed up.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

Filed on at 7:54 am under by dcobranchi

I don’t really know why, but this one strikes a chord:

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
—H.L. Mencken

Baaaaa! Baaaaa!

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CIVIL WAR

Filed on at 6:55 am under by dcobranchi

No, not in Iraq but within the far-right fringe of American politics. Dobson vs. Armey. May they both lose. And, yes, there’s a homeschooling angle:

In his Web site statement, [Armey] wrote, “One of my proudest moments in Congress was beating the Democrat’s attempts to meddle in the affairs of families that had chosen to opt out of secular government education by home schooling their children. I took on the entire political establishment, but we only won because thousands of Christian home schoolers demanded that Congress keep its nose out of their decision to raise and educate their children as they saw fit.”

Armey is right about that, but he has clearly forgotten that I collaborated with Mike Farris, co-founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association, in leading the fight for home schooling. Farris and I aired several passionate radio programs during that time which resulted in more than 1 million phone calls being made to Capitol Hill. The switchboard actually malfunctioned in the surge.

That was one of HSLDA’s infamous sheeple drives. I guess that makes Dobson a Good Sheeplherd.

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