Comments on: The Right To Vote, The Right To An Education http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/ Sun, 27 May 2012 09:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Katmoon http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1398141 Katmoon Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:21:44 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1398141 I meant Salander, and I haven't heard of "nine", will have to check it out. I meant Salander, and I haven’t heard of “nine”, will have to check it out.

]]> By: Katmoon http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1398140 Katmoon Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:20:34 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1398140 The three books flow togethr quite well. I like the character development of Slander the best in the second book. Have fun reading them! The three books flow togethr quite well. I like the character development of Slander the best in the second book. Have fun reading them!

]]> By: Katmoon http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1398136 Katmoon Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:07:33 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1398136 Kenoshamarge, What a cool photo, I love it. Well, nce to know I have good company on my Hobo walks. Sad story, but all to frquent, I am sure. Thanks for sharing it Kenoshamarge. Kenoshamarge, What a cool photo, I love it. Well, nce to know I have good company on my Hobo walks. Sad story, but all to frquent, I am sure. Thanks for sharing it Kenoshamarge.

]]> By: Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1398034 Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:59:01 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1398034 Well, ogee, I didn't like Carter but he did not do this to Iran. That would be the Shah Reza Pahlavi, a brutal dictator we put on the throne under Truman (one his few truly monumental screwups). Carter was just in the wrong place at the wrong time with a dying, hated Shah. The Shah and his actions are responsible for what is going on now. This should give any presdient pause to reflect as we should look down the road a piece before acting stupidly. Democrat and Republican presidents have screwed things up because they didn't look far enough ahead to see what the ultimate outcome of their policies might be. That One is failing in this, too, mainly because he is ignorant and arrogant. Well, ogee, I didn’t like Carter but he did not do this to Iran. That would be the Shah Reza Pahlavi, a brutal dictator we put on the throne under Truman (one his few truly monumental screwups). Carter was just in the wrong place at the wrong time with a dying, hated Shah. The Shah and his actions are responsible for what is going on now. This should give any presdient pause to reflect as we should look down the road a piece before acting stupidly. Democrat and Republican presidents have screwed things up because they didn’t look far enough ahead to see what the ultimate outcome of their policies might be. That One is failing in this, too, mainly because he is ignorant and arrogant.

]]> By: ogee http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1398023 ogee Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:37:46 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1398023 Yes women are complicit to this mysogyny and the biggest offenders. Check out the pic I posted. If we don't fight against Sharia this will be America. This is what Carter did to Persia (now Iran) View pic. Yes women are complicit to this mysogyny and the biggest offenders. Check out the pic I posted. If we don’t fight against Sharia this will be America. This is what Carter did to Persia (now Iran) View pic.

]]> By: creeper http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1397886 creeper Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:07:20 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1397886 Katmoon.... {smooch} Katmoon….

{smooch}

]]> By: kenoshamarge http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1397870 kenoshamarge Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:38:16 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1397870 Thanks for giving me a phrase that helps me to define myself Katmoon. Spiritual Hobo, yup that's me all right. I know that I believe in "something" I just cannot, and I guess will not, believe the way that most organized religions insist that I MUST believe. I started out as a rather confused young woman from a Catholic/Methodist household, and that was only the beginning of the differences between my two battling parents, and soon started on my search for "my" own truth. I left the Catholic Church when a misognynistic priest asked my mother's best friend, who showed up at church on Sunday morning with her face battered and bruised, a circumstance that happened frequently, what she had done to make "Jimmy" so mad. What had <em>she</em> done, Father S.O.B.? She had laim quietly in her bed trying not to raise the ire of the drunken asshole that had finally stumbled home from the bar, smelling of beer and some cheap floozie's cheap cologn. That, as usual was enough to set him off and for him to take his inner rage out on her. While their four kids cowered in their beds listening to their "Daddy" beat the shit out of their "Mommy". Mom's friend kept going to church til the day she died. (He, Jimmy the wife-beater, had a stoke and died in his late 40's. I almost believed again when that happened.) I have never set foot in a Catholic Church again except for Weddings, Funerals and Christenings. I don't "believe" but I see no reason to hurt my friends and family that still do by not helping them celebrate or mourn. Each to his/her own way. I will continue on my way, bindlestick over my shoulder as a Spiritual Hobo. Thanks again Kat! Thanks for giving me a phrase that helps me to define myself Katmoon. Spiritual Hobo, yup that’s me all right. I know that I believe in “something” I just cannot, and I guess will not, believe the way that most organized religions insist that I MUST believe.

I started out as a rather confused young woman from a Catholic/Methodist household, and that was only the beginning of the differences between my two battling parents, and soon started on my search for “my” own truth.

I left the Catholic Church when a misognynistic priest asked my mother’s best friend, who showed up at church on Sunday morning with her face battered and bruised, a circumstance that happened frequently, what she had done to make “Jimmy” so mad. What had she done, Father S.O.B.? She had laim quietly in her bed trying not to raise the ire of the drunken asshole that had finally stumbled home from the bar, smelling of beer and some cheap floozie’s cheap cologn. That, as usual was enough to set him off and for him to take his inner rage out on her. While their four kids cowered in their beds listening to their “Daddy” beat the shit out of their “Mommy”. Mom’s friend kept going to church til the day she died. (He, Jimmy the wife-beater, had a stoke and died in his late 40′s. I almost believed again when that happened.) I have never set foot in a Catholic Church again except for Weddings, Funerals and Christenings. I don’t “believe” but I see no reason to hurt my friends and family that still do by not helping them celebrate or mourn. Each to his/her own way.

I will continue on my way, bindlestick over my shoulder as a Spiritual Hobo. Thanks again Kat!

]]> By: creeper http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1397855 creeper Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:40:22 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1397855 Thank you, ma'am. Nobody argues more strenuously for listening to the other side of an argument than I do, but when it's presented with lies, name-calling and word-twisting it's not civil discourse and we don't need it. Thank you, ma’am.

Nobody argues more strenuously for listening to the other side of an argument than I do, but when it’s presented with lies, name-calling and word-twisting it’s not civil discourse and we don’t need it.

]]> By: creeper http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1397854 creeper Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:37:25 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1397854 Looks like we're showing them as much sensitivity as they're showing us. Looks like we’re showing them as much sensitivity as they’re showing us.

]]> By: creeper http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1397853 creeper Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:34:40 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1397853 What I wouldn't give to be able to translate that. What I wouldn’t give to be able to translate that.

]]> By: creeper http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1397852 creeper Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:31:00 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1397852 I couldn't stand to open that, Hope, but I thank you for posting it anyway. Never forget. I couldn’t stand to open that, Hope, but I thank you for posting it anyway.

Never forget.

]]> By: creeper http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1397850 creeper Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:28:37 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1397850 Amy, I don't know if you're old enough to remember, but JFK was raked over the coals about his Catholicism for weeks.  If I recall correctly, the question even came up during the Kennedy/Nixon debates.  It wasn't pretty.  There were a lot of nasty accusations and a whole slew of "Catholic President" jokes that were pretty mean.  But through that process the truth came out. How are we supposed to learn the truth about a Muslim's beliefs (and Islam in general) if we're not allowed to ask? Amy, I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember, but JFK was raked over the coals about his Catholicism for weeks.  If I recall correctly, the question even came up during the Kennedy/Nixon debates. 

It wasn’t pretty.  There were a lot of nasty accusations and a whole slew of “Catholic President” jokes that were pretty mean.  But through that process the truth came out.

How are we supposed to learn the truth about a Muslim’s beliefs (and Islam in general) if we’re not allowed to ask?

]]> By: Cathy in Ks. http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1397849 Cathy in Ks. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:19:19 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1397849 I grew up Roman Catholic and was educated primarily by nuns in high school in an all girls' school.  At the time I thought I was deprived of social interaction with the other sex but now I see how fortunate I was.  At a time when girls can become easily distracted by the superficial and inconseqential, I was free to concentrate on academic subjects and was taught by women who had spent a lifetime pursuing these subjects and who did not judge themselves or others by the men or lack of men in their lives.  I realize now that the women who taught me in high school were "feminists" before there was such a word to describe them.  It's odd because they subjucated themselves to the "rule of their order" and still dressed in "habits" which covered them from head to toe.  But it was "their choice" for themselves, not some male religious leader.  What I saw were liberated women who were free to pursue their gifts and talents and share them with the young women who were entrusted to their care and tutelage. I grew up Roman Catholic and was educated primarily by nuns in high school in an all girls’ school.  At the time I thought I was deprived of social interaction with the other sex but now I see how fortunate I was.  At a time when girls can become easily distracted by the superficial and inconseqential, I was free to concentrate on academic subjects and was taught by women who had spent a lifetime pursuing these subjects and who did not judge themselves or others by the men or lack of men in their lives.  I realize now that the women who taught me in high school were “feminists” before there was such a word to describe them.  It’s odd because they subjucated themselves to the “rule of their order” and still dressed in “habits” which covered them from head to toe.  But it was “their choice” for themselves, not some male religious leader.  What I saw were liberated women who were free to pursue their gifts and talents and share them with the young women who were entrusted to their care and tutelage.

]]> By: creeper http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1397848 creeper Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:17:16 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1397848 It IS a club, felizarte.  And that club didn't want me as a member. Of course, Groucho was right anyway. It IS a club, felizarte.  And that club didn’t want me as a member.

Of course, Groucho was right anyway.

]]> By: creeper http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49526/the-right-to-vote-the-right-to-an-education/#comment-1397847 creeper Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:11:01 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=49526#comment-1397847 P.S.  Flagged for false claim. P.S.  Flagged for false claim.

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