It’s VBS Season: Do you know where your children are?
VBS, Vacation Bible School, is an annual program most churches use as one of their biggest recruitment tools geared towards indoctrinating young minds for the sake of “saving souls” and increasing...
View ArticleFlorida's 'Tea Party' Summer Camp
Courtesy of the Tampa 912 Project, inspired by Glenn Beck, kids in Tampa, Florida can spend their summer being indoctrinated into the political ideals of the Tea Party. The St.Petersburg Times...
View Article9 Year Old Forced to Pledge Allegiance To God
I've taught my children to think for themselves and to avoid adopting a religion based only on their parents religious beliefs. Of my three children I have two that are atheists and one that is...
View ArticleBill Moyers conversation with Garrison Keillor on Cspan part III
Here are the links: Cspan video: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/... Transcription of Cspan video: http://solutionsearch-tbug.blogspot.com/ Bill Moyer's Journal: http://www.pbs.org/... Books:...
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Do Not Read This! Seriously.
I'm thinking about starting a church, "for profit" and issuing stocks, options, playing with derivatives, all the usual Wall Street stuff. As the stock prices surge, I will initiate a hostile takeover...
View ArticleAre Koch Bro's Photo's Soon to Grace Your Kids School Walls
I receive a weekly news letter with the self explained title, This Week in History, which brings some very interesting past history into my in-box, some of which I'll use most bringing up the memories...
View ArticleHey Rick, doesn't "Indoctrination" begin at Home?
What happens when 2 wingnuts get locked in an echo chamber, and get an hour to "re-invent the world"? Sometimes the darnest things get said ... Rick Santorum Sounds 'Indoctrination' Warning Over Obama...
View ArticleDominionism and the Code Words that only the select few can hear
28) God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that...
View ArticleIt's Good to Know the Laws of Indoctrination
I am an atheist. So have your religious snit and tizzy already. At the age of twelve, I chose to be baptized and indoctrinated into the Lutheran religion because I lived in South Dakota where everyone...
View ArticleCrazy? No. The Tea Party (& GOP) are a Deluded Disinformed Cult
Recent diaries have described encounters with members of the Tea Party stating that they "seemed mentally unbalanced" while others have said that they are "technically delusional". I think [the first...
View ArticlePreventing the Indoctrination of Schoolchildren
We have all heard the right-wing screed about how schoolchildren are being indoctrinated to left leaning ideas by teachers. This is a story about a different kind of indoctrination and how I dealt...
View ArticleUpdated: Children Are Being Indoctrinated into Bigoted Christian Doctrine...
By now you've probably seen this video. TMZ is reporting this took place in the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle in Greensburg, Indiana. Sure looks like the same pastor. I think this appalling video...
View Article"Ain't No Homos Gonna Make it to Heaven" - The Problem with Apostolic...
The Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Church in Greensburg, Indiana thinks it's ok to indoctrinate their children with hatred. They are then content going a step further and giving positive affirmation to...
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Creationism – The Study of Darkness
Evolution – The Study of LET THERE BE LIGHT! "I'm sorry but I have learned the art of Critical thinking, therefore I can and will absorb science." thinkingblue --- I found this on facebook this...
View ArticleFoxnation, Class War, and Rufus Smith
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. -HitlerWhen God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its...
View ArticleU.S. Media: Masters of Deception
Language. We all use it every day, but how many of us realize when we are being used by it? Does that sound like a silly idea to you? The financial terrorists (they prefer “elite”) who currently rule...
View ArticleReligious “education”, tax dollars, and why Scott Walker has it all wrong
What is the difference between an education and indoctrination? If you had to sum it up in a few words, or break it down to a single concept, what would you come up with?The ability to question. In a...
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Top Comments: Kids don't need no stinkin' explanations
Piers Morgan: Do you think homosexuality is a sin? Kirk Cameron: I think that it's unnatural. I think that it's detrimental and ultimately destructive to many of the foundations of civilization....
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PseudoScience the Answer to a Creationist Prayer
ORThe Art of Pulling Things Out of a Hat.Pseudoscience is a claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or...
View ArticleSheeple University
Listening to hate radio talker Mark Levin promote a free summer online college course through Hillsdale University promoting "great works of literature" (among which he lists Chaucer's "Canterbury...
View ArticleRepublican Economics in College Classrooms
I am taking a macroeconomics class at West Los Angeles College in Culver City, CA and it's Republican biased subtleties are becoming more and more blatant as the class progresses. The class uses the...
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NSA Recruiting Teenagers as Young as Thirteen for Enrollment in Six Prototype...
If there's anything that sounds like indoctrination in the 21st Century, in my humble opinion... this is it.Kids across America no longer have to wait until college to plan on being a part of the...
View ArticleAnnouncing The Death of America the Beautiful
The play — a proposalSupported by an uncomprehending cast of many, under the direction of a hired few, for the greedy avarice of the 1%. A work in progress. A best in performance, by the misguided yet...
View ArticleMemorial day, critical thinking and personal reflections
I was about 14 years old the first time I vocally disputed the common myths that my father holds dear. About a year or two prior my mother had up and left, and I very rarely saw or heard from her....
View ArticleIt's High Time Liberals Have Their Own "Professor Watchlist"
I expect that most of us have heard by now of a few notorious “professor watchlists” where a student or parent can go and look to see which professors (and the universities that hire them) have a...
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America’s true religion is itself
The average school year is 180 days* out of 365, or 49% of the year. Over 12 years (180 days X 12), that’s 2,160 days of school. That’s 2,160 times you have been “taught to” / forced to / brainwashed...
View ArticleEver Lovers of Hypocrisy: Alabama and the American South
I swear, Roy Moore is going to be the new Senator from Alabama because he’s such a God damned big hypocrite — and Alabamans they love them their hypocrites.And, the sad fact is that Alabamans have been...
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NY Times Discloses Conservative Group’s indoctrination of Judicial Clerks-...
The article by Adam Liptak, in today’s Times begins with:The conservative legal movement has made bold moves before, and it has long cultivated law students and young lawyers, partly to ensure a deep...
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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up - "Monopoly: Socialism, 'because winning is for...
After having tried and failed many decades ago to get a political economy journal to publish my review of Anti-Monopoly, I recently found yet another spin on analog board games demonizing socialism....
View ArticleThe Koch machine is taking over college campuses, but one group is determined...
For the few who don’t know the Koch brothers, they are Charles and his brother, David. (The latter passed away in 2019.) The boys inherited multiple billions of dollars from their oil baron father and...
View ArticleI am dense but I finally figured out how seemingly decent fundamentalists...
[Why did this question arise in my mind ? ]As many of you know, before graduate school I was a fundamentalist after a challenging childhood. I was deeply immersed in it. I became a fundamentalist when...
View ArticleNorth Korea is right we are brainwashed and President Trump and his goons are...
My friend Mike makes an interesting point in our discussion of my previous sermon on how the proud boys were dumped after they served their purpose by President Trump. And I tried to show all of the...
View ArticleBeef or chicken, no BS
We should start a movement to encourage politically agnostic restaurants. I can't tell you how many times, I've walked into someplace for a bite or beer and get hit with a Trump bumper sticker on the...
View Article(School Committee incident) Don't think "It can't happen here." It can. It...
We see all the stories about right-wing parents and provocateurs interrupting school board meetings, demanding that we stop oppressing the TRUE victims of school bullying. The white children. That if...
View ArticleLet's call it exactly what it is: Enabling evil
No, this is not going to be a pointed news piece. Yes, this is going to be a rant. (Hey, give me a rant here and there, right?) We have years under our belts of watching Republicans under Donald J....
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Education: What HELL Hath COVID Wrought...
Welcome to the second inaugural War on Education. In this issue, I forgo talking about corporate and right wing attacks on our public education system for the most part to do a mental wellness check on...
View ArticleMust Read Dana Milbank Column.
Don’t miss today’s hilarious column in the Washington Post by Dana Milbank, www.washingtonpost.com/… Under the headline “Desantis Saves Florida Kids From Being Indoctrinated by Math”, he gets the ball...
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WTF is PragerU and why is it all over my children's YouTube videos suddenly?...
A few weeks ago, my 11yo showed me an ad that had started appearing on some of his favorite YouTube channels for something called PragerU. In his words, “they sound reasonable and educated at first but...
View ArticleHave you been inundated with the Tuttle Twins lately?
I’ve been seeing these Tuttle Twins books and now TV shows for kids advertised lately in multiple media platforms, including my email. From the first I heard of it I’ve been pretty concerned. Further...
View ArticleFascism alert: Florida's new teacher training program promotes far-right...
Donald Trump may have stumbled from narcissism to fascism as something of an accident, but it's Republican presidential aspirant and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who shows the most promise in actually...
View ArticleDeSantis' full-spectrum of right-wing fascist laws are making him a lot of...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ fast track to turning Florida from the Sunshine State into the nation’s Most Fascist State is wracking up a ton of money for his potential reelection or 2024 presidential...
View ArticleA few thoughts about education today and the trends
I recently saw a clip from an American politician, it might be recentor old, but it really bothered me and I have to expand on thistopic. I have since learned it was the Governor of Florida...
View ArticleCapitalism for Children - in Two Parts
Part OneThis Saturday morning I happened to catch a classic 1956 Warner Brothers cartoon — Yankee Dood It. I can’t remember having seen it as a child, but it was compelling enough to make me want to...
View ArticleTexas Republicans want to force religion down every child's throat
On Thursday, the Texas Senate approved a bill that would require public schools in the Lone Star state to display the Ten Commandments. From the Bible, in case you were wondering. As an added bonus,...
View ArticleRuth Ben-Ghiat warns: Trump has emotionally retrained us—not just his...
Yesterday, Jen Rubin, who writes for the Washington Post, served as host of one of Politicon’s podcasts. Politicon is the platform best known for boosting the signal of Mary L. Trump, Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleIndoctrination... I Was Indoctrinated
Indoctrination was and is the mainstay of America. It’s been this way from the beginning. What’s happening today is that our society as a whole, is shifting, kicking and screaming the whole way toward...
View ArticleMichelle Goldberg's Guide to the upcoming GOP impeachment of President Biden
Michelle Goldberg at The NY Times has taken the time to put together the GOP case for impeaching President Biden. Here’s a link through the paywall:The Coming Biden Impeachment Farce** Apparently this...
View ArticleTrump has a "plan" for America called Agenda 47, and it's a helluva thing.
Donald Trump's Plan for America is called "Agenda47" and it's a helluva thing.Here are the top ten worst agenda items:#1 Agenda47: President Trump Calls for Death Penalty for Human TraffickersPresident...
View ArticleMAGAs constantly claim that "America is Being Destroyed" but that is frankly...
MAGAs keep saying that Joe Biden is "Destroying" America. Just "look around" they say. It's everywhere! Here’s a perfect example.xxYouTube Video“Socialism. Communism. Open borders. Ilegal Aliens....
View ArticleThe rabid growth of a dangerous Anti-Transgender delusion
This is footage from a hearing on a Transgender Bathroom bill in Ohio. All of it is fascinating but the most relevant portion 13:55 when Ranking Member Joe Miller (D) contrasts this bill with Racist...
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