Leave my Child Alone!

[Commie Girl]

:( Many people on this board seem to be young and live in the U.$. I am appalled that schools are required, through the No Child Left Behind Act, to send all personal information on their students to the Pentagon or risk losing any federal school funding. :angry:

Please take the time to check out this Website (http://www.leavemychildalone.org) and print off Opt-out forms, show them to your friends/parents/teachers/classmates.

Stop this insanity!

Also, check out the ideo on that website that explains this clearly.

[violencia.Proletariat]

meh the pentagon knows who you are anways, how do you think they know where to send the draft fill out cards.

[Publius]

:( Many people on this board seem to be young and live in the U.$. I am appalled that schools are required, through the No Child Left Behind Act, to send all personal information on their students to the Pentagon or risk losing any federal school funding. :angry:

Please take the time to check out this Website (http://www.leavemychildalone.org) and print off Opt-out forms, show them to your friends/parents/teachers/classmates.

Stop this insanity!

Also, check out the ideo on that website that explains this clearly.

This country is going to hell quickly.

I'm seriously considering moving to the U.K.

EDIT: And it should be noted that this is really meaningless. You give them all your personal identification when you apply for a Driver's licence or sign up for Federal college aid.

You're in the SS system (I love the name) already, this just allows them to send you junk mail, essentially.

[Hegemonicretribution]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2005, 12:52 AM
I'm seriously considering moving to the U.K.


Not worth the effor honestly, everything is going to shit as much here. Forgetting economic differences briefly, the enroachment on basic rights is also bad in the U.K. There isn't even an entrenched constitution with any basics.

[Publius]

Not worth the effor honestly, everything is going to shit as much here. Forgetting economic differences briefly, the enroachment on basic rights is also bad in the U.K. There isn't even an entrenched constitution with any basics.

The Religious Right isn't as prominent there.

If they get (Any more) power, I'm the fuck outta here.

I need to pack up my bags and move to New Zealand
New Guina, New York I need something new


Two cookies to the first person that can figure out my reference.

[Clarksist]

The Religious Right isn't as prominent there.


However, there is hope.

Record atheism in America.

Alienation of the Sunday Christians from the Christo-Fascists has caused a big seperation in the church.

Lucky for us, it seems religion is "dying".

Its just that, those who are religious, cling so much tighter that even though its on a decline, we will hear about it much more than usual.

But it is on a decline. I hope. <_<

[Phalanx]

Me too. Although I think the extreme-right evangelical &#39;churches&#39; are experiencing record growth. The town I live in (in Wisconsin) has a cult church where they believe in speaking in tongue, and unfortunately they get all of the kids so they manage to &#39;get them while they&#39;re young&#39;. It&#39;s also hysterical (and scary) that people believe some of this shit.

Example:

They believe the first bottle of coke was created by a brown puddle falling from the sky. Then, after many years, plastic formed around the puddle. Next came the wrapper and the paint that read "Classic Coke". This is no joke. These freaks really believe that.

[Ultra-Violence]

commrades is religion really on the decline?

id like to see some link and studies that show this plz that would make it easiser to sleep at night knowing that religion is fading away.............................


:hammer:

[JKP]

Originally posted by [email protected] 1 2005, 05:52 PM


You&#39;re in the SS system (I love the name) already, this just allows them to send you junk mail, essentially.
I&#39;m rather surprised that the Social Security slavery cards haven&#39;t been challanged more.


I&#39;m assuming it&#39;s because SS is a very popular program (I&#39;m not really sure why, since it practically pays nothing), so Liberty isn&#39;t a top concern.

[Phalanx]

5billion People must die overpopulation of the Human race is why&#33;

Ultra-Violence, that is just one weird political statement.

[bed_of_nails]

It pays enough for Redstar to live every month. Barely though.

[Andy Bowden]

Publius, I look forward to seeing you in the Peoples Socialist Republic of the UK :D

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Yes comrade, religion is on the decline in the world, not sure about the U.S.

The Universal Almanac, 1990, reports that there are 805,900,000 non-religious and 210,500,000 atheists in the world. This accounts for 16.9% and 4.4% respectively, for a total of 21.3%.

And from this site (http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/atheism_growing_stronger.html) you can see:

That Atheism has grown in the last 10 years a hundred times more rapidly than any religion ever grew.

That it is moderate to claim that there are considerably more than 200,000,000 Atheists today.

That the growth has been checked only by fraudulent misrepresentations and savage persecution.

That the growth is such that if freedom is again generally secured in the next 10 years we may justly expect Atheists to be more numerous than genuine Christians in 20 years.

[Ultra-Violence]

Ultra-Violence, that is just one weird political statement.



its from one of my favorite bands Toxic Narcotic&#33;

check em out

:hammer:

[Lord Testicles]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2005, 01:18 AM


Not worth the effor honestly, everything is going to shit as much here. Forgetting economic differences briefly, the enroachment on basic rights is also bad in the U.K. There isn&#39;t even an entrenched constitution with any basics.

The Religious Right isn&#39;t as prominent there.

If they get (Any more) power, I&#39;m the fuck outta here.

I need to pack up my bags and move to New Zealand
New Guina, New York I need something new


Two cookies to the first person that can figure out my reference.
According to the UN Canada is the best place to live in the world if not a bit expenceive

[violencia.Proletariat]

Originally posted by Ultra&#045;[email protected] 2 2005, 01:34 PM


Ultra-Violence, that is just one weird political statement.



its from one of my favorite bands Toxic Narcotic&#33;

check em out

:hammer:
that seems to be the general idea of the whole band, that people suck, which is also one of their songs along with shoot people not dope, etc.

[quincunx5]

I&#39;m rather surprised that the Social Security slavery cards haven&#39;t been challanged more.

I&#39;m assuming it&#39;s because SS is a very popular program (I&#39;m not really sure why, since it practically pays nothing), so Liberty isn&#39;t a top concern.


That&#39;s exactly the problem.

If we got rid of welfare, or at the very least got rid of it at the federal level, there would be no SS to intrude into our lives.

Liberty hasn&#39;t been a concern since the US Constitution&#33;

[quincunx5]

I need to pack up my bags and move to New Zealand
New Guina, New York I need something new


If you enjoy liberty, DO NOT move to New York. First hand experience here.
You&#39;d be better off in New Hampshire.

[Freedom Works]

You&#39;d be better off in New Hampshire.

Publius, check out the http://FreeStateProject.org/

:)

[Publius]

I&#39;m rather surprised that the Social Security slavery cards haven&#39;t been challanged more.


I&#39;m assuming it&#39;s because SS is a very popular program (I&#39;m not really sure why, since it practically pays nothing), so Liberty isn&#39;t a top concern.

I meant &#39;Selective Service&#39; (Orwellian draft name), but it also applies for Social Security.

[Publius]

According to the UN Canada is the best place to live in the world if not a bit expenceive

Perhaps.

But the U.K. just seems more appealing to me.

[black magick hustla]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2005, 10:35 PM


According to the UN Canada is the best place to live in the world if not a bit expenceive

Perhaps.

But the U.K. just seems more appealing to me.
The UK is a hotbead to many nationalists and fascists.

Hell, the nationalist party is the epitome of fascism.

[Gnosis]

Do you think they could obtain test scores and other scores which reflect individual intelligence and creativity and use them against you? Do you think they would attempt to recruit the best and brightest in order to kill them on the battle field or force them to commit suicide or join the dark side or something sketchy like that?
Maybe they want to weed out the ones who would most likely be rebelious against the government? They probably could if that was their agenda...

[Commie Girl]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2005, 04:35 PM


According to the UN Canada is the best place to live in the world if not a bit expenceive

Perhaps.

But the U.K. just seems more appealing to me.
:D Hey publius, yes&#33;&#33;&#33; Come to Canada, and it isn&#39;t nearly as expensive to live here as the U.K. (in my opinion and reflections of travels to the U.K.)

[Lord Testicles]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2005, 03:43 PM
Do you think they could obtain test scores and other scores which reflect individual intelligence and creativity and use them against you? Do you think they would attempt to recruit the best and brightest in order to kill them on the battle field or force them to commit suicide or join the dark side or something sketchy like that?
Maybe they want to weed out the ones who would most likely be rebelious against the government? They probably could if that was their agenda...
get this person a tin foil hat&#33; no but seriously i think they just want your school records so they can keep a close watch on you but i dont think they want to kill you

[Camarada]

Lay off Social Security, socialists are supposed to support it. the people trying to "reform" it are right-wingers who don&#39;t like to see money go to anything other than brutal war and illegal occupation.

[Camarada]

Social Security - A government program that provides economic assistance to persons faced with unemployment, disability, or agedness, financed by assessment of employers and employees.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Social%20Security

[Camarada]

oh never mind the person who posted the criticism of social security was a restricted member.

[quincunx5]

Social Security - A government program that provides economic assistance to persons faced with unemployment, disability, or agedness, financed by assessment of employers and employees.


Yet all old people rich, middle, and poor still get it. Why should the young subsidize the old?
Why should the ones who have not had any time to acquire wealth subsidize those that had nearly
their whole lifetime to do so?

Government forces you to pay for a specific type of insurance. You don&#39;t get a say.
Insurance is a service. There is no need for the federal government to provide it.

It has been correlated that self-employers that essentially need to pay twice as much as regular
employees is exactly what leads to the decline of self-owned businesses. This only enhances the position of already established big businesses.



Lay off Social Security, socialists are supposed to support it. the people trying to "reform" it are right-wingers who don&#39;t like to see money go to anything other than brutal war and illegal occupation.


I never said I was a socialist.
I&#39;d like to see money go to neither of those things.

[Gnosis]

get this person a tin foil hat&#33; no but seriously i think they just want your school records so they can keep a close watch on you but i dont think they want to kill you

I know they dont want to kill me, I&#39;m no longer in school.
I wondered what you thought about the possibilities of the government deciding to target and eliminate threats because it is possible and therefore should not be denied without reasonable doubt, plus most of the people on this site appear to still be in school and so it is helpful for my pruposes to have your insider opinion on the matter.
I do not doubt the bush administration&#39;s or any administration&#39;s ability to destroy anything which opposes their agenda.
Why does this idea seem so farfetched? Rulers of the past have performed these actions, haven&#39;t they? Isn&#39;t it at all plausable to speculate about this sort of activity? Do you really put it below these people?
If they want you dead, don&#39;t you think they have the power to make it so?

[Lord Testicles]

The only reason for them to kill you is if they fear you and they will only fear you if you have popular support and belive in the compleat opposite of what they do. We all belive in the compleat opposite of what the bush administration belives in but not one of us has popular support therefor making it unlikely there not going to pop of the odd student because he preaches leftist ideas no are they

[Bannockburn]

That is really the whole point behind the no child left behind act. Its simply an extension of the industrial-military complex within the United States. All personal information can be used against them. For example, if your child has a long history of illness both organic and inorganic, and develops into adulthood and late adulthood, then the government can pass on this information to SS to have you refused. The no child left behind act was the first part. The second part is SS reform.

Furthermore, as your website says, it will be used for later recruitment. They will have access to grades, and personal records, this then can be used to designate them according what fits them best. A kid is good at computers: you&#39;re doing computers. You&#39;re good at running and physical activities? You&#39;re in infantry. You too mechanics when you were in high school: You&#39;re doing machine repairs. Its not really hard to figure out. Moreover, since schools are tight for cash because of government cut backs, they are forced to sign on because they want books they don&#39;t say East and West Germany. So really, the children as used as pawns.

Also. I moved from the US to Canada. I love it. It&#39;s a “freer” country. The politics are corrupt both on the local and federal level. The aboriginals are oppressed. Yet, its still a better country than the US.

[quincunx5]

For example, if your child has a long history of illness both organic and inorganic, and develops into adulthood and late adulthood, then the government can pass on this information to SS to have you refused.


That would be nice - but it doesn&#39;t happen. No one can get out of the privacy-intruding SS.



Its not really hard to figure out. Moreover, since schools are tight for cash because of government cut backs,


What government cut backs? As far as I know the amount spent on schooling rises every single year (faster than inflation). You must be confusing tax rate cuts with actual revenue cuts.



Also. I moved from the US to Canada. I love it. It&#39;s a “freer” country. The politics are corrupt both on the local and federal level. The aboriginals are oppressed. Yet, its still a better country than the US.


Of course it&#39;s a freer country. It&#39;s slightly bigger than the US yet 9 times less people.
A very important thing to note is Canada&#39;s benefit of &#39;free&#39; trade with the US. Universal healthcare would have failed without capitalist business with the US.

The aboriginals are so oppressed that they got a new territory.

[blue_shift_revolution]

I&#39;m surprised nobody remembers the thousands repremanded as potential terrorists shortly after the Patriot Act was passed. Although most of them were Muslim, I did read about a very different case:

Basically, a white female student had suits appear at her door and questioned her. The reason? she had a poster in her dorm that had something along the lines of Bush burning in a fire (The poster&#39;s content is kinda fuzzy, so don&#39;t quote me on that)

Point is, someone passed word onto someone else at the school that she had this poster... I wish I could remember where the story was, but it was several years ago...


Besides that, staff writers for Anarchy magazine often fake their names, and, I believe, the magazine&#39;s editor had been questioned before.

And also... someone correct me if I&#39;m wrong, but I think the Patriot Act get passed with a clause allowing them to solicit information from library records to see who&#39;s reading what, for a short time. Either that or they tried to pass it with that clause and it got shot down. Point is, they tried.

So the threat is real, boys and girls.

There&#39;s also very convincing evidence of the CIA&#39;s involvement in the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Robert Kennedy, to name a few (for those that don&#39;t already know).

[RandomRival]

OH SHIT :o

I go to one of the most notable schools in north florida and we have a military base here and its one of the largest bases in florida....and its no secret in my school that im a COMMIE



IM FUCKED :unsure:

[Commie Girl]

Of course it&#39;s a freer country. It&#39;s slightly bigger than the US yet 9 times less people.

Being a larger country makes us "freer"? :huh:


A very important thing to note is Canada&#39;s benefit of &#39;free&#39; trade with the US.

:lol: Yup, we sure benefit when the U&#036; refuses to honour their part of the agreement&#33;

After the agreement

CBC News Online | August 10, 2005


Following the establishment of the agreement-in-principle in December 2003, negotiations have continued and Canada has continued to fight the duties through the World Trade Organization and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). NAFTA rulings are considered more important than those made by the WTO because they are binding.

On Jan. 19, 2004, the WTO reversed an earlier decision. It announced that Canadian lumber was, in fact, unfairly subsidized and that U.S. duties were not illegal.

However, on March 22, 2004, the WTO found that the U.S. International Trade Commission was wrong to conclude that imports of Canadian softwood were likely to increase. Since it was this finding that was used to justify the heavy duties on the lumber, the ITC was given 30 days to explain what changes it would make. The WTO also concluded that the ITC did not act in line with the requirements of international trade agreements.

On April 13, 2004, the WTO panel upheld the U.S.-imposed anti-dumping duties, but reiterated that the U.S. government&#39;s calculations of the duties were incorrect.

On April 29, 2004, the NAFTA panel released a ruling that contradicted the WTO, saying that U.S. lumber producers were not "threatened with material injury" by imports of softwood from Canada. The ruling again undermined the U.S. argument used to justify the 27 per cent duties it has imposed on Canadian lumber.

On June 3, 2004, the U.S. Commerce Department announced that it would cut the duties on Canadian softwood lumber from 27 per cent to 13.2 per cent in 2005. The decision is preliminary, and the final rate is expected to be set in December 2004.

On Aug. 3, 2004, a spokesperson for the B.C. Lumber Trade Council said that the U.S. had cut the countervailing duty on Canadian softwood lumber from 18 per cent to 7.82 per cent. Previously, this duty combined with anti-dumping tariffs made the total levy about 27 per cent. The NAFTA panel can either accept this new rate or ask the U.S. Commerce Department to make further changes.

On Aug. 31, 2004, the NAFTA panel rejected for the third time American claims that Canadian lumber exports threaten producers in the U.S. It ordered the U.S. International Trade Commission to make changes based on the ruling in 10 days.

On Sept. 10, 2004, the U.S. International Trade Commission accepted the NAFTA ruling, despite having the right to appeal it one more time under NAFTA&#39;s extraordinary challenge provisions. The duties could now be removed as early as next year.

However, on Nov. 15, 2004, B.C. Forests Minister Mike de Jong expressed renewed anger after a bill was proposed by Montana Senator Max Baucus. The bill would allow U.S. lumber companies to keep an estimated &#036;3.6 billion in duties paid on Canadian imports.

On Aug. 10, 2005, an “extraordinary challenge panel” under the North American Free Trade Agreement dismissed American claims that the earlier NAFTA decision in favour of Canada violated trade rules.

"We are extremely pleased that the ECC dismissed the claims of the United States," said International Trade Minister Jim Peterson.

"This is a binding decision that clearly eliminates the basis for U.S.-imposed duties on Canadian softwood lumber. We fully expect the United States to abide by this ruling, stop collecting duties and refund the duties collected over the past three years," he said.

Washington’s initial response was that the ruling doesn’t settle anything – and that it will take more negotiations before this dispute is wrapped up.


:angry: CBC (http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/softwood_lumber/agreement.html)


Universal healthcare would have failed without capitalist business with the US.

This opinion of yours shows your lack of understanding of Canadian Culture. Nothing is more sacred in Canada than our Helthcare System&#33;


The aboriginals are so oppressed that they got a new territory.

:lol: That was the inuit, not the aboriginals, and they didn&#39;t get a "new territory," the NWT was split to make Nunavut. Read this (http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aboriginals/nunavut.html) The aboriginal population is slightly better off than they used to be, but there is a long way to go to changing people&#39;s racism.

Here is an interesting article on "Starlight Tours" in Saskatoon. :(

exerpt: "They&#39;re also called "Starlight Tours": police driving drunk Indians out of town to walk home and sober up. The stories go back years. Some say it&#39;s an urban myth. And it might have stayed that way, except for one Indian man who came forward with a shocking charge, accusing police of dropping him in the same spot where the dead men were found. It was -22 C that night.

Neil Stonechild&#39;s body was found in an empty lot at the north side of the city. It was -28 C the night before -- one of the coldest of the year. Neil was 17 years old and on the run from a young offender&#39;s home with a warrant out for his arrest."


Rest of article (http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aboriginals/starlighttours.html)

Final Report on Inquiry into death of Neil stonechild.....at the hands of the Saskatoon Police (http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/10/26/stonechild_report041026.html) :angry:

[Ultra-Violence]

that seems to be the general idea of the whole band, that people suck, which is also one of their songs along with shoot people not dope, etc.

they have better stuff trust me like songs about beer* yummy and 5 billion ppl must die is a song about how ppl are husting the enviroment and that the only solution is that % billion ppl must die&#33; :lol:

but the reason i love them the most is thier religion bashing songs&#33;

:hammer:

[rachstev]

Commie Girl:

Why should you be appauled that naitonal government money requiers national government information to the armed forces:

1. The armed forces are not the enemy, from the point of view of U.S. Citizens, but people proudly serving the country. This has been one of the weirdest objections to No Child Left Behind: That somehow (Iraq war or no Iraq war) we Americans are supposed to view the army as a horrible group of people we&#39;d never want our kids to be a part of. In the US, we have families who have made the military its career.

2. WHAT A JOKE&#33; In every nation which has had a socialist revolution, military service has been made COMPULSORY. You&#39;re worried about the capitalist U.S. gathering names of those who will one day be over 18 years old, while in North Korea, military service is required. As in many European contries.

3. Your child has been protected by the government, in a sense (I know, you don&#39;t accept that, but that&#39;s the reasoning) and educated with federal dollars, and in exchage, big deal, they will have their addresses tracked for offers for military service like colleges and training programs for their post-high school lives.

4. Aren&#39;t you raising children in a way that they will be smart enough to listen to the military&#39;s ads and turn them down? Same as any other free speach? So the army will send them a letter offering them service. So what? What about ITT or Gulf oil making them an offer? Of the post office, or Harvard university?

Hope this helped you out,

Rachstev

[Commie Girl]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2005, 01:38 PM
Commie Girl:

Why should you be appauled that naitonal government money requiers national government information to the armed forces:

1. The armed forces are not the enemy, from the point of view of U.S. Citizens, but people proudly serving the country. This has been one of the weirdest objections to No Child Left Behind: That somehow (Iraq war or no Iraq war) we Americans are supposed to view the army as a horrible group of people we&#39;d never want our kids to be a part of. In the US, we have families who have made the military its career.

2. WHAT A JOKE&#33; In every nation which has had a socialist revolution, military service has been made COMPULSORY. You&#39;re worried about the capitalist U.S. gathering names of those who will one day be over 18 years old, while in North Korea, military service is required. As in many European contries.

3. Your child has been protected by the government, in a sense (I know, you don&#39;t accept that, but that&#39;s the reasoning) and educated with federal dollars, and in exchage, big deal, they will have their addresses tracked for offers for military service like colleges and training programs for their post-high school lives.

4. Aren&#39;t you raising children in a way that they will be smart enough to listen to the military&#39;s ads and turn them down? Same as any other free speach? So the army will send them a letter offering them service. So what? What about ITT or Gulf oil making them an offer? Of the post office, or Harvard university?

Hope this helped you out,

Rachstev
1) Money for schooling should not be dependant on anything but maintaining minimum standards for educational advancement. The idea that sending ANY of your childs personal info to the govt, with money for schooling held hostage for non compliance, is too bizarre and frightening to contemplate anywhere else in the "western" world.

Your thinking is not understandable. As a society, people can view the armed forces in many lights, but it should be a voluntary carrer choice, ie: here, there are some recruiting offices, ( I have never seen one) and if you choose to enter the military, you go there and sign up. No harrassing phone calls, no one at your door, noone at your school&#33; Equivalent to any other carrer path. I would not encourage my children to enter the armed forces or become a member of the police force.

2) I will not defend N. Korea, nor does it remotely resemble a socialist country&#33;

3) Drivel

4) The army doesnt "just send a letter" , they hound and harrass people, all hours of the day or night, with financial incentives that many poor and oppressed people find difficult to walk away from. I understand that in the U&#036; you need alot of money to go to post-secondary education, which leaves a large segment of the population unable to further themselves any other way. Many of the financial incentives promised dont materialize, and it doesnt do a lot of good when you are dead.

My point is, let people decide which carreer path to choose, there is no way in hell this is a so-called "all volunteer army". And luckily, my child doesnt have to learn how to deal with this problem&#33; :lol:

[rachstev]

you called your post, "Leave my child alone&#33;"

shouldn&#39;t you call it, "Leave American children alone&#33;"?

i don&#39;t think this is even your issue.

not that you shouldn&#39;t contribute (unless you fear one day your kid will move to the U.S., which would be expected. HA&#33;

You will not be able to handle your child&#39;s becoming a capitalist. I suppose we simply have different views on a great many things and there is no connection.

Good luck in whatever you choose to do.

Rachstev

[Commie Girl]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2005, 04:45 PM
you called your post, "Leave my child alone&#33;"

shouldn&#39;t you call it, "Leave American children alone&#33;"?

i don&#39;t think this is even your issue.

not that you shouldn&#39;t contribute (unless you fear one day your kid will move to the U.S., which would be expected. HA&#33;

You will not be able to handle your child&#39;s becoming a capitalist. I suppose we simply have different views on a great many things and there is no connection.

Good luck in whatever you choose to do.

Rachstev
Thank you&#33; I called it that because that is the name of the act.

I am an Internationalist, if there is unjutice anywhere, it causes many people with a social conscience concern and distress.


My children are empathetic and do donate their time to helping the poor and oppressed, we have had homeless people living with us, we are a nation of volunteers and have done our part helping in shelters and with food. They happen to live in a capitalist country, although we are trying to find out more info on emigrating to Cuba.

[rachstev]

Ha&#33; Cuba&#33; What a joke&#33;

An internationalist. Ok, ok. I suppose I should be thankful I was religated to the O.I. section after all. Otherwise I&#39;d hear nothing but anti-American bullshit. At least on this board there&#39;s more balance. And you get an occasional pro-American comment so you can get a good laugh.

Well, if you go to Cuba, at least you and I could have cigars in common.

But what will your son do for football if you move to Cuba? (I mean real football, not soccer, eeesh&#33;) How does your husband feel about his kid not playing on a team there?

My sons play on their local team in Hermosa Beach. You&#39;re in a large city. Does your son have the same set up and will he miss it in Cuba?

Rachstev

[Commie Girl]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2005, 07:04 PM
Ha&#33; Cuba&#33; What a joke&#33;

An internationalist. Ok, ok. I suppose I should be thankful I was religated to the O.I. section after all. Otherwise I&#39;d hear nothing but anti-American bullshit. At least on this board there&#39;s more balance. And you get an occasional pro-American comment so you can get a good laugh.

Well, if you go to Cuba, at least you and I could have cigars in common.

But what will your son do for football if you move to Cuba? (I mean real football, not soccer, eeesh&#33;) How does your husband feel about his kid not playing on a team there?

My sons play on their local team in Hermosa Beach. You&#39;re in a large city. Does your son have the same set up and will he miss it in Cuba?

Rachstev
Well, my son plays soccer already, not football. I cant stand football&#33; We are more apt to miss him playing hockey&#33; :lol:

Seriously, my husband and I had our wedding in Cuba as a show of solidarity to the revolution and the Cuban people. We are both on the same page. Health care and education rank higher than team sports, but the kids do play here and also have swimming and diving lessons as well through school, as well as dance for my daughter ( Ihave 4 kids)

Our city is probably not big compared to wherever Hermosa Beach is, we have 80,000 people here and most people have their kids in hockey or soccer, football is usually only played as a school sport.

[rachstev]

Your not liking football might be 1/2 your problem. But that&#39;s beautiful about your wedding. Serously. If you read my reasons for flying the S & S at my home, then you understand I am emotional, and can appreciate others who are emotional through their views.

Yes, I suppose to our family, football is more important than health care. (Watch out what you say about it if you ever visit Texas, however. For us, high school football is very important. For them it&#39;s there state religion.)

Hermosa Beach has about the same number of people, but because it&#39;s "attached" to the greater Los Angeles area, its part of probably 10 million.

Rachstev

P.S. Re: what you wrote on other post, glad I&#39;m entertaining you. Cappies are probably more funny than commies. did you see the Monte Python skit about Mao, Che, Lenin and Marx?

[Commie Girl]

You are funny...and I knew you would like Monty Python&#33;

That is interesting about how Texas sees football, we feel that way about hockey.

[rachstev]

So Monte Python get the four of them on a panel show, and introduce them very seriously. Extreemly dignified with perfection as they read out their credentials.

Then, the four of them realize the questions are in the form of a game show, and all about current pop culture, like music and sports. They&#39;re all dumbfounded. They don&#39;t know what to do. Only Mao has an answer, "Scooby-dooby-do." Perhaps about Frank Sinatra, I don&#39;t remember.

But all of them are losing dismally, until Marx gets a question out of the Manifesto. he answsers letter perfect, and is in the final running for a washing machine as a grand prize against Mao. Histerical. They both wanted to win the appliance.

R.

[Commie Girl]

:lol: Sounds great&#33; I will contact my brother and borrow his collection.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Otherwise I&#39;d hear nothing but anti-American bullshit.

Right it&#39;s all bullshit. :rolleyes:


If you read my reasons for flying the S & S at my home, then you understand I am emotional, and can appreciate others who are emotional through their views.

How about instead of emotional you try rational?

Oh, and thanks for using S&S as short for &#39;stars and stripes.&#39; I never realized that before&#33; What a coincidence, S&S = SS :lol:

[rachstev]

Companero,

That comment you quoted was a response to Commie Girl. It really wasn&#39;t meant to be discussed about.

R.

[Elect Marx]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2005, 08:18 PM
Companero,

That comment you quoted was a response to Commie Girl. It really wasn&#39;t meant to be discussed about.
From now on; you might want to just expect people will comment on your posts... this being a discussion board and all.

Just as I knew that post was directed toward CDL and took the liberty of making a point.