ColbyDog's Blog

You ask a lot of questions, Dog. So let me ask one: What do YOU think should be done?

God gave us all brains. Educate yourself and don't rely on the government schools to do it. Question everybody, even (and perhaps especially) the liberals who aren't used to being questioned. Don't automatically assume that because someone is a PhD that they know what they are talking about. Don't assume that because someone represents a "public interest group" that they necessarily have the good of the public at heart. Listen to your elders and learn from them. Study history with a passion and you will see that it is undeniably cyclical. Learn from it. So basically, your second paragraph only applied to both liberals and conservatives. Oh, and I hate and detest gardening. I'll let my neighbor plant one.

aren't used to being questioned????

thats gotta be the stupidest statement ever put to words bash.

sorry, but since I've got first hand knowledge of both left and right lifestyles... I can tell you without a nanosecond of hesitation and in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS... that liberals are grilled, chastised, condemned, fired, disavowed, criticized and even assassinated.... a billion times more often and more vehemently than any living right winger on the face of the earth since the beginning of time. period!

The whole phrase is "...even (and perhaps especially) THE (my emphasis) liberals that aren't used to being questioned." The article "the" is pretty important in that sentence. I'm not saying all liberals. I'm talking specifically about the liberal illuminati in the college classroom asw well as the Hollywood left. The claptrap that my daughter would come home regurgitating as truth from an ivory tower liberal was breathtaking in its stupidity. Fortunately, she has a far more aggressive approach to challenging teachers than I ever had. Most liberals in education, and liberals far and away outnumber conservatives in the hallowed halls, are not wont to being questioned. The same goes for Hollywood lefties that spout off about environmentalism and economics and foreign relations. Challenge them on it and they fly off the handle like you've spotted a wrinkle on their face. The one exception is Mike Farrell, of MASH fame. He has gone on talk shows and responded in an intelligent and even manner and has even been wise enough to admit that he may not have thought a matter through. But most of the Hollywood left screech like seagulls when you get them off their talking points.

Yes, study history. I agree with you that the history books in our schools, especially in the middle and high schools, are without a doubt terrible. My daughter's grade school history book was just awful. Christopher Columbus was made to be the progenitor of evil on earth. The Indians were sweet and loving and eco-friendly, so far from reality that we almost pulled her from school. When I talked to her teacher, the teacher had no idea that the Caribe Indians that Columbus encountered where known to be canibalistic and feared by every other tribe in those islands. When she studied about the Civil War, it covered all of about 6 pages in the text book. It took a very complicated issue, the matters leading to secession, and distilled them to about a half page. True to form, slavery was dealt with page after page. And of course the North was all good and perfect and the South all evil.

Lastly, a walk around Barnes and Noble will show you that there are tons of good books of history out there. Nearing the top of my reading list (I'm working through three books right now) is "America's Providential History". I've wanted to read it for the longest time now. Two areas of American history that I want to get to reading more about are the Revolution and World War I.

Don't discount what our elders can teach us. My one grandfather was a self-taught master of economics. He taught me a ton about how markets work and how they don't work. My other grandfather was an immigrant from the Czech Republic. He came here with virtually no skills and through hard work at slave wages went from being a lumberjack to a skilled machinist. His stories of the lean years have taught me a lot.

Organized religion.... a gigantic topic on its own... does not belong in text books of a global community- until we become an accepting people... which, oddly, is at the root of the abraham theologies... but has been horribly and purposefully lost in translation. Prosperity Gospel? What the heck is that? Man has dominion... should subjugate beast, plant, woman, child and others not like him... yeah, very christ-like, very allah, very buddha, very krishna, very yahweh-like...

But it does serve to separate the male heirarchy from all others and afford him a place of comfort to extract riches from their masses and use fear and indignation to subordinate.

I believe in the teachings of Christ, but I loath all things Christian... the lies, hypocrisy, manipulation and falsity reek like a long-dead body.

I just returned to my catholic youth's easter with my family... and was horrified... not at community... I agree that it is the pace where community is made... but at how it has been hijacked by spiritual materialism and just plain corruption....

as Jesus ran through the temples toppling the money-changers stands... I could only say... the Catholic Church needs him now for its long passed time for a spiritual enema.

as for the indians of which you speak... you got an interesting way of playing with facts in your reality Bash...

to speak of one small tribe of people and label them as the definition of all peoples... is as stupid as calling all muslims IslamoFascists.... er wait... you already ascribe to that....

no wonder we're so fcuked up as a nation... all our spirituality has been cross-wired and subverted... your intentions are good, I agree, and your heart is in the right place, but wow is your head wired wrong dude.

And Dog, I can't wait to see how you tear into Obama when he is elected. Here's a hint to get you started: Remember that promise that in his first day in office he is going to sign an executive order to begin pulling soldiers out of Iraq? He won't do it. In fact, he won't do it in his first 100 days.

Take Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti or any of dozens of "lefties" ...
The deeper you go debunking the rosey-colored perspective we've been manufactured to accept (and defend).... the harder it is to relate to anyone wearing the glasses... and the longer your answers to their basic questions become... Their sound-bite capacity to learn, prevents them from following because its too much input.

I've tried countless analogies, references, blogs books and discussions... the easiest way I found for visual thinkers like me, is to watch documentaries. In short order, large groups of people can ingest a complex perspective and then immediately engage in discussion. I tried the book clubs but found I didn't always have time to read it before the discussion, and then folks would come who hadn't read it and spoil the discussion...

Perhaps its time for FOXblog MTM - Movies that Matter series to form.... Movie nights where we come together to watch a film and discuss its merits.