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Author Topic:   The $900 billion per year U.S. military budget
Faith 
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Message 19 of 70 (800390)
02-22-2017 9:13 PM
Reply to: Message 18 by Riggamortis
02-22-2017 8:59 PM


Re: Not for the media
It's ideology, not people, and the west historically is "so much better" than any other civilization on earth. Or was.

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Message 21 of 70 (800426)
02-23-2017 11:50 AM
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02-23-2017 11:29 AM


Re: Not for the media
More fake news.

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Message 23 of 70 (800429)
02-23-2017 12:11 PM
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02-23-2017 12:02 PM


Re: Not for the media
Oh my my my. Every civilization destroyed some indigenous culture or other. Every one of them. And who knows how that "indigenous cujlture" got there in the first place? Warring tribes destroying each other you know.
But no, what I had in mind is that a paraphrase of the Bhagavad Gita by a nuclear scientist seems an odd reference against Western Civilization. And all the more when you introduce the completely irrelevant context of indigenous cultures.
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Message 25 of 70 (800432)
02-23-2017 1:03 PM
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02-23-2017 12:29 PM


Re: Not for the media
Ah yes, that old canard. I was trying to avoid it. Sigh. There are different ways civilizations overtook indigenous cultures. America was originally Christian and made friends with them, bought their land, sometimes converted them. Later waves of Europeans weren't so Chrristian. But still in the end they were simply overwhelmed by a superior culture. Morally superior too. I know you've been brainwashed against western civilization of course, bought the revisionist history that has been written in the last century for that purpose. How well it has worked. It's mostly lies but golly gosh it's there in print so it must be true.
I see so you are quoting the Hindu scripture against western civilization. How appropriate of course. Polytheists of course know better than Christians.
Oh I don't think we are great any more, thanks to the leftist influence. Except I can't think of any that are better even so.

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Message 27 of 70 (800438)
02-23-2017 1:57 PM
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02-23-2017 1:33 PM


Re: Not for the media
We may have a chance at good healthcare now that the unaffordable impossible Obamacare is being dismantled. I agree we'd do a lot better with our education if we got rid of the leftist-indoctrinated public schools.
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Message 29 of 70 (800449)
02-23-2017 6:50 PM
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02-23-2017 3:06 PM


education
I don't know why you want tighter controls on homeschooling. Kids who are homeschooled do very well at colege. I happen to know four. One's a nurse in Japan, another has a degree in engineering, the third is about to get a degree in math, wants to be a teacher, and the fourth is getting honors but doesn't have a major yet. I also know a little about Christian schools and they too are academically superior.
Of course this has nothing to do with the military budget.

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Message 31 of 70 (800465)
02-24-2017 3:14 AM
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02-23-2017 7:22 PM


Re: education
Some Statistics
How Do Homeschool Students Do At College?
A recent study published in July 2010, by Dr. Michael Cogan, studied homeschool students at one Mid-west college. While this small study won't have the reaching impact as a larger study, here are his findings.
The homeschool students had a slightly higher retention rate, 88.6% compared to the counterpart at 87.6%.
There was a higher graduation rate from homeschooled students (66.7% compared to the counterpart at 57.5%).
The homeschooled students came in with a higher ACT score (25.0 compared to 14.7).
Slightly higher Grade Point Averages were held through-out the college years by the homeschooled students. (Fourth year previosuly homeschooled college students had a 3.46 average compared to the previously traditionally schooled students at 3.16).
The article goes on to say that homeschooling parents also have a higher degree of education themselves than average.

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Message 35 of 70 (800509)
02-24-2017 1:41 PM
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02-24-2017 3:26 AM


Re: education
As I understand it the state determines what materials are to be taught to homeschoolers, defines standards etc. The parents may have some leeway but I don't think they have a lot.

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