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Politics : Socialized Education - Is there abetter way? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (290)	3/7/2008 6:32:11 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1513

The public school teaches kids to hate republicans

To: American Spirit who wrote (290)	3/8/2008 1:40:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1513

AS that last post is really off the deep end. Homeschooling has no connection to fascism. And home schoolers' situation is more one where people are trying to take away or limit their freedom than one where they are trying to limit the freedom of others. You post is an totally unsubstantiated, and false, slur of a lot of good people.

To: American Spirit who wrote (290)	3/11/2008 12:45:25 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1513

A 47-page federal affidavit from an F.B.I. agent investigating a prostitution ring lists the man at the hotel as “Client 9,” and includes considerable details about him, the prostitutes and his methods of paying for them. A law enforcement official and another person briefed on the prostitution case have identified Client 9 as Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York. The papers quote Kristen and the woman who sent her on the job talking about a man believed to be Client 9, who might make requests of prostitutes “you might not think were safe.” But Kristen, according to the papers, was prepared: “I have a way of dealing with that,” she is quoted as having told the woman. “I’d be like, ‘Listen, dude, you really want the sex?’... You know what I mean.”

To: American Spirit who wrote (290)	3/11/2008 11:30:09 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 1513

You can't effectively govern the people in public if you can't effectively govern yourself in private. Period. End of story. How can we allow you to make decisions that affect the private lives of others when you can't even control your own? Whether you're what's-his-name in that airport toilet, or that guy with the interns, or Client #9 at The Mayflower, the right thing for you to do is to get the hell out of public life. I'm not preaching. I'm no Puritan. I'm just saying, if you can't follow the law, you gotta get out. These guys pound the Bible or wag their fingers while proclaiming what's right and what's wrong, then take a wide stance in a bathroom stall or leave the door to room 871 ajar. Did you read the transcripts? According to the Emperor's Club booker, the Gov. "would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe." Jesus. These guys should either keep their zippers zipped or keep their traps shut and stop telling us how to live. Let's make sure the people we're electing -- and their spouses -- have an internal governor who doesn't take nights and weekends (and Valentine's Days) off. We need leaders who are not going to be distracted by the explosion of their shadow lives. huffingtonpost.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (290)	3/12/2008 11:20:52 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1513

Sex therapists, of course, need no introduction. Evolutionary psychologists are academics who study the brain in the context of human evolution -- which is to say, the brain as an organ shaped and formed in the millennia before a little thing called polite civilization was invented. The underlying assumption here is that modern man is a just a polished-up and presentable version of the brutes that we humanoids were for eons. The essential urges and motivations are the same as ever. Don't let the tie and jacket fool you. Evolutionary psychologists seem like the perfect people to debrief in this situation because, unlike just about everyone else, they seem thoroughly unshocked. "There's nothing mystifying about any of this," says Todd Shackelford, an evolutionary psychologist and professor at Florida Atlantic University. Shackelford walks through the basics of the evolutionary psychology catechism: For millennia, the whole point of males' often-risky efforts to achieve power, resources and prestige was to translate status into sex with more women. You run the tribe, you get dibs. That's the way it worked in hunter-gatherer cultures, most of which, Shackelford says, were polygamous. Nearly all men, in every age, wanted sex with multiple partners, but only the leaders could (a) attract additional partners and (b) have the resources to provide for them.