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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (77513)	2/15/2010 4:54:36 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Thanks for posting that MM. My dad served on Iwo Jima. Like most who served there, he rarely talked about it. I like to scour photos from there to see if I can catch a shot with him in it [no luck]. Still it's an amazing piece of history.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (77513)	2/15/2010 8:00:53 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

What Media Bias? Part 168 By Mark Noonan on Morality Did you see all the massive coverage of that child abuse scandal in the public shools? No? Neither did I… <<< In 2004, Hofstra University professor Dr. Carol Shakeshaft published a report for the United States Department of Education titled “Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature.” It was presented to Congress as part of the No Child Left Behind Act. In it, Shakeshaft stated: As a group, these studies present a wide range of estimates of the percentage of U.S. students subject to sexual misconduct by school staff and vary from 3.7 to 50.3 percent. Because of its carefully drawn sample and survey methodology, the AAUW report that nearly 9.6 percent of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career presents the most accurate data available at this time. According to a study she did of abuse complaints against Catholic priests over a five decade period she concluded that “…the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.” >>> (emphasis added) And here’s the real kicker – the Church has been getting rid of the bad apples and setting in place systems which will go far towards ensuring there is never a repeat of that horrible scandal. What are the public school systems doing? Well, I’m sure when someone actually get arrested for child molestation, they get fired…eventually. Here’s what it is: Catholic priests doing wrong = fits liberal narrative. Public school teachers doing wrong = doesn’t fit liberal narrative. And thus the far larger scandal of sex abuse by teachers goes unreported – and unresolved. When I say we live in an Age of Lies, this is what I’m on about – its not necessary that a direct falsehood be told but, more important, that the full truth is suppressed. The key to societal sanity is to seek the truth – all of it, all the time, no matter how much it hurts. Until the MSM starts telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, it will continue to decline…and as long as we, in society as a whole, don’t insist upon being told the whole truth, so will our nation continue to decay. The truth really shall set you free – but no one ever said it would be painless. But better free and in pain than numbed by lies, as far as I’m concerned. HAT TIP: Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! blogsforvictory.com