PuroFreak:Ok, well I wrote a rant a while back and thought this might be a good place to blow off some steam from time to time so I'll just have a continuos thread of rants going. I used to have a great outlet for this when I hosted a radio show but now I work in Law Enforcement so poitical views are kept more bottled up and I'm REALLY about to explode. I have never in my life been so sick and tired of the F***ING media in this country! It doesn't matter which way you lean on the issues there is absolutly no way you can deny the total liberal media bias almost everywhere you look! CNN is by far one of the WORST offenders as always! I actually read the headline "GOP to Blame for Economic Meltdown" today in big bold letters on the screen. Now this was about a subtle as Morton Downey Jr on a 3 day scotch binge. If they aren't bashing the entire republican party then its the hourly public dismemberment or Sarah Palin. You would think she was Courtney F***ING Love to hear the media and the Hollywood "Deletes" talk about her. But anything negative said about Obama is just a "Lie from the Right Wing Propaganda Machine" that is the McCain Campaign. I have never in my life been so totally disgusted with what I see on TV. I always wonder why all the idiots are against us... then it becomes very clear why!
kuzi16: PuroFreak:Ok, well I wrote a rant a while back and thought this might be a good place to blow off some steam from time to time so I'll just have a continuos thread of rants going. I used to have a great outlet for this when I hosted a radio show but now I work in Law Enforcement so poitical views are kept more bottled up and I'm REALLY about to explode. I have never in my life been so sick and tired of the F***ING media in this country! It doesn't matter which way you lean on the issues there is absolutly no way you can deny the total liberal media bias almost everywhere you look! CNN is by far one of the WORST offenders as always! I actually read the headline "GOP to Blame for Economic Meltdown" today in big bold letters on the screen. Now this was about a subtle as Morton Downey Jr on a 3 day scotch binge. If they aren't bashing the entire republican party then its the hourly public dismemberment or Sarah Palin. You would think she was Courtney F***ING Love to hear the media and the Hollywood "Deletes" talk about her. But anything negative said about Obama is just a "Lie from the Right Wing Propaganda Machine" that is the McCain Campaign. I have never in my life been so totally disgusted with what I see on TV. I always wonder why all the idiots are against us... then it becomes very clear why!in a way i agree. But i have made mypeace with the media. I listen and watch only slanted media. I try for purely right or left opinion pieces. why? because then i can listen to them and know that they have nothing to hide. Like i said before in another thread, im ok with Rush and his Conservative agenda -because he is honest about pushing it. I am OK with Al Franken and his Liberal agenda -because he is honest about pushing it. If you listen to the stuff you know is tainted then you can not feel like you are being hosed because you have a filter on. you can filter out the crap. both of those people spew a bunch of crap, but im ok with that. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and FOX NEWS all have agendas that they push. they all claim to be fair and impartial, but none of them are.
kuzi16:a teacher in high school was teaching the class about communism. he was giving the theories on how it would work. Produce according to their ability and receive according to their need. they studied Marx and Lennon for a week and were told to study hard for a test at the end of the week. the test would be an essay test. The essay was to make an argument FOR communism. all the students did as told. when the tests were graded and handed back there were two grades: one in blue one in red. the teacher then explained that the blue score was a "capitalist" score and the red score was the "communist" score. to the the good students who worked hard and studied hard had a blue score in the 90+ rangethe decent students who studied but not as hard had a blue score of 80- 90 the average students who either coasted, didnt study but were smart, or who studied hard but just didnt understand the concepts well got a score in the 70-80 range. the students that didnt study much if at all were 60-70 the rest of them who didnt study at all and didnt care got even lower, some as low as a 20%there was a bell curve in the class. the two smallest groups were the top few and the bottom few. most were average or slightly above. the class average was a 72%. that was the score in red that everyone got. the majority of the class had a score higher than that but the few at the bottom were so low that the class average was brought down by this. most of the students were mad. the lowest scoring students were in the minority but were quite happy. the day after the tests were handed back the teacher asked the students with above the average score if they knew they would only end up with a 72% no matter how hard they studied would they have tried so hard. all of them said they wouldnt. ...this would only lower the average score more. this was the introduction into Capitalism. i hope when i have kids i can find a teacher like that.
urbino: kuzi16:a teacher in high school was teaching the class about communism. he was giving the theories on how it would work. Produce according to their ability and receive according to their need. they studied Marx and Lennon for a week and were told to study hard for a test at the end of the week. the test would be an essay test. The essay was to make an argument FOR communism. all the students did as told. when the tests were graded and handed back there were two grades: one in blue one in red. the teacher then explained that the blue score was a "capitalist" score and the red score was the "communist" score. to the the good students who worked hard and studied hard had a blue score in the 90+ rangethe decent students who studied but not as hard had a blue score of 80- 90 the average students who either coasted, didnt study but were smart, or who studied hard but just didnt understand the concepts well got a score in the 70-80 range. the students that didnt study much if at all were 60-70 the rest of them who didnt study at all and didnt care got even lower, some as low as a 20%there was a bell curve in the class. the two smallest groups were the top few and the bottom few. most were average or slightly above. the class average was a 72%. that was the score in red that everyone got. the majority of the class had a score higher than that but the few at the bottom were so low that the class average was brought down by this. most of the students were mad. the lowest scoring students were in the minority but were quite happy. the day after the tests were handed back the teacher asked the students with above the average score if they knew they would only end up with a 72% no matter how hard they studied would they have tried so hard. all of them said they wouldnt. ...this would only lower the average score more. this was the introduction into Capitalism. i hope when i have kids i can find a teacher like that. That's a good teaching tool. A good extension would be to remove the artificial certainty in it. That is, the kids already knew how well they'd done on the test, before they were asked which grading system they preferred. This is like asking the already-wealthy whether they prefer a progressive income tax or a flat one.