Common Sense Capitalism: 'Free to Choose- What's Wrong With Our Schools?'

Source:Common Sense Capitalism- Professor Milton Friedman's Free To Choose series, talking about public education in America.

Source:The FreeState

“Free to Choose Part 6: What’s Wrong With Our Schools Featuring Milton Friedman”  

From Common Sense Capitalism 

This film or at least Professor Milton Friedman’s narration of the film is about the lack of school choice in public schools in America, as well as promoting private school choice and charter schools.

I agree with Professor Friedman that one of the main problems with public education in America has to do with the lack of school choice and competition, especially for low-income students and parents. And because public education is mostly funded by local and state property taxes, kids in low-income communities are forced to go to underfunded and failing schools.

And as a result these students don’t get the education that they need to be successful in life be ready for college or a vocational school, even if they make it out of high school. Which a lot of low-income kids in America never even make it out of high school and just repeat the cycle of poverty that their parents also repeated. 

Commonsense Capitalism: ‘Free to Choose- Are We Created Equal?’

Source:Common Sense Capitalism- conservative columnist Thomas Sowell, on Professor Milton Friedman's Free to Choose, in 1979-80. 

Source:The FreeState 

“Free to Choose Part 5: Created Equal Featuring Milton Friedman”  

From Common Sense Capitalism 

“Just” refers to an action justified under the circumstances. “Fair” refers to an action that treats people as they deserve to be treated. Many times, actions that are just are not fair. In hard cases, an action may be justified because there aren’t superior options, even if it’s results are unfair to at least some people.

If a madman holding a single hostage is going to blow up a school full of children, shooting him through the hostage may be just, but it isn’t fair to the hostage.

In addition, outcomes that aren’t the results of human action are neither just nor unjust. For example, a hurricane is neither just nor unjust. Yet a hurricane can be very unfair. One lazy person wins the lottery, another more deserving person does not. There’s nothing unjust about that, but it’s not fair.” 

From the English Stack Exchange

I believe the better word here instead of fair is just. There’s no such thing as a perfect world or utopia. You could create best system for life anywhere in the world and you’ll still have people who are better off than others. You still have people who have to deal with cancer, while others live completely healthy, with more money than they know what to do with.

We’ll never live in a perfect world as long as the world is dominated and controlled by humans, for the simple fact that humans have always been and will always be imperfect as a people. So it’s not a fair society that should be the goal here, but creating a just society that works for as many people as possible, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender. And empowering as many people as possible to be able to have a real opportunity to live as freely as possible, short of hurting any innocent person with what they’re doing and holding everyone accountable for their own decisions that they make.

No one in world is better than anyone else based on their race, ethnicity, or gender. We’re all born equal based on what our race, ethnicity, or gender is in life. It’s what we do with the opportunities that we have in life that determines how much better off we are in life and how we use our intelligence, abilities, and talents, that determines how we do in life.

So some people are better off than others not because of their physical identity, but because of what they do with the opportunities that they were given in life and how they apply their talents and abilities. 

FOX News: Fred Phelps Supporter on Sean Hannity & Alan Colmes

Source:FOX News- escaped mental patient on Fox News, apparently unaware that her institution might actually be watching this, or FNC might turn her in.

"Fred Phelps' perverted congregation has been protesting the funerals of soldiers, believing that God is punishing America for its "approval of sodomy". This is a member of his "church", Edith Phelps Roeper, on Hannity & Colmes." 

From Pro Segger

When even Sean Hannity takes a stand against religious fundamentalists for attacking soldiers who died because they were gay and they "deserved to die", you know religious fundamentalists are wrong. Sean Hannity is someone I agree with as often as Houston sees snow in July and who on a regular basis defends fundamentalist fascist. (Whether you want to call them Christian or not) People who you could also questioned their mental sanity. People who for example have questioned whether Barack Obama is an American citizen and have said he's an illegal immigrant. Who've questioned his religion, calling him an African Muslim from Kenya, questioning his love for America.

Sean Hannity has escaped mental patients (better known as the Far-Right) like this on his show on a regular basis. But on this show decided to go after a group that calls itself a church. The "Westboro Baptist Church", they are really a family with some non-family members. It's a group of twenty people. If this is a church, then the New York Yankees are a hockey franchise. They are no more a church, then Elvis Presley is alive. (Sorry, die hard Elvis Supporters) Or Rick Santorum is a Liberal. They are a group of Far-Right borderline anarchist bigots, who hate homosexuals and the military. And Sean Hannity was calling them out on that.

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Westboro Hate Group (as I call them) these people are no more Christian than Bill Maher. These people are about hate pure and simple, people who claim to love America, but hate Americans. It would be like someone saying they hate meat but love cheeseburgers. When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of them in March, 2011, in a hate speech case involving a family who lost a relative in Iraq I believe and the Westboro's protested against this family because the solider was gay, I defended their right to do that.

Hate speech is protected by the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has been very clear about that. But good sane people have the responsibility to call out these mental patients when they go after good people. To keep their message from becoming anything other than what it is, which is hate, pure and simple. And so decent people don't take them seriously and actually believe the garbage (to be kind) they are dumping onto the country.

It's rare that I agree with anything Sean Hannity says. If he said it was cold in Buffalo in January, I would check the weather report for Buffalo. But he did a great job in this video of calling out the Westboro group for exactly what they are: a group of mental patients that are lucky they haven't been committed to a mental institution.

Co-Progressives: ‘Tea Party vs. The Constitution- ObamaCare Edition’

Source:CO-Progressives- covering Tea Party opposition to ObamaCare.

Source:The Daily Post 

“Constitutional Accountability Center interviewed several tea partiers in front of the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the Obamacare cases in March 2012. Many of them feel strongly that the law is unconstitutional, and many of them proved that they have absolutely no idea about what the Constitution actually says.” 

From CO Progressives 

This video could be very slanted and that CO Progressives went to the American Dumbass Convention (also known as Dumbasses of America) that was gathering in Washington and found the Dumbasses that know the very least about the U.S. Constitution and just decided to interview those people. Instead of interviewing people who’ve at least heard of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution and can actually explain it. COP talked to people talked who apparently aren’t even aware of why they oppose ObamaCare (also known as the Affordable Care Act) let alone can articulate why they think it’s unconstitutional.

Daily Worldwide News: Mitt Romney- ‘Speech to Tri State Tea Party’

Source:Daily Worldwide News- Governor Mitt Romney (Republican, Massachusetts) speaking to the Tri-State Tea Party.

Source:The Daily Post

“Mitt Romney addressed the Tri-State Tea Party in Philadelphia on April 16, 2012 here it is.” 

From Daily Worldwide News 

In a way I feel for Mitt Romney, I don’t feel sorry for him, but it’s almost impossible for me to feel sorry for anyone worth 200M$. But I feel for him because he almost has to go back to the future for him to fit in the Republican Party.

Mitt Romney is a Northeastern Republican that probably looks up to Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and others. But now running for President in a Southern, religious, populist party, that now looks up to Jerry Falwell and the Southern Baptist Convention. And sees Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan as Liberals.

Imagine that, Barry Goldwater and Ron Reagan Liberals. Basically the two fathers of the conservative movement, the two men that put conservatism on the map in American politics, as Liberals. Which would be like calling Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann Libertarians. Or calling Ron Paul a Socialist.

If the Tea Party was something of its own, not so in bed with the Christian Right, like they are lovers having affairs with other people’s spouses, then maybe I could believe the Tea Party would get behind the Mitt Romney’s of the world.

This is why Mitt Romney doesn’t fit in with the Tea Party. He’s from Massachusetts, he was their Governor. He’s Mormon, he’s a Northeastern Republican. The Christian Right considers Northeastern Republicans part of another political party, like the Democratic Party. Back in the day Mitt supported equality for homosexuals, meaning they shouldn’t be discriminated by law, because of their sexuality. And still holds that position today. Wait five minutes and maybe he’ll change it.

Mitt Romney as Governor of Massachusetts signed “RomneyCare” into law, which four years later became “ObamaCare”. Mitt doesn’t believe things like pornography, gambling and homosexuality should be against the law. The Christian Right the brothers and sisters of the Tea Party, believes they should be outlawed in America and consider them to be threats to national security. I’ve laid out the thought process’s of both the Tea Party/Christian Right and Mitt Romney. If you’re still awake and have read all of that, you know how they are completely different.

Now the populist Tea Party/Christian-Right, they are supposed to vote for Mitt for President. I’ve heard the argument that the Tea Party/Christian Right will vote for Mitt Romney to defeat President Obama. I heard the same argument made about John Kerry in 2004 that so-called Progressives (Democratic Socialists, in actuality) would vote for Senator Kerry because they wanted to defeat President Bush. And if you haven’t been in a coma all this time, you know how that presidential election went. Mitt Romney is past his time in the Republican Party.

Real Time With Bill Maher: Overtime With Ann Coulter

Source:Real Time With Bill Maher- talking to Alt-Right loudmouth Ann Coulter.

Source:The Daily Post

“Bill and his roundtable guests (Ethan Nadelmann, Chaz Bono, Ann Coulter, Amanda Foreman, Christopher Hayes) answer fan questions.” 

From Real Time With Bill Maher 

I’m not sure if I’m willing to give credit to anyone who is willing talk to Ann Coulter about anything, or just think maybe that person has more time to throw away than me, which would be a good thing, or just think maybe this person is just very chartable. Because generally I think she’s just doing a crazy monologue and not expecting to be taken seriously, except she doesn’t seem to have comedic timing and just throws out all of this crazy nonsense (to be overly generous) with a completely straight face and acting like she’s being serious. 

Ann Coulter actually said on Real Time With Bill Maher that the Obama Administration threaten to bomb Egypt, if their dictator Hosni Mubarak didn’t leave office. That’s just one example and she was completely serious about that.

Washington Times: ‘The Left’s War On Rednecks’

Source:The Washington Times- Real Time With Bill Maher.

Source:The Daily Post

“In their own minds, liberals are open-minded and promote diversity – unless they’re talking about a white, southern, conservative believer. In that case, it’s open season for intolerance.

Tuesday’s Republican primaries in Mississippi and Alabama brought out the worst in some liberal commentators. HBO’s Bill Maher added to his recent difficulties by tweeting “Toothless Tuesday too tight to tally! We’re gathered around the magic picture box with a bowl of grits watching the returns come in!” This was a mean-spirited dig based on cartoonish stereotypes of the South.

Mr. Maher’s defenders might point to Jeff Foxworthy’s brand of humor, listing the alleged characteristics of rednecks. Mr. Foxworthy – who last week endorsed Mitt Romney for president – always delivers his lines with a wink, whereas Mr. Maher has developed a permanent smirk. Mr. Foxworthy’s blue-collar fans might nod and admit that some jokes ring a little true; Mr. Maher’s privileged left-wing devotees are already certain that the people in those states are illiterate hillbillies. To paraphrase Lynyrd Skynyrd, southern folk don’t need them around anyhow.”

From The Washington Times 

I agree with The Washington Times (which is a big city, Mid-Atlantic newspaper, in the heart of Blue America) as far as how the American-Left defines rednecks and Southern-Anglo-Saxon-Protestants in America. But similar to how making fun of ghetto people and hip hop culture or left-wing elitist culture is not bigoted or racist, neither is making fun of SASP (Southern Anglo Saxon Protestants) either.

Both sides have their faults and their strengths. I’m not comfortable with either group, because I tend to see urban leftists as snobs, bigots, and even at times as racists towards European-Americans, or at least English-Protestants. And I tend to see political rednecks as bigots who seem to be stuck in some 1950s time warp and never got the memo (perhaps because they can’t read) that America has moved past Ozzie and Harriet’s, Beaver Cleaver, John Wayne’s 1940s and 50s America.

We’re just a lot more diverse as a society now and not just ethnically and racially, but culturally, with all sorts of new, mainstream lifestyles and definitions about what the American Dream is and what it means to be a real American today.

Rednecks or the Christian-Right has been revolting against the Cultural Revolution since the 1960s and again wants to take us back to the 1950s culturally and politically. Urban hipster-leftists, would try to erase redneck or (SASP) culture and force their way of life onto everyone else. Which is why you have this modern culture war going on between these two political fringes.