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Oh, right. All that. Damned

Ramona — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:16:12 +0000

In reply to Newt did say "Most of these

Oh, right. All that. Damned Hippies (Or "damn heeepies" as they call them there). And then there's that fake, Barack Hussein Obama. What kind of Hawaiian name is that???

Newt's "local students" will, of course, be the poorer kids working for a pittance. Our kids saw democracy in action, as everybody cleaned up after everybody else and nobody paid them or even promised to pay them. They did it for....wait for it....the common good.

So you're right. No comparison. And Newt is a prick.

Aloha! The island life is the

NCD — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:32:25 +0000

In reply to All I know is that from your

Aloha! The island life is the way to go, been there many times.

All I know is that from your

Richard Day — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:15:03 +0000

In reply to Newt did say "Most of these

All I know is that from your description...

I'M MOVING TO HAWAII!

Newt did say "Most of these

NCD — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:41:14 +0000

In reply to I had to laugh hard at Newt's

Newt did say "Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school...." .

Ramona, I wouldn't get too tickled over the serendipity of your experience in Maui 40 years ago with Newt's half-baked plan. Kids cleaning up is not exclusive to your halcyon experience in the 60's, there is Barney and his 'Clean Up' song!

Anyway, Hawaii as we all know is a socialist haven for beach bums, pot growers, poi eaters, surfers and fake Americans from Kenya. There will be no 'free lunch' under Newt's plan, except for lobbyists and politicians.

I think one difference might

rmrd0000 — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:24:15 +0000

In reply to I had to laugh hard at Newt's

I think one difference might be that Newt's program would differentiate the poor kids from the rest of those attending public schools.

RICE, POI AND VEGGIES! Where

Richard Day — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:49:00 +0000

In reply to I had to laugh hard at Newt's

RICE, POI AND VEGGIES!

Where the hell is the Pizza?

I had to laugh hard at Newt's

Ramona — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:36:00 +0000

In reply to Gingrich now has an education

I had to laugh hard at Newt's plan to fire janitors and let the kids do the work. Someone should tell Newt it's been done. When we lived on Maui (1966-68) the kids in the elementary schools did, in fact, clean the classrooms. Our kids, second and fourth graders the first year, were horrified, but I thought it was great! (I wasn't thinking at the time about the kidlings taking someone's job.)

The kids stayed in school for lunch and everyone had hot lunches. ($2.50 a week/ free to those who couldn't afford it -- rice, poi, vegetables and some kind of meat.) They worked in the kitchen alongside the cooks, served food and cleaned the entire lunchroom afterwards. (Their school supplies list included hair nets.)

After school they hauled out heavy mops and mopped the floors. They washed desks and blackboards and swept the sidewalks outside. And yes, they took pride in their work and kept the school and the grounds clean. No litter, no graffiti, no muss, no fuss.

I never thought I would agree with Newt about anything, but I don't see anything wrong with having kids help to keep the schools clean. There would still be janitors for the heavy, complicated work and of course someone would have to be there to supervise the kids. It could work, as long as it wasn't just someone's crazy idea about union-busting.

Gingrich hates government

rmrd0000 — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:35:55 +0000

In reply to Gingrich now has an education

Gingrich hates government intervention unless it involves abusing poor citizens and their children. Since poor citizens don't contribute significant funds to the GOP, they are mere cannon fodder. The result of this ridiculous plan would be to have more children kept out of school because parent would see the plan as child abuse.

A more interesting take would be how a work stoppage would be handled. Would the children be kept out of school if they refused to work, denying them an education? Would they receive more money by staying home and collecting insurance after an on the job injury?

A see an excellent television ad involving children if the great Conservative thinker Newt Gingrich is the Republican candidate.

Gingrich now has an education

NCD — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:23:38 +0000

In reply to CHRIS MATTHEWS HUMILIATES HIMSELF; AGAIN!

Gingrich now has an education plan to fire school janitors and replace them with 9-14 year old children. I wonder if Gingrich ever cleaned a public toilet, or even scrubbed his own shite off his personal throne, we can be sure that Callista doesn't do that kind of work.

The GOP not only wants to ruin the future for these kids, they also want to steal their childhoods. How about building better schools, and supporting the families of poor kids so the working parents can come home once in a while to be parents.

From comments at article, Barbara said: I'm beginning to think that Newt Gingrich was in fact invented by Dickens. Even the name is Dickensian.

and another comment, from NYC : Gingrich gives new meaning to the term "half-baked." He'll say anything to get attention, such as: "Bust unions with child labor."

The Christian Right has a

rmrd0000 — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:16:48 +0000

In reply to Media Matters has gotten

The Christian Right has a tendency to need to have something to hate. They hate Communists. They hate people who don't reflect the European image of God, since they (The Right and only the Right) were created in God's image. Christians on the Right could support Slavery and segregation because a drunk man (Noah) "cursed" Ham. In their minds, the drunk became God, and God cursed Ham for trying to cover his naked, drunken and embarassed father. The Christian Right missed the immorality of racism. It took the Southern Baptists 30 years to apologize for supporting segregation. Southern Baptists hate the idea that their way of life was questioned.

The Christian Right could support an abused woman staying with her husband because God said that women should obey their husbands. Only when the bulk of society recognized the un-Christian message being sent did the Christian Right relent. The Christian Right missed the immorality of spousal abuse. The Right hates the idea of truly independent women just as much as Islamic Fundamentalists. Note how Bachmann has to tiptoe around questions about submitting to her husband.

The Christian Right rebels against Feminist Theology and Black Liberation Theology because both attempts at re-interpreting the message of the Bible threaten the Christian Right's demand that only the Right are true Christians. Christian Environmentalists were born on the Left, some on the Right have followed.

Christians on the Right will tell everyone else to submit to God. Of course, the Right reserves exclusive rights to interpret God's will for themselves. When a member of the Right questions the persecution of Gays or government sponsored executions, that person faces expulsion from the Christian Right.

In it's most perverted form, the Christian Right places itself above being required to follow the tenants of Christianity. Telling a lie or adultery is not a sin , if it is done by a C Streeter, for example.

Reverend Jesse Lee Patterson is a prominent African-American member of the Christian Right. Patterson's major role is to tell the Christian Right that Blacks who vote for Democrats must be mentally ill. Patterson gives Whites on the Right the ability to state that they are repeating what a Black person said in questioning the sanity of Black voters. You will never hear Patterson utter a word criticizing Buchanan, Limbaugh or Coulter. Patterson knows his role.

No one on the Christian Left will be given a platform to question those on the Christian Right in mainstream media.