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Do you think Mighty Mouse can beat up Superman? I mean, Mighty Mouse is a cartoon and Superman is a real guy, but I'm just saying if Mighty Mouse wasn't a cartoon, what do u guys think? 
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| Posted: 01 Oct 2009 15:20 |
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The theory goes, a better school ensures that later social welfare is not necessary. Ah but it's how you get there that is in question. Libs want to pour more money on it like throwing cash into a fire. Conservatives would like to make teachers accountable for what the students learn. More time isn't the answer either. Although I wouldn't be entirely opposed to paying more for high quality teachers if it meant you get to fire the ones that can't do their jobs adequately.
And Superman beats Mighty Mouse, but what I wonder is how good a fight Popeye could put up against either one after eating a can of spinache.
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| Posted: 01 Oct 2009 15:42 |
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But Tim, can't we do both, hold teachers and staff accountable, and give schools adequate funding and support?
Also, I must say, Mighty Mouse could certainly beat superman. Remember mighty mouse has comperable streangth and speed to superman, but puts it into a much smaller denser package.
So where as Superman's punch is spread out over say a 6 to 7 inch span, Mitghymouse's are likely no more than half an inch. Same raw tonnage of strength in a smaller area means more devistating blows.
Likewise you have the size advantage, going to the mouse, being smaller, agian he is much more manuverable than a gigantic plodding superman.
Supes does have the advanatage of heat vision as always (though he never uses it offensivly) but Mightymouse has hypnokenetic vision (shown in an early origin sotry were he holds a cat in his gaze then forces them backwards).
Popeye, when powered by spinich is effectivly unstoppable, but like the juggernaut has some limitations.
Popeye is not particularly skilled at areal combat, and although I am certain he can turn his arms into propellers, I think those more adept at areal flight have the advantage.
yes, I am an nineth degree nerd.
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| Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:51 |
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School funding has arisen in a discussion of the Swine Flu? I like this place.
School funding ticks me off! All the money goes right into the pockets of the administrators. The public schools are nothing more than a bloated government bureaucracy. They use the "children" as a foil to raise their price and then, rather than reduce class size or increase quality, they pump the money into the administrator's salaries and squander it. When asked about the money, they feign outrage at having to be accountable.
Our education is interesting, too. From Kindergarten to Middle School we track right with the rest of the world in standardized testing. When the kids go to HS, the testing steadily declines.
Our colleges have 17 of the top 20 colleges in the world. Why is that? We have competition for colleges. Colleges compete for private and public funding. They compete alongside public schools, but both are eligible for the funding.
A similar model could be used for primary education and it would foster the competition that has produced so many high-quality colleges.
Also, children shouldn't be force-fed doctrine. They all should learn the basics of grammar, math, history and science, but then be allowed to take vocational training if that is their bent. What destroys kids is having them think the only way to succeed is to go to college and get a 4 year degree. For some, that is the last thing they need.
Okay, I'm done ranting. Sorry. My wife home-schools our 4 kids.
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| Posted: 02 Oct 2009 07:35 Last Edited By: VictoryInDefiance |
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Also, children shouldn't be force-fed doctrine. They all should learn the basics of grammar, math, history and science, but then be allowed to take vocational training if that is their bent. What destroys kids is having them think the only way to succeed is to go to college and get a 4 year degree. For some, that is the last thing they need.
I agree totally.
Can anybody remember when a high school diploma actually meant something? This is America - where you should have the freedom to pursue whatever "career" you choose and work as long and hard as you'd like. The problem with that is the establishment has taken that idea and distorted it to the point of someone being ridiculed for NOT being a workaholic "professional" type who has 15 different degrees hanging on their walls.
Academic intelligence is only useful if you have the wisdom to apply it. We're living in a time where we're cultivating our youth into these walking computers chock full of text book facts and figures that seemingly have no common sense or any kind of self-control. It's not just a "youth" thing either. I've seen and met countless "accomplished" people that are in their 30's, 40's and 50's that still act like they're a 15-year-old kid who can't control their impulses and think before they act.
People are so miserable because they're never given the time to figure out what it is they want or what their gift is. They're prodded like cattle into constantly staying busy and skipping down the hop-scotch patterns of progression that have been pre-approved by our establishment. I think we'd see a lot less situational depression and people turning to alcohol or any number of other societal ills that are so rampant in our culture if they were given time to discover more about themselves and where they want to go in life.
Maybe if we could slow down from working a little and drop a few mortgages so we can actually get to know our children as people. That way we could be more involved in what they're going through and not just pass the buck to an indifferent school teacher or official to deal with a child's delicate emotional journey through their youth.
I had HELL with the school system (can you tell?  )and I still have huge issues with the way our kids are being "taught". There's a difference between education and indoctrination.
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| Posted: 02 Oct 2009 16:14 |
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The problem is, that doctrine and math science and history get conflated very easy.
If you for example point out that many of our founding fathers were slave owners who did see Africans as a lesser species is that indoctrination or is that an important fact about our cultural history?
Science (as we've just seen)get's people even more adgitated, especially when discussing biological sciences (evolution the envirionment etc.).
Even language can be a hot topic (irregardless is in websters third edition but people still insist it's not a word).
I went to private school, so that was all indoctrination and that was the choice of my parents, and I am a big believer in school choice, but it's important to understand it's limitations.
Essentially, colleges and private schools succeed because you can kid failing kids out. Without disruptive influences it is much much easier to give a quality education.
Unfortunatly, you can't just kick a 10 year old out of school. What will they do with the rest of their life? Our schools on paper might do better, but the actual taks of public schools (providing a quality education to every child regardless of social position) would have failed miserably.
So in the end, it's always a compromise, you need to find a way to give these low performing and disruptive students the education they will need (even if they don't want it) and as I said earlier, you can either pay for it with better schools, or you can support this ne'er do well through the wellfare or prison system.
There is no free lunch, and we will pay for these kids somewhere, and it's just a question of what's more cost effective, more teachers, or more prison guards?
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Oh, and vocational schools are great, and two year colleges are finally getting the respect they deserve, but I don't think that kids are nearly as indoctrinated as you might think on the career path issue.
The fact is, for many people a four year college is the key to success if you want a professional career (note you need to want a professional career for this to work, Enlish majors don't really have a marketable skill). And young men and women opt for vocational training and two year degrees all the time.
That being said, the problem with any non high skill profession is that your job security is limited, and your income potential is directly related to how many other people followed that same career path.
As such, the primary thing a child needs from their primary education is a wide base of knowledges, adequate social skills, and an excellent vocabulary so that they can present themselves well in a crowded market place. And in that they likely need a classical education beyond simply reading writing and arithmatic.
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Medical testing that kills thousands. Torture. Killing of innocent civilians during wartime. Cap is a symbol of this great country. Back in 1941, Simon and Kirby created a comic book that had an ultra patriotic hero punching Hitler on it's cover and selling millions of copies BFORE Pearl Harbor officially got us into the war. This is a significant fact of politics at the time. The U.S. was engaged in an isolationist policy meaning that getting dragged into another "European" land war after the horror of The Great War was not in our interest. Selling arms to our allies was however. Our factories churned out munitions and supplies at almost peak capacity making our country an arsenal of democracy. A careful reading of history will show that the American presence did shift the balance of the war but the real heroes were the Russians. Without the tremendous sacrifices in terms of millions of dead soldiers, the outcome to WWII would have been very, very different indeed.
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Forced vaccines stand against Cap's views on liberty.
Yet, from his own experience with dire illness growing up, he understands that medical breakthroughs can help save millions of lives. He need look no further back than the Flu Epidemic of 1918 or polio. Why was the Super Soldier Serum created anyway? Ultimately, Cap knows that the power of democracy - people electing and governing for themselves is the greatest cure ever given to the world.
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