Comments on: Information is power.

By: Country Singer

Country Singer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:13:48 +0000

“…the cult-like following of GWB during his first term that amounted to “If you are not with us, you are against us”. this squaled any resonable dialog…”

And to update that, just substitute BHO…

By: NY-David

NY-David — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:30:58 +0000

My bad, instead of “squaled”, I meant “squelched”.
NYD

By: NY-David

NY-David — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:27:55 +0000

I appreciate your having such conversations with your kids and support of their views, even if they disagree with your own. Perhaps you should mention about the cult-like following of GWB during his first term that amounted to “If you are not with us, you are against us”. this squaled any resonable dialog about which war our country and our resources should be involved in.
NY-David

By: Jumblerant

Jumblerant — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:03:44 +0000

First of all, congratulations on having such an astute daughter!

Growing up in the 1980s there were a few films that the local youth club used to show us regularly, ones that really changed our lives. Our favorite one was The Wave;

In 1967, at the Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California, World History teacher Ron Jones was asked about the Holocaust by a student. “Could it happen here?”. According to the press release accompanying the latest retelling of the events that followed, “Jones came up with an unusual answer. He decided to have a two week experiment in dictatorship. His idea was to explain fascism to his class through a game, nothing more. He never intended what resulted, where his class would be turned into a Fascist environment. Where students gave up their freedom for the prospect of being superior to their neighbors.

More at http://www.thewave.tk/

The film can be bought on Amazon here:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Wave-by-Alexander-Grasshoff/dp/B001688AVG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=digital-video&qid=1245164383&sr=8-2