Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, leaves issue up to states

[Gondwanaland]

So, between Gay and Lesbian relationships not resulting in natural births, and liberal women killing off their own, it's like liberals are trying to extinct themselves, along with those who would vote for them.

Well that explains the concerted grooming effort on schoolchildren to create more of them.....

[Darth Executor]

“Victory for white life” gives the game away.
white women are to be used to breed the master race, or be punished if they refuse.

Sounds great.

[firstfloor]

I predict that the first woman to be jailed following a natural miscarriage (she will be convicted of self induced abortion) will be black.

The mob outside the jailhouse will chant: You kill your zygote and we gonna kill you.

[rogue06]

I predict that the first woman to be jailed following a natural miscarriage (she will be convicted of self induced abortion) will be black.

The mob outside the jailhouse will chant: You kill your zygote and we gonna kill you.

Now there's the dipsy doodle troll we all love.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Meanwhile, American Public Schools are in the tank, they've been controlled by the Democrats for decades, they are run by Unions, and it's almost impossible to fire a bad teacher.
This is why "school choice" is becoming such a hot button issue.

Well I got to chapter 16 but could not finish it - I may have another go in the next few weeks.

I can only observe that this work was a polemic that illustrated the author's own pet topics - particularly phonics which has its own critics as a reading programme. My own response to this system of reading is to ask how does it deal with the prevalence in English of homophones/homonyms? How does a child taught to read solely by phonics differentiate between flower and flour? Both are common nouns. How does that child recognise that the word bow functions both as a common noun and a verb and [at least in British English has two separate pronunciations]? Those are the things that catch a foreigner learning English.

I do not consider this work to be either dispassionate or balanced. These were the views of an extremely right-wing American Christian convert expressing his near paranoia about Communists, Marxists, and the USSR and the fear of infiltration/domination by the "evil Empire" into the USA.

However, given his fixation on the benefits of phonics reading programmes at the expense of look and say programmes one might opine that he was just as much a zealot for his own cause as the progressives he criticised were for theirs.

He was clearly anti-union [and for all the usual reasons one would expect from someone of his political persuasion] and according to his 2015 obituary in The Boston Globe ] not averse to torture. In that report the writer {Bryan Marquard] alleges Blumenfeld compared it to the abuse of children in schools by Catholic nuns.

So thank you for giving me the opportunity to read the words of an individual whom I would otherwise never have known about.

[rogue06]

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[Cow Poke]

Well I got to chapter 16 but could not finish it - I may have another go in the next few weeks.

I can only observe that this work was a polemic that illustrated the author's own pet topics - particularly phonics which has its own critics as a reading programme. My own response to this system of reading is to ask how does it deal with the prevalence in English of homophones/homonyms? How does a child taught to read solely by phonics differentiate between flower and flour? Both are common nouns. How does that child recognise that the word bow functions both as a common noun and a verb and [at least in British English has two separate pronunciations]? Those are the things that catch a foreigner learning English.

I do not consider this work to be either dispassionate or balanced. These were the views of an extremely right-wing American Christian convert expressing his near paranoia about Communists, Marxists, and the USSR and the fear of infiltration/domination by the "evil Empire" into the USA.

However, given his fixation on the benefits of phonics reading programmes at the expense of look and say programmes one might opine that he was just as much a zealot for his own cause as the progressives he criticised were for theirs.

He was clearly anti-union [and for all the usual reasons one would expect from someone of his political persuasion] and according to his 2015 obituary in The Boston Globe ] not averse to torture. In that report the writer {Bryan Marquard] alleges Blumenfeld compared it to the abuse of children in schools by Catholic nuns.

He's driving home a point, so I wouldn't expect "balance".
How bout reading some stuff from the NEA and trying to find "balance".
He's presenting "the other side".

So thank you for giving me the opportunity to read the words of an individual whom I would otherwise never have known about.

My pleasure. And I don't think he's as much "anti-union" as he is "anti-public sector union". Do you understand the difference?

[Cow Poke]

I predict that the first woman to be jailed following a natural miscarriage (she will be convicted of self induced abortion) will be black.

The mob outside the jailhouse will chant: You kill your zygote and we gonna kill you.

Does the fever rise above 38 Celsius on a regular basis?

[Cow Poke]

Well that explains the concerted grooming effort on schoolchildren to create more of them.....

That's long been "a thing" --- they can't naturally reproduce, so the only option is recruitment.

[Cow Poke]

Our last 8 weeks of mass have had her name on the intentions list. The Bishop has forbidden any pro choice politicians from receiving communion in our diocese.

Can you expound on "intentions list", please?

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

He's driving home a point, so I wouldn't expect "balance".
How bout reading some stuff from the NEA and trying to find "balance".
He's presenting "the other side".

A sober and dispassionate account would have presented him in a better light [in my opinion]. His language is rather that of the "tub thumper" variety.

My pleasure. And I don't think he's as much "anti-union" as he is "anti-public sector union". Do you understand the difference?

I have no issues with public sector employees belonging to unions.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

That's long been "a thing" --- they can't naturally reproduce, so the only option is recruitment.

Ahem - excuse me - have you heard of sperm and ova donors? They help heterosexual couples who "can't naturally reproduce" .

[Cow Poke]

A sober and dispassionate account would have presented him in a better light [in my opinion]. His language is rather that of the "tub thumper" variety.

Yet so much of what he said is evident in the poor quality of public education in the US.

I have no issues with public sector employees belonging to unions.

Can you give a brief overview of what unions are in the US, as opposed to what public sector unions are in the US?

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Yet so much of what he said is evident in the poor quality of public education in the US.

He ignores other reasons for why children are not reading and literacy rates are falling. Consider the impact of television in the USA in the early fifties. It is now even worse with computers, tablets, smartphones. Contemporary society is less language based and more image based. There is also a popular attitude towards regarding education as of less value.

I suspect that if a random group of fourteen and fifteen year old Americans were asked to rank careers/occupations in order of preference those at the top would be the ones that make a lot of money - influencers, singers, performers, and "celebrities" of various kinds. The sad fact appears to be that education for its own sake is no longer valued and in your country you have also had the malign and pernicious influence and interference of certain religious groups, particularly with regard to sciences and especially biology

Over here in secular Europe no one would have found [as did the University of Texas in 1988] one in four public school biology teachers alleging that dinosaurs and humans inhabited this planet at the same time.

Can you give a brief overview of what unions are in the US, as opposed to what public sector unions are in the US?

Public sector unions represent workers in the public sector. Other unions represent workers in other industries.

[Cow Poke]

He ignores other reasons for why children are not reading and literacy rates are falling. Consider the impact of television in the USA in the early fifties. It is ow even worse with computes, tablets, smartphones. Contemporary society is less language based and more image based. There is also a popular attitude towards regarding education as of less value.

Yes, he's making a point. Perhaps you'd agree that the English Language is a bit odd on the stage compared to other major languages of the world?
And there was a whole very profitable industry "Hooked on Phonics" because parents were concerned their children were not learning to read.
Additionally, parents are removing their children from the public school system in droves because it's a disaster.

I suspect that if a random group of fourteen and fifteen year old Americans were asked to rank careers/occupations in order of preference those at the top would be the ones that make a lot of money - influencers, singers, performers, and "celebrities" of various kinds. The sad fact appears to be that education for its own sake is no longer valued and in your country you have also had the malign and pernicious influence and interference of certain religious groups, particularly with regard to sciences in particular biology

Over here in secular Europe no one would have found [as did the University of Texas in 1988] one in four public school biology teachers alleging that dinosaurs and humans inhabited this planet at the same time.

Wow, now THERE is a stretch! Children can't read because of "Creation Science".
See, here's where you start to veer off from serious discussion into absolute nonsense. Let's not do that, eh?

Why Johnny Can't Read—And What You Can Do About It is a 1955 book-length exposé on American reading education by Rudolf Flesch. It was an immediate bestseller for 37 weeks and became an educational cause célèbre.

Why Johnny Can't Read
Why Johnny Still Can't Read -- And What To Do About It
Why Johnny Can't Add

Public sector unions represent workers in the public sector. Other unions represent workers in other industries.

OK, so I frequently use the examples of police and teachers.

Both of those functions are funded by the public - hence, "public sector".
Both of those public sector unions frequently represent their dues-paying members to the detriment of the public.
Why is that good?