I understand that there are a bunch of lefties and teachers who are planning to do the "door to door" canvasing tomorrow in favor of higher taxes. But wait, isn't tomorrow Monday? A work day? That's just for us peons, the teachers get that day off.
A bunch of people who get all summer off, a week in spring, two weeks for Christmas errrr "winter solstice" and every holiday known to man with the notable exception of St. Patrick's Day (democrats hate the Irish!!!) are complaining about a possible short school year.
As far as I'm concerned any minute that an innocent child isn't being told that recycling is the highest virtue known to man is a good minute.
Also I will repeat my position that we should close the taxpayer funded DVD rental stores that we call libraries and abolish the minimum wage.
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This is a post I honestly wish every single person in America would read, so they can see how right-wing extremism would play out if enacted into policy by lunatics like Sarah Palin and Glen Beck:
Daniel Miglavs is on record as wanting to close libraries -- ostensibly because they have become "DVD rental stores." Read the words again. Think about them. Think about what Miglavs actually wants.
I’m guessing that prior to DVDs and videos, Miglavs didn’t have similar concerns that libraries were “book rental stores” because (wild guess here) he’s not exactly a person who (unlike the Founding Fathers, or hell -- unlike probably 98 or 99 percent of the population) values books and the free flow of information that a democracy requires, unless of course it’s filtered through the lying crazies at FOX.
Never mind that DVDs probably consume somewhere in the low single-digits in terms of overall percentage of any given library’s floor space; for Miglavs, it’s not enough to simply scrap the audio-visual collection and get back to the basics of old-fashioned books. Get rid of the whole fucking library. All of them.
Thanks, Miglavs, for your terrifying honesty, though I’d love some clarification: What would you do with all the books? Burn them? And also: Do you want to get rid of just public libraries, or would you also shut down the libraries in schools and universities? Or maybe you would just cut them down to size? You know, to eliminate the "waste."
Sieg Heil Miglavia!
941 YOU are brain dead.
I watched 60 mins last night ( yea I know) to see segment on Samoa 6 high schools - the highest success rate of any football program of getting high school athletes into pro football.
Well the economy was based on 2 tuna canneries.
One closed. Want to guess why ...
competition -- nope
drop in demand for tuna -- nope
a meddling US Congress ! Yes - Uncle Sammy insisted that Samoan's be paid federal minimum wage.
One cannery closed, the other "may"
Be sure to thank Senator be up this year - thank them too.
I watched 60 mins last night ( yea I know) to see segment on Samoa 6 high schools - the highest success rate of any football program of getting high school athletes into pro football.
Well the economy was based on 2 tuna canneries.
One closed. Want to guess why ...
competition -- nope
drop in demand for tuna -- nope
a meddling US Congress ! Yes - Uncle Sammy insisted that Samoan's be paid federal minimum wage.
One cannery closed, the other "may"
Be sure to thank Congressman Wu (if you are in the 1st district like I am) or whomever is your representative may be.
Also, should your Senator be up this year - thank them too.
The Republicans who use my library for research would find your views very interesting, Mr. Miglavs.
A reference librarian
My money says Miglavs has more guns and ammo in his house than books and magazines .. except for maybe the Bible and Guns & Ammo magazine. Great environment for kids. Welcome to Miglavia.
Anon 1:22 PM
Our founding fathers probably would have loved guns and ammo magazines. I'm sure they all had bibles. Why are you so hateful against Christians? They believe in gun owner so much they made it one of our Bill Of Rights. Maybe you should read the founding documents. I'm sure their children were surrounded by bibles, guns and ammmo. It is also an obligation and duty for an American to own a gun.
Here is a quote from Jefferson:
it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
--Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.
There are other numerous quotes from our founding fathers.
Do you have any guns? If not, why have you not fulfilled your duty as an American citizen?
Since you don't believe in American rights, I recommend you stop exercising your First Amendment rights. Freedom of speech, great environment for kids. (The last sentence is sarcasm like yours). Welcome to the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany or Cambodia in the 1970's.
You bed wetting liberals really know how to wreck a good rant. The take home message I get is that teachers are lazy, have it easy and are corupting our children with bs about recycling and things like global warming rather than teaching our kids how to make in the real world or giving them real skills. The tax payer funded "DVD rental stores" need to go. We are using tax dollars for public funded DVD rentals, internet, computers etc...Not needed, not on my dime. Not when other essential services are loosing out.
By the way, on the subject of teachers, I saw an article headline today that read, "Why don't more Republicans have jobs in teaching?" I didn't read the article but the answer is because "those who don't know how to do something, teach it. Those who know how, do it."
Thanks for the rant Daniel. Made me laugh!
I forgot to mention that libraries also rent video games. (Wii, PS3, XBOX 360)
I would sell all the books/DVDs/video games to the public when closing down the libraries.
The laugh-out-loud irony of Dave's ridiculous comment is that Daniel's stated preference (he's apparently repeating one he made earlier) to "close" libraries is far more in synch, ideologically-speaking, with Nazi Germany than any position you think I might have (or, more to the point, actually have.)
Good Christ, I never thought I'd have to bring George W. Bush in on my side of an argument, but let me quote the former Idiot In Chief, who was at least right about this:
"Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life."
Dave, I encourage you to visit a library. Check some books out. Read them. If you pick the right ones, a light bulb might go off in your pea-sized brain as you realize that it is not, in fact, my "duty" as an American citizen to carry a gun, and that any society where it is the "duty" of all citizens to carry lethal weapons is probably a supremely fucked-up one. Maybe we should call that place: Miglavia.
David, Anon 1:22, & Anon 1:22 @ 6:28,
Ever hear of Powell's? Borders? What about Amazon.com? I hear they all have books. Lots of them.
They might even have DVD's, too.
Anyone who makes a comment like that genuinely does NOT understand what a library is for, or why they are important and valued (even by George W. Bush, for Chrissakes!)in a democracy, which is why I feel sorry for you. Y'all can have my public library when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
Abolishing minimum wage is a bit extreme, but I'd agree with abolishing the constant upgrades. It ticks me off to get no increase while baristas get a big bump in pay - heck, at this rate, they'll be making as much as I earn within the decade. Oh, wait - that's the whole idea.
Hey anon 7:45,
It's the funniest thing to hear people like you hyperventilate about the idea of your precious public libraries being taken away. Meanwhile, elected officials who supposedly represent us are in the process of taking away our very real, and very valuable freedoms as we speak.
If you actually visited the library and read books about the subject, you would find that our country is a republic, not a democracy. You would also discover that the Founding Fathers never intended for our republic to be preceded by the word "banana".
From what I've learned on this thread:
- George W. Bush is an idiot
- George W. Bush thinks libraries are valuable, a view which you happen to share
Deductively speaking, what does that make you?
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