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Hi Jeff, I think this article on the subject is even better.
Add to a hatred of guns and a blind belief in the benificence of the state, an unshakeable faith in energy that is both cheap and renewable, or green, whatever the mystery they proclaim today happens to be.
Three paragraphs from the wiki:
Nearly identical text substituting “progressivism” for each instance of religion:
Progressivism is a collection of belief systems, cultural systems, and a worldview that relate humanity to an ersatz spirituality and, frequently, to approved, collective moral values. Progressivism has narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred revised histories that are intended to give meaning to life and to explain the origin of life or the universe. It tends to derive morality, ethics, political laws and a preferred lifestyle from its ideas about the cosmos and human nature. According to its own efforts and definitions, there is one predominant progressive school of Progressivism in the world. It has infiltrated both of the two major political classes in the United States.
Progressivism has organized behaviors, an academic ‘clergy’, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, sacred values, and political scriptures. The practice of Progressivism may also include social rituals, political sermons, commemoration or veneration of Jesus figures, social sacrifice, race or gender studies and accreditation, central education, retirement and medical programs, festivals, parades and demonstrations, initiations, matrimonial services, environmental meditation or prayer, music, art, dance, public service or other aspects of human culture. Progressivism may also contain mythology.
The word Progressivism is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system; however, in the view of many, Progressivism differs from private belief in that it is eminently socialistic, which is to say collective and statist. Polls report that roughly 20% of the nation’s population self-identifies as Progressive, 40% as moderate, and 40% as conservative.
that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.
Anyone care to name the religion that does NOT delineate moral values?
Seems to me, a system that teaches moral values but not a deity qualifies more as a religion than one that posits a deity that doesn’t define right and wrong.
Wikidiots
You can tell that “progressivism” is a religion precisely because it replaces other identifiable religions and then identifies those religions as its rival.
Whereas you can’t replace Christianity with, say, chess strategies or the second law of thermodynamics.
Di, OT, but I think of you whenever I watch this show: Polygamy, USA is a respectful documentary style show about plural marriages today. The families all left the FLDS thirty years ago and have begun their own community. It’s very interesting and you might like it since your grandparents were part of plural marriage. There is no dissing of the LDS or gentiles, for that matter. It is just matter of fact and not sensationalistic.
Just FYI.
As the father of 2 public school educated kids, I’ve run into a lot…but it seems to be getting to the point of insanity/indoctrination. So, my question I guess is how does homeschooling work? Car in? anyone? I have a grandaughter about to go to school, and I’d rather she not.
OT, but wow…hust friggin wow…
http://washingtonexaminer.com/sebelius-wont-waive-regulation-for-girl-with-five-weeks-to-live-someone-lives-and-someone-dies/article/2531097
– just-
I’m not interested in respectful documentaries on modern-day polygamy, sorry. The last thing our society needs is to adopt Yet Another Alternative to the default commandment: monogamous marriage.
The Book of Mormon harshly condemns those who practice polygamy without divine sanction. You can certainly dispute whether my ancestors had that sanction, but if they didn’t, then these people don’t, either. And if we did, they still don’t, being apostate.
A few decades ago I might have been sympathetic to respectful portrayals of “religious weirdos,” but these days, the agenda is not to engender tolerance for weirdos but to use those weirdos as a means to destroy the rest of us, just as they did with sympathetic portrayals of gay families and people who shack up and single mothers and illegitimate children and swingers, ad infinitum.
I didn’t mean it that way. I just meant that it isn’t a Big Love or Sister Wives.
I agree that they are making up their own way and obviously it is condemned by the church.
If the operative word is delineate, in my limited experience perhaps Unitarianism. It’s religious and moral but it is as a progressive endeavor; moral in a variable, assumed, trendy sense, one that probably blows with the wind. There’s also an instinct against the perceived right and its filthy religion that is not all that delineated. Palpable yes, but articulated hardly.
Blitz, I hate to pass you off to a Google search of home-schooling in your state, but that’s all I got besides a Bing search.
Best of luck until our home-schoolers, Dale Price maybe, show up with a better answer.
Oh, I’ve already done that Leigh. I was more thinking about the day to day mechanics/routine of it.
And the social aspects. She is already extremely shy, would like to get her into some types of clubs, activities with other children. She does not live with me, so it’s …difficult.
How’s your daughter feel about parochial school? They will take children who aren’t Catholic if it is a Catholic parochial school. They’re usually partial to people who are members of the parish and give a discount to parish members. If your daughter is able to volunteer as an a classroom aide, that would help with tuition, too. Catholic schools will expect your grand-daughter to wear a uniform, go to Mass once a week with her class and attend religious instruction classes. She can make her First Communion with her class in second grade (First Communions are over for this year since they usual take place around Mother’s Day).
The Church likes the family to attend Mass with the child(ren) once a week, too. I don’t know if you are Catholic, but if you are even if you are a lapsed Catholic, you could take your grand-daughter if your daughter has an objection to going to Mass. If grand-daughter isn’t baptized, you can have that taken care of before she begins school. My boys enjoyed parochial school and I enjoyed the discipline and the fact that trouble makers were given the heave-ho. We weren’t wealthy and still aren’t even well-off, but it was a matter of priorities for us that the boys received the best education we could afford. Our church had a school adjacent on its property and a bus picked the boys up in our neighborhood and dropped them off in the afternoons. They had a lot of homework, even in the primary grades but they have been leaps and bounds ahead of their peers in public high school (no Catholic high school here in Land o’ Baptists) and later in college.
Both of them are National Merit Scholars and the elder has already completed college with a double major and has a job. Younger brother has already earned a full ride scholarship and is a junior in high school next fall.
Best of luck and hope this helps!
Thanks for your reponse Leigh. I personally see no problem with it, can afford it. Problem is?( and it’s not really a problem) the last one here in town closed last year, so I’d have to transport little one as Tiner doesn’t drive.
Would she (mom) go for it though? The world wonders. I’ll get back to you on that.
On the personal front, I’m making a scallop/lobster florentine for my mom right now, it’s her birthday!! 73 years young and can still take a wooden spoon to my ass.
check too if you do cyber school in your area
http://www.pacyber.org/
Thank you NR..I think you just nailed it. I *was* certified to teach in this ( state? commonwealth? last great communist state?) but it’s lapsed and I have no intention of trying again.Hell, would probably be jailed for thought crimes or enviromental crimes due to all the weapons I’ve lost at the bottom of various lakes/ponds/swamps/rivers and hell, once a puddle!!
Happy Birthday, Blitz’ mom!
Thanks for telling us what you’re making. I have a load of fresh spinach and have been trying to think of something Florentine to do with it.
There’s no end of things you can do with spinach.
Spinach omelette. There’s a lentil stew that I make sometimes that has spinach in it. I also have a recipe for “green soup”; the main ingredients are kale, spinach and chicken broth. That’s one of those soups that go in the blender, because imagine it otherwise.
Well, apparently there’s an end. I’d want to sit down with a few cookbooks and plan.
I had a whole bunch of Swiss Chard, but that tastes good raw or steamed, so we had it that way in addition to the usual lightly sauteed in olive oil.
Both spinach and chard are yummy with eggs. Sautee them up until they’re wilted, form them into an egg-sized ring and crack an egg in the middle. Flip the whole mess when it’s time. Serve. If you like your eggs, use more chard/spinach and make a hole for 2 or 3. With that many, I’d skip flipping it and just put a lid on the pan and let the steam cook the top of the eggs.
I have a lot of recipes, it’s just trying to come up with something that everyone will eat that’s the problem. Tomorrow is about as long as I can push it back before I end up with a drawerful of dreck in my refrigerator. Fortunately, Sonny is at work tomorrow night, so that will narrow it down a lot.
I agree that they are making up their own way and obviously it is condemned by the church.
No, no: My objection is not that they haven’t got divine sanction for their polygamy. That’s neither here nor there. They can do what they want.
It’s that The Media is portraying them as sympathetic, normal people.
Which, they probably are. But the PURPOSE of the depiction — especially the lack of sensationalism — is not to be nice or fair to the poligs but to undermine Western Society.
The filmmakers hate 99.9% of what the poligs stand for, but they’re willing to go all Dian Fossey on them if it forwards THEIR agenda.
Oh jeez…Spinach quiche is my fave. Yes, men eat quiche.
There’s no end of things you can do with spinach.
Like, you can throw it straight into the garbage, just as example.
leigh? I often use layers of phyllo dough with wilted spinach, caramilized onion and fresh garlic. I like cheese in it also, but don’t know your taste.
John? you sir are hereby banned from the spinach thread. Well, at least until you admit you like Clams Casino.
The only thing permitted to be done to spinach is to harvest and wash it so it can be eaten in a salad or put on my Subway Melt.
NR. Just spent over an hour over the phone with my local cyber school. I love it. It also allows face time with teachers and the other children AND it’s free. It’s also free from *common core* corriliculi…which is my maost important qualification
I don’t like clams.
And I refuse to gamble with them; they cheat.
” AND it’s free.”
my yearly $4000 of checks to various local school districts says otherwise;-) good luck!
Oysters then John? Or maybe liver with fava beans and a nice Chiante?
NR? please explain. I was told it was all paid by the state.
NR. My daughter lives well below the poverty line, but does not take food stamps, welfare, or SSDI. So it’s supposed to be free. If you know otherwise, please inform
i didn’t know your situation. here in pa property taxes are collected by local school boards. there’s a bill to change it to sales taxeshb 76
Oh shit NR. I pay property taxes on my house and my shop. Sorry for being so dense, but I get it now.
NR: I’m in PA, and that’s the first I’ve ever heard of HB76.
Awesome; I can only hope it passes.
I’m in MA. Wish that weren’t the case. I’m phasing the shop out, but cannot sell until mom passes. Hate to put it that way, but it will occur and I’m ready for it. I think anyway.
John!! You have been BANNED!! BANNED I say. …Well at least until you finish your vegetables, then you’ll have to clean your room.
yes it seems to have the much desired bipartianism support (i mean jim ferlo signing up for it says the teacher thugs are ok with it). i’m surprised corbett isn’t fast tracking it.
NR this is what I found. Does it jibe with yours?
http://www.k12.com/mava/how-it-works
Blitz, I love Greek food and it has lots of spinach recipes. I make spanakopita now and again since I’m the only one who loves feta cheese. Sadly, I am land-locked in Oklahoma were we seem to have no Greeks or Italians and thus, no diners, delis or ethnic markets. I even have to make my own baklava at Christmas, if I want it. My adventurous eater of a son is currently living in PA (across the river from nr, kinda) so I’m stuck with the picky ones to feed.
jb if you want. get on this firms mailing list for hb 76
http://www.bigtablestrategies.com/contact/
that’s how i keep up with it.
Leigh? you can make your own feta, it’s not hard to do. like a bathtub cheese. NOT as easy as mozzarella, but still…
Oklahoma is one of my desired destinations once I’ve been relieved. Maybe I can do a startup for ethnic foods!!
I never tried to make feta. I’ll have to give it a whirl. I’ve made ricotta and cream cheese, so if it’s similar I can probably do it. I need a new thermometer, though.
blitz oh i don’t know much about specifics. i just like having competition in education.
Oh. to be clear, I love to cook. Specialties do NOT include anything scandi, although I have used lye, just not in any cooking application.
I also cannot make a cake, cupcake,pie or anything that has anything to do with baking, because that requires exact ingredients. I’m a free range kind of guy.
Never made ricotta, know how. Feta is NOT that easy, but still, it’s fairly straightforward. Look up a recipe you maay like, and enjoy!!
Baking is like science if you want it to come out right, anyway. If you have access to decent bakeries, why bother?
I love to cook, too and I have over 100 cookbooks although I really don’t use them much anymore except as guidelines to refresh my memory or to menu plan. Scandi food is to hard to source and I don’t like it much either. Almost everything else is okay, but I am boycotting ME food on principle.
No big deal NR, I spent well over an hour with these folks and Ysabelle doesn’t even qualify anyway. She’s too young. Hell the girl can read at 4. but? age matters I guess.
Which, they probably are. But the PURPOSE of the depiction — especially the lack of sensationalism — is not to be nice or fair to the poligs but to undermine Western Society.
I hear ya. It is a nice break from all the gays in every other thing, though. I’ll say that for it. It’s also on NatGeo, so the Fossey analogy is apt.
jb you can sign up for updates here up left for updates sign up.
“except as guidelines to refresh my memory ”
This. Exactly right. I was accepted to Jhonson and Wales (sp) when I was in high school. Dad refused to help with tuition, wanted me as a wage slave for his landscaping co.
I kept it up, even through my own small shop, and still love to cook.
Leigh…ixnay on the *yag* word lest we face the wrath of the electric hamster.
My nephew went to Johnson & Wales in RI. He is the culinary director at a private school in PA now. He had a bakery for a while, but I think it was too cutting edge for Reading.
Re: school for the granddaughter. Do you have a Montessori school near you? They will take children as young as three and are an all day program. The children do math, reading, writing and arts and crafts. They get plenty of playtime and there are small class sizes. I had both of my kids in Montessori for preschool. They enjoyed it very much. It was a little pricey, but I was getting a discount since I was teaching at the University it was attached to.
(My lips are sealed on the “yag” word.)
Leigh…
a) I’m friggin’ jealous. I wanted SO bad to be a chef back then. Mechanic doesn’t even come close, although I did meet my kids mom where I worked, so..
b) not sure about Montessori around here, will look it up. and thamk yopu for the tip
c) Yeah, I love him to death, but I’m so sick of the pikachu .
Goodnight all, and thank you all. You’ve really helped, and I took action on the suggestions.
GOD I love this place.
“Baking is like science if you want it to come out right, anyway.”
It depends. I use a bread machine with scratch ingredients. It started coming out a lot better when I started eyeballing the dough and adding more flour or water as needed, even though I was measuring the ingredients by weight.
Varying humidity is the culprit here, I’m pretty sure.
Now, granted, you could apply even more science and measure and adjust for humidity (actually, I think you’d need to adjust for humidity over time, since I think the flour itself is what absorbs or gives up the moisture, and that doesn’t happen instantly) but in practice eyeballing works well. It takes a little while to learn what the texture and feel of good dough is like, but after that it’s pretty simple.
The problem with flours is the moisture they retain depending on the weather, as you say. I weigh them rather than just scoop out a cup and a half or whatever. Bread is a different animal than baking a cake and there are many, many methods to making cakes, too. Bread is a lot of fun since you can put a lot of different things in it, use different flours and the like. I don’t have a bread machine, but I had a German grandmother who taught me a lot about baking breads and rolls as well as sweets like cookies and pies. I’m probably one of the few who isn’t a baker by trade who makes fruit filled cookies like fig newtons at home.