"are you purposely trying to be ignorant"

[seabeyond]

i said this to my 11 yr old this morning. i was cooking breakfast, and it hit me how hard he was making sure he didn't understand what i was saying. and it just pushed itself out of my mouth. when the realization hit me,..... that he was working really really hard to be ignorant, i couldn't stop myself. half of the sound spewing from my mouth was pure amazement (he is such a SMART and reasoned boy) the other half,....disdain. for ignorance.

that keeps coming back to me. getting kids ready for school. tak tests today..... such a big to do in this neck of the woods. bushco....this board and what our nation looks like from the outside.

i was thinking about my father brothers friends that are republican. all the things for them to see. a zillion times over this administration has done, that these republican family and friends despise, disrespect, are disgusted with, yet still...... they figure if they wish hard enough, pray hard enough, ...... maybe bush will quit being stupid, maybe bush will succeed once in his whole friggin life. succeed instead of continually failing. a failure. a lifetime of failure. bush failed in life to presidency. bush has been constant in failure during presidency

and i conclude with: are you purposely trying to be ignorant

[Misunderestimator]

1. Your kid voted for Bush?

[wtmusic]

2. That sounds familiar

I said the same thing to my 9-year-old a few weeks ago. IMO it's normal at that age...they're testing the boundaries.

Kids do it because let's face it, a home isn't a democracy. At some point the argument comes back to, "Because I said so". Republicans do it because their version of the US isn't a democracy--which also defies logic.

"Because they said so".

[seabeyond]

3. i am not bothered at all with sons behavior. that will be something

he will think about. the funny, is a bunch of adults behaving like a 9 year old. lol lol

[wtmusic]

6. Bingo.

The unfunny is a country with 300M people run by a 9 year old :scared:

[elehhhhna]

4. "willful ignorace" is the hallmank of a true Neocon,

My girls -do the same to me, btw.

[seabeyond]

5. lots of nieces and nephews. they are all hitting puberty. lol lol

not so much at the younger ages, i recognize. seems to go with the teenager thing. interesting. and appears i will NOT be tolerant of it AT ALL. i like lol.

use your brain or dont talk to me. go away. funny funny.

hey you

[arwalden]

7. kids these days,.... who knows. what they are thinking. anymore.

i remember being young. all the things i did. maybe he's acting....out on purpose. acting. just to get your goat. and get a rise... the way that bush might have done when he was a kid. or that any kid might have done......back in the day. simpler days. when a kid could be a kid without having....to worry about.....the things that kids worry about. today. and bush. our president and such a good role model. not.

in conclusion, i don't know.

[seabeyond]

8. my son was talking about his brothers snoring. has become crisis

in this house. maybe i should have clarified but it wasnt important in the story. it was harsh to say to son. but it stayed with me, that people i love, adults, are doing the same thing as son,.... but with bush

[arwalden]

9. oh I know. what you mean its' just....amazing. i have heard kids snore...

but it wasn't nearly as loud as what my neighbor does. leaf blowers. mowers. early on sunday morning. he loves his dog and they have cats....three i think. maybe more. and his wife drives them to school.....the kids i mean... in their suv. and that reminds me of bush, and all the oil what we are wasting. it makes me so angry.

[seabeyond]

10. lol lol you are funny. this morning i am sittin at a light and here comes

a hummer, with a bush sticker. i swear..... if that hummer had parked next to me i would have taken my window down, and wait for the man in passenger to get his down. (two men) and hugest of smiles say, hey..... bush says we are addicted to oil. what says you....

everything in life, goes to bush

[arwalden]

11. omg omg i hate those things... it amazes me. and i think this all the time

wondering. how is it is that they....the driver i mean... how in one of those things (the hummer) can see the ground. they get horrible miles per gallon and they might as well be driving a schoolbus for as big as it is. and of course we are addicted to oil, and bush says. the only truth full thing he ever said was that. but he does not care and thats why....gas costs so much, but only republicans dont care. they can afford it. just like they can afford to send their kids to private schools because of vouchers and my tax money pay them to send their kids. like my neighbors do. to a private christian school. and thats not right. separation of "church" and "state" does not exist in bushs world. no wonder he wants testing. and it all goes back to oil. everything is connected. and when i see a bush bumper sticker, or ehrlich. i give them the bird. and by that i don't mean a real bird either, because i like birds. which by the way are having a hard time because of all the pollution caused by oil and chemicals and pesticides. the chesapeake bay is in really bad shape and I blame bush for that 2.

[Bandit]

12. Bush* failed his way to Presidency

good one..:thumbsup: