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The Home School and Voucher movements just found a new poster child.

(Thanks for the tip. I wish I could find a picture of that hippie having sex with a cow. That would be great captioning material. On the other hand, he's bound to show up at a Cindy Sheehan Media Whore Rally sometime soon).

Admittedly, this has absolutely nothing to do with the on-going flap, but guessing Bennish's age (late 20's to early 30's) and looking at his hair line, I'll bet he'll be a bald as a billard ball before he's 40.

Apologies in advance.

I finally got the audio working on my computer, and I just listened to the whole rant. Am I the only person who thinks Bennish has a funny-sounding speaking voice? I noticed how instead of alright he says "ahhite" or something like that. He also calls Bill Clinton "George Clinton"(the guy from P-Funk) at one point. Bennish reminds me of one of those lame-ass white hipsters who pretends to "down with it" by appropriating whatever slang is current on MTV.

"Many learned persons have read themselves stupid." Arthur Schopenhauer

Actually, that's his photo from his old High School year book.

Here is the

Most Recent Photo of Jay

When asked to comment on the current situation (as you can see from the here photo) his response was "la la la la la I CAN'T HEAR YOU! IT'S ALL BUSH"S FAULT! la la la la...."

Shouldn't the question of whether or not the United States fights cocaine dealers and traders or supports the enemies of our enemies be examined by people with a slightly more advanced education than that of the average 10th grader's? To the poor little victims inexperienced and unworldly enough to see the way that their trust had been abused at the sheeple camp over at Overland Highschool in Colorado, their parents can ask whether their world geography teacher ought to actually focus on teaching his students something useful about world geography and save the argument about whether Castro or the United States is the real problem in Cuba for people who might know something about the matter.

I don't support "blind naive faith in democracy" (as Bennish put it) - that's why I'm a Republican, but is this guy speaking as one of those self-described scientific socialists in this one-way exchange of ideas with his students? Apparently the school needed an "accelerated" course, as the taxpayer funded curicculum wasn't "progressive" enough for some folks.

That would explain the classic acidic moral equivalence (LIEberalism) that Bennish hammers into students such as 16-year-old Sean Allen when it comes to any challenges to this "teacher's" unexplained (i.e. non-extant) moral and intellectual authority. It is painful for me to even call this man a teacher, but it is technically true.

After forcefully presenting his treasonous tripe (and why should people consider financially motivated treachery any less vile than ideologically motivated treachery?) as a lesson in world geography this "man" has the audacity to tell the same students "you gotta figure out this stuff for yourself." In other words, "fact check me kiddos (shhea riiite!), I'm too lazy and undisciplined to do it myself, obviously." See, in an "accelerated" course such as the one that this "progressive" has been running, there is no point in really delving into the particulars lest we forget that this IS supposed to be a world geography class, kiddies. Mi bias es su bias. Now hush and assume the position.

This is the M.O. of libs, to expect something different from them is just plain stupid and foolhardy. How have libs qualitatively changed since the founder of the ACLU, Norman Thomas, stated that "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened"?

This "tape" is definitely documentation of the effects of the widespread academic corruption in this nation. The bottom line is that either these people are fundamentally wrong and need to change or America is fundamentally wrong and needs to change. I believe that David Horowitz's expose, The Professors, should go a long way in helping the rest of us get serious about solving the intellectual and moral great depression unleashed by a massive malinvestment in the economy of education in America.

I think one of the mistakes has been the naturally slow reaction (patriots tend to be at odds with unjustified rallies) -which correlates to the slow realization- to/of this problem. The politically unhinged people are on jihad, and they have been using our classrooms as leftwing madrassas for years. Understanding their M.O. is key to confronting the problem effectively. To have expected the polite admonitions published in God & Man at Yale (1952) and The Abolition of Man (1943) to have dissuaded most of those on the war path against the invisible foundations of America is exactly to expect true fairness and lucidity from the morally and intellectually incoherent.

As moonbat Jay Bennish has unintentionally reminded us, if there's no truth there is only power.

I listened to the audio of TEACHER CAUGHT IN BUSH RANT, with great interest. Also, with sadness.

My name is Michael Class. I live in the Seattle area with my wife and two children. I am a retired "dot-com" executive turned author, photographer, and publisher.

I was appalled at how some teachers presented American history to my children. My son and daughter learned that Thomas Jefferson had slaves—before they learned that he wrote the document articulating our rights and duties as free people. European settlers killed Native Americans with blankets infected with smallpox, they found out. That allegation upstaged the stories of courage, perseverance, and curiosity that defined the pioneers. My children knew that more than a hundred thousand people died when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, but they were not made to understand the moral context and the enormous scale of the conflict called World War II in which the atomic bomb story fit.

With a curriculum seemingly designed to instill guilt and shame, I wondered, how will my kids ever discover the lessons of history that inspire greatness and noble aspirations? Will they ever believe that they can make a difference? Will they have any heroes left at all? Then, I wondered: What would the heroes of America’s past say to the children of today?

I wrote, photographed, and published a book designed to set the record straight, to properly prepare our children for the future. My book is called Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame. 

If anyone knows where I can reach 10th-grader Sean Allen, I will gladly send him a FREE copy of my book. He did the right thing.

My book specifically rebuts the positions taken by teacher Jay Bennish - because I have heard his arguments so many times before. My book tells the truth about capitalism, the War on Terror, and places them in historical perspective.

In the book, my real-life son, twelve-year-old Anthony, time-travels into the great events of the 20th century. Digital photographic “magic” places Anthony in the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis with Charles Lindbergh, on the moon with Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, in the laboratories of Thomas Edison and Jonas Salk, and on Normandy beach on D-Day. It looks as though Anthony really did meet Thomas Edison, Jonas Salk, FDR, Lou Gehrig, Charles Lindbergh, and Audie Murphy. And it’s all historically accurate: Even Anthony’s conversations with America’s heroes are based on things they really said.

While writing and photographing the book, I spoke with relatives of famous scientists and inventors, Holocaust survivors, award-winning biographers, and others who could help me ensure that the facts of the book were both accurate and vivid. 

But the book goes beyond a simple recitation of historical facts: the book presents the moral lessons of American history. The chapter about Lindbergh’s flight is really about choosing one’s destiny. The story of Lou Gehrig is one of a virtuous life. The chapter about Thomas Edison is really about business. The story of Apollo 11 is about wonder, taking risks, and courage. The story of Dr. Jonas Salk and the cure for polio is really about dedicating one’s life to a higher purpose. When Anthony “meets” his immigrant great-grandfather at Ellis Island in 1907, it’s really a story about what it means to be an American. Anthony’s observation of D-Day and the liberation of the death camps during the Holocaust is a testament to the reality of evil and the need to fight it.

The book is meant to challenge the young reader. Many adults will find the book challenging, too. Anthony COMPARES the people and events of the past with the people and events of his own time. Anthony discusses the nature of good and evil, right and wrong, war and peace, what it means to be an American, honor and discipline, success and achievement, courage and destiny, marriage and family, God and purpose. Anthony’s observations prompt serious discussion of timeless moral questions. Anthony challenges the reader to think critically - to see the modern world in the light of the lessons of the past. 

We can't afford to raise a generation of Americans who do not value their country, their heritage, and their place in the world. As Abraham Lincoln said: America is the "last best hope of earth."

Thank you.

Michael S. Class
Author / Photographer / Publisher

Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame: An American History Book for Right-Thinking Parents and Their Children

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E-Mail: class@MagicPictureFrame.com
Web site: www.MagicPictureFrame.com

There is nothing that I've read from what this teacher said that is so shocking or incorrect. Mostly he was just challenging the students to think. He gave them ample opportunity to respond and most of his teaching was done by asking them questions. SURE it is wrong for a teacher to insert his own political opinions into the classroom, but it is impossible not to do so. Ideally, the students will be challenged to think, to be discriminating in what they believe, and to keep asking questions, all of which can be like pulling teeth, for anyone who has ever taught a class of typically braindead high school students. Teenagers are taught NOT to think. The frenzy with which this teacher's perhaps overly-emotional reaction to the insulting BUSH State of the Union Speech is wholly unmerited. Has anyone actally LISTENED to the drivel that Bush comes out with? If they DID listen, and they weighed the "facts" and historical context of what our president consistently spews forth, there could be little argument with what this teacher has presented to his students. Inappropriate? Perhaps a little, but making a federal case out of it simply points out how hollow and empty the BUSH supporters' arguments are. They run scared from a high school teacher because their own side has nothing to say of any real substance, and it can't stand up to even this level of criticism.

Pathetic.

There is nothing that I've read from what this teacher said that is so shocking or incorrect.

Nope, nothing wrong with comparing Bush to Hitler. Nothing wrong with calling capitalism evil. Nothing wrong with calling America a violent terror state. Nothing wrong with making moral equivalence between soldiers and terrorists. Nothing wrong with implying that our soldiers target innocent civilians. Nothing wrong with ranting about the above for 40 minutes in a geography class.

If he's just trying to get kids to think and promote discussion, why was his rant entirely one-sided? Where was the equal time for the opposing point of view? And where in the hell was any discussion of geography (beyond listing a bunch of countries he thinks America terror-bombed?)

And the lefties wonder why we think they're anti-American nutjobs.

I agree whole heartedly with Mr Bennish. I think that the truth may be really hard for all the brainwashed rightwing idiots to understand. Bush is the worst president in the whole history of the United State of America.

He has damaged our country's reputation by allowing torture, lowered our self respect, plunged us deeper into debt, which the Chinese are buying up, giving our port and national security away, threatening true homeland security by trashing our environment, selling off our National Parks and forest lands, all to enrich his biggest campaign contributers.

Wonder who the corporation's are going to buy for our next president? I just hope they pick someone smarter next time.

If you really loved our country you would see that the 66% of our brightest citizens in this country agree with Bennish and disapprove of "Heil Bush".

You fascist suppressives are the ones who made sure that the Fairness Doctrine was put to sleep when it suited your own intentions.

I guess you'll just have to learn to (gasp!) actually form coherent arguments to refute opposing viewpoints, and, uh, just DEAL until your time in the sun returns.

Neocons are simply sowing what they have reaped.

Hey, the libs have invaded the site!

Greetings to all you liberal, free-speech, lefties! (when I say free-speech, I mean, of course, speech that you approve of).

It's good to see you come to visit and give your versions of history. I especially like the part about how the U.S. conducted 7000 acts of terrorism against Cuba during a two-year period in the 1960's. That's like 10 a day. But if a lefty says it, it's got to be true.

Come to rant, stay and read. Perhaps you will be the ones enlightened.

I guess you'll just have to learn to (gasp!) actually form coherent arguments to refute opposing viewpoints...

This from the guy who answered a logical refutation of his 'argument' in another thread with "Cheers, Moron."

Wonder who the corporation's are going to buy for our next president?

If you hate corporations, I suggest you immediately stop using all products and services provided to you by corporations, beginning with computers.

RuPaul,

I agree completely. The Republicans and the Halliburton-Rumsfeld War Machine need to be exposed as the killers they are. After seeing Bennish's picture the disfigurement he suffered at the hands of the Torturer in Chief is horrific.

Hey, the libs have invaded the site!

I know, isn't it fabulous? Reading their demented, profane, idiotic ravings makes me feel so good to be a right-winger.

There is nothing that I've read from what this teacher said that is so shocking or incorrect.

Teenagers are taught NOT to think.

RuPaul is evidently speaking from personal experience.

As I say to any who slams 'evil' corporations, divest thyself immediately of thy 401K! And try living off of Social Security.

Halliburton-Rumsfeld War Machine

Didn't that used to be the Clinton-Halliburton war machine?

Yes, but back then they were working with the Right People(tm) so they were ok.

When Prescott Bush furnished arms to the Nazis, was he working with the right people?

The point of my post you.

Pot should be legalised so people like hashfanatic here can self-medicate themselves out of our misery.

Dayum, this thig strips out tags. Lets try that again.

Point of post < ---------------------------------- > you.

Guys, guys, come on now!
Could we stop using the F-word(Fascist) and the N-word (Nazi)? Do that, and I promise to stop using the S-word (Sheehan).

If it would rid the control of deranged leftists, I'd legalize heroin and subsidize overdoses.

Arrgh, control s/b country

F'some uncanny reason I got'th wanto jabber in me native natter t'see if'll confuse tha batty types. Buggers'll proly think am talkin't pigin o somethin an grant me dosh.

There. I feel much better now...

Why do I always feel I need a shower after reading the moby posts here?

Looks as though he has reconsidered.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_3567992?source=rss

From XXP's Link:

Lane said Bennish was initially told by an administrator that "if you talk to the media, we will view this as insubordination."

But district spokeswoman Tustin Amole said she told Bennish "he had a First Amendment right to speak to whoever he wants to." She said she was present when another administrator told him the same thing.

So, another leftie lied about being oppressed by the evil system. I wonder if he got the idea from the lefty nutjob who lied that the FBI had roughed him up because he requested Mao's Little Red Book from the library? Or the professor who spray painted threats on her own car and filed a 'Hate Crime' report?

(Bennish's Attorney) Lane, the Denver attorney who has also represented controversial University of Colorado at Boulder professor Ward Churchill.

Well, there's a shocker... the teacher who thinks Bush is Hitler shares an attorney with the faux-Indian academic fraud and art-plagiarist who thinks 9-11 victims are "Little Eichmanns."

But don't you dare call them Anti-American...

From XXP's Link:

Lane said Bennish was initially told by an administrator that "if you talk to the media, we will view this as insubordination."

But district spokeswoman Tustin Amole said she told Bennish "he had a First Amendment right to speak to whoever he wants to." She said she was present when another administrator told him the same thing.

So, another leftie lied about being oppressed by the evil system. I wonder if he got the idea from the lefty nutjob who lied that the FBI had roughed him up because he requested Mao's Little Red Book from the library? Or the professor who spray painted threats on her own car and filed a 'Hate Crime' report?

(Bennish's Attorney) Lane, the Denver attorney who has also represented controversial University of Colorado at Boulder professor Ward Churchill.

Well, there's a shocker... the teacher who thinks Bush is Hitler shares an attorney with the faux-Indian academic fraud and art-plagiarist who thinks 9-11 victims are "Little Eichmanns."

But don't you dare call them Anti-American...

Oh, and meanwhile, Sean Allen has to change schools because of threats of violence from Jay Bennish's supporters. Frakkin' leftist thugs.

Wingnuts had better get ready to change more than schools unless they settle their little kielbasa holes done and make their presence scarce for a while.

Oceans can no longer protect you, you know.

This link was posted on the Malkin website. I'm still laughing!

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/162020.php

From LGF:

http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1163&Itemid=61

Now I know the intellectual ground beneath me is firm.

Hi there,

Sean Allen the new child star for the neo-con!
How stupid are you guys? Compare the reputation of the US under Clinton to what the world is thinking about the States under Bush. Bush is a non-intellectual alcoholic and fundamentalist who could not protected his country, brought more violence to the world and the US and gave birth to creeps like Sean Allen.
I totally agree with Jay Bennishs opinion. He is the real patriot!!!

The reputation of the US under clinton? Hmm... well, lets see...

Oh, I know. The same people ranting about how Bush started them down the path to terrorism tried to blow up the WTC while Clinton was in power. The Clinton administration was regularly criticised for being a soft touch on China, giving the country increased trade and diplomatic recognition when there was clear evidence of essentially totalitarian behaviour, on-going, and un-reduced by all the chit-chat and nicities. This would be the Clinton administration that spent several years dropping bombs on southern Iraq and oversaw the complete ballsup that was Somalia, amongst other things.

You think that anti-americanism is a new thing? Hardly. It's as old as the union itself. People are jealous of what the US made of itself and jealous of the power the US is able to project. The only difference between now and a decade ago is that it's a republican administration, so naturally the left notice the criticism because it's favourable to their cause. Unless you think that Clinton was someone special who could do no wrong...

I sense your reason and facts are wasted on the likes of Steven, Archonix. Anyone who cheers when a patriotic 16 year old kid is threatened with violence for exercising his right of Free Speech is not playing with a full deck.

Here it the truth about Jay Bennish.

www.targetofopportunity.com/jay_bennish.htm

The truth about Jay Bennish

www.targetofopportunity.com/jay_bennish.htm