Tuesday, October 29, 2013

1. Look at the cartoon.
2. Find and focus on the main purpose.
3. Find the entertainment.
4. Understand the drawing.
5. Look for recognized symbols.
6. Find humorous details.


1. What exactly are they doing?
2. Why did they knock the top of the capitol building?
3. What are they?
4. Why are they getting arrested?
5. Why would someone draw that?

Two Aliens, knocked the top off of the Capitol Building. The one is excited, while the other is being arrested.

Monday, October 28, 2013

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 20%

Your ECONOMICS issues Score is 90%

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According to your answers, the political group that agrees with you most is...

RIGHT (CONSERVATIVE)

You Are 70% Conservative, 30% Liberal

Social Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal

Ethics: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal
Overall, your political values are closest to those of an…Average Republican

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About The Political Compass

In the introduction, we explained the inadequacies of the traditional left-right line.
If we recognise that this is essentially an economic line it's fine, as far as it goes. We can show, for example, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot, with their commitment to a totally controlled economy, on the hard left. Socialists like Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Mugabe would occupy a less extreme leftist position. Margaret Thatcher would be well over to the right, but further right still would be someone like that ultimate free marketeer, General Pinochet.
That deals with economics, but the social dimension is also important in politics. That's the one that the mere left-right scale doesn't adequately address. So we've added one, ranging in positions from extreme authoritarian to extreme libertarian.
Both an economic dimension and a social dimension are important factors for a proper political analysis. By adding the social dimension you can show that Stalin was an authoritarian leftist (ie the state is more important than the individual) and that Gandhi, believing in the supreme value of each individual, is a liberal leftist. While the former involves state-imposed arbitrary collectivism in the extreme top left, on the extreme bottom left is voluntary collectivism at regional level, with no state involved. Hundreds of such anarchist communities exisited in Spain during the civil war period
You can also put Pinochet, who was prepared to sanction mass killing for the sake of the free market, on the far right as well as in a hardcore authoritarian position. On the non-socialist side you can distinguish someone like Milton Friedman, who is anti-state for fiscal rather than social reasons, from Hitler, who wanted to make the state stronger, even if he wiped out half of humanity in the process.
The chart also makes clear that, despite popular perceptions, the opposite of fascism is not communism but anarchism (ie liberal socialism), and that the opposite of communism ( i.e. an entirely state-planned economy) is neo-liberalism (i.e. extreme deregulated economy)
The usual understanding of anarchism as a left wing ideology does not take into account the neo-liberal "anarchism" championed by the likes of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and America's Libertarian Party, which couples social Darwinian right-wing economics with liberal positions on most social issues. Often their libertarian impulses stop short of opposition to strong law and order positions, and are more economic in substance (ie no taxes) so they are not as extremely libertarian as they are extremely right wing. On the other hand, the classical libertarian collectivism of anarcho-syndicalism ( libertarian socialism) belongs in the bottom left hand corner.
In our home page we demolished the myth that authoritarianism is necessarily "right wing", with the examples of Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot and Stalin. Similarly Hitler, on an economic scale, was not an extreme right-winger. His economic policies were broadly Keynesian, and to the left of some of today's Labour parties. If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground.

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: 0.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 5.13

How this group compares to the rest of the country on key issues …

  Hard-Pressed Democrats

 General Public
  • Government is almost always wasteful and inefficient
  •  68%
  •  55%
  • Business corporations make too much profit
  •  79%
  •  54%
  • The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt
  •  60%
  •  41%
  • Our country needs to continue making changes to give blacks equal rights with whites
  •  62%
  •  45%
  • Immigrants today are a burden on our country because they take our jobs, housing and health care
  •  76%
  •  44%
  • I often don't have enough money to make ends meet
  •  68%
  •  43%
  • It is necessary to believe in God in order to be moral and have good values
  •  75%
  •  48%
  • This country can't solve many of its important problems
  •  48%
  •  37%

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Start-up 10/16/13

1. Yes, I am highly against bullying I have had two friends get bullied and hurt themselves, I am so against this they should be charged and face life in prison, basically because they murdered her, just with indirectly ways.

2. Misdemeanors are punishable by more substantial fines and sometimes jail time, usually less than one year, Felonies are the most serious type of crime and are often classified by degrees, with a first degree felony being the most serious.

3. I think the padal should come back into school, and for the slightest remark, wack, USE THE ROD, DISCIPLINE THE CHILD.
Start-up 10/15/13


Do background checks on employees, before hiring them into the school systems, and when an event like that would happen, do not pay kids to beat up another kid, turn them in to the office.