Where was it that Joe spent Thanksgiving? How much did he pay for rent? You say he didn’t pay rent? Do you really believe that? I don’t.
You might find this strange but wealthy, powerful people have lots of friends and they generally pay for them, one way or the other. Do you think Joe would stay in that big house if he had not power or money? After all, Joe is a true friend of criminal s and he has proved it.
Our alphabet contains 26 letters. Learning to read would be easy if each had its own unique sound. However, all the vowels have at least 2 sounds. One of the letters has at least three sounds. Then, of course, some vowels sometimes have no sound.
The letters C and G each have two sounds, which are designated as hard and soft. The rest of the consonants have but one sound. Then again, some of them are sometimes silent… such as the K in know. I have no idea how that happened but it is just one more thing to make learning to read more difficult.
Then of course, there are the combinations. I guess that the most common combination is the th. It is so common that it is used in almost every sentence of any size.
Yet I believe reading can taught or learned quickly by combining two methods. First, there is phonics, the sounds of the letters. If a person learns the sound of three letters a day for 9 days, a person will learn the sounds of all 26 letters in a week and a half. It is not the perfect solution, but it is a giant step in the right direction.
The second method, what I call recognition, is also important. Some might think it odd, but about 100 words make up about 60 percent of our words by count. First, there are the articles, a, an and the. You will find them in almost all sentences and they are easy to learn.
Then, there are there are the pronouns (he, she, it, his hers, etc). Again, they are easy to learn and they are well peppered throughout our language. Anyone who learns these few words will be well on their way to learning.
Using these two methods, a person can easily learn the basics of reading in weeks, not months. It would certainly be less than years.
I would really like to experiment with this method and I understand there are some who can’t read. However, for that to happen, it would mean getting three things together: me, a place of reasonable comfort to serve as a classroom and, naturally, a few students. I believe I could teach about 8 to 10 at a time for a couple of hours a day. I believe I can have most in the class reading at 5th or maybe 6th grade level in a little more than a month.
It is not as if I would need to teach much in the way of vocabulary. Most of us have pretty good vocabularies by the time we reach 5 or 6. It would be a simple matter of learning to recognize the words on paper, or a screen.
I have been considering making an attempt at it. So far, I haven’t managed to get anything off the ground. I guess there are two problems. First, finding a class room. Second, finding 8 people who want to learn. The trick is that I have something of a catch 22. How do I advertise for students when they can’t read?
Then, as every knows, reading is the gateway to the world. Also, it is an important skill for learning other things. Most of us, by the time we’re 30, over half of what we have learned, we will have learned by reading. If you find a person who is intelligent, he or she will likely be well read.
Besides this and more important, it is very difficult to enslave a populace that can’t read. Finally, as a side affect, people who are well read generally can speak better. In a way, it rubs off.
What is the difference when the current occupier of the White House is there and when he isn’t there?
The answer… Not much.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we lived in a country in which a person pronounced not guilty would be treated as not guilty?
I guess, occasionally people who are guilty get off. It is the price we, as a society pay to try to keep the innocent out of prison. Occasionally, still some innocent person gets a raw deal. To be sure, no justice system ran by humans is or will be perfect
However, as a society, we generally should treat those judged not guilty as not guilty.
In Rittenhouse`s case, the media treated him as guilty before his trial, during his trial and after his trial. They do this even though they have seen clear evidence. The evidence not only proves him not guilty but innocent. He clearly only used his weapon in defense. Before he fired it once, he ran away from, not toward his attackers.
When listening to his accusers, it would seem he was guilty just because he had a rifle, this though he, himself was at the point of a gun.
Maybe he should have brought a skateboard instead. According to the prosecutor, that presented no danger to Rittenhouse. How absurd? One was used on him and he had the wounds to prove it. Only after it was used on him did he retaliate.
The point is this. Maybe it would have been better to use something less lethal. However, at the time he didn’t have a baseball bat. He didn’t even have a skateboard. It was obvious he had to use the only thing he had.
If no one attacked him, no one would have died. If Rittenhouse had not defended himself, he very well might have died. At the least, he would have sustained bad injuries.
To me, that established self defense. That established his innocence. It’s something the media just love to overlook. They are trying to reverse the legal verdict with the verdict of public opinion. This is bad for all, especially the media.
Obama Care insurers that Uncle Sam can veto any procedures we think we need. Now mandatory vaccinatins insure we must undergo anything Uncle says we need.
Then too, just in time, they found a new variant to make sure we must be confined to our homes, regardless of the disasters to our economy and, or our society.
It does look to me like a good weapon for the final destruction of what is left of our nation…if we allow them.
A short time ago I learned something about cataracts. I guess it was almost two months ago when we learned my wife had cataracts in both eyes.
I was well aware as to what cataracts are. I just had no idea of the advancements they made in the their treatment. After a few days of preparation, she went into the OR with 20-2000 vision in her right eye and came out 15 minutes later. The seml opaque lens was replaced by an artificial clear one and she could see through it well. Two weeks later, the optometrist said she has 20-25 vision in that same eye. We have hopes of the same results in the left eye.
After all these years, she will no longer live in fear of losing or breaking her glasses, that is, if they do as well on left as they did on the other.
i did not know that they could do that. Neither did my wife.
So I write this for others who might find themselves in a similar place. I still get nervous about eye surgery, in this case, maybe it is worth the risk. Remember, I say this while they still need to operate on the left eye.
Obama forced Obama Care down our throats with the help of Nancy. (what a pair) Of course, being a former pres, he doesn’t need Obama Care. Isn’t he the lucky one. He can use his savings to build that sea wall he is going to need when the seas start getting deeper.
Obama forced Obama Care down our throats with the help of Nancy. (what a pair) Of course, being a former pres, he doesn’t need Obama Care. Isn’t he the lucky one. He can use his savings to build that sea wall he is going to need when the seas start getting deeper.
The only thing Jimmy Carter did was to give away the Panama Canal. Really wish we had that back.
Bill Clinton’s fame to claim is that he felt our pain. I’m pretty sure he didn’t. Regardless, he certainly doesn’t now. He’s living high on the hog and has a nice big house. If you ask me, he belongs in the big house.
Obama forced Obama Care down our throats with the help of Nancy. (what a pair) Of course, being a former pres, he doesn’t need Obama Care. Isn’t he the lucky one. He can use his savings to build that sea wall he is going to need when the seas start getting deeper.
Now Joe. I guess his main theme is that he has specialized in causing pain. The bad part is that I don’t know if he even knows it. Could someone please tell him?
On this day we call Thanksgiving, my hope is that we all give thanks to the one and only God Who made it possible. Some of us do have tendencies to take our blessings, small and great, for granted.
by the way, here is wishing y`ll a wonderful Thanksgiving, even if your team doesn’t win.
I have heard that we Americans just really don’t appreciate Joe’s accomplishments. Fine. Just maybe someone can tell me one or two things Joe did to make things better for the US or any of her citizens. On the contrary. He has messed up everything he has touched.
Then again, he has helped the Ruskies, the Chicoms and some, not all who illegally crossed our southern border. Oh, yes. Don’t let me overlook all the help Joe provided for the criminals and cartels. Indeed, it’s no help to Mexico that we helped the cartels. The cartels now virtually control all northern Mexico. Ask the Mexicans wha they think of that. You might want to check with those whose tourist businesses have or will go under due to hazardous conditions in the area. Tourism is greatly reduced by the criminal activity, you know. (Does Joe even realize that damage to these folks? I don’t think he cares.)
Accomplishments. What Accomplishments. Does anyone see any Accomplishments.
Oh, yes. He did get Americans out of Afghanistan, well most Americans. He ONLY left a few HUNDRED behind.
Suddenly, we learn that the word, Looting is racist. The fact of the matter is that the true meaning of the word has been relatively consistent since I first heard the word roughly 60 years ago.
Okay. Fine. Let’s call it something else, like outright theft and destruction. Regardless what it is called, it is taking that which doesn’t belong to them, often accompanied with assault, sometimes accompanied with personal injury.
Regardless what it is called, it’s still wrong and it is still Looting. It drives business from the area. My best guess is that the looters are far from local so they could care less if the local people have to drive 20 miles to the closest Walgreens.
Though the looters may not realize it, they are figuratively shooting themselves in the foot.
Then, why should I bother to explain. Those who will understand already know. Those who don’t understand are so simple that they will never get it. It is likely well beyond their capability of understanding.
In the end, they do the work of our enemies and cause incalculable damage to their neighbors. And by the way, they hand the police an excuse, not a reason, to use excessive force. Besides all this, they leave the world a worse place.
You ever notice the businesses in the bad parts of town put steal bars on the windows and employ armed guards. Does anybody really want to live in a neighborhood where the bars are used to keep the criminals out.
Bottom line, after all is said and done, the dictionary meaning likely will never change. The looters will still be looters no matter what they are called.
To expect anything different is crazy nuts and contains more fantasy than my book by that title, “Crazy Nuts. “
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