Editor’s note: At the request of the author, this column has been edited to remove references to Rush Limbaugh in the wake of the radio show host’s death on Wednesday, Feb. 17.
Things are getting crazy around here; we need to calm everything down a bit. One thing I think people on both sides of the Greatest-Ever Divide will agree on is the need for quality education.
MATH: We’ll start with the basics: 81 million is more than 74 million. Now, to be sure, 74 million is a big number, but it’s LESS THAN 81 million. In fact, it’s a full seven million less than 81 million.
On top of that (and this goes for everybody on KNST radio, from early in the morning ’til late at night), 74 million is NOT 75 million. It’s 74 million. You don’t get to round up. You don’t get to pretend that there were phantom votes. And you damn sure don’t want to piss off those Dominion or Smartmatic voting machine folks because they’ll sue you and make you backtrack in a most humiliating manner. (Just ask Sean Hannity, Maria Bartiromo, and the entire Newsmax network.)
• ENGLISH: For those who like making death threats against President Obama online, remember a human being is “hanged.” “Hung” is what you did with your picture of Hitler on the wall.
• SOCIAL STUDIES: In this class, we’ll learn that while Communism is crap and doomed to failure, there are lots and lots of democratic socialist countries where the people are free and happy with their government and their lives. Then, in the second semester, we’ll learn that (gasp!) some of the most popular programs in the United States (Medicare, Social Security) are actually of a socialist nature.
• CIVICS: There should be some kind of requirement that if somebody is going to storm the Capitol of the United States or show up outside the place where votes are being counted, armed to the teeth and screaming about the Constitution, they should be able to pass a third-grade-level test on the document.
Seriously, you see these crazed Clampetts on TV, screaming about the Constitution and you just know that they couldn’t pick that document out of a lineup of one. And it’s not just them; it’s almost all Americans.
About a decade ago, I attended a Tea Party rally at the Kino baseball complex. In retrospect, it seems almost quaint: A bunch of unarmed people who peacefully gathered to protest a government program that offered expanded health-care opportunities to people who previously couldn’t afford it.
I walked around that day and asked people how many amendments there are to the Constitution. I probably asked 50 people and not one person got it right (although several people’s guesses were close). One woman said 12, which would mean that Black people are still slaves. A guy was certain that there are 55.
Probably not even 5% of Americans know that there are 27 Amendments. I’m guessing that the percentage is even lower among people who stormed the Capitol.
• BUSINESS/ECONOMICS: If local TV station Channel 11 doesn’t want to air reruns of My Mother, The Car, that’s not censorship. It’s a business decision guided by the economic principle of not wanting to go broke. Likewise, it’s not censorship when a private company (say, Twitter, for example) doesn’t want its business platform being used by knuckleheads who want to spread seditious lies in hopes of starting deadly riots.
Freedom of speech (which does have legal limits) is a huge part of what makes America the greatest country of all time. When government attempts to go beyond those limits in an effort to curtail free speech, that’s censorship. When a business decides not to pass along obvious lies and inflammatory speech designed to incite violence, that’s not censorship. That’s commerce.
• BIOLOGY: Much to the chagrin of some people in this country, science has proven once and for all that black people are the same as white people. And, for the record, so are Asians, Latinos, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders. In fact, it’s hard for some people to tell them all apart, because they all just sorta look like Americans.
This article appears in Feb 18-24, 2021.
How about this for a lesson…..Delete the references to Limbaugh since he passed away yesterday.
You have a lot of class, Danehy. Unfortunately it’s all lower class.
TB, Rush had less class than a sewer rat.
Danehy treated him far better
then the way Rush treated others.
“Likewise, it’s not censorship when a private company (say, Twitter, for example) doesn’t want its business platform being used by knuckleheads “
Proving Danehy has no idea how the internet works.
It’s all right to have been duped. We’ve all been duped by magicians, actors, and commercial spokespersons. But to be duped by habitual liars so well-known as liars such as trump and limbaugh, makes one appear to be a sap. Danehy just wants to raise our education level. No harm in checking out both sides of a story.
Ding dong the witch is dead. Education must live on!!
Remedial math for Tommy boy and the loony left:
Michigan now admits after ‘certifying’ the 2020 Presidential election, that more voters should be removed from their voter rolls than there were votes won by Joe Biden in the race. Mixed with other suspected fraud, (like 141,000 ballot drops at 6am the day after the election) all the ballots in this state should be forensically audited to determine the full extent of the election fraud.
The we move on to Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and ultimately the state of Arizona, where election officials are suing so that they can’t be forced to show documentation from the election.
This will not go away soon.
Sorry, but it’s Limbaugh who had no class. He was a despicable excuse for a human being.
@Tucsonbass How would they go about deleting the Limbaugh references from the papers on stands?
“MATH: We’ll start with the basics: 81 million is more than 74 million. Now, to be sure, 74 million is a big number, but it’s LESS THAN 81 million. In fact, it’s a full seven million less than 81 million.”
No, 81 million isn’t more than 74 million if its fraudulent. We demand audits of $500,000 charter schools, but not a $22 trillion election?
These are areas that a true audit would investigate:
1. Did one party submit millions of forged mail-in ballot requests?
2. How many fictitious, dead, non-residents and duplicate votes were cast? By, party.
3. Did either party flood the poll worker system, take control of certain voting precincts and stuff the ballot box?
4. Did either party penetrate the county database security or the drivers license security and get copies of the voter signature file, using that file to forge mail-in ballot requests, voter registrations and mail-in ballots.
5. Were forged mail-in ballots submitted?
We know that one party paid $12 million for a forged “Russian Dossier”. From that we can assume that they would be willing to pay at least $100 million for a forged election.
One method we know they wouldn’t have used to steal the election? Voting machine hacking. Certain to get caught and morally indefensible.
So wrong when liars do the math.
This article reeks of an elitist “I am smarter than you” attitude. Why is it that educated under achievers always do that? Guilt or envy?
Tom, my high school friend and fellow Letterman’s club alumni, I love this article.
I’m a life long moderate Republican, switching to Independent. I’m astounded at the number of lawmakers still licking Trump’s boots.
Hey Tom, the election is over, put it behind us. All your Trump bashing is tiring. Lets hear about all the great things Biden has done. I’ll wait…………….
Because of Limbaughs death the negative references have been removed. What a classy publication.