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From the Obama entry:

"He has no clear personal achievement that cannot be explained as the likely result of affirmative action."

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daily mail: not conservative

Do all their entries read like book reports written by 4th graders with wingnut parent?

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rape: less likely than being struck & killed by lightning

i'm basically giving up on talking to conservatives about anything ever again based on the reactions to some i know about obama's arab tv interview, mostly thanks to comments along the lines of "these people can't be reasoned with, he's one of them, see he admits it" etc

Essay:Differences Between Homeschoolers and Public Schoolers
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There are some fundamental differences of significance between homeschoolers and public schoolers:

1. Homeschoolers are consistently more proficient in mathematics, science, writing, and language.[1]
2. Homeschoolers do not stop learning upon receipt of a diploma; most public schoolers do not try to learn outside of school
3. Homeschoolers vote at three times the rate of public schoolers, when they become of voting age
4. Homeschoolers engage in less deceit than public schoolers, and are less easily amused by it
5. Homeschoolers form fewer cliques and gangs than public schoolers
6. Homeschoolers are less amused by profanity, and rarely have the compulsive profanity common to public schoolers
7. Homeschoolers are more able to be self-employed or self-disciplined without requiring constant supervision.
8. Homeschoolers are more likely to embrace faith and have a close relationship with God.
9. Homeschoolers pray more often than students in public school, where prayer is censored.
10. Homeschoolers perform better on average on all standardized test that are not infested with liberal bias (and even some that are)
11. Homeschoolers attain higher literacy rates and reading competence, due to an absence of anti-intellectual peer pressure.[2]
12. Homeschoolers have much lower teen pregnancy rates, and abortion is almost unknown among homeschoolers.

Do they ever cite any sources when making these claims?

[1]

[2]

1. ↑ Dr. Brian Ray, A Nationwide Study of Home Education: Family Characteristics, Legal Matters, and Student Achievement, National Home Education Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 1990, p. 53-54.
2. ↑ Dr. Brian Ray, A Nationwide Study of Home Education: Family Characteristics, Legal Matters, and Student Achievement, National Home Education Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 1990, p. 53-54.

1990

OMG these people are fuckin' deluded.

12. Homeschoolers have much lower teen pregnancy rates, and abortion is almost unknown among homeschoolers.

aint the only thing unknown by homeschoolers amirite

http://www.nheri.org/

The National Home Education Research Institute's mission is to:

* Produce high-quality research (e.g., statistics, facts, findings) on home-based education (homeschooling).
* Serve as a clearinghouse of research for the public, researchers, homeschoolers, the media, and policy makers.
* Educate the public concerning the findings of all research on home education.

my gf wants to homeschool eventual kids and it terrifies me

5. Homeschoolers form fewer cliques and gangs than public schoolers

man the gangs h/s'ers DO get around to forming must be seriously rugged

hoos that's a 'troubling indicator' i believe

It would flummox me to spend ALL DAY EVERY DAY with kids and even if they were mine, that would probably apply. School is not just an education and social skills, it's at least eight hours where children cannot make a mess/break shit in the home and you pay for it in taxes already so just go, OK?

http://www.conservapedia.com/images/5/59/Atheism.png

otm

hahahaha this is awesome, the only home-schooled kid I ever knew really well was raised a totally lefty hippie who didn't celebrate christmas *and* was a complete horndog and got with plenty of teh girlz

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rape: less likely than being struck & killed by lightning

Whereas the chance of being killed by a terrorist is, like, 1 in 3, right, Schlafly?

4. Homeschoolers engage in less deceit than public schoolers, and are less easily amused by it

There's a whole lot of something behind this sentence.

Genesis 19:4-8
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

MAKES PERFECT SENSE.

Reading the Conservapedia entry on Wikipedia is one thing.

Reading the Wikipedia entry on Conservapedia is wau lulz

wau lulz @

On June 9, 2008, New Scientist published an article describing Richard Lenski's 20-year E. coli experiment, which observed that bacteria evolve the ability to metabolize citrate – a rare and complex mutation. Schlafly contacted Lenski to request the data. Lenski explained that the relevant data was in the paper and that Schlafly fundamentally misunderstood it. Schlafly wrote again and requested the raw data. Lenski replied again that the relevant data was already in the paper, that the "raw data" were living bacterial samples, which he would willingly share with qualified researchers at properly equipped biology labs, and that he felt insulted by letters and comments on Conservapedia, which he saw as brusque and offensive, including claims of outright deceit. The exchange, recorded on a Conservapedia page called "Lenski dialog", was widely reported on news-aggregating sites and weblogs. Carl Zimmer wrote that it was readily apparent that "Schlafly had not bothered to read [Lenski's paper] closely", and PZ Myers criticized Schlafly for demanding data despite not having a plan to use it nor the expertise to analyze it.

the full dialog is still online: Conservapedia - An encyclopedia you can trust

(oops, that's a link to a post in this very thread that contains a link to the Lenski Dialog page)

I see that Schlafly is a homeschool tutor himself. Now, that is frightening.

I like to think of him as the science experiment gone wrong.

bbbbbut he's a B.S.E!

"Wikipedia does not poll the views of its editors and administrators. They make no effort to retain balance. It ends up having all the neutrality of a lynch mob."

stay classy Conservapedia founder Andrew Schlafly

bbbbbut he's a B.S.E!

Sadly, I initially read this as 'butt sex experiment.' I fear I am not ashamed.

"bovine spongiform encepalopathy" also applies

xxxxxxxp people who still claim atheism is a belief are so fucking deluded/disingenuous

Well it kind of is in the "I believe in nothing" sense, I guess.

More 'I don't believe in anything' than 'I believe in nothing' though.

"No, Donny, these are nihilists; there's nothing to be afraid of."

An atheist believes that there is no god.
An agnostic claims not to have beliefs.

that's not true. non-belief is not a belief. agnostics generally believe that some things are unknowable, which is a belief.

a-theism as in no theism

weak vs strong atheism, innit.

lets have this argument again, good call

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lets have this argument again, good call

max IOU 1 lol

THEY STARTED IT

5. Homeschoolers form fewer cliques and gangs than public schoolers

just hang out with your mother all day instead.

For college, Obama initially attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, before transferring to Columbia University in New York, New York and graduating without honors with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in political science.

This is my favorite part.

Although evolutionists deny that men and dinosaurs coexisted, they are unable to provide proof of such a hypothesis. It is probable that the 'behemoth' was what we now call a dinosaur.

calling that a hypothesis is truly hilarious.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/files/2007/jesus_dinosaur.jpg