The mindset that money and wealth is more important than life itself. We will go to extremes to protect a person's money and wealth but taking another's life is seen as acceptable.

 

This goes on with crime, terrorism, abortion, poverty and hunger.

 

There is not a premium placed on human life. Not like we do money or wealth.

 

A person like Mother Theresa would barely get the response that a person like George Clooney, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Donald Trump, Brad Pitt, Madonna would receive. And that is the saddest comment on our human society in this world, today.

 

Not everyone needs to go to college.

But 99% of everyone needs education beyond high school. And that education could come in the form of a technical school, vocational school, or mentoring under someone.

 

But a HS education alone is simply not going to cut it.

There have been many notable and relevant posts. However, from reading BGP, I would think the main issue facing us is the public- private debate.

There have been many notable and relevant posts. However, from reading BGP, I would think the main issue facing us is the public- private debate.

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Loving each other and Sharing Jesus and the plan for Salvation. I want to go to Heaven and take as many people I can with me.

While China's military might is an obvious concern, I do not believe that the conquest of Asia, in a conventional sense would be tenable for China. Here is why:

 

Despite their numbers, China's air and sea technology remains inferior to both the United States and Japan. Any attempt at conventional warfare with Japan and, perforce, the United States, would keep a large segment of China's military forces occupied on their Eastern hemisphere in order to match the Pacific powers technologically.

 

China might be able to commit large troop movements to their Eastern borders. However, conquest of Asia would be made extremely difficult from manpower because of 2 things: 1) the impossible terrain to the south and southwest and 2) the number of people in India. India remains a technologically inferior but militarily sizeable country due to sheer population size. They cannot be taken from the ocean to the south because of the military support of the United States at Diego Garcia.

 

China is likely to be a world power, but Asia is an enormous land mass subject to assault from too many areas. I worry more about the economic prowess than the military.

 

The thing about China is that they are in a negative population growth. They have a one child policy and if you have a second you abandon them to be taken to an orphanage and adopted by families from another country (a lot of U.S. families do this). So if you have two people (a husband and wife) and they are replaced by only one child, you end up with a negative population growth. I believe that this will have a huge effect on China years down the road.

 

But right now they are a threat for many reasons because of their communistic leanings.

The thing about China is that they are in a negative population growth. They have a one child policy and if you have a second you abandon them to be taken to an orphanage and adopted by families from another country (a lot of U.S. families do this). So if you have two people (a husband and wife) and they are replaced by only one child, you end up with a negative population growth. I believe that this will have a huge effect on China years down the road.

 

But right now they are a threat for many reasons because of their communistic leanings.

With their population policy in place over the past 10-20 years, China has seen an increase of boys over girls. Boys are more desirable and girl babies are being aborted more often than boys.

 

A few years back I read an article that said China is having a spurt in homosexual behavior and part of that reason was attributed to a simple LACK of females in their society. In fact, if I recall, the government was paying people thousands of dollars to have a girl.

 

It seems they are well on down that road of effects.

But 99% of everyone needs education beyond high school. And that education could come in the form of a technical school, vocational school, or mentoring under someone.

 

But a HS education alone is simply not going to cut it.

 

Not in its current form. But my point is that prior to the high school years, we should be enrolling children in vocational, trade, and service formats that are then taught during the high school years, making post-high school training of such kind unnecessary.

Not in its current form. But my point is that prior to the high school years, we should be enrolling children in vocational, trade, and service formats that are then taught during the high school years, making post-high school training of such kind unnecessary.

It is all politics dear Hearsay.

 

While absolutely you are correct what politician is going to get elected by saying we need more electricians?

 

For whatever reason, the media and groups lose their mind when we hear that our math scores are below the math scores of Poland or whatever country and we rush to add Algebra 6 to everyone's curriculum leaving no room for them to get an education in thinks they may really use in life.

 

I was tutoring a math student on matrices yesterday. I have not only never used matrices in my life, I didn't know they existed till last year.

Government

- Corruption from the local to the national level

- The two party system which has transformed itself into a game of power

- Red Tape

 

Nationally

- Border security

- Health / Nutrition

- Lack of understanding of economic, political, and social affairs

- Prejudice amongst ecomic classes

 

Globally

 

- Lack of cultural understanding and world events

- Genocide

- Third world countries (lack of education, resources, food, etc.)

I would also like to add that technology is going to come back and haunt us as (to steal a line from O'Reilly and something he discussed last week) we are creating a society of zombies. From people that are now afraid to use a telephone, always on an IPod, playing computer games, etc.. We are becoming too impersonal.

 

Things such as FaceBook and MySpace have become the main/only means of communication between millions of people.

I was tutoring a math student on matrices yesterday. I have not only never used matrices in my life, I didn't know they existed till last year.

 

I thought "matrices" were those cushy things that we sleep on. What kind of tutoring are you providing there, LBBC?

I thought "matrices" were those cushy things that we sleep on. What kind of tutoring are you providing there, LBBC?

I learned it to show them and then quickly flushed it from my memory.

Not in its current form. But my point is that prior to the high school years, we should be enrolling children in vocational, trade, and service formats that are then taught during the high school years, making post-high school training of such kind unnecessary.

 

This is exactly what the communist system in Russia did.

 

Mind you, I'm not making any value judgements on it, just mentioning that kids that were identified as being athletically gifted were sent to schools for that purpose, as well as other children being identified and segregated according to their "gifts".

 

 

Frances

... I was tutoring a math student on matrices yesterday. I have not only never used matrices in my life, I didn't know they existed till last year.

 

Odd, that. I make my living by an unending use of matrices, and the manipulation and mining of data contained therein.

 

 

Frances