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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-10 08:09 AM
Response to Reply #9
10. Other than "bundling" and campaign contributions and influence.
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  -From Sibel Edmonds: The King of Madrasas Now Operates Over 100 Charter Schools in the US? madfloridian  Oct-24-10 10:53 PM   #0 
  - the comments on the boiling frog site are very interesting....  madrchsod   Oct-24-10 11:09 PM   #1 
  - Yes, they are.  madfloridian   Oct-24-10 11:25 PM   #2 
  - K & R n/t  glinda   Oct-25-10 12:46 AM   #3 
  - If they are teaching religion in the publicly chartered school,  JDPriestly   Oct-25-10 02:29 AM   #4 
  - They do not appear to be  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 07:03 AM   #6 
     - You've been to one of these charter schools?  Oilwellian   Oct-25-10 07:36 AM   #7 
        - I doubt the guy preaches anything to children  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 08:07 AM   #9 
           - Other than "bundling" and campaign contributions and influence.  mmonk   Oct-25-10 08:09 AM   #10 
           - Anything specific?  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 08:18 AM   #11 
              - We can pretend if you want that Turkish influence peddling  mmonk   Oct-25-10 08:22 AM   #12 
                 - The Turkish government doesn't seem to like this guy, though  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 10:28 AM   #18 
                    - What about Gulen AKP connections in 2007?  mmonk   Oct-25-10 10:48 AM   #21 
                    - Do you want to state facts in connection with these schools?  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 10:50 AM   #24 
                       - Certainly. I am against charter schools as a substitute for public  mmonk   Oct-25-10 11:09 AM   #26 
                    - No, it appears that you don't. He wanted a restoration of the Theocracy that been replaced.  olegramps   Oct-29-10 08:59 AM   #101 
           - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-25-10 03:49 PM   #44 
              - "Perhaps you should invest some effort into researching these institutions before you comment"  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 04:32 PM   #49 
                 - You aren't dense, just lacking facts and knowledge about Gulen and Turkic Charter Schools :)  kaelot   Oct-25-10 07:06 PM   #69 
                    - Okay I read that  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 09:21 PM   #78 
  - How interesting.  Edweird   Oct-25-10 02:51 AM   #5 
  - Glad you are posting this.  mmonk   Oct-25-10 07:44 AM   #8 
  - k & r  Starry Messenger   Oct-25-10 08:47 AM   #13 
  - Edmonds is a fraud  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-25-10 08:58 AM   #14 
  - Is the USA Today story a fraud also?  mmonk   Oct-25-10 09:26 AM   #15 
  - Yes, this piece is a smear job through and through  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-25-10 09:46 AM   #16 
     - Simple. A madrasa or madrasah is  mmonk   Oct-25-10 10:04 AM   #17 
     - I think you touch on a great example of why this appears to be a smear piece  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-25-10 11:12 AM   #28 
        - The Schakowsky attack was really slimy  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 12:27 PM   #36 
        - Sorry but the connections between the AKP, The Niagara Foundation,  mmonk   Oct-25-10 02:05 PM   #40 
           - Other than Glenn Beck's Chalkboard  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 03:41 PM   #43 
        - The Gulen schools are called madrasas in the other countries  mmonk   Oct-25-10 01:58 PM   #39 
        - And Obama's middle name is Hussein  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 03:24 PM   #42 
           - Why don't you tell me what I'm doing?  mmonk   Oct-25-10 04:46 PM   #52 
              - Madrasa is the arabic word for any type of educational institution  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 04:57 PM   #53 
                 - By other countries, I was speaking of countries, like the US,  mmonk   Oct-25-10 05:22 PM   #55 
                 - He has 25 Billion dollars and has schools all over the world.  mmonk   Oct-25-10 05:34 PM   #56 
                    - What is the Walton family getting as a "political price"?  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 05:59 PM   #59 
                       - You really don't care that taxes are going to religious schools?  madfloridian   Oct-25-10 06:03 PM   #60 
                       - I care deeply - I haven't seen one shred of evidence these are "religious schools"  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 06:21 PM   #62 
                       - You are barking up the wrong tree.  mmonk   Oct-25-10 06:28 PM   #64 
                       - and where does it go?  Hannah Bell   Oct-25-10 11:25 PM   #82 
                       - There are pages linked in my posts.  madfloridian   Oct-25-10 06:30 PM   #65 
                          - You seem not to understand something  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 07:00 PM   #67 
                             - You read way too much into what I posted.  madfloridian   Oct-25-10 07:09 PM   #71 
                             - You said "religious schools"  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 07:23 PM   #73 
                                - Yes, it is too much to ask when you can read the links for yourself.  madfloridian   Oct-25-10 07:27 PM   #75 
                             - !! scimitars!  dionysus   Oct-25-10 11:47 PM   #86 
                             - I had the sad experience of attending PUBLIC schools in the South.  olegramps   Oct-29-10 09:23 AM   #102 
                       - is it a "religious school" because a muslin is tangentially related to it?  dionysus   Oct-25-10 11:45 PM   #85 
                       - Nothing geo-political.  mmonk   Oct-25-10 06:06 PM   #61 
                       - lol. you can't figure it out?  Hannah Bell   Oct-25-10 11:34 PM   #83 
        - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-25-10 04:22 PM   #48 
           - They are really death camps, not charter schools?  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 04:38 PM   #50 
     - The article did not call the charter school a madrasa.  madfloridian   Oct-25-10 10:42 AM   #20 
     - Isn't it annoying when immigrants bring their crap to the US?  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 10:48 AM   #22 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-25-10 04:45 PM   #51 
        - "Discovery School Of Tulsa is arranging Field Trips to Science Museum of Oklahoma, Omniplex"  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 05:03 PM   #54 
     - Zero evidence....NO, the evidence exists....  kaelot   Oct-25-10 05:44 PM   #57 
        - Thanks kaelot.  mmonk   Oct-25-10 05:55 PM   #58 
        - So these charter schools in Oklahoma  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 06:24 PM   #63 
        - Good question!  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-25-10 08:11 PM   #76 
           - A lot of late night 7/11 clerks are Turks!  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 09:10 PM   #77 
        - hookay sir trollalot...  dionysus   Oct-25-10 11:50 PM   #88 
  - By whose definition?  madfloridian   Oct-25-10 03:06 PM   #41 
     - People here ever since the Schakowsky incidence.  mmonk   Oct-25-10 03:58 PM   #45 
     - I do  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-25-10 04:10 PM   #47 
        - I guess she was totally wrong about Dennis Hastert wasn't she.  cascadiance   Oct-25-10 11:15 PM   #80 
           - He is a lobbyist that is certain  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-25-10 11:48 PM   #87 
              - I think you need to explain WHERE you think she is lying. I don't see it!  cascadiance   Oct-26-10 12:10 AM   #93 
  - 8 Catholic schools, an evangelical school in FL, 4 NY schools, 1 in PA  madfloridian   Oct-25-10 10:38 AM   #19 
  - The article reads like freeper "muslim" hysteria.  sufrommich   Oct-25-10 10:49 AM   #23 
  - They are getting taxpayer money. That is my gripe.  madfloridian   Oct-25-10 10:55 AM   #25 
  - The schools discussed in the OP are not "religious schools"  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 11:11 AM   #27 
  - You need to read more about the schools.  madfloridian   Oct-25-10 11:38 AM   #31 
     - Being against charter schools is one thing,using freeper  sufrommich   Oct-25-10 12:08 PM   #33 
     - I'm aware of the problems of charter schools  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 12:21 PM   #34 
        - Because they are getting our tax money that should go to public schools  madfloridian   Oct-25-10 12:26 PM   #35 
           - You're skirting the real issue some of us have with this.  sufrommich   Oct-25-10 12:32 PM   #37 
              - Yep...  JuniperLea   Oct-25-10 06:36 PM   #66 
                 - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-25-10 07:02 PM   #68 
                    - New personal rule...  JuniperLea   Oct-25-10 07:08 PM   #70 
                       - Um... What insult?  jberryhill   Oct-25-10 07:22 PM   #72 
                          - ahhh... gotcha... pardon my terse response!  JuniperLea   Oct-25-10 07:25 PM   #74 
  - Funny that the article only seeks to whip up hysteria about  sufrommich   Oct-25-10 11:16 AM   #30 
  - Exactly!! nt  CBR   Oct-25-10 11:12 AM   #29 
  - No fucking charter schools! They are Trojan horses for anyone willing to run one. nt  thereismore   Oct-25-10 11:44 AM   #32 
  - Wow. Sibel Edmonds is a fraud and it's all fine as long as they don't require burkas as  Greyhound   Oct-25-10 12:40 PM   #38 
  - The only thing Edmonds has done with great skill is  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-25-10 04:01 PM   #46 
  - yeah, burkas: way beyond the pale. us tax dollars supporting private religions,  Hannah Bell   Oct-25-10 11:20 PM   #81 
  - K & R nt  laughingliberal   Oct-25-10 09:23 PM   #79 
  - The Recs on this thread are a monument to willfull ignorance  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-25-10 11:44 PM   #84 
  - the bev harris of today.  dionysus   Oct-25-10 11:59 PM   #89 
  - And for you to call her a liar, either you have to be an FBI insider or...  cascadiance   Oct-26-10 12:09 AM   #92 
     - One need not be an FBI insider to find gargantuan flaws in Edmond's stories  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-26-10 01:01 PM   #96 
        - I would assert that YOU have absolutely no idea of what her job was!  cascadiance   Oct-26-10 05:10 PM   #98 
  - Gulen's mystifying agenda begs a lot of scrutiny from my point of view... Shadow of the Holy Book...  cascadiance   Oct-26-10 12:01 AM   #90 
  - Gives you a pain in your chest ... especially when Obama/Duncan are pushing Charter schools ....  defendandprotect   Oct-26-10 12:05 AM   #91 
  - Gulen charter schools  RRF1966   Oct-26-10 12:31 AM   #94 
  - Thanks for the information.  olegramps   Oct-29-10 10:19 AM   #103 
  - I did not realize the hatred against Edmonds.  madfloridian   Oct-26-10 12:40 AM   #95 
     - I do not hate Edmonds  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-26-10 01:08 PM   #97 
        - Vinnie, go get the "Shadow of the Holy Book" DVD and watch it and come back here later...  cascadiance   Oct-26-10 05:17 PM   #99 
           - why it's wrong  RRF1966   Oct-28-10 05:48 AM   #100 
           - Thanks for the information.  olegramps   Oct-29-10 10:52 AM   #104 
           - Thanks for the information.  olegramps   Oct-29-10 10:52 AM   #105 
 

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