It's DATA MINING!! ROFLMAO

[proud2BlibKansan]

I have spent the evening having an online discussion with a wingnut Obama hater who is just appalled by the Obama speech to kids on Tuesday. Good gawd, the stupid. After making comments about Hitler youth, he posted this:

It's not BO talking to the kids that's the problem. Bush and Clinton have both done that.

No, it's the list of activities before, during, and after the talk that are creepy. I mean, the hell? What three words stood out to you? What can you do to support BO? And our tax dollars were spent to prep that crap?

So I replied:

It's called a lesson plan

And those elements are very common.

Good grief. The sillies are really out tonight freaking out about this. Another chance to compare Obama to Hitler! Whoopee!!

(Shh. Don't tell them about the little boy who cried wolf. It's better that we all ignore them anyway.)

Keep your kids home on Tuesday and tell them you don't want them to hear the president's address. It's your right as a parent. And the parents who want their kids to hear this historic address can send their kids to school to hear it.

Problem solved. Now back to death panels!!

And he said:

It's not teaching

you moron, it's data mining.

It's crossing a line of what the president was elected to do, as BO has kept doing time and time again. He is not supposed to be involved in teaching plans or using the ED to interact with young impressionable minds when their parents can't be present.

[Horse with no Name]

1. Ignorance breeds ignorance

I've never been a fan of homeschooling--but these ignorant fucks need to duct tape themselves inside their homes so that their precious spawn aren't influenced by the outside world.

[create.peace]

2. i homeschooled my kids for the most part and my children were 'in' the world, not kept out of it!...

don't throw all homeschoolers in the same hat.

[Horse with no Name]

3. Wasn't a broad brush

I just stated if these ignorant fucks want to keep their kids stupid, then they need to keep them home and keep them stupid there.

[create.peace]

9. Okay, i get it!nt

[aquart]

4. I'm sure they were.

And you're opinion of that is all that is necessary. For this and for any other question they might have.

[create.peace]

6. i don't really understand your comment....sorry.nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Neither do I

But it's late :shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. You have to admit

some parents homeschool to keep their kids in a bubble away from the evils or whatever they fear. Certainly not all, but some.

Remember that scene in Jesus Camp:)

[create.peace]

10. definitely, but in the northwest so many liberal parents homeschool, and the more i hear about these

schools.....i really do feel for the teachers, i don't blame them.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. I have a friend who is a great progressive and homeschools

Her kids will be listening to Obama on Tuesday. :)

[zbdent]

13. I wonder how much popularity "homeschooling" enjoys when you factor in

that teachers are required BY LAW to report suspected child abuse / sexual abuse ...

[bleever]

11. Apparently, word of the mandatory brain-needles was leaked prematurely.

To anyone who fears that the mandatory brain-needles ("brain-permaports" is the preferred term) inserted into the base of the skulls of every child K through 12 are there to extract genetic material, or to implant some kind of chip: don't worry.



It does both.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. And yet another reason for health care reform!

:)

[Quasimodem]

14. Those parents may already be data mining their kids.

Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats

By DEBORAH YAO (AP) – 2 days ago

Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered.

Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and send back data on what kids are saying about such things as movies, music or video games. The information is then offered to businesses seeking ways to tailor their marketing messages to kids.

"This scares me more than anything I have seen using monitoring technology," said Parry Aftab, a child-safety advocate. "You don't put children's personal information at risk."

The company that sells the software insists it is not putting kids' information at risk, since the program does not record children's names or addresses. But the software knows how old they are because parents customize its features to be more or less permissive, depending on age.

Five other makers of parental-control software contacted by The Associated Press, including McAfee Inc. and Symantec Corp., said they do not sell chat data to advertisers.

One competitor, CyberPatrol LLC, said it would never consider such an arrangement. "That's pretty much confidential information," said Barbara Rose, the company's vice president of marketing. "As a parent, I would have a problem with them targeting youngsters."

Full Story Here

[WeDidIt]

15. I don't think that means what he thinks it means

/Inigo Montoya

[lunatica]

16. Tell him he just argued against himself

and made our point for you. Asking for children's input isn't datamining. It's teaching children to think in terms of problem solving and being civic minded. Then ask him if he was ever taught to express his own ideas or if he was taught just to take tests only.

[spanone]

17. the depths of their ignorance is astounding.