Last paragraph: "None of this bears any weight with me because I do not believe in evolution. However, many of the powers that be believe in evolution and have made many decisions based on it."

But seriously, OP, don't lump all us homeschoolers in with this ignoramus.

this reads as clever satire.

Homeschooled for the pope by a woman who was ejected from her Christian college in the first semester for doing cocaine and women.

(How the hell would you do a satire of THAT?!)

Somebody who has an issue with homeschooling.

The final Commandment:

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

I'm guessing the paper "got it," but who knows nowadays...

The irony of a thumper home schooling saying that totally escapes her.

My God, we are devolving!

I saw it a few days ago and laughed my way through it. I just now realized it's meant to be taken seriously.

No need to get too worked up over what a 14 year old girl says though. We've all said some stupid shit when we were young. I'm sure she is just reciting what her ignorant parents taught her. Once she meets someone who she isn't related to, she might see a lot of things differently.

It reads like something from the Onion and it strikes me as being intended as satire. Of course, its hardly unheard of for a newspaper, or for DUers for that matter, to be fooled by satire. Happens around once a day, it seems.

It didn't occur to me that the paper might not have realized it was satire.

I've known a few Kiwis and this would fit well with their sense of humor.

I'd just like to say to your comment.

Yeah, try blonde.

believe in evolution, she sure based her 'letter' on it.

It's a trick, don't you see? When we get to the statement that she doesn't believe in evolution, we're supposed to be surprised. Do you get it?

Because if it's real, the US is in more trouble than I thought.

and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

from the OP: (published in the October 3 edition of the Northern Outlook in Canterbury, New Zealand)

But it sounds like a joke because it's so ridiculously over the top.

Isn't it sad when you can't tell the satire from the lunacy? There really are people this idiotic in positions of power these days.

Notably, the new, private electric utility, Mercury Energy, practiced deferred maintenance (i.e. just not fixing anything until it broke). This worked just dandy, right up until two of the four lines that supply electricity to all of central Auckland failed. Fix them? Not a chance. Not while there were still two working! Then the third went down, and the fourth.

The most important business district in the country was left in the dark for six weeks.

Because this wasn't written by anyone here in the US.

I've known a few kiwis, and this fits right into their sense of humor.

And yes, it does sound like a NZ sense of humour; it's a lot like my own. Have friends there, too....lots of. Fun bunch.

There are homosexuals throughout the Animal Kingdom.

Hell, there are even asexual types that reproduce without having a male and female.

Still, I won't call home schooling a failure, since there are many who come from such a background that do really well.
At least in math and science, some of them are far ahead than their contemporaries in grade school, at least up to middle school.

The Case of the Necrophiliac Duck
The Guardian, March 8 2005

....Satire

of some arguments my stepkid tried to make when she was that age, when she would try to sound smart and sophisticated.

If it is real, I bet her parents and/or her church put her up to it.

A lot of kids at that age think they know a lot more than they really do know.

Assuming that is a real letter from a real home-schooled 14 year old, it sadly points up how truly ignorant a lot of kids that age actually are. And in her case, the ignorance is compounded by the home-schooling.

Here's the other really important point: Not believing in evolution does NOT make evolution be untrue. Or go away. Things aren't true because enough people believe in them (with perhaps the exception of kinds of value judgements such as whether the books of Stephen King constitute great literature, or whether the movie "2001, A Space Odyssey" is a good movie or just laughably bad), they're true because they are objectively true. The earth did not suddenly become round when people finally understood that it wasn't flat. The sun did not change from revolving around the earth when astronomers figured out it was the other way around. No. The earth was always round. It always revolved around the sun. And so on.

I think the problem with the science deniers is that they never outgrow the intellectual pretensions of a 14 year old.

It wasn't worthy to print.

since this strikes me unequivocally as satire.

In fact, come to think of it, maybe the newspaper got it and decided that it was good satire and thus printed it for that reason.

In any event, the fact that so many on this thread are certain its not satire would be disturbing if it wasn't for the fact that the routine reaction of some DUers to stories in the Onion and Borowitz etc is to treat them as real until its pointed out that they're not.

it automatically makes them less intelligent than us. We have only had indoor plumbing and running water in most households in this country for about 90 years or so. The Romans had both. Hell if Rome had never fallen, we might be exploring deep space by now. During the Middle Ages we lost a ton of knowledge and the advances we did make were in the area of survival such as farming tools and techniques. This "article" proves that in some ways the Romans were far more socially advanced than us, not in every way but in some ways.

The future of our democracy really does depend on the public education of our children.

and that therefore they are made out of wood.

edit: there is a good chance this is a joke, imo.

He or she is also a WITCH!

I don't know about this being a joke. I have met people who ARE that stupid.

Really though, would that be such a bad thing if ducks evolved and took over the dominant role on a global scale?

Could they really do any worse than us?

but, I got better.

and felt a lot better.

Because . . . something . . .

What if we just all had sex with ducks? Would that help?

Or every gay couple had to kill a few ducks before getting married to keep everything in balance.

/hasn't Christianity been around for over 2000 years?

Sounds like a special at Olive Garden.

...there have been many instances of homophobic or hetrosexist bullying.

I may be moving to a senior park that has ducks on their grounds. The ducks probably already know I am coming there.

Last time I was there, I saw a mama duck and her babies, and they were trying to run me off the road. (I was avoiding running them over) Quack! Who said that????? Oh No!!!!!!!!!

I mean, how much more evidence do we need that lunatic parents who isolate their children like this are doing serious harm?

And what about the fundy-dominated Texas Board of Education dictating curriculum to the public schools of the US? If a parent is capable, they should have every right to educate their children themselves.

Probably not.

And the agenda is not the newspaper's but hers.

And I never said the paper had anything to do with it.

Is it hard for someone who hates homeschooling to make such a letter and send it in? Does "Jasmin H" really exist? What are her parents like? We don't know. There is not enough info here.

with no success - and I'm not paying nor registering for yet another newspaper that I'll never go back to.

However, I doubt that someone would go to so much trouble to craft a letter like that to discredit home-schoolers. Many of them seem to be doing just fine when it comes to making themselves look foolish - not all, but many, particularly those of the talibornagain persuasion.

just to be sure there was a real person sending it, but we all know what has happened to editorial standards in recent years...

Who earned his wealth through a life of adventure and exploration.

The only thing Romney has explored was a French draft dodging tour and locations in China where he plans to move our jobs if he gets in the WH.

She said that being gay will enable ducks to take over the world.

Yeah, while we're over here distracted by the homosexuals, a squad of quack infiltrators will try and take over the world. And here I just thought that was a silly canard. It's a devious plot to install Mallard Fillmore as President. Glad we caught this in time.

"Go F*ck a Duck"

Just Google "duck rape" for information about that and necrophiliac behavior among ducks as well. Male ducks have a reputation of being violently sexually aggressive.

On Edit: a typical story on duck homosexuality and necrophilia: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/mar/08/highereducation.research

Properly done, homeschooling can produce superstars like artist Sunaura Taylor

http://sunaurataylor.org/

and our very own Ava Lowrey.

http://www.avalowrey.com/About.html

Poorly done, it produces... ducks.

If it walks like a duck and it swims like a duck and it quacks like a duck it's... homeschooling?

I. am. speechless.

We are Christians, but I had my kids hanging out with the secular homeschooled kids, for good reason.

And if not, she makes the anti-gay crowd look ignorant.

"Jasmin" is poking fun at homophobic, anti-science homeschoolers...

Orwell:

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

Jasmin:

"We will be in danger of all being equal, with ducks more equal than us."

Yep.

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"I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end.”

http://www.famousquotes.com/author/gish/

My, my, my.

but if I believe in evolution as depicted in the duck scenario then I'm not. I mean if you believe in their scenario then believing in gay marriage would be hypocritical. But just like the author I don't believe in evolution as they depicted it. Thus I'm not a hypocrite AND apparently homosexual Roman style orgies don't matter either. I think it is about time someone stood up to BIG DUCK and their fake lobby of heterosexual lies.


Now who can argue with that really.

No, when the ducks get you in the end, that's bestiality. Go talk to Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum, he knows about the temptations some guys feel for their critters.

the ducks will.