She should have written an apology to the Founding Fathers for her Governor's and Principal's attempts to squelch free speech.

That might have caught fire on the interwebs.

Well, she is property of the state you know, as a student in a public school. The principal is "in loco parentis" and thus able to punish her. She has no free speech right. Big Brother is not pleased by a young serf's outburst. Doubleplus ungood.

what an IDIOT.

He could have engaged her on this, and hit it out of the park. She is 18, a newly minted voter, he could have helped her actually engage in a process with an actual public official, regardless if she agrees with him or not.

But now? she sees a politician who doesn't engage with the 'little people'

Oh, Harry, you are a man with a beautiful mind.

Yet another example of the epidemic of cyber-bullying going on in America's schools.

Is no one safe?

He's engaged in a feud with high school students who say bad things about him? Time for the voters to give him his walking papers, perhaps with a reminder the governorship is an "adults only" position.

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furthering demonstrating no doubt to him that everything started to go wrong with this country when they let women have the vote.
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Reminds me of this Australian amateur review of a recent book co-authored by Phyllis Schlafly (no, this review is not a joke, from what I can tell - it has 5 stars):

This is an excellent book.. There is so much good information in here, i've highlighted almost half of the book...

Although, there's a friend of mine who i regularly debate with re. feminism, and i always manage to back her into a corner from where she as a last resort brings up the suffragettes. Unfortunately I don't think this book says much about the vote. I believe that the suffragettes and the feminists have only one thing in common and that is they were both "groups of women". Which is a rather tenuous basis for feminists claiming the suffragettes as their own. Besides, there is a pretty decent set of youtube videos from the "manwomanmyth" website that deals with the voting issue (however i'm not entirely sure how accurate their claims are).

There is another way to look at the voting issue. Think about this: if women didn't have the vote, feminists would never have been able to destroy the world as they have. If you look at almost every female politician (especially in the UK) they seem incapable of speaking for everyone.. they only seem capable of looking after women's interests, selfish ones at that. I used to think that giving women the vote was a good thing, but now I think it's time to take it back, for their sakes, for ours, and for our children's sakes.

To quote Ann Coulter: "women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it ... it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care."

"Brain research in the last five years at Dartmouth and elsewhere has shown that human brains are not fully developed until age 25 and are particularly deficient in their frontal lobes, which control decision-making, rational thinking, judgment, the ability to plan ahead and to resist impulses. Unfortunately, we didn't know that in 1971. Those of you who have made it to age 26 without dying in a stupid drinking game -- and I think congratulations are in order, by the way -- understand how insane it is to allow young people to vote." (could easily be extended to women as well)

My personal opinion is that only families should be allowed to vote (a husband and wife who are married with children of their own). This is because the family unit is the foundation of civilization. Without the "traditional" (read "normal") family, civilization crumbles.. as is plain to see.

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Of course Marcotte couldn't write about it without making it about her.

Sir, I take great umbrage at your remark about Marcotte. After all, it was actually about me, even though I am neither a girl in High School nor have I ever tweeted. Still it must be about me...Marcotte has no clue.

Until Lenona copied it in, my brain must have filled in the spaces here - "furthering demonstrating"

On re-reading... I guess it's not only linguistically challenged me that has things sound right in my head, but not work on the page.

What a pussy.

http://www.eclectipundit.com/2011/11/governor-sam-pussy-brownback.html

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My personal opinion is that only families should be allowed to vote (a husband and wife who are married with children of their own).

Well, there's lots of ways of structuring democracy lenona. Robert Heinlein explored a few in an essay once. Basic intelligence tests before being allowed to vote, pay-to-vote, and so on. But your plan disenfranchises me, a fine, upstanding (*cough*, mostly) member of the community who looks after his neighbours, friends, and family and works to deliver socially constructive projects, but who happens to be single and childless, and hands my vote to trailer trash with 5 kids instead. Who do you think is more likely to vote for more welfare?

Every system has its flaws.

it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.

Just to hammer my point home, you should be arguing for the vote to be restricted to single men then. Families are always going to be in favour of all that, and personally I'm a bit sick of getting bent over on their behalf. I have friends who were bemoaning that they were losing their family tax benefits because their combined income was over $150k (Australian dollars, but roughly comparable in terms of standard of living). Great, I might get to keep a little bit of my money instead of spending it on raising their child.

I think you're wrong anyway, there are plenty of female politicians who are much more rounded than that.

Ltw said:
But your plan disenfranchises me
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Would you please READ a little more carefully?

That was Schlafly's Australian fan's "plan", not mine.

Sorry, but there's nothing to indicate where your opinion stops and the quote starts. Anyway, I stand corrected, now that you point it out I can see what you mean.

Sorry, but there's nothing to indicate where your opinion stops and the quote starts
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How about the colon near the top and the word "end" at the bottom?

Team Brownback's response was heavy handed and a ridiculous expenditure of public expense. But I'm surprised a courtesy advocate is so uncritical of the kid. The approbation of obnoxious behavior is dismaying.

A colon? Indicates a pause in a sentence, nothing more. If you want people to understand you it's worth sticking to established conventions. Quotation marks, italics, blockquote or something would have been nice. I'm sorry I misunderstood, but you need to learn to WRITE more carefully.

A colon? Indicates a pause in a sentence, nothing more.

According to Wikipedia: "A colon [:] informs the reader that what follows the mark proves, explains, or lists elements of what preceded the mark."