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DearAbby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:06 PM Original message |
10-Year-Old Won’t Say Pledge Of Allegiance |
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Happyhippychick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. Awesome kids, wonderful parents. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 08:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
29. +1 n/t |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. I find it really sad that this reporter thinks "scary smart" means "doesn't talk about Spongebob." |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Me, too. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
3. I need to meet these people. They're right down the road from Fayetteville, but I can't |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
4. We began telling our daughter yrs ago she needn't bother with it if she didn't want to |
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DearAbby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
5. I dont understand why they would want children that young |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. It's part of how you get E Pluribus Unum |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. So that by the time they're of corporate Wage Slave age, they're easily duped on numerous counts: |
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StarfarerBill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
7. What courage! |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
8. Meh. I would never use my child this way. I don't think it's healthy. |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 05:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. It doesn't sound like they're using the child |
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GoneOffShore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 05:59 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Thanks for your concern. |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 08:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. It's not healthy to question? |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 08:38 PM Response to Reply #8 |
31. I wouldn't put it past him to be capable of making this decision on his own |
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MerryBlooms (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
10. My best friend in the 6th grade |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
11. The Jehovah's Witness faith took this issue to the Supreme Court. |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
13. When I'm obligated to recite the Pledge, I make it a point to omit the "under God" part. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I just move my lips and pretend like I'm saying the thing |
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DefenseLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
14. The Pledge of Allegiance is not different than McCarthy's Loyalty Oath |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 05:08 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Sorta like a country that has to repeatedly insist & slogan chant about you being "free." |
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subterranean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 06:53 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. Or, in the same vein, a "news" network that has to keep reminding you |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
19. knr!~ |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
20. K&R n/t |
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invader zim (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 06:13 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. unrec..n/t |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
21. We told our kids they should stand, but they don't have to actually say |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
23. A good family, teaching the boy to think for himself. It is amazing |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
25. How many 5th graders truly know their orientation? |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 08:42 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. I had some superficial political opinions around 5th grade |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
26. how dare he not join in the Bismarck-inspired, post-Reconstruction, 1880s groupthink! |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
27. This kid is awesome. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
30. Recommend |
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