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(Lawyers again)

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So are any lawyers gonna' defend themselves here?

Kim: Corporations run this country, period. The lunatic fringes on both sides---on ALL sides---make a lot of noise but corporations control things. I love being a consumer and I love some of the stuff that corporations bring us but they control this place, not anybody else.

As for liberal educators, don't send your kid to those colleges. Doesn't (the late) Jerry Falwell have Liberty University? Send your kid(s) there. There are plenty of conservative colleges and professors out there. Do your homework and don't send your kid to a school with staff you don't agree with politically.

By the way, most college kids are liberal-ish because they're poor college kids and are feeling rebellious from being out on their own for the first time. They're also under intense pressure to get good grades and to succeed so they rebel against the pressure by lashing-out at authority (or hitting the keg). Ten years from now they will be invested in the American Dream and will slowly become more conservative and fall in love with making (and keeping) money. It happened to the Baby-Boomers. They exploded in the 1960s and brought us free love, free drugs, free sex, anti-war movements, acid rock, and on and on. Then they turned 25 and said to themselves, "Hey, I'd better get my s-it together and start making money because this colloge-kid poverty thing SUCKS." They went to Harvard and Wellesley and got their MBAs and law degrees and dove into the stock market in the booming 1980s. They may have hated Reagan publicly but they loved their stock portfolio's performance. Now many of the Boomers are very well off and although they wear old tie-dyed T-shirts to mow the grass, they drive BMW SUVs and Porsche Cayenne turbos and watch their stock portfolios VERY closely as they sip their Starbucks Chi tea.*

Getting back to your kids, you need to educate your children as much as you can yourself (you and the spouse) while they are growing up. Then, when some professor begins to spout his/her ideology in the classroom your child can say, "Wait a minute, that's your opinion and I have my own." It's up to parents to get their kids ready for life's little tests so that they can identfy BS and propaganda when they hear it. Don't send your kid to a college until you have done some investigation first. If they're too liberal then go somewhere else, it's like a radio dial: don't like what you hear? Switch stations or turn the damn thing off. You have freedom of choice in the United States and you can say no thank you and take your business elsewhere.

I had a few opinionated professors in college and I knew when they were sneaking-in their views in class. (That was the Reagan era and many profs would work-in their anti-Reagan views in History and Poli-Sci classes.) Lucky for me I had great parents who talked to their kids a LOT while we were growing up so I knew bull when I heard it--all kinds of bull from all angles. You have to skim that crap off the top to get to the information you need. The propaganda bounced off of me (okay, I think some of you are disagreeing with that) and I did my work and passed my exams and got the hell out of there. If you don't like a school's point of view then you have to either voice your disagreement and try to change things or move your kid out of there.

GET INVOLVED. Volunteer at your kids' schools. Get to know their teachers and other parents and what the curriculum is at the school. Don't just bitch about it, get involved. My kids come home and ask all kinds of questions all the time and my wife and I spend a lot of time explaining things to them. It's called raising your children. I try to allow them to keep an open mind and I try not pepper the explanation with too much of my own ideas. I try to present information neutrally and let them grasp the information for themselves and form their own points of view. Granted, they will grow up and be a lot like me in many ways but I want them to be themselves and make their own decisions. If they decide to be politically different than me then that's fine, just as long as they come by the house and have dinner once in a while.

*In 1985 when I was in college in the Bay Area I heard that Gerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead had been arrested in Golden Gate Park for posession (of illegal drugs). He was found passed-out in his--get this--BMW! So Mr. Flower-Power, Captain Trips, the father of the Summer of Love and free everything was found passed-out in his BEEMER! I laughed my ass off! What, a 1958 VW Bus isn't good enough for ya Gerry???? I hammered my liberal-ish friends on that one. I love the Dead but they loved their money just as much as any Reagan conservative--or anyone else with a brain does.

Time to drive more deck screws.