   'Help Mom !  There are liberals under my bed !'
Wow, just... wow.I'd like to discuss SOMETHING about this but I'm speechless.  Partly because of the book, but mostly about the reviews it got.  Can there still be political debate in America, or is is really down to a bi-partisan mug-slinging fest... forever ?  I mean, with hundreds of people actually taking the time to tell the world that they appreciate that authors "teach their children about the evil of the liberal agenda" is pretty sad indeed.   
  Meh.  I don't like "Lies and the Lying Liers Who Tell Them,"  either.  This just looks like childish, poorly-done humor - I really don't think it was intended to be a serious book for the purposes of teaching children the evils of a certain point of view.  If people really do buy this for their children, take solace in the fact that natural selection has maintained a strong gene pool for millions of years.   ;  Getting young kids involved politcal debates through childrens books =  (I am not specifically referring to anti-liberal books but this is the only book of this kind I have seen).EDIT: Of course, I haven't read the book, so it might not be as bad as I think it is.  I kind of doubt it though.   ;  Both sides of the mainstream media are completely and utterly delusional.Frankly, I only trust ONE source of news anymore. You know who it is? Jon Stewart.   ;  In The Santaland Diaries, David Sedaris had a rather poignant anecdote, from working as a Santa's Elf at a mall, which seems relevant:Quote:A child came to Santa this morning and his mother said, "All right, Jason. Tell Santa what you want. Tell him what you want."Jason said, "I... want... Prokton and... Gamble to... stop animal testing."The mother said, "Proctor, Jason, that's Proctor and Gamble. And what do they do to animals? Do they torture animals? Is that what they do?"Jason said, Yes, they torture. He was probably six years old.;Quote:But when liberals start demanding that Tommy and Lou pay half their money in taxes, take down their picture of Jesus, and serve broccoli with every glass of lemonade, the young brothers experience the downside to living in Liberaland.Liberalism?   ;Quote:Original post by CowardQuote:But when liberals start demanding that Tommy and Lou pay half their money in taxes, take down their picture of Jesus, and serve broccoli with every glass of lemonade, the young brothers experience the downside to living in Liberaland.Liberalism?Unless the book is honestly a jok,e this is quite stupid. Many taxes on small businesses are counter-acted by a lot of the small business grants that were implemented by the liberals AND conservatives. Not only that, but it also goes to programs put in place to assist small business orders.I think that its the kids fault for not doing enough homework... for their... lemonade stand.Yeah.   ;  Stupid me, and I thought that politics require a grown-up mind that collects and evaluates knowledge and socio-economical evidence and then chooses the point of view based on those. Clearly, it's never too early to be caught in the middle of the fight. Yes, even if you're 6 and have absolutely no idea what all those crap mean: Don't worry, your mommy knows.I read that the liberals also published children's books that pushed their political views. Poor kids. I really wish I could lock their idiot parents in the basement and then give to the little fellows a copy of the "Little Prince".  Though I don't remember: was the businessman in the book liberal or republican? What was the fox's views on taxes?   ;  Politics in the US is rapidly approaching the same status as religion - no debate, no thought involved, just supporting whatever your parents did because thats how they were brought up.So many stupid buzz words ('liberal adgenda', 'axis of evil') being banded around - most of which carefully designed to evoke an emotional reaction rather than a rational one.   ;  War Is Peace.Freedome is Slavery.Ignorance Is Strength.It's not all bad, though. At the very least, there are 2 minitrues with opposing agendas so we can see both lies.   