He said the state believed children must be “socialized.”

No doubt through learning the distributive property of multiplication.

The Repubs really have let themselves go on the whole “don’t shit where you eat” principle, now that they’re using Citizens United to grift their own candidates and anti-intellectualism has hollowed out any sense of what words actually mean from anyone on their team.

I do believe it was Tbogg who predicted that within our lifetimes we’d start seeing reports of people being hospitalized or even dying because they were sticking their tongues in outlets to find out what electricity tastes like. Stories such as this bring us just. that. much. closer. to the event horizon of stupidity.

Yeah, sorry Krauts, too bad you weren’t born into Idiot America, then your paranoid babbling and child abuse would be cherished as a way to slap at teacher’s unions. Compulsory public education, honest talk about sexuality and freethinking has no place in this country! It’s a shame you have to suffer it over there.

Ah, a graphic with a Nina Hagen reference. And I did not think my love for this place could grow further…

The kinda-sorta downside is that now I’ll have to live with the Lene Lovitch ‘Lucky Number’ earworm for a bit.

Thank God for folks like the Uwes for leaving the Vaterland and relocating to this beacon on the hill where their sacred liberty to home school their kinder will help make the world safe from the Teutonic hordes of socialized socialists who would otherwise invade Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, or the USSR.

He said the state believed children must be “socialized.”

So German children are forced to “socialize” with others their own age, instead of being locked up at home where their parents can lie to them and call it an education? Welche Grausigkeiten! (that’s CommieNazi speak for “quelle horreurs” – but you all might know that, since you were all obviously indoctrinated in some Jeebus-forsaken – ugh! – public school.)

It’s a simple game of self respect.

He wants to know the names of all those he’s better than.

They will return. They will not burn.

No doubt whitey-righties will be all on the side of Uwe & Eva Braun because they’re: a) WHITE, b) Christian-y, c) WHITE, d) anti-education, e) WHITE. But sadly, Uwe & Eva Braun did immigrate here from socialistNAZIland, so there is that strike against them.

Well, well; the things you learn… Not allowing home skooling is just one of the many ways that the Germans are out-performing us on the world stage. No wonder they rate higher on the ‘functional society that provides for its citizens’ scale.

I wonder if our little proposed refugee family is aware that medical care/insurance here is basically IGMFU, instead of part of your entry-level citizenship package in Germany. Could be a bit of a shock, depending on where you grew up and all that.

Now that Hugo Chavez ist todt, maybe they should try their luck in Venezuela.

Someone should ask them how much they paid for medical bills for each of their “kinder”

Basically nothing is my guess.

That damn socialized medicine!

I, too, am opposed to “socialization” through socializing. That’s why my offspring will be raised in Skinner boxes.

Why do other countries drive their wingnuts to America. How many wingnuts does America need?

Your mention of Jesus and his pet velociraptor reminded me of my favorite Psalm (#23, cuz of blood and death and zombies and shit)

“Yea, though I walk my diprotodon through the valley of the shadow of death I fear not much for he weigheth 2800 pounds and hath big fucking teef…”

This article keeps reminding me of Heino. Heino and Nina did a cover of “Hi-Lili Hi-Lo” where he sings “Hi-Nina, Hi-Nina” and she sings “Hei-no!” The man with the deep voices and sunglasses is back in the news with a new album of covers from bands that all want to repudiate him for quoting Hitler in a press conference. And his wife’s name is Hannelore, too.

In other news, I love the link to the Lynyrd Pykwff article. He’ll set us straight! If you can’t be objective, the next best thing is to be Objectivist (or whatever his room in the splintering Temple of Rand is called). (Splitter!)

Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, what kind of fresh hell is this—the Rethugs are trying to import fucking Nazis to breed with their hillbilly goopers in Tennessee?

Is this some kind of secret Koch Brothers Lebensborn Program?
We’re gonna have bands of Tea Party Storm Goopers running around the country with banjos and BushMasters?

Please tell me you’re kidding me, Tbogg.

This couple has only six kids? What pishers.

He said the state believed children must be “socialized.”

Methinks their disdain for “socialization” will take a sudden drop when they get a glimpse of their first monthly health insurance bill, once their wingnut welfare benefactors see no more publicity value in subsidizing their Deutsche Jesus-circus geeks.

Deutschland uber alles. Those kraut eating teutonic techies have five times as much solar energy as the exceptionally fossil fuel dependent USA.

The USA probably has more than five times as many billionaires, and five times as many drones and five times as many Generals with mistresses.

Velociraptor ???

Meh. In a way I’d like to see home-schooling be easier, if it means that Jesus freaks and right-wing nutcases can simply remove their spawn from the educational system instead of demanding that textbooks be written to accommodate their, ahem, special needs. If Ma and Pa Farris think that the only education their little Timmy needs is a curriculum of prayer breakfasts and Veggie Tales then, fine, let them do it so long as it means they’re not shitting up school for the rest of us.

Maybe they’re upset that Frau Merkel is not turning out to be quite the Iron Lady they were expecting her to be.

She now wants the CDU to introduce a minimum wage and over the weekend one of her closest allies signalled the party may also be ready to abandon its opposition giving gay couples the same preferential tax treatment as married heterosexuals.

“The CDU isn’t what it used to be,” said Gerd Langguth, a political scientist at Bonn University. “It’s sacrificing more and more of its conservative core values. That may turn off some of conservative voters but could help Merkel win the election.”

It’s hard out there for a Conservative pimp.

“The Obama administration is basically saying there is no right to home school anywhere”, said Michael Farris, founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association. “It’s an utter repudiation of parental liberty and religious liberty.”

Making up any old shit that strokes his ego, then calling it the “gospel” truth.

Not only that, Ferris is also demanding the rest of society pick up the slack for all the uneducated dip-shits the fundies dump into society by invoking that most magical of words, “Liberty“.

This is the fundamental problem we are having to deal with in this country right now and the 1 percenters apparently see a stupid and frightened United States as more profitable.

It is considered sane to; make up a Creator Of The Universe, claim you are a carbon-copy of that creator and thus entitled to special treatment, and the louder you repeat the Paranoid Voices in your head you claim are coming from ‘God’ the holier you are than everyone else.

Is the title from Elvis Costello’s Two Little Hitlers ?

It would appear you are correct, Madam/Sir!

[Chorus:]
Two little Hitlers will fight it out until
One little Hitler does the other one’s will
I will return
I will not burn
Down in the basement

I’ll have to track that down on You-Tube later; don’t know that I’ve ever heard it.

So – any of those ANCHOR-KINDER???

Damn illegal immigrants. Where are McCain and Graham on this issue?

Maybe we can build a fence around Germany. Or maybe a wall? Oh, right. Never mind.

In liberal-speak, Democrats are never evil (like those nasty, hateful Republicans); they are either weak, stupid, or cowardly. To suggest that Democrats are anything other than blundering, inept, fearful do-gooders is to be pejoratively labeled a dissident ‘cynic’, as if that’s such a bad thing. For the record, I’m a proud cynic and I loathe both Democrats and Republicans equally along with the capitalist organized crime syndicate currently masquerading as the US Government, which they both fervently and faithfully serve.

Of course the cynics are right; they usually are, which makes them unpopular. So what else is new? People have been hiding from the truth and clinging to irrational belief systems since the beginning of time. Besides, it’s always easier to cast aspersions on the cynics (Wikileaks/Julian Assange) rather than confront uncomfortable truths, such as, say, Democrats are evil, vile cretins who will lie, cheat, and steal from the public in service to the ruling class, just like, gulp, Republicans. Of course, collective cognitive dissonance leading to visceral disdain for truth is the goal of all well-run disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and the Democrats continue to reap the benefit of the doubt through this media-generated, cowardly lion-act from their faithful followers despite an historical record of subservience to the capitalist ruling class stretching back over the better part of a century.

To clear up any misconceptions: Democrats are not stupid, they are not weak, and they are not cowardly. If those claiming to be liberals and progressives who insist upon defending the honor of the Democrats would intently focus on what Democrats actually ‘do’, as opposed to what they ‘wish’ they would do (if they weren’t so cowardly and weak), they would understand and see what the Democrats truly ‘are’.

If you allow yourself to look at and understand the relevant evidence, which now stretches back for a hundred years, you’ll see that the Democrats want, indeed they fervently desire, zealously advocate and bring into an increasingly nightmarish reality an aggressively, criminally violent, interventionist foreign policy and a constantly growing authoritarian-surveillance state at home.

Today, and with as much detestable enthusiasm as the Republicans bring to the task, the Democrats seek to enrich and empower the ruling class still more as they simultaneously oppress, brutalize, impoverish and murder those who are not members of the ruling class.

The Democrats will oppress, brutalize, impoverish and murder those who are not the ruling class, BUT — since they are mercifully not crazy, not like those frothing, sputtering, Neanderthal Republicans — the Democrats will know exactly what they’re doing every step of the way. But in their hearts, the Democrats actually know these are horrible things to do, but, well, ya see, they just can’t help it. They’re weak.

I wonder how strongly the Home School Legal Defense Fund would defend this family if they were Latino. Or Gay.

If you allow yourself to look at and understand the relevant evidence, which now stretches back for a hundred years, you’ll see that the Democrats want, indeed they fervently desire, zealously advocate and bring into an increasingly nightmarish reality an aggressively, criminally violent, interventionist foreign policy and a constantly growing authoritarian-surveillance state at home.

Ah hah haha haha haha ahah! Who wound up this guy’s crank?

TL;DR. Also, skimmed for too many unicorn words and hit maximum within first sentence.

Nina Hagen.

I just… no words. I kind of like the vid, to be honest.

We’ll soon be acquiring a puppy (maybe two) to fill up the space recently vacated by our beloved Ceci. Of course, we’ll be frequently visiting the local dog park to socialize the new family additions. And thanks to Tbogg, we now have names for our new pups: Adolf and Eva!

@jimbo: Thanks for the (not so) new take on the “both sides do it” malarkey. Well-played, sir, well played.

Shorter Jimbo: I have no family or friends so I am here to bore you . Ready? Ahem…. Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrttttt.

You may now applaud. I’ll wait.

problem is: little timmy farris *will* grow up and *will* get elected to congress and *will* be a pain in the ass for the rest of us.

Jimbo!’s post proves that even a home-skuled edumacation is better than no education at all. More words don’t equal concise thoughts. Just because you can put subjects and objects together into sentences that can be diagrammed in any high school English class does not prove that you are stating actual facts or professing an interesting, yet alternative viewpoint.

Maybe you can’t fix stupid. But we can always point and laugh at it. Here, Jimbo!, have a taste of electricity.

It’s hard to take any rant seriously that doesn’t mention The Dronez….

Bingo, Jimbo. This poster forgets to remind us of his Little Hitler.

You forgot to mention ‘moar sheeple’.

Thanks Wendy! You folks’ rants certainly merit mention of ‘moar sheeple’….

I am old.

Late to the party as usual but here goes : Jon Stewart last night ‘reported’ on the generals being in concensus that America needed to better educate its very young in order for them to stay in school, successfully graduate with high grades, & enter the military so their education could be put to good use!!!!!

words fail…