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jigs

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my kid brought home his weekly reader and it has a big story on returning the plains to native lands, where fox, buffalo, and prairie dogs run free. it sickened me!!! I fired off an email to them.....I was very tactful in calling them out as liberal journalists. I was also very polite in directing them to remove thier head from their arse.

did it do any good????? probably not. all I did was fuel the fire that burns in a liberals heart, and uphold the sterio type of the wacko radical Kansas farmer.

but I sure felt better!
 

katrina

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Good for you... Sometimes ya just have to stand up for what you believe in........ I even send them the picture of you in your husker shirt giving us the bird....... :D :D
 

jigs

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katrina said:
Good for you... Sometimes ya just have to stand up for what you believe in........ I even send them the picture of you in your husker shirt giving us the bird....... :D :D

when I fly the bird in a husker shirt, it flys for ONE person only!

I am a monogomous bird flyer!
 

Red Robin

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Here's a weekly reader type publication but I think it's monthly. It has a much more conservative (true) slant.

It's a pdf file
http://www.gwnews.com/files/TS0506_25.pdf
 

sw

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Hey jigs, put the email address on here so they can get some more emails from the people that grow their food, cloth them and give them something to build their shelters with. If we don't call them on this they think they think they got away with it. The other 98.5% of the US population needs to know the truth. GOOOOO JIGS :evil: :mad:
 

nonothing

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If this land is owned by the government or donated privately.what is wrong with a native or better term natural habitat park....I do not think taking a farmers land away to do it is fair and would be wrong........But I remember as a child going to Elk island park (nature reserve) as a bigggg day...They had buffalo,elk,deer and many other type of wild life there...Not sure If you people ever been to Jasper or Banff Alberta, but some who have may tell you it is the most beautiful area they have ever seen.....again it is a national park,and one where the native or natural land still exist as best it can....I don't know the whole story on the Kansas idea,but instead of using the word native try nature.....Zoo's should not be the only place to see animals that are native to your certain part of the country.........just my opinion......
 

montana cowgurl

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oh man i hated those stupid magazines, and we had to answer those questions on em too, in grade school. last year we had a class called "current events" and we had to read, answer questions, and takes tests on Newsweek magazines. wasn't too happy about that either....
 

Faster horses

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One thing about it, jigs, if you DON'T say anything, for sure nothing
will change.

I read "Ranger Rick" in the dentist office once, it was really environmentally slanted. This particular issue was about WOLVES,
no less. I had a meeting with the dentist, showed him what was wrong
with the article, and guess what?????? Ranger Rick is no longer
in the waiting room.

Sometimes you just need to take the time
to explain things.
 

sw

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nonothing you have to be kidding. This is all private land from Kansas to Montana that these people want to put back to "nature", as it was intended to be before the white man came and screwed it all up. Apparently you have never heard or read of the Buffalo Commons concept. The big thing that these proponents have never thought about is where are they going to get the wheat, corn, beef, etc that is produced from this whole area. They are not making any more land on this earth, we cannot make 1/4 of the US into a playground for the buffs and the wolves so that the enviro whackos can feel good aobut themselves. We now have over 300 million people to feed in this country alone. In your spare time, look up Agenda 21 of the UN and look at the map of the Western Hemisphere and see just where they are going to allow you to live.
 

IL Rancher

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Hey, I loved Ranger Rick as a kid FH... I don't know, maybe I was different but I always understood the difference between slanted stuff and truth. Maybe it was my dad taking me hunting and reading old outdoors books about trapping and stuff but I don't think Ranger Rick or the NWF books ever slanted me into being an environmental nut job... The NWF had some real nice pictures in it all the time..
 

CattleArmy

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Weekly readers are timeless most of us had them in our classrooms and today they are still used as educational tools. So one article wasn't agreed with does that make the whold publication bad?
 

CattleArmy

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I agree that Ranger Rick is a good publication for preschool children. The pictures are fantastic and the material is down at their level. I think sometimes people look to much into material instead of enjoying it with the enthusiasm that a child does.
 

jigs

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enjoying my children at the price of brainwashing millions of others??? I don't think so!!!

the liberal slanted story, combined with a teachers union im mt mind is gas and a match. these young minds around the nation will be shaped into a green party mind set. it always starts small, and before you know it, it is a huge problem!
 

IL Rancher

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Woooo Faster Horses... Didn't say it wasn't slanted just said as a kid I was able to pick and choose and enjoy the magazine for what it was and wasn't. It was anti logging and anti everythign 20 or so years ago. Just saying it didn't turn me into an Earth First member or someone who is against utilizing natural resources..

I can still get enjoyment out of reading and looking at pictures even if I don't agree with everything the author is trying to say. I love reading with a passion and will read just about anything.. From some things I learn and from others I do my best to forget what they had to say but I almost always enjoy it. I even have been know to read the dreaded New York Times from time to time (Although it has been years but I had to do something when I worked in chicago to help pass the times when we only had 50 orders in a day).. I have environmental books on the shelf, heck even an Edward Abbey book that I had to read 7-8 years ago but I also have a capatilistic environment book that is interesting..... If nothing else I just enjoy getting an hour or two away from the world everyonce in a while and read a book in a quit place with no phones ringing, radios playing or tvs blaring and no cows bellowing in my ear.. It reloads me.

Do your best to teach your kids/grandkids/nieces and nephews/ whomever what is important and what is not, make sure their head is screwed on as straight as possible and a magazine like Ranger Rick isn't going to turn them into the next member of Buffalo nation..
 

Red Robin

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I find it interesting when I hear parents saying "I'm going to raise my kids with exposure to all ideas and let them decide for themselves about religion , politics, morals, etc. " I don't think our school system is quite that noble. They have a slant to their handouts, their books and their material.
 

Faster horses

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I was merely pointing out if you read Ranger Rick now, that you might
see it differently than when you were a child.

These environmental whackos know that reaching kids at an
impressionable age is very important. And what better way to do
it than through a magazine that portrays an envrionmentalist
as a hero for them? What do we, in agriculture, have available in
schools to balance the scale? See what I mean? What they read is pretty
much one-sided.

I listened to Bruce Vincent speak, and he was the one that alerted us
to what is going on with Ranger Rick, Weekly Reader, etc. Oh, yea,
I was a die-hard Weekly Reader fan. It crushed me to find out there
is an agenda there.

IL Rancher, I would say you are a very well balanced person.
I appreciate your posts and your insights. My comment was not meant
as a put-down. I bet your kids are fine reading RR or WR. But many
kids only get one side of the story.
 

IL Rancher

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Wel, my kids aren't reading anything yet although the one is starting to learn.. Growing up on a farm/ranch she isn't going to be overlly affected by any of those movies/magazines that demonize ranching because she lives it.... She already knows that the hamburgers are from our cows, the lamb is from our sheep and the chicken she is eating is the chick that she fed 4 months ago.

She is a good kid for the most part although sometimes a little more energetic than Dad is after working cows all day.

My nieces and nephews who live in the Chicago area are a bit different but they are more into video games than reading ranger rick or whatever.... The only one that does read is into fatasy stuff much to the disapointment of his grandmother, lol. They are mostly okay, although I... dread must be the word I am looking for... yeah, dread the day grandpa sends out his grandsons to work here one summer because he thinks they are growing up sissys or something.. Already know his youngest son will be out here sometime in his teenage years... That will be... interesting.


Gotta tell ya, I have never read the youth ersion of the weekly reader and only read a college version once or twice I think... Too many textbooks back than to read and to much fun to have going out... I think Ispent too much time going out and not enough time with the text books..

Gosh, I wish it would dry out so I could get to balling again... MAybe this afternoon but I doubt it.. Rain tonight and tomorrow again.. Making me nervous.
 
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