Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

[BaneOfTheBeast]

I thought most places south of Concord did?

[dalebert]

I was shopping for filters recently. Every single one of them "brags" about how they don't remove "beneficial" flouride from water. 

[BaneOfTheBeast]

This is interesting: http://www.fluorideresearch.org/381/files/38111-22.pdf
"SUMMARY: A four-part study explores possible connections between water
fluoridation and crime in America."

[kola]

the truth is out there.

some would rather not know, Bane.

Kola

[ThePug]

[John Edward Mercier]

You'd have to check the various municipal systems. But some lead from older fixtures leaches.
NH does have a methyl mercury problem caused by midwest coal burning. The State issued a warning on consumption of freshwater fish many years ago because of this.

[Russell Kanning]

I thought most places south of Concord did?

I believe Manchester is floride free.
We could check to see if our friends there are losing IQ points.

[BaneOfTheBeast]

the truth is out there.

some would rather not know, Bane.

Kola

Hence the state of this country...

[BaneOfTheBeast]

I thought most places south of Concord did?

I believe Manchester is floride free.
We could check to see if our friends there are losing IQ points.

Manchester is definitely fluoridated.  There was a big to-do about it in 2000.
http://www.manchesternh.gov/CityGov/WTR/FAQ.html

[grasshopper]

  I think it is 15 or 17, enjoy the list you newbies, we already have it!!  (evil laugh)


Communist Goals (1963)
Documention below

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Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963



Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

[J’raxis 270145]

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

Sounds like typical social-conservative whining. Some of the stuff in the whole list is certainly legitimately part of Communist attempts to take over the world. But including items like the above sounds to me like the author was just upset at social progress (toward a freer society) and had to attribute everything he didn't like to Communists.

[Russell Kanning]

Manchester is definitely fluoridated.  There was a big to-do about it in 2000.
http://www.manchesternh.gov/CityGov/WTR/FAQ.html

bummer

[Raineyrocks]

I have well water and we had it tested before we bought our house but lately the water is really hard, my daughter was filling up the tub and the water was all yellow, (no she didn't pee in it).  So anyways I bought a couple of gravity filters for the shower heads and they have really helped my skin and hair, no more rusty smell in the water either.

[dalebert]

I have well water and we had it tested before we bought our house but lately the water is really hard, my daughter was filling up the tub and the water was all yellow, (no she didn't pee in it).  So anyways I bought a couple of gravity filters for the shower heads and they have really helped my skin and hair, no more rusty smell in the water either.

This place just had an elaborate whole-house filtering system installed for the well water so the water is kind of soft. It's really elaborate. First it uses salt to neutralize something in the water before it even goes through the filter system.

[Raineyrocks]

I have well water and we had it tested before we bought our house but lately the water is really hard, my daughter was filling up the tub and the water was all yellow, (no she didn't pee in it).  So anyways I bought a couple of gravity filters for the shower heads and they have really helped my skin and hair, no more rusty smell in the water either.

This place just had an elaborate whole-house filtering system installed for the well water so the water is kind of soft. It's really elaborate. First it uses salt to neutralize something in the water before it even goes through the filter system.

In Maryland we used a company that delivered tanks of whatever to make our water soft, it was about $40 something a month.  These shower filters that I got were $25 a piece and last for a year for 2 people.  I definitely couldn't afford an elaborate system.  I've noticed that my skin isn't as dry and my hair feels softer and it's easier to rinse off without feeling coated with soap after standing under the water for 20 minutes so now I take a shower in half the time it used to take me.

These filters don't have charcoal in them either they are some kind of gravity filter so that's even nicer because I know yucky stuff can build up in charcoal filters especially when your using warm water.