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  • TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13 2007 9:00 AM

Single Moms Are Destroying Sweet, Sweet Idaho



These days it is difficult to think about Idaho without conjuring up images of violent youth dashing madly through their towns and cities. And when one thinks of those violent youth, one will undoubtedly then think of the single mothers who raised them. It is simply the obvious conclusion, especially if you are a fucking moron.

Turns out the Idaho House of Representatives Family Task Force is chalk full of morons. Personally, I love a good Family Task Force. Family Task Forces are the bedrock of our society, without them we would just be a bunch of animals raping and killing each other.

Let’s meet them! The Family Task Force is made up of Rep. Dick Harwood, Rep. Janice McGeachin, Rep. Marv Hagedorn, Rep. Branden Durst, Rep. Dean Mortimer and Rep. Steven Thayn. Notice there is only one lady on the Task Force. That will make more sense as we continue.

Thayn is a true nut. He is a freshman lawmaker who raised eight kids on his farm. They were all home schooled and we can only imagine, not well adjusted. Thayn has some fantastic ideas about how things should be going in our country.

Last year he suggested that Idaho reduce school hours to four a day – to save money. Turns out, he is not big on school and you can read all about it on the website of The Committee of Correspondence, a group Thayn started. I have looked at it several times and I really don’t know what the fuck is going on. I did manage to learn that they hate school.


In the future the grandchildren of the public school students of today, if families still exist, will tell stories about the state sending out yellow buses 5 days per week to collect the children to take them to detention centers for 7 hours every day to indoctrinate them in the state mandated way of thinking. The grandchildren of the future will listen in horror and ask, “Didn’t the parents love their children?”


So fucking true. And that's not all.


We have become state slaves, going to work everyday to pay the tax liability we incurred during the night while we slept. We will know that we have free nation when the government at all levels requires 10% or less of our income. This is our goal. If the state did not traffic in mercy (helping the poor) or in education, the taxes would fall to this level.


Right on. Fuck mercy and screw education. Just thinking about them makes my blood boil – but only because the government is involved.

Then there is this email that Thayn allegedly sent out.


Hunger is not always a negative as the report indicates. Without hunger or the threat of hunger probably half of humanity would not get up in the morning and go to work. Hunger is one of the great motivators of humanity. It is one of the tools that I used as a parent to encourage my children to do their choirs [sic] as young children. When used properly, hunger can motivate people so they can experience the joy of work and accomplishment.


Hello. I have a new favorite douche bag to keep an eye on. This guy is a treasure chest full of jackassery. I believe I will be writing many more stories about Steven before my days at SG end.

Thayn is, not surprisingly, the Chairman of the Idaho House of Representatives' Family Task Force. They believe that drug abuse, crime and domestic violence are the result of families breaking down and they want to figure out a way to get mothers back in the home and out of the workplace.


In one of the articles I read, quite a large percentage of mothers really do want to spend more time at home, and if that's the case, what can we do to help them?


Um, change the entire socio-economic structure of America? But they have found the perfect family to emulate: The 1950s American family. Although, Thayn does recognize it was not perfect.


I don't think the family structure was really ideal at that time, either. I don't think the family ever in the history of the world has reached its potential.


Someone is speaking the truth. Not until the family can shed its human form, come together in a ball of pure energy and shoot straight up to the Lord will it have achieved its “full potential.” Right now, we are far, far away from that glorious day.

According to the task force, single parent homes (moms) are causing rates of drug use and crime to shoot up, though, people living out of wedlock and divorce are also to blame.


Thayn believes that reducing divorces could save the state $200 million because the crime rate would drop if divorces dropped. He thinks making it more difficult to get divorced would help families avoid what he sees as the pitfalls of non-traditional families.


Right. It would only take one a couple of hours perusing the state budget to see that if there were less divorces in Idaho, that would mean $200 fucking million. It’s called math. After blowing minds with that obvious statistic, the Task Force came up with an obvious solution: End no fault divorce. Make the husband or wife prove they deserve a divorce.


"Divorce is just terrible," Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, said. "It's one of Satan's best tools to kill America."


Heyoooo. I thought Thayn was our crazy guy. Welcome to the party, dick. (Yeah, I didn’t capitalize that.)

Some lawmakers in Idaho believe the solution is not forcing people to stay married, but rather to strengthen day care regulations and make pre-schooling part of public schools. The task force disagrees.


Thayn does not shy from this view, calling pre-kindergarten education a "free babysitting service" and suggesting that early childhood education, day-care and Head Start may hurt families by keeping mothers away from home.


Also, ladies, why are you talking directly to me and looking me in the eyes?

Idaho is big on privacy and probably won’t go for the Task Force’s incredible forward thinking ideas but at least there are guys like Thayn to remind us there is always someone worse out there.

 

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malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

NOV 14, 2007 08:04 PM

Tallie said:

FallenKnight said:
These guys are dicks, and should be run out of office on a damn rail. But they did get one (mind you, one) thing right, and even that one thing they got right for the wrong reason. Most pre-K and some Kindergarten education programs are nothing more than glorified daycare.



Are you crazy. do you know your letters? your numbers? how to read? how to tie your shoes? how to spell your name? Where did you think you leanred these things.

I don't know about where you live but when I was teaching preschool that's what I was teaching kids.



I can only assume that I did so at home (or possibly daycare), because I started my scholastic career with grade 1. I was also reading fairly complex books by age 5 or so, so I may not be entirely indicative.

Clidna

Clidna

Canada
January 2005

NOV 14, 2007 11:59 PM

I personally think that if I was a stay-at-home mom that Kindergarten would likely be useless to my children, other than the social aspect of it (and the French, I barely remember what I learned in grade 9 French), but I think with so many households having both parents working, it has become more useful than it used to be. Of course I spent quite a bit of time reading with my kids, and teaching them the alphabet and numbers and such, but let's be honest - after working all day, getting dinner ready, bathing & getting the kidlets ready for bed, not to mention assorted other household duties, I didn't have 6 or 7 hours a day left over to teach them.

boombands

boombands

Summerville, SC
May 2007

NOV 15, 2007 10:53 AM

malkav11 said:

Tallie said:

FallenKnight said:
These guys are dicks, and should be run out of office on a damn rail. But they did get one (mind you, one) thing right, and even that one thing they got right for the wrong reason. Most pre-K and some Kindergarten education programs are nothing more than glorified daycare.



Are you crazy. do you know your letters? your numbers? how to read? how to tie your shoes? how to spell your name? Where did you think you leanred these things.

I don't know about where you live but when I was teaching preschool that's what I was teaching kids.



I can only assume that I did so at home (or possibly daycare), because I started my scholastic career with grade 1. I was also reading fairly complex books by age 5 or so, so I may not be entirely indicative.



I should have worded that better. You and some people may learn at home, but many parents work to much to do that, and other parents just aren't good at teaching things to their children. Good daycare is beneficial to a lot of children. I hate to hear how it's glorfied daycare, though some are, because so many of us are doing so more than that.

PyronauticA

PyronauticA

Clarkston, WA
July 2002

NOV 15, 2007 11:27 AM

I live in Northern Idaho (Lewiston) and for those of you who have been fortunate enough to never come here, I think you'd be surprised that this is the way of thinking of most of the residents up here. It's disgusting really.

Part of the reason why I live in Idaho but am a Washington resident... *ahem* It's one of the perks of living in a border town.

soulcompromise

soulcompromise

I'm lost
November 2006

NOV 15, 2007 11:33 AM

These days it is difficult to think about Idaho without conjuring up images of violent youth dashing madly through their towns and cities. And when one thinks of those violent youth, one will undoubtedly then think of the single mothers who raised them.



Which leads me to belive people are too nosey. When you have had only one parent certain issues have more than likely come up. It's a fact but for people to derive anything from it is not only unfair but it's also probably inaccurate. Terms like "doesn't hold water" and "wouldn't hold up in court" come to mind. Preposterous...

cmjfoxfyre

cmjfoxfyre

Cupertino, CA
February 2006

NOV 15, 2007 04:24 PM

Chriztian said:
The Bible Belt is getting hitched up rather high, isn't it?
But wait, they said less taxes...Ron Paul 2008!!



Idaho is a Pod of Insanity all its Own, My friend. wink
I spent me early years there, and I still have cousins there and in Utah. The Spud state is a scary place.

It's Truly the Midwest--the last time I went back, I looked around, expecting Kevin Bacon to cruise by in his yellow bug. Seriously. It's like 1985 up there...all the Time.

cmjfoxfyre

cmjfoxfyre

Cupertino, CA
February 2006

NOV 15, 2007 04:25 PM

ericwine said:
Proposed new state motto for Idaho:

"Too many Bibles, too much time on our hands"

surreal



Shouldn't that be Too Many Books of Mormon? surreal x2

Otoki

Otoki

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

NOV 15, 2007 09:28 PM


shapeshifter23 said:


Maybe we need to just get rid of all the moms and institute single fathers as the norm...


Is that from Equilibrium? That creepy kid is in every fucking sci-fi action movie made in the last five years. WTF?

Back on topic, one would think these dipshits would be happy about single moms being on welfare, because it would allow them to stay home and raise their children...no? Ah, well, I can dream.

bri2900

bri2900

I'm lost
September 2006

NOV 16, 2007 12:09 PM

Ideeho.... an old indian word for completely hopeless

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

NOV 16, 2007 12:15 PM

bri2900 said:
Ideeho.... an old indian word for completely hopeless


The real origin of the name is actually funnier.

SockPuppet

SockPuppet

I'm lost
July 2006

NOV 16, 2007 05:17 PM

Zarth said:

bri2900 said:
Ideeho.... an old indian word for completely hopeless


The real origin of the name is actually funnier.



... when she comes.

lefthandright

lefthandright

New Zealand
September 2006

NOV 18, 2007 12:20 AM

My Mum only ever spanked me once...the rest of the time when i didn't do what was considered fair household duties (i.e take rubbish out, help do dishes, pick up my stuff) i got send to my room with no dinner....it is not child abuse...it is an age old technique to discipline a kid without smacking them...however using this approach in a state sanctioned way to motivate people i feel is questionable.

defaultx

defaultx

I'm lost
February 2006

NOV 18, 2007 07:38 AM

BIKINI POTATOE IS VERY CUTE! love

aeriton

aeriton

Sugarloaf, PA
March 2007

NOV 18, 2007 02:57 PM

only thing the nut bag is right about is how corrupt and broken the education system is.
ohh and by the way statistically home school children tend to score higher on SAT's and at a college level.

SockPuppet

SockPuppet

I'm lost
July 2006

NOV 18, 2007 04:02 PM

aeriton said:
only thing the nut bag is right about is how corrupt and broken the education system is.
ohh and by the way statistically home school children tend to score higher on SAT's and at a college level.



Could you provide some source for that, please? Relatives of mine teach, and would be interested. Thanks.

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