Betty died. She was a closet Marxist who used the women’s movement to further the Communist cause.

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Quotes:
David Horowitz:
“Even the much-abused Mr. Friedan – also a leftist — continues to praise his wife for her political “achievements.” On his website, he writes, “I am proud of what she did for the world… Betty being monstrous in pursuit of her goals doesn’t bother me at all. She changed the course of history almost singlehandedly and it took a `monster’ perhaps, a driven, super-aggressive, egocentric, almost lunatic dynamo to rock the world the way she did. Unfortunately, she was the same person at home, where this kind of conduct does not work.”
What Mr. Friedan seems to be saying is that it was all right for his wife to abuse everyone else, but not to abuse him. This sort of thinking is typical of the Left.”
“And why are people like Friedan lying long after they have anything to fear from McCarthy committees and the like?
Surely no one seriously believes that people who reveal their Communist pasts these days have anything to fear from the American government.”
“The idea that America punishes those who betray her is laughable, as is the idea that leftists have anything to fear from their government if they tell the truth…
…So why the continuing lies? The reason is this: The truth is too embarrassing. Imagine what it would be like for Betty Friedan (the name actually is Friedman) to admit that as a Jew she opposed America’s entry into the war against Hitler because Stalin told her that it was just an inter-imperialist fracas?
Imagine what it would be like for America’s premier feminist to acknowledge that well into her 30s she thought Stalin was the Father of the Peoples, and that the United States was an evil empire, and that her interest in women’s liberation was just a subtext of her real desire to create a Soviet America. No, those kinds of revelations don’t help a person who is concerned about her public image.
Which is why it probably has seemed better just to lie about this all these years. The problem, however, is that lying can’t be contained.”


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“With ‘The Feminine Mystique,’ Friedan began a long tradition among American feminists of seeing compulsory domesticity as the main consequence of 1950s McCarthyism.” Well, perhaps it’s not American feminists Friedan has sold this bizarre version of reality to, so much as American Communists posing as feminists and unsuspecting young women whose only understanding of this past will come from their tenured leftist professors.”
Richard Poe
Hardline Stalinist
“Beginning in college, Friedan – then known by her maiden name of Betty Goldstein – was already a hardline Stalinist, active in the communist movement. Though Jewish, she supported Stalin’s 1939 nonaggression pact with Hitler. When orders went out from Moscow to all Communist Parties worldwide to treat Hitler as a friend, many communists couldn’t stomach it and broke ranks with Stalin. But Friedan was among the loyal few who obeyed.
“Friedan’s secret was shared by hundreds of her comrades on the Left,” though not, of course, by the unsuspecting American public – who went along with her charade presumably as a way to support her political agenda,” writes David Horowitz (not Daniel), in a 1999 FrontPageMagazine.com article called “Feminist Icon Debunked.”
Friedan later married a fellow leftist, Carl Friedan, and devoted her life to the cause of Marxist revolution. Friedan spent her married years working as a “labor journalist” – a professional propagandist for the Left. Her full-time maid did the housework. As her ex-husband Carl later noted, Friedan “was in the world during the whole marriage” and “seldom was a wife and mother.””

Betty Friedan – Feminist Icon
Jenny Hatch

“In the process, we ran across a little booklet called Stephenson’s Iowa State Eighth Grade Examination Question Book. The 59-page pamphlet, published in 1924, was to help eighth-graders take the test at the end of their elementary years that would qualify them to move on into high school.
The bottom line is that most high-school seniors in 2006 would find the eighth-grade guide of 1924 quite a challenge. The questions covered 10 different subject areas—and you might enjoy (or you might not) matching your wits against those of a typical Iowa eighth-grader 80 years ago.
Arithmetic. A wall 77 ft. long, 6 5 ft. high, and 14 inches thick is built of bricks costing $9.00 per M. What was the entire cost of the bricks if 22 bricks were sufficient to make a cubic foot of wall?
Geography. What waters would a ship pass through in going from Duluth to Buffalo? With what would the boat be apt to be loaded? What, probably, would it be loaded with on a return trip?
Grammar. Define five of the following terms: antecedent, tense, object, conjugation, auxiliary verb, expletive, reflexive pronoun.
Physiology. (a) Beginning with food in the mouth, trace the course of digestion, naming the juices with which the food is mixed and the results. (b) What is the reason that spitting on the street is dangerous to the health of a community?
Spelling and Orthography. Select the proper prefix and place before each word in the following list (up, under, out, fore, over): Spread, balance, hold, sight, ground, shine, current, brush, roar, burst.
Writing. Give five movements to develop accuracy in penmanship. Tell what you seek to do in using each movement.
History. (a) What colonies were founded in America because of religious reasons? By whom was each founded? (b) Give the cause, time, and result of each of the wars in which the United States has been involved.
Civil Government. Name three township, three county, and three state officers and state what office each person holds. Why do so many men dislike holding township offices?
Music. Draw a staff. Place on it the scale in half notes in the keys of G, D, and F. Write the scale that has a sharp on the fifth line and another sharp on the third space.
Reading. Who were Hamlet? Lochinvar? Naomi? Socrates? Gathergold? What are the three most important topics now being discussed in the newspapers? State two reasons for reading a newspaper. Give five uses of the dictionary. Do you use the dictionary while studying?”
Joel Belz
UPDATE Feb. 7th, 2006
LaShawn Barber had a great post today titled Empty Education
Jenny Hatch

“When reaching out to blogs, it’s important to do it as a conversation. “Blogs are all about open conversation and an attitude focused on accelerating the delivery of information in a more informal manner,” said Jeff Browning, director of product management at F5. “But all too often, words like ‘leverage’ and ‘integrated’ and ‘synergy’ replace the words real people use in candid, natural conversation. There is no ivory tower, so to speak.”
And that is WHY I LOVE IT!
Jenny Hatch

“CHICAGO, Feb 2 (Reuters) – The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday introduced an animated family of mountain lions to lead a public service campaign aimed at getting families to prepare for natural disasters or terror attacks.
In a cheerier version of the “duck and cover” 1950s-era classroom drills that advised schoolchildren to dive under their desks in the event of nuclear attack, Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff outlined the “Ready Kids” campaign at a Chicago elementary school library.
Mindful of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and natural disasters like storms or earthquakes, Ready Kids is an offshoot of emergency response campaigns targeted at businesses and the general public.”
This is a great idea!
Jenny Hatch