Backyard Breeding Bimbo, Part Two!
Aug 28 2009
So Penny Raine from yesterday starts e-mailing me and telling me she is going to sue me and call the Police on me. ‘Cause the Police are terribly interested in people snarking each other on the Internet…just ask them. 
Anyway, she took down her farm site so I figured I’d look and see if it was cached in archive.org. IS IT EVER and – are ya sitting down – I found that she was begging for money from people online because her family could not make ends meet. (Why are they ALL so predictable?)
Preserved forever, thank you archive.org
Yes, just another shameless internet beggar, like so many we have stumbled upon here before!
From that version of her site:
“We need:
hay in the barn and some barn roof materials
a replacement deep freeze and it needs to be filled
tires on the van
a replacement economy car
replacement computer
farm payment is due, property taxes are due, and utility payments are past due, and these are only the urgent needs”
Well DAMN. I need a replacement computer too. And I also have to buy hay and pay my rent. Gosh, why am I working two jobs when I could just manipulate people online into sending me their hard-earned money?
Congratulations, Penny. Yesterday I just thought you were a careless mother and a backyard breeder. Now we’ve confirmed you’re another shameless parasite who thinks she’s entitled to own a herd of horses although she cannot afford them and thinks that begging for money on the Internet is an acceptable way to generate income.
And she has a copyright lawyer? Don’t make me laugh harder than I already am.
Geld all those stallions. Sell your horses to someone who can afford to properly care for them. And buy your kids some helmets before they kill themselves standing on horses’ backs and you have to run around the Internet blathering about how God so loved his Special Angel that He had to take her up to Heaven early.
And that’s my Constitutionally protected opinion.
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Good homeschoolers and bad homeschoolers. Both exist.
Apparently, these people are part of the Quiverfull movement. For those who do not know, this is an extreme, fanatical Christian sect that believes that they can take the world back for Christ by the simple expedient of producing as many offspring as possible. In addition, they follow traditional family values..the mother is not supposed to work.
Because of this, most Quiverfull families end up very poor. They have more children than they can feed. This particular one seems to have decided to add animals into the bunch, and it appears they don’t believe in gelding or euthanasia either.
They are almost certainly homeschooling these kids to make sure they don’t find out about evolution (the comment about not believing in genetics might actually be accurate) or, heaven forbid, birth control.
People like this are an embarrassment to good, sane Christians everywhere.
If you are GOING to be Quiverfull, though, you CAN do it with some common sense.
Look at the Duggars. Even before their TV show, they had made intelligent financial decisions and did things like own rental properties, etc. and always had a solid stream of income. They were not living luxuriously but no one was going without. Even their detractors admit this is true.
There is absolutely nothing in the Bible that says to sit and beg. It is all about personal responsibility.
If you are looking for an intelligent homeschooling solution, here’s one: http://www.k12.com
Online public virtual charter schools (no tuition — teacher support and materials provided) that use state-aligned curriculum or you can go independent (no teacher) and be as free and easy with the lessons as you like.
I’ve met some extremely intelligent folks who are homeschooling their kids. Including a family that uses the above solution so they can follow the foxhunting crowd all over the US and abroad and some that use it so they can get school done in 4 days and have 3 days to condition their endurance horses. It’s not just for the backwoods whackos anymore.
I homeschool, no teaching certificate required, but my daughters will have to pass the same standardized tests as everybody else in the district starting in third grade. My daughters are actually enrolled as full-time students in their district, BTW, only at home, and they receive the same allotment of funds as every other student, except that I’m the one spending it. Anything I buy with those funds that isn’t a consumable item such as a workbook becomes the property of the district when my family is done with it. My district is happy to have lots of kids being homeschooled because it keeps class sizes down and reduces wear on school facilities, which aren’t going to be replaced anytime soon in this economy.
But then, I live in Alaska, where homeschooling got its start because so many people live remotely (in logging camps, tourist lodges, etc.) that they had to do it or never see their children during the school year. So we’ve had a long time to hammer out the practical aspects and the exact reasons why people homeschool are their own business.
I encourage anybody who is considering homeschooling to check out Ambleside Online, which is a volunteer group that studies the educational philosophy of Charlotte Mason, a public school teacher whose method lost out to the one in current use. Application of her method requires smaller class sizes and more complex progress assessments, such as essays rather than multiple-choice tests, but it also allows for shorter school days. And her students graduated as thoroughly well rounded individuals, able to speak multiple languages, do complex math, and apply logic and critical thinking to what they read.
What IS that? Jesus Welfare? The Ministry of the Mooch? “God says He will provide…so give me your money”? We’re Christians too…and this kind of thing seriously makes us want to apologize on God’s behalf. *sigh*
And honestly I’m just sort of speechless over what they think is a great idea in horses. The fence incident was just the opening trick it seems! I’m trying to imagine a good reason to breed my sweet, smart grade mare…mmmm…thinking hard….nope. Not one good reason. Oh wait! She has a uterus! ARRRRGGGH!
You know, we’ve been in difficult spots before…my husband suffered a lay off a year ago. Guess what? We immediately set down a plan A, B and C. One of those plans included letting animals go if it became necessary (it never did…maybe because we actually busted our butt WORKING?). Not one of these plans included breeding as many animals as would stand still, letting animals go hungry (Or better yet…collecting more! Like postage stamps!), or my begging for everyday basics like hay while my husband hid -err, prayed – in the woods. Since when was it the responsibility of everyone else to pay for our choices????
The sad thing is there ARE self-sufficient, strong faithed Christian, homeschooling families who get it RIGHT….but things like this make the whole genre look bad. Can’t we spay and neuter the HUMANS here? (Pssst…God sometimes provides with a PAYCHECK that you get by going to a JOB)