Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
Pentagon didn't know Benghazi annex existed; George Bush vindicated; Abuse of Powers; shameful school programs
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Bombshell: Pentagon 'didn't know' Benghazi annex existed
Raises major questions about what U.S. was doing in secretive facility
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/bombshell-pentagon-didnt-know-benghazi-annex-existed/#RGzV3goil8ZkuWOQ.99---------------------[President George W. Bush vindicated!]The WikiLeaks de facto declassification of privileged material makes it case closed: Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction -- and intended to restart his program once the heat was off. [We did give him more than 3 months of warnings that we were about to go into Iraq, sufficient time to move the weapons to Syria.] http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2010/12 /09/the_wikileaks_vindication_of_george_w_bush
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Much
has been reported about the chemical spill in West Virginia and the
adverse impact upon the drinking water for local communities. However,
could there be even greater – and purposeful — threats to drinking water
here in America, which is going unreported and ignored? [He goes on to list several unsettling and very suspicious events which have been dismissed without action.]
Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2014/01/terror-threat-water-supply/#cZx7f84OITgUePLt.99
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Worse than Richard Nixon. An unprecedented abuse of powers. The most un-American president in the nation’s history.
Nat Hentoff does not think much of President Obama.
And now, the famous journalist says it is time to begin looking into impeachment.
Hentoff sees the biggest problem as Obama’s penchant to rule by executive order when he can’t convince Congress to do things his way.
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New York Common Core Website Sent Students to Sex Quiz Page
[Here is your warning: while it is important to know what is going on, this is very graphic, and being presented to children!]Questions on the “Are you a slut?” test include:
Students who wish to find out if they are a “loser” must answer these questions:--------------------------------
When
closely examined, however, the initiatives are embedded with plans for
major fundamental changes. Well-known recent examples include the Common Core, the Affordable Care Act, and Agenda 21.
One
such initiative with the hidden potential for sweeping transformation
is the "internationalization" of higher education. It is a diffuse
movement advanced by numerous groups and individuals throughout
academia, from independent centers to professional associations to
college faculty and administrators. Despite an innocent façade, its
declared intention provides cover for a highly aggressive campaign of
multiculturalism, "global citizenship," redistributive economics, and
anti-Western attitudes.
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Schools across the country are rethinking “zero tolerance” discipline policies under which children have been suspended, even arrested, for minor offenses like cursing, getting into shoving matches and other garden-variety misbehavior that in years past would have been resolved with detention or meetings with a child’s parents. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/opinion/zero-tolerance-reconsidered.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=1&#comments
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The Stanford University study found that charter public schools had significantly more "economically disadvantaged" students than traditional public schools.
Dev Davis, research manager at CREDO at Stanford University, said
they found that 70 percent of the charter students were economically
disadvantaged, meaning they were eligible for free or reduced price
meals. She said 55 percent of the traditional public school students
were economically disadvantaged.
Also, the Stanford study found that black and Hispanic students did "significantly" better in reading and math when in charter schools than their peers in conventional public schools. http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/19477
----------------Popular television and radio host Sean Hannity delivered a hard hitting response
to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s claim that if “extreme
conservatives” are “right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay,” then
“they have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New
Yorkers are.”Pledging to eventually vacate the state, Hannity delivered a pointed message on his radio show Monday, saying, “Gov. Cuomo, I’m going to leave and I’m taking all of my money with me — every single solitary penny.”
Hannity went on to remind the governor
that there are numerous employees who work for his radio and television
programs and that these individuals will be out of a job if he decides
to move out of the state. From The Blaze.com
----------------------American influence in the Middle East will dwindle to Iran's benefit if the United States responds to the Arab Spring upheaval by pulling government aid, the Obama administration's top diplomat for the region told Congress Wednesday.
Instead, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman testified that lawmakers should approve the administration's request to create a $770 million incentive fund to support democratic and free-market reforms in the region. The fund would address the root causes of the upheaval, Feltman said, while “lack of these reforms will continue to undermine our interests across the board.” Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/226527-state-department-urges-congress-to-continue-pouring-money-into-arab-countries#ixzz2r3er2Na3
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Mexican couple arrested crossing into the US in connection with Target credit card breach which affected 100million customers http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542977/Mexican-couple-arrested-crossing-U-S-connection-Target-cedit-car-breach-affected-100million-customers.html
--------------------Why is the EPA altering state boundaries in Wyoming - and reversing over 100 years of established law? Well, apparently the city of Riverton now falls under the jurisdiction of the Wind River Indian Reservation. This, obviously, isn't sitting well with the governor's office - which is urging the EPA to reconsider its ruling and respect the rule of law.
Reacting to the decision to reduce the size of Wyoming by about a million acres, Wyoming Governor Matt Mead warned of the dangers to all Americans of this type of unilateral land redistribution by the EPA:
- See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/epa-decree-shrinks-size-wyoming-million-acres#sthash.E7xcWxe6.GV51MzPX.dpuf
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Despite the drumbeat of news stories claiming that every storm is evidence of global warming, demanding immediate action, global storm activity is at historic lows, and sea level rises are miniscule. And it's not like Boston has never experienced a nor'easter.
That $40 million for solar batteries (the price of 40,000 gasoline generators) smells like a payoff to the solar lobby.
As for the $10 million for seawall improvement, it might be money well spent -- an actual shovel-ready job
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/warmists_pivot_to_climate_adaptation.html#ixzz2r86863A6
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Like the man said, he’s got a pen and a phone and he’s not going to wait around for the legislature just because the law says he has to.
New executive overreach: Obama may relax U.S. sanctions on Iran — without action from Congress http://hotair.com/archives/2014/01/21/new-executive-overreach-obama-may-relax-u-s-sanctions-on-iran-without-action-from-congress/
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Friday, October 25, 2013
More programs in our public schools
Unions oppose bipartisan effort to keep criminals out of public schools
Attention, parents: Common Core opt-out form now available
Pat Jones, principal of Alliance High School in
Alliance, Nebraska, took it upon himself to cancel the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in his school citing the partial government shutdown
begun by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's refusal to consider a
single GOP proposal to keep the government funded. Jones' decision, the
Journal-Star reported Monday, angered students, causing at least one to stand and recite the Pledge anyway. http://www.examiner.com/article/high-school-principal-cancels-pledge-of-allegiance-cites-government-shutdown
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Read more at http://joeforamerica.com/2013/10/wonder-called-obamacore/#lkh7bcCQX7agjHeO.99
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Scotland shuts down childhood immunization program after Muslims complain
When she asked about the candy issue while dropping Sarah off at school the next day, Kelly said another teacher told her that the school's policy is no candy at school.
Kelly said she never saw such a policy when the school year started, and neither did her fiancé, Epping School Board Chairman David Mylott.
"If I put food in her lunch, she should be able to eat it. If I want to give my daughter a treat because she did a good job, she should be allowed to have it," Kelly said. http://www.unionleader.com/article/20131017/NEWS04/131019353
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Sign in High School Promotes Population Control, Tells Teens Two Kids Maximum http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/18/sign-in-high-school-promotes-population-control-tells-teens-two-kids-maximum/
Teacher Sues MEA To Escape Union
Muskegon, MI: Fourth graders learn to own their ‘white privilege’ – thanks to Common Core-aligned lesson
Zaner-Bloser, which is based in Columbus, Ohio, is distributing a lesson plan aimed at teaching second-graders about “equality” by highlighting labor issues, according to Education Action Group Foundation, a non-partisan organization that looks to promote education reform.
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Federal lawmakers want to prevent schools from employing convicted sex
offenders, kidnappers, murderers, pornographers, spouse beaters and
rapists.
Public schools would be barred from employing teachers and other
workers convicted of sexual offenses against children or other violent
crimes under a bill the House approved Tuesday.
The bill has run into objections from major teachers' unions like the
National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
In letters to lawmakers, their criticisms included concerns that the
measure might jeopardize workers' protections under union contracts.
In addition, the NEA wrote that criminal background checks "often
have a huge, racially disparate impact" — a reference to critics'
complaints that minorities make up a disproportionately high proportion
of people convicted of crimes. http://www.newstribune.com/news/2013/oct/23/house-bill-makes-schools-check-sex-offenders/
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Attention, parents: Common Core opt-out form now available
Courtesy of Truth in American Education, you can now exercise your parental rights to protect your children from the nationalized Common Core racket. Download, print, Facebook, tweet, and share the opt-out form. The revolt is growing. Make your voice and your choice heard.
As the American Principles Project, a conservative education think tank, reported
last year, Common Core’s technological project is “merely one part of a
much broader plan by the federal government to track individuals from
birth through their participation in the workforce.” The 2009 porkulus
package included a “State Fiscal Stabilization Fund” to bribe states into constructing “longitudinal data systems (LDS) to collect data on public-school students.”
These systems will aggregate massive amounts of personal data
— health-care histories, income information, religious affiliations,
voting status and even blood types and homework completion. The data
will be available to a wide variety of public agencies. And despite
federal student-privacy protections guaranteed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the Obama administration is paving the way for private entities to buy their way into the data boondoggle. Even more alarming, the U.S. Department of Education is encouraging a radical push from aggregate-level data-gathering to invasive individual
student-level data collection. http://michellemalkin.com/2013/03/11/attention-parents-common-core-opt-out-form-now-available/
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AND THEY WONDER WHY IT IS CALLED “OBAMACORE”???
Proponents of Common Core are outraged that opponents sometimes brand the education reform initiative as “Obamacore“. Really? Just because it is already being used a a propaganda tool to promote the President?
Recently, at least one Tennessee school had students complete an
assignment as part of the CCSS (Common Core State Standards) approved
lesson plans. The first part of the assignment was for students to read
President Barack Obama’s 2009 Inauguration Address. Then they had to
answer the “Big Question.” And what WAS the “Big Question”?? “How will
President Obama make our country more secure. What role does he see our
country playing in the world.”
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Scotland shuts down childhood immunization program after Muslims complain
The vaccine contains pork
gelatine, so non-Muslim children must do without it. When in Muslim
countries, non-Muslims must adapt their behavior to Muslim
sensibilities. When in non-Muslim countries, non-Muslims must adapt
their behavior to Muslim sensibilities. "Flu vaccine scheme halted over
fears of Muslim parents," by Gerry Braiden for The Herald, October 4 (thanks to Daniel Greenfield): http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/10/scotland-shuts-down-childhood-immunization-program-after-muslims-complain.html
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Epping preschool rejects candy corn mom packed into daughter's lunch
"She said, 'My teacher told me I couldn't have any candy,'" Kelly said.When she asked about the candy issue while dropping Sarah off at school the next day, Kelly said another teacher told her that the school's policy is no candy at school.
Kelly said she never saw such a policy when the school year started, and neither did her fiancé, Epping School Board Chairman David Mylott.
"If I put food in her lunch, she should be able to eat it. If I want to give my daughter a treat because she did a good job, she should be allowed to have it," Kelly said. http://www.unionleader.com/article/20131017/NEWS04/131019353
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All the employees of school districts on a witch hunt to expel
and otherwise permanently punish young boys for shooting toy guns
or forming their fists into the shape of a gun need to read
Back to Normal.
The purpose of psychologist Enrico Gnaulati’s 2013 book is to
argue how ordinary childhood behavior is often misdiagnosed as ADD,
ADHD, depression and autism — frequently with life-long,
disturbing consequences. But along the way he raises the taboo
question of whether we “label boys as mentally unstable,
behaviorally unmanageable, academically underachieving, in need of
special-education services, or displaying behavior warranting
school suspension just because their behavior deviates noticeably
from that of the average girl?”
He adds, “In a sense, girl behavior has become the standard by
which we judge all kids.”
Boys who play in the way
noted
above are not on a path to mass murder, contrary to what zero
tolerance school policies suggest. http://spectator.org/archives/2013/10/18/boyhood-is-not-a-mental-illnes
Sign in High School Promotes Population Control, Tells Teens Two Kids Maximum http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/18/sign-in-high-school-promotes-population-control-tells-teens-two-kids-maximum/
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Teacher Sues MEA To Escape Union
Union demanded bank account information and threatened teacher's credit
Chanski didn't give much thought to opting out of the
MEA until this past spring when a union representative came into her
classroom to get her credit card or bank account money to ensure that
she paid her dues electronically.
"At that time, I did not feel comfortable giving
either of those numbers," Chanski said. "That is very private
information that I did not want on a piece of paper."
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/19278
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Watch it happen.
2014 will surely be the year that New York City
schools
close for Muslim holidays. Both mayoral candidates, radical progressive
Bill de Blasio, and Republican candidate, Joe Lhota, support the idea.
In a most bitter irony, the city that witnessed the fall of the Twin
Towers on 9/11 will be largest school district to close for Islamic
holidays. CAIR/Hamas will see that it happens, as will the Arab American
Anti-Discrimination Committee. But it appears they’ve already won. [Looks as if they think being "nice" will prevent further attacks.......] http://gopthedailydose.com/2013/10/18/2014-year-nyc-schools-close-muslim-holidays/
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Muskegon, MI: Fourth graders learn to own their ‘white privilege’ – thanks to Common Core-aligned lesson
This is Common Core-inspired social education. http://eagnews.org/fourth-graders-learn-to-own-their-white-privilege-thanks-to-common-core-aligned-lesson/
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Sixth-grade children in a history class in the Bryant School District
in Arkansas (whose website brags that the district "has embraced" Common
Core standards) were assigned a project to update the U.S. Bill of
Rights because it is "outdated." They were instructed to "prioritize,
revise, omit two and add two amendments."
The written assignment is full of lies, such as "the government of the
United States is currently revisiting the Bill of Rights"; that "They
(presumably the government) have determined that it is outdated and may
not remain in its current form any longer;" and that our Constitution
can be changed by a "National Revised Bill of Rights Task Force (NRBR)"
(to which students could be appointed).
Students were presented with the "lifeboat situation": too many people
are in the sinking lifeboat and the students were ordered to choose
whose lives are not worth saving and should be thrown overboard so the
lifeboat won't sink. Variations of the lifeboat situation have been
widely used in public schools for many years. http://townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/2013/10/22/checking-your-kids-school-assignments-n1729032/page/full
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Zaner-Bloser, which is based in Columbus, Ohio, is distributing a lesson plan aimed at teaching second-graders about “equality” by highlighting labor issues, according to Education Action Group Foundation, a non-partisan organization that looks to promote education reform.
As part of the plan, students spend a week reading “Harvesting Hope,” a book about Chavez written by children’s author Kathleen Krull, and then discuss what the lesson plan calls “scales of fairness,” which compare the living conditions of farm workers to that of land owners.
“Why are we teaching organized labor lessons to young children?” asked Kyle Olson, the publisher of the group’s website. “Isn’t there a simpler way to teach about fairness, like saying it’s not fair if Johnny works all day and gets one piece of candy while Jimmy plays video games all day and gets the same piece of candy?” “Our focus is on distinctive programs that inspire all students to become engaged, literate participants in the global society.”
http://patriotsbillboard.org/socialism-being-taught-to-2nd-graders/#more-17624
http://patriotsbillboard.org/socialism-being-taught-to-2nd-graders/#more-17624
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Just how your children are being indoctrinated while at school
Just
why am I posting these stories for you to read? I am trying to
convince you that you
need to take an active role in learning just what your children are
being taught. You need to stand up for what is right, to demonstrate to
your children that you are willing to take a stand against progressive
education.
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A classroom of 14 and 15-year-old Illinois high school students were assigned the task of deciding the fate of ten fictional characters in an exercise that critics called a lesson in death panels.
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A classroom of 14 and 15-year-old Illinois high school students were assigned the task of deciding the fate of ten fictional characters in an exercise that critics called a lesson in death panels.
The assignment was part of a
sociology unit for freshmen and sophomore students at St. Joseph-Ogden
High School and was first reported by writer Lenny Jarratt.
The lesson involves 10 people who are in desperate need of kidney dialysis.But there’s a problem. The local hospital only has enough machines to support six patients. “That
means four people are not going to live,” the assignment states. “You
must decide from the information below which six will survive.” [Preparing our children for serving on Death Panels, perhaps? This ought to make them feel oh, so safe.]
“The first thing I thought was they were desensitizing kids to death panels,” he told me. “They are preparing them for it.”
Principal Brian Brooks told me that assessment is way off base. “The
assignment has nothing to do with a ‘Death Panel,’” he said. He said the purpose of the lesson
was to teach students about social values and how people in our society
unfortunately create biases based off of professions, race and gender.
http://nation.foxnews.com/
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Parents were upset after Carrick High School approved a plan to have a Trayvon Martin theme day during the school’s homecoming.
The homecoming committee, and school voted and approved the theme which is part of school spirit week.
Parents were upset that kids were being encouraged to wear hoodies to school during the Wednesday theme. http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.
------------------------------Take a look at these third grade Common Core worksheets [Correction: Common Core-aligned worksheets].*
The
first story for third graders takes a twisted social work approach to
learning.
The first worksheet is the tale of
Peter and Patty. It’s a terrible piece of literature (I’m using the word
‘literature’ very loosely). It’s about a father who abandons his
children in the woods but wishes them well; some woman in the woods
takes them in, feeds them fruits and vegetables (she must have been
listening to Michelle Obama); and they all live happily ever after.
Seriously???The next story is about a cheating husband and father, and,
again, it’s for third grade. http://www.
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Leave it to government bureaucrats to think
that government transparency efforts should somehow be shrouded in
secrecy when vetting Common Core testing.
That’s
exactly what’s happening in Utah, where state education officials are
asking members of a parent review committee tasked with scrutinizing the
new Common Core-aligned standardized tests “to sign a nondisclosure
agreement that could muzzle them from discussing the test questions with
other parents,” reports The Salt Lake Tribune.
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Is it an extreme case of helicopter parenting or a smart move to keep kids safe?
That's what parents are
asking after hearing about a Long Island middle school's decision to ban
most balls during recess and also require supervision of tag, even
cartwheels, due to safety concerns. http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/09/
-----------------------Los Angeles school district wants teachers to wear pro-gay badges. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/
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The text of the note (don’t we all love these little school notes?) reads:
Dear Parents,I have received word from Federal Programs Preschool pertaining to lunches from home. Parents are to be informed that students can only bring lunches from home if there is a medical condition meriting a specific diet, along with a physicians note to that regard.I am sorry for any inconvenience. If you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact [name redacted], the Health Coordinator for Federal Programs Preschool at [number redacted].
Linda says she was “hurt,” “confused,” and “dumbfounded” by the
school’s insistence the nanny-staters feed her child instead of her. This is what happens with big government – it goes from best-pal to bully in a heartbeat. http://www.ijreview.com/2013/
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You have to give
school officials in Los Angeles credit for a good idea [I for one am not
certain this was a good idea]:
put iPads in the hands of over 650,000 students to give them the most
advanced learning tools available in an effort to boost their interest
in academics.
But the $1 billion plan is taking some heat after students in the
nation's second-largest school district cracked the tablets’ security
settings to forgo reading, writing and ‘rithmetic and instead post on
Facebook and play games during class time. http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/---------------
The Wausau, Wis. School District says it’s okay to jingle bells and
don gay apparel but lay off the Baby Jesus stuff – and that has parents
and students ready to deck somebody’s halls.
The community became enraged after the elementary schools canceled
their upcoming Christmas concerts and the school district issued
guidelines that curtailed the number of sacred holiday songs the high
school choir could perform.
Phil Buch, the director of the Wausau West High School choir programs
since 1981, told the Wausau Daily Herald that he was given three
choices after meeting with school officials about the upcoming yuletide
season.
He was told the choirs could perform one sacred song for every five
secular songs performed; eliminate all Christmas music or postpone
December concerts. http://nation.foxnews.com/
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Sixth-grade children in many Texas public schools are being tasked with designing flags for a new socialist nation as part of the state's curriculum, EAG News reported Monday.
"Notice socialist/communist nations use symbolism on their flags
representing various aspects of their economic system. Imagine a new
socialist nation is creating a flag and you have been put in charge of
creating a flag," says a lesson plan being used as part of CSCOPE, the curriculum being used by over 70 percent of Texas school districts. http://www.examiner.com/
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If You Learned Your Kid Was in a School Play Containing Bestiality and Incest, How Would You React?
[The students were forced to read the play out loud, including the parts out loud.]
That’s the news many parents received when it came to light that drama teacher Andrew Cupo of Cactus Shadows High School
in Scottsdale, Ariz., introduced students in an advanced acting class
to an absurdist play called “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?” by Edward
Albee. In the Tony Award-winning play — which students performed in class rather than in public — a middle-aged man with a wife and teenage son admits he’s in love with a goat named Sylvia with whom he’s had sex, the Arizona Republic reports, adding that the play also explores themes of tolerance, morality, and revenge [including incest].
http://www.theblaze.com/
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MORE PORNO RECOMMENDED BY COMMON CORE — THE BLUEST EYE
[Macey has heavily edited the following excerpts from “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, but they are still very graphic. Obviously the reason behind some parents calls for removing the book are the graphic depictions of incest, rape and pedophilia. And not just that, the book actually lets the reader see the depictions from the perpetrators point of view.
Please read the rest of Macey’s article posted at: http://politichicks.tv/column/
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Obamacare and Obama's Government Shutdown
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[We
all knew this was coming. So then why should we worry over those
furloughed workers more than the inconvenienced citizens of America, or
the children with cancer, as Harry Reid asked? I think I want a
government furlough, don't you?] Over the weekend, the House held a vote and agreed—without a single
exception—that when this government shutdown is all over, all these
"non-essential" government bureaucrats who have been loafing around at
home all this time will all be given back pay for work they did not
perform.
So instead of getting a little taste of the furloughs, layoffs, and
firings private American workers have been suffering for years in this
nasty economy, these federal bureaucrats would be granted extended paid
vacations. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/09/the-nuclear-option-non-essential
The question is will you agree to ObamaCare,
just as in Berlin the
question was whether you would get a Soviet ration card, fill your
wallet with Ostmarks and submit to a Soviet takeover. The Communists
assumed that cutting off food would force the residents of Berlin to use
Soviet ration cards and currency.
They were wrong.
The residents were able to see that short term food from the USSR
would mean decades of little food under Communist rule. Similarly any
temporary benefits from ObamaCare will mean national shortages of health
care in the future.
The National Park Service’s abusive antics, which include kicking
senior citizens out of their cabins and detaining others at a hotel
under armed guard, are about power. http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-obama-blockade/----------------------
White House, IRS exchanged confidential taxpayer info
Federal employees who illegally disclose confidential taxpayer information could face five years in prison. http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/09/white-house-irs-exchanged-confidential-taxpayer-info/
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President Obama Heads into Midterms at Lowest Approval Rating of Presidency :
37%)
[Do you still think we are not winning the argument?]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2614268/posts
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on
Wednesday criticized the first week
of ObamaCare as a system that threatens to fine people for failing to
buy health insurance on websites that don't work.
“How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?” he asked on the House floor. [This
is the kind of stuff that makes me crazy. Actually, Mr. Boehner, the
Secretary of Health and Human Services, she who has the ultimate power
to enact regulations as she alone sees fit, with no Congressional
oversight, said on TV that if someone wants a one year reprieve from the
Obamacare mandate such as has been given to big business, all they have
to do is not sign up. They they would simply pay the FINE instead.
First of all, business does not pay a fine. Second of all, in order for
this to be deemed Constitutional by the Supreme Court the "fine" was
rewritten to be a "tax". Our MS. Sebelius seems not to understand her
own law and the way in which it was passed, as she sees it as a fine for
bad behavior, not going along
with Obama's
plan. Well, that's about right.
Why can't our supposed LEADER point this out?] Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/327489-boehner-obamacare-threatens-fines-but-fails-to-deliver-care#ixzz2hFpGJMI1
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Speaking
this afternoon to the White House press corps, Obama went off script to
scorn House Republicans negotiating to end the shutdown. Obama compared
Republicans to negligent home borrowers, saying of people who don’t pay
their home mortgages, “they’re just deadbeats.” Read more at NetRightDaily.com: http://netrightdaily.com/2013/10/obama-lashes-deadbeats/#ixzz2hEP8nLmV----------------------
Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner,
epitomized what has been wrong with the Republicans for decades when he
emerged from a White House meeting last Wednesday, went over to the
assembled microphones, briefly expressed his disgust with the Democrats'
intransigence and walked on away.
We are in the midst of a national crisis, immediately affecting
millions of Americans and potentially affecting the kind of country this
will become if ObamaCare goes into effect — and yet, with multiple
television network cameras focused on Speaker Boehner as he emerged from
the White House, he couldn't be bothered to prepare a statement that
would help clarify a confused situation, full of fallacies and lies. http://www.creators.com/conservative/thomas-sowell/inarticulate-republicans.html
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This week Senate Majority leader Harry Reid defended his refusal to negotiate with Republicans over Obamacare and the debt in these words: “We are here to support the federal government. That’s our job.” End quote. Forget about representing the people whom our Founders made sovereign. Forget what America is about. http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/the-threat-we-face-2/
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“I can assure you it’s not posturing. It’s not a political play or anything like that,” Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., told CQ Roll Call on Tuesday.
The Obama administration insisted Tuesday it had no choice but to withhold death benefits to relatives of 1st Lt. Jennifer Moreno, a 25-year-old soldier born and raised in San Diego, and four other soldiers killed since the partial government shutdown began Oct. 1.
Detached from his
teleprompter, Barack Obama is a
strangely different character.This week Senate Majority leader Harry Reid defended his refusal to negotiate with Republicans over Obamacare and the debt in these words: “We are here to support the federal government. That’s our job.” End quote. Forget about representing the people whom our Founders made sovereign. Forget what America is about. http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/the-threat-we-face-2/
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“I can assure you it’s not posturing. It’s not a political play or anything like that,” Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., told CQ Roll Call on Tuesday.
Gingrey said Republicans were “absolutely” prepared to lose the House
to extract concessions on the CR and the debt limit, and he said the
White House is “missing the determination of the Republican Party.”
“I mean, they seem to think that we will miss this opportunity for a
‘Braveheart’ moment to do the right thing for the American people and
that we’ll back down for fear of losing the House and not gaining
control of the Senate,” Gingrey said.
President Barack Obama held a news conference Tuesday during which he
reiterated his position that Democrats would not negotiate with
Republicans “for the mere act of reopening the government or paying our
bills.” http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/republicans-obama-debt-default/
----------------------------------------The Obama administration insisted Tuesday it had no choice but to withhold death benefits to relatives of 1st Lt. Jennifer Moreno, a 25-year-old soldier born and raised in San Diego, and four other soldiers killed since the partial government shutdown began Oct. 1.
This
is ridiculous and perverse. In denying death benefits to the relatives of
fallen U.S. soldiers, however, the Obama administration has broken new
ground in its budget theater. This decision is accurately described as
depraved. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/oct/09/denial-of-death-benefits-shame-on-president-obama/
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OUTRAGE: Allegedly Closed National Park Service Sends Agents to Remove Water Spigots
The
latest malicious act against the American public comes via the National
Park Service. We now learn the NPS is actually sending federal agents
out on trails and into parks to physically remove water spigots.
Nearly two dozen people have been issued citations for entering Grand Canyon National Park
after a partial government shutdown forced its closure.
-------------------------------It what looks like a spiteful move, the NPS even removed handles from water spigots along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal where bikers and joggers exercise as well as along the Great Allegheny Passage, just to ensure people don’t get any water from them.Instead of saving money, the NPS is expending additional resources to go out of its way to close such locations and to make people miserable. - See more at: http://www.libertynews.com/2013/10/outrage-allegedly-closed-national-park-service-sends-agents-to-remove-water-spigots/#sthash.wDZoOvJB.dpuf
Nearly two dozen people have been issued citations for entering Grand Canyon National Park
after a partial government shutdown forced its closure.
Grand Canyon Chief Ranger Bill Wright says some people have been caught at the South Rim, on trails, attempting rim-to-rim hikes or trying to sneak in through dirt roads.
or trying to sneak in through dirt roads.
All of the citations will be handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Wright says each of the 21 citations issued as of Monday has a mandatory
order to appear in federal court. http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2013/10/08/grand-canyon-cites-people-for-entering-closed-park/
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It was announced today that an annual sandcastle contest on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach has been cancelled out of sheer malice
by the Obama administration, despite the fact that the beach on which
it is held — part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area — normally
has no lifeguards, no rangers, is permanently open to the public, and
requires no funds for day-to-day operations: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/09/sandcastles-verboten-obama-boots-kids-sandcastle-contest-off-beach/
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The Million Vet March on the Memorials
will be held Sunday, Oct. 13, at 9 a.m. Eastern at the World War II
memorial on the National Mall, the location where rangers under orders
from the White House tried, unsuccessfully, to prevent vets from
visiting in recent days.
The announcement said the group Special Operations Speaks is
organizing the rally because the Obama administration “is using the
government shutdown as an excuse to keep our veterans from acknowledging
the debt owed to them and their predecessors.” Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/super-rally-against-president-in-works/#B0bvrCwjhmByGbha.99
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Many people signing up for health care in Florida through the Affordable Care Act have been shocked
when they have to give proof of their credit score before they finish the process.
Anne Packham,
one of many people licensed by the state to help people navigate the
government's website, said on Tuesday that the credit check occurs so
providers can make an educated decision about who to insure.
"If
someone is defaulting on all of their bills they may not want to have
them as part of their health plan," said Packham, the lead Navigator in
Florida.
Participants with low credit scores could end up paying
higher premiums, according to Packham, who said that ultimately the
insurance company makes the call. http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/credit-scores-impacting-obamacare-insurance-plans
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Major insurers, state health-care officials and Democratic allies repeatedly warned the Obama administration in recent months that the new federal health-insurance exchange had significant problems, according to people familiar with the conversations. Despite those warnings and intense criticism from Republicans, the White House proceeded with an Oct. 1 launch. http://www.elpasotimes.com/politics-national/?third_party=many-tried-to-warn-officials-of-obamacare-website-jam
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Major insurers, state health-care officials and Democratic allies repeatedly warned the Obama administration in recent months that the new federal health-insurance exchange had significant problems, according to people familiar with the conversations. Despite those warnings and intense criticism from Republicans, the White House proceeded with an Oct. 1 launch. http://www.elpasotimes.com/politics-national/?third_party=many-tried-to-warn-officials-of-obamacare-website-jam
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Millions Of Workers May
Choose To Go Part-Time Once Obamacare Kicks In
the ACA will enable part-timers to have access to medical benefits
that rival those of full-timers, giving them greater freedom to choose
part-time work.
The perk that is usually offered only to full-time employees —
affordable health care — will now be offered to part-time employees. As a
result, millions of workers who are working full-time may choose to
work part-time instead, University of Chicago economics professor Casey
Mulligan said in a recent paper published with the National Bureau of
Economic Research.
Workers who choose to reduce their own hours may end up faring
better financially by paying lower premiums offered to part-time
rs through government exchanges ra ther than working a few more hours
and purchasing health care through an employer, s aid Mulligan. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/millions-workers-may-choose-part-131500251.html
[This long article is well worth the read, as it discusses the Threat We Face as Progressives in our government - Obama, Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, and Huma Abadein - have connections to Communists and are intent on bringing down our government. There are four defining features of the left, which distinguish it as a movement of individuals who approach politics quite differently from pragmatically-minded conservatives. The first of these features is their alienation from country: The answer to all these questions is that Obama doesn’t identify with our country. He sees himself as a “citizen of the world,” and a redresser of grievances for the suffering he imagines America has inflicted on our adversaries, including Hitlerite Iran.
To sum this up: Progressives see themselves as an army of the saints, and their opponents as the party of Satan; and that will justify almost anything you can get away with. http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/the-threat-we-face-2/
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