Friday, October 25, 2013

More programs in our public schools

Unions oppose bipartisan effort to keep criminals out of public schools

– 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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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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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.”
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
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
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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
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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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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/2013/10/10/death-panels-101-students-decide-who-lives-who-dies
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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.com/2013/10/07/parents-upset-after-trayvon-martin-day-planned-during-local-homecoming-week/
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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.independentsentinel.com/common-core-reaches-a-new-low-check-this-out/
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Utah parents charged with vetting Common Core tests being sworn to secrecy
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.
Read more at http://joeforamerica.com/2013/10/utah-parents-charged-vetting-common-core-tests-sworn-secrecy/#qrjCMHUlEDCJveZ1.99
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s 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/living/parents-middle-school-bans-balls-recess/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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Los Angeles school district wants teachers to wear pro-gay badges.  Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/11/los-angeles-school-district-wants-teachers-to-wear-pro-gay-badges/#ixzz2hVWpOATw
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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/2013/10/86357-read-federal-programs-note-telling-parents-need-doctors-note-make-kids-lunch/
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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/plugged-in/los-angeles-students-ipads-classroom-play-video-games-173850244.html
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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/2013/10/08/starnes-wisconsin-school-cracks-down-religious-christmas-music?cmpid=NL_foxnation
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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/article/texas-6th-graders-assigned-to-design-flag-for-new-socialist-nation
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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/stories/2013/10/11/if-you-learned-your-kid-was-in-a-school-play-containing-bestiality-and-incest-how-would-you-react/
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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.
In fact, the author of the book, Morrison, says that she wanted the reader to feel as though they are a “co-conspirator” with the rapist. She took pains to make sure she never portrayed the actions as wrong in order to show how everyone has their own problems. She even goes as far as to describe the pedophilia, rape and incest “friendly,” “innocent,” and “tender.” It’s no wonder that this book is in the top 10 list of most contested books in the country.

Read the rest of this PolitiChicks.tv article here: http://politichicks.tv/column/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/#YgJJtXkXJthgxAtD.99
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/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/#S3dtEVSPiLE4Royv.99 ]
Adams 12 5 Star School District is the 5th largest school district in Colorado and has transitioned to the new Common Core standards. The book, Toni Morrison’s 1970 novel, “The Bluest Eye,” is among Common Core’s exemplar texts for 11th graders.
I was recently afforded the opportunity to discuss the book with Dr. Jill Manning, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been involved in social policy and research and has testified for legislators on these issues. Dr. Manning is also a former Social Science Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. She knows what she’s talking about and she also happens to be a concerned mother.
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.
In fact, the author of the book, Morrison, says that she wanted the reader to feel as though they are a “co-conspirator” with the rapist. She took pains to make sure she never portrayed the actions as wrong in order to show how everyone has their own problems. She even goes as far as to describe the pedophilia, rape and incest “friendly,” “innocent,” and “tender.” It’s no wonder that this book is in the top 10 list of most contested books in the country.


Read the rest of this PolitiChicks.tv article here: http://politichicks.tv/column/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/#7FSQwS4ErpcZezH3.99

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Adams 12 5 Star School District is the 5th largest school district in Colorado and has transitioned to the new Common Core standards. The book, Toni Morrison’s 1970 novel, “The Bluest Eye,” is among Common Core’s exemplar texts for 11th graders.
I was recently afforded the opportunity to discuss the book with Dr. Jill Manning, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been involved in social policy and research and has testified for legislators on these issues. Dr. Manning is also a former Social Science Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. She knows what she’s talking about and she also happens to be a concerned mother.
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.
In fact, the author of the book, Morrison, says that she wanted the reader to feel as though they are a “co-conspirator” with the rapist. She took pains to make sure she never portrayed the actions as wrong in order to show how everyone has their own problems. She even goes as far as to describe the pedophilia, rape and incest “friendly,” “innocent,” and “tender.” It’s no wonder that this book is in the top 10 list of most contested books in the country.


Read the rest of this PolitiChicks.tv article here: http://politichicks.tv/column/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/#7FSQwS4ErpcZezH3.99
Adams 12 5 Star School District is the 5th largest school district in Colorado and has transitioned to the new Common Core standards. The book, Toni Morrison’s 1970 novel, “The Bluest Eye,” is among Common Core’s exemplar texts for 11th graders.
I was recently afforded the opportunity to discuss the book with Dr. Jill Manning, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been involved in social policy and research and has testified for legislators on these issues. Dr. Manning is also a former Social Science Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. She knows what she’s talking about and she also happens to be a concerned mother.
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.
In fact, the author of the book, Morrison, says that she wanted the reader to feel as though they are a “co-conspirator” with the rapist. She took pains to make sure she never portrayed the actions as wrong in order to show how everyone has their own problems. She even goes as far as to describe the pedophilia, rape and incest “friendly,” “innocent,” and “tender.” It’s no wonder that this book is in the top 10 list of most contested books in the country.


Read the rest of this PolitiChicks.tv article here: http://politichicks.tv/column/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/#7FSQwS4ErpcZezH3.99

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/
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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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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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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.
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/
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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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Detached from his teleprompter, Barack Obama is a strangely different character.
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
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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.
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
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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.
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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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
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[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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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Here is the new link for the purchase of my 28 page booklet: 
http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/4365072-i-m-proud-to-be-an-american


AP Demolishes the Obama Presidency in One Brutal Piece http://www.ijreview.com/2013/06/58230-the-ap-demolishes-the-obama-presidency-in-one-brutal-piece/
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Impeach Obama rally [in California] causes 10-mile traffic jam http://rare.us/story/impeach-obama-rally-causes-10-mile-traffic-jam/
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Legendary Columbia University Professor Claims That None of His Colleagues Remember Obama [And neither does he.] http://dcclothesline.com/2013/06/08/bombshell-legendary-columbia-university-professor-claims-that-none-of-his-colleagues-remember-obama/
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JAY CARNEY: The president’s record on transparency is broad and significant. http://freebeacon.com/carney-obamas-transparency-record-is-broad-and-significant/
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However, the Obama tactics have been successful only because of the confluence of three factors that came together at a right moment in American history.  
The first is the long-term and intentional dumbing down of the American people.  The second, the incarnation of a celebrity culture as a byproduct of the ill-education of the citizenry as well as the concurrent decline of morality and denigration of religion.  The third is this nation's unhealthy obsession with race. 
Thus Barack Obama reveals his abject lack of character by his dependence on manipulating an ill-educated population obsessed with celebrity, and on a society foolishly intimidated by race -- in order to foist his radical and unwanted agenda on the country by any means possible and aggregate more power to the government.  He has shown himself to be the most dangerous, dishonest and narcissistic president in the history of the United States.  http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/06/m-the_obama_scandals_and_the_limbaugh_theorem.html
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[THE NEWEST SCANDAL]:  The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS, is the State Department's security force, charged with protecting the secretary of state and U.S. ambassadors overseas and with investigating any cases of misconduct on the part of the 70,000 State Department employees worldwide.
CBS News' John Miller reports that according to an internal State Department Inspector General's memo, several recent investigations were influenced, manipulated, or simply called off. The memo obtained by CBS News cited eight specific examples. Among them: allegations that a State Department security official in Beirut "engaged in sexual assaults" on foreign nationals hired as embassy guards and the charge and that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security detail "engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries" -- a problem the report says was "endemic."
The memo also reveals details about an "underground drug ring" was operating near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and supplied State Department security contractors with drugs. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57588456/state-department-memo-reveals-possible-cover-ups-halted-investigations
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President Barack Obama says Democrats "don't want to tax all businesses out of business."
"I know that there are a few Republicans here in the audience," Obama said Friday at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign in Palo Alto, Ca. "If you talk to us, it turns out we're pretty common-sense folks.

"We don't think government can do everything," he said.  "We don't think that top-down solutions are the right way to go.  We believe in the free market.  We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations." [And we believe everything you tell us, Obama.] "We don't want to tax all businesses out of business," Obama said.  "But we do think that there's a role to play for government."  [Just put out of business Republican-owned car dealerships, or coal mining operations, for instance.] When speaking about implementing a cap and trade system when running for president in 2008, Obama said he would bankrupt coal power plants.  http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-we-dont-want-tax-all-businesses-out-business
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NSA whistleblower first approached the Washington Post with his leaks but the newspaper refused to comply with his publishing demands [I'm sure they did not want to get crosswise with their Messiah.]
[A cautionary statement from Eric Erickson of RedState]: 
And Edward Snowden, who fled to communist China after leaking, like Bradley Manning before him, shows millennials probably cannot be trusted with the mature responsibility of supporting and defending our nation. His was not a courageous act. His was an act of sabotage and ego whereby he decided to be judge, jury, and executioner of an intelligence program that violated his sensibilities, but maybe not the constitution. Then he leaked it to a man and organization deeply hostile to the United States before himself fleeing to a communist nation, praising that nation’s support for free speech.
Just as we cannot trust this Administration’s honesty and candor, we surely cannot trust the Guardian, Glenn Greenwald, and Edward Snowden. That leaves American citizens in a frustrating place in need of many more answers than we have at present or are likely to get from those peddling an anti-American agenda or, frankly, from the Obama Administration. http://www.redstate.com/2013/06/10/trust-and-taps/
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In Virginia, a telecommunications consultant reported, Verizon had set up a dedicated fiber-optic line running from New Jersey to Quantico, Va., home to a large military base, allowing government officials to gain access to all communications flowing through the carrier’s operations center.
We recently wrote about a 2006 report by James Bamford of Wired — who wrote a book on the nation's premier covert intelligence gathering organization — which detailed how the NSA hired two companies with ties to Israeli intelligence to bug the communications of AT&T[As is the case with some much else, we knew for a long time, but media would not investigate nor cover the stories.]   Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-gives-all-data-to-the-government-2013-6#ixzz2VuLy2nLK
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A wireless provider with ties to the secret dark money group the Democracy Alliance is pushing back against the Obama administration’s surveillance of customers. CREDO Mobile cofounder Michael Kieschnick said on Thursday he was “deeply disturbed” by the administration’s invasion of individual’s civil liberties.
“As the CEO of a mobile phone company, I’m deeply disturbed by the Obama administration’s growing record of executive power grabs at the expense of constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties,” Kieschnick said in a statement to CNN Money.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/7/huge-obama-donor-democracy-alliance-founder-turns-/#ixzz2VpFmzAPg
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Officials in European capitals denounced the practice of secretly gathering digital information on Europeans as unacceptable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/10/obama-pressured-explain-nsa-surveillance
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Why Schumer-Rubio is a fraud — the nutshell version
Mickey Kaus has produced an excellent, easy-to-use “pocket guide” to the reasons why the Schumer-Rubio immigration reform bill (S.744) is fraudulent. Kaus catalogues the provisions of the bill that promise tough future enforcement, etc. but don’t do what they pretend to do: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/06/why-schumer-rubio-is-a-fraud-the-nutshell-version.php
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He [Jeff Sessions] also read from a Feb. 7 article in The Hill that revealed the behind-the-scenes role of countries such as Mexico, El Salvador and Ireland, all of which have large number of citizens living in the United States illegally.
“Even foreign countries have had a say in drafting our [Immigration] law,” Sessions said. “Well, the law officers weren't in the room. We know that.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/global-economy/304149-sessions-cites-foreign-lobbying-in-opposing-immigration-bill#ixzz2VpEkDJjA
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"This bill would provide a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million individuals who are already in this country illegally--a pathway that includes passing a background check, learning English, paying taxes and a penalty, and then going to the back of the line behind everyone who's playing by the rules and trying to come here legally,” Obama said.
While that claim would quell a lot of criticism of the bill if it were true, it simply is not accurate.
As Breitbart News has previously reported, when illegal immigrants apply for “registered provisional immigrant” status under the provisions of the bill, the first step in legalization, they do not need to demonstrate that they can speak English. When they apply for renewal of their RPI status, they still do not need to prove they can speak English. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/08/Obama-s-claim-that-Senate-immigration-bill-requires-illegals-to-learn-English-is-not-true
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Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill has a brilliant idea: he’s holding a toy gun exchange next Saturday in which students of the Hayward, CA school can turn in a toy gun to receive a book and a raffle ticket to win one of four bicycles.   Really. [What price, freedom?]
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