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Portman Leading Polls In Ohio Senate Race

January 7, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Communism, Democrat Corruption, Democrat Incompetence, Education, Elections, Fiscal Irresponsibility, GOP/RNC, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Ohio Politics, Opinion, Stupidity, Taxes, The Economy, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House, US Senate, socialism Comments Off

In less than 11 months, this nation will again go to the polls and cast ballots which will be instrumental to the future of the Republic. The question that will be answered on November 2nd will be…

Does this nation wish to continue down the Obama road toward socialism reminiscent of the former Soviet Union? Or does this nation wish to be the great and powerful champion of freedom as it has traditionally been?

The answers will come in the form of who you choose to represent you at the state and federal levels. Candidates for governor, senator, and congressman are all looking for your approval and those you choose will be endowed, through your choice, to shape the direction of this country and answer the above question.

In Ohio, Rob Portman is seeking to fill the soon to be vacated Senate seat of retiring RINO George Voinovich. According to RedState.com and the Dayton Daily News, Portman is leading both Democrat hopefuls in the polls.

From RedState.com via emailed press release:

Rob Portman US Senate Campaign Update

(NOTE: Click here to watch video)

Portman focused on jobs and getting Washington out of the way.

Posted by Kevin Holtsberry | RedState.com

I had the chance to stop by the new campaign headquarters of Rob Portman today as they kick their US Senate campaign into full gear in 2010.

Portman was kind enough to take a moment to give me an update which I captured with my handy-dandy Flip Video camera.

Rasmussen in early December reported the following:

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows Portman now leading Brunner 40% to 33% after holding a two-point advantage in September. Just seven percent (7%) would choose another candidate, but 20% are undecided at this point.

Portman continues to run nearly even with Fisher 38% to 36%. In their match-up, 18% of Ohio voters are undecided, while another eight percent (8%) prefer another candidate. The two were virtually tied in September as well, with Portman just ahead 41% to 40%.

From the Dayton Daily News via the same emailed press release:

Portman opens statewide headquarters for U.S. Senate campaign

By William Hershey | Dayton Daily News

With a promise to focus “like a laser” on jobs and the economy, Republican Rob Portman on Thursday, Jan. 7, opened his statewide U.S. Senate campaign headquarters in Columbus.

An estimated 200 Portman backers packed the suite of offices about four miles from downtown Columbus, despite an escalating snow storm outside.

The weather was reminiscent of the launch of Portman’s campaign nearly a year ago on Jan. 14 at the historic Golden Lamb in Lebanon.

Portman, a former U.S. House member from suburban Cincinnati and former trade representative and budget director under President George W. Bush, is the state Republican party’s endorsed candidate but faces a primary challenge from Cleveland-area car dealer Tom Ganley.

State Republican Chairman Kevin DeWine of Fairborn told the crowd that Portman was part of the “best slate of candidates that Republicans” have had in Ohio in more than a generation.

“I agree with what Chairman DeWine said,” said Portman. “This is going to be a good year.”

Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner are seeking the Democratic nomination.

The race is for the seat being vacated by Republican U.S. Sen. George Voinovich who is retiring.

It is important that Ohio stand up to the Obama socialism machine being fueled by the Harry Reid/Nancy Pelosi US Congress. Liberals are in control and socialism is the order of the day. But it can be reversed.

Ohio has a socialist Senator in Sharrod Brown. He is a Harry Reid/Barry Obama stooge who read Richard Creamer’s 1997 book which outlined the current health care legislation. He, like Reid/Pelsoi/Obama and the rest of the Democrat Pary, has read and subscribed to the Alinsky model of political radicalism. Ohio needs a check on the Sharrod Brown’s residing in the Senate chamber and Portman is that guy.

Elsewhere in Ohio politics, Ohio’s moronic governor is up for re-election as well. He is facing substantial opposition from former US Congressman John Kasich.

From Rasmussen Reports [12/9/09]:

Unemployment in Ohio has jumped to 10.5%, the state is wrestling with an $851 million budget shortfall, and Governor Ted Strickland has proposed delaying a tax cut approved in 2005. Add it all together, and it’s a tough environment for the incumbent Democratic governor who now trails his expected general election opponent by nine percentage points in an early look at the 2010 race.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Ohio shows Republican John Kasich getting 48% of the vote while Strickland picks up just 39%. Three percent (3%) say they’d prefer a third-party candidate, and 11% are not sure who they would vote for. In September, the two men were essentially even.

Uncle Ted has completely mismanaged Ohio’s budget. We’ve got library closures and reduced services in the libraries that are still open. We’ve seen the closure of 4 of Ohio’s state run mental hospitals leaving thousands of mentally ill Ohioans without services. And a plan out of Uncle Ted to reduce classroom sizes in Ohio which has led to teacher shortages and mobile education modules being used as full-time class rooms.

Oh, and as for that tax cut that Rasmussen says Uncle Ted is considering delaying…

Well the cut has already been factored in to current Ohio income tax withholding tables. Delaying it would mean that Ohio’s workers will not have had enough deducted from their pay to cover their tax liabilities translating to every single Ohio worker needing to write the state a check come April 15th. That is if Uncle Ted approves the delay. Well he did.

Ohio is bleeding jobs because it is not an environment conducive to conducting business. Ohio has traditionally been a heavy industrial and agricultural state. Our heavy industry is just about gone. Gone are the steel plants in Youngstown and Cleveland. Gone are the auto plants in Dayton, Cleveland, Youngstown, and Cincinnati. I’m sorry, but the farmers cannot sustain our state’s economy.

Ohio is also bleeding population. Many seniors are fleeing the high taxes of Ohio for the tax safe havens of Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. Many of our workers are chasing jobs that are going to other states as well. For instance, NCR used Obama stimulus money to leave Dayton for South Carolina. In case you didn’t know it already, NCR invented the cash register in Dayton where NCR was founded. Proctor and Gamble is considering leaving Cincinnati. GM and Chrysler have closed plants all across Ohio and many large and small contractors who supplied these plants followed suit and closed as well.

Ohio is not the only state in trouble and this is translating into a major problem for Democrats. They are the Party in power and this economy belongs to them. Our elected officials continue to spend money that our great grandchildren can’t supply. And make no mistake about it, this debt being run up is no longer our debt. It is the debt of generations yet to be born. Today’s politicians are spending their money not ours.

Republicans stand to gain big at the end of this year and I’m hoping that they can do a better job than the current crop of ~~socialists~~ Democrats. But they should be on notice…

IF YOU GAIN OUR VOTE YOU MUST FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THAT FOR WHICH YOU ARE BEING ELECTED. CUT THIS GOVERNMENT. CUT IT DEEP. REDUCE SPENDING AND THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT OR 2012 WILL TRULY USHER IN THE END OF THE 2-PARTY SYSTEM. YOU’LL BE OUT AS WELL.

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The Communism of America

November 3, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Chicago Politics Goes National, Communism, Democrat Corruption, Democrat Incompetence, Education, Election 2008, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Presidential Politics, socialism Comments Off

The increased politicization of American education has, in the Emperor’s words, “fundamentally transformed” American history. Gone are the days of teaching the reasons for the great migration to the new world. Instead, the Pilgrims and other settlers from Europe are painted as evil invaders who stole land from the native peoples and brought disease to the North American continent. The European settlers have been demonized as massive polluters who came to this pristine land with the goal of corrupting the planet.

The Pilgrims and Puritans weren’t escaping an increasingly oppressive government seeking a place where they could practice their religion free from the heavy hand of the King. Oh no. We can’t teach that. That victimizes the Pilgrims and the Puritans and not the ethnic group we wish to patronize for votes.

The American school house has become a den of indoctrination where extremely liberal teachers inject the lesson plans with more opinion than fact. This is the reason why we have school children singing songs to “Barack Hussein Obama Mmm Mmmm Mmmm” as if he were some sort of deity.

But where did it begin?

It began at the point where the teacher became a public employee deriving his/her salary from the taxpayer with no responsibility to produce a quality product. In this case that product is an educated child.

It began when it became increasingly difficult to terminate an under-performing educator who became nothing more than a glorified baby sitter instead of teaching facts, figures, and dates.

It began when we allowed the teacher’s explanation of life to overshadow the parents.

Parents have the primary responsibility of raising their children. No other occupation is as important as being a parent. But as a society we have abdicated our responsibilities to nature and our children by allowing others to frame the minds and spirits of our youth.

In 1963 a Congressman from Florida named Herlong read into the Congressional record of the House of Representatives a list of 45 goals of the Communist Party in the United States as outlined in the book “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen. Among these was #17…

Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

Well campers, they have control. Our schools are in fact transmission belts for socialism and the new Communist Propaganda. With videos like “The Story of Stuff” and “An Inconvenient Truth” being included in the curriculum that goal has been effectively achieved.

The propagandist nature of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” has been well documented. The 9 inaccuracies have been publicly identified by a British court for the world to see. But “The Story of Stuff” slipped under the radar of most parents. Most didn’t even know it was being shown in their child’s classroom. The video was funded by the Tides Foundation. Tides is funded by the radical socialist George Soros but we aren’t supposed to question the motives of the left. But what if we did.

Adolf Hitler said,

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Hitler, on this point, was correct. Once you poison the minds of the youth, through attrition you will gain the foothold that you need to control all others. That is what they are doing.

Back on point of the 45 goals of the Communist Party in the USA, #31 states…

Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

Isn’t that the real goal of showing propaganda films such as “An Inconvenient Truth” and “The Story of Stuff”?

To be fair, I don’t believe that most teachers are in fact attempting to “give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over” however there is an aspect of this that is correct. Teachers are teaching that Che Guavara was someone who is to be looked up to. Anita Dunn is addressing graduating classes telling them that the political figure she looks up to the most is Chairman Mao. This shouldn’t be a surprise to you. Between journalists, teachers, and college professors, enough people had their minds polluted about Barack Hussein Obama that this nation elected its first Communist President.

#21

Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

For America’s Communists 2 out of 3 ain’t bad apparently. Especially when you have news anchors who talk about thrills up their legs or bowing to their Imperial Sovereign. Movies they’ve had since the 60’s. Now they want radio and the internet.

#29

Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

The Emperor himself has stated that he thinks the Constitution is too restrictive. That it says what government cannot do but nothing about what it can do.

#26

Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

Hmmm, it seems to me that the Emperor just signed a defense appropriations bill which was adopted to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that had an amendment in it that includes homosexuals in the hate crimes legislation. How it is possible to amend one piece of legislation through the adoption of another unrelated piece of legislation seems a bit off to me in the first place, but the goal was to get it through with no opposition.

I can go on and on about what this Infestation is doing and how public educators and journalists are helping it along. But you can read. Read it for yourself and think about each and every line. If you take an honest appraisal of the content of the goals see how they are being applied today, it will leave little doubt that the Communists have come to town and YOU allowed it to happen.

When you are finished with your reading assignment ask yourself one question…

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

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While You Wonder How to Pay for Your Child’s Education – College Presidents Are Becoming Millionaires

November 2, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Corruption, Democrat Incompetence, Education, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Libtards on Parade, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, The Economy View Comments

What a time we are living in huh? We have a President who sees himself as some sort of deity blithely appointing what is turning out to be a shadow government in his many Czars. Including the all powerful Pay Czar who has been commissioned by his Imperial Majesty to over-see executive pay for private corporations. What we need is a Pay Czar for institutions of higher learning.

This nation is in a terrible financial crisis and we all recognize it. Many are losing their jobs due to downsizing caused by the economic situation. Emperor Barry seems to be convinced that taking measure that will only deepen the recession is the pathway out of it. How else can you explain the idea of raising taxes during a recession?

With all that is wrong economically, how can it be that we as a nation have a record number of college presidents who are millionaires?

From FoxNews.com…

The fast-growing group of millionaire private college and university presidents hit a new record in recent years, and it’s likely more college leaders will make seven-figure salaries once the slumping economy rebounds.

A record 23 presidents received more than $1 million in total compensation in fiscal 2008, according to an analysis of the most recently available data published Monday by the Chronicle of Higher Education. A record one in four in the study of 419 colleges’ mandatory IRS filings made at least $500,000.

The justification for the all powerful Pay Czar is to oversee companies which took federal bailout funds as a result of the current economic crisis under TARP. However, it is my contention that colleges and universities in this nation have been accepting federal funding under the Department of Education for decades. Why is it there is no Pay Czar to oversee these executives?

After-all, what does a college or university president actually do?

I won’t hold my breath waiting for an answer because I doubt there is one.

Congress appropriates additional funding to assist with college educations and what is the first thing that always happens? Tuition goes up. There is a trade off for you.Who is getting the money? From the Fox article I’d say these fat-cat college presidents.

So I say to the Emperor…

Your Imperial Majesty,

It is the humble opinion of this not-so-loyal peasant that appointing a Pay Czar to stick your hands into more pockets at this time seems a bit misguided when many who have been robbing the American taxpayer for decades continue to do so and becoming millionaires in the process.

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Bush “Cronyism” Unmatched By Obama’s – Where’s The Leftist Backlash?

December 16, 2008 Barack Hussein Obama, Democrat Corruption, Education, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion, Presidential Politics, Stupidity Comments Off

For all the leftist complaining that we’ve had to endure over the past 8 years about President George W. Bush’s supposed “cronyism”, the left seems awful silent on Barry’s.

In the latest example of King (in waiting) Barry H. ‘Sorento’ Obama’s brand of “cronyism”, the ‘Chosen One’ has named the head of Chicago Schools to become Secretary of Education. That’s right campers, the ‘Messiah’ himself has named the chief of a failing public school system to a post which could lead to the widening of that failure.

From FoxNews.com:

President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday tapped Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan to be his education secretary, calling Duncan a hands-on and unyielding advocate who would help craft a “new vision” for education in America.

His vision? Widespread poverty and ignorance.

Chicago Public Schools is not known for being a Mecca of intellectual thought.

My beef however has less to do with Barry’s choice than the lack of a backlash from those who thought it prudent to criticize President George W. Bush’s selections. Not a word out of the left. Obama is stacking his advisory staff and cabinet with Chicagoland cronies and not a word out of the Daily Kooks or the Dhummies from the Underbelly. But like you, I’m not surprised. Why should I be? The left is well known for their hypocrisy.

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Obama’s Education Record & Sex Ed for Kindergartners

September 9, 2008 Barack Hussein Obama, Education, Election 2008, John McCain, Opinion, Presidential Candidates, Stupidity Comments Off

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Paul Zachary Myers – The Epitome of Liberal Intolerance

July 13, 2008 Catholicism, Education, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, Opinion, Stupidity Comments Off

Who is Paul Zachary Myers? He’s an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota at Morris and a self-proclaimed “card-carrying” atheist.

Mr. Myers has drawn the ire of the President of the Catholic League Bill Donohue for a blog posting that appeared on the University’s servers. In the wake of a story that appeared on the Catholic League’s website that a student at the University of Central Florida was found to have desecrated the Holy Eucharist by removing it, unconsumed, from Mass in order to “show it to a friend. Mr. Donohue stated on the Catholic League’s website:

“For a student to disrupt Mass by taking the Body of Christ hostage—regardless of the alleged nature of his grievance—is beyond hate speech. That is why the UCF administration needs to act swiftly and decisively in seeing that justice is done. All options should be on the table, including expulsion.”

Apparently Myers saw this as an opportunity to make a strike at religion, in particular the Catholic Church, and stated on his blog under the heading “It’s a Frackin’ Cracker!” hosted on the University’s servers:

“Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers?” he wrote. “If any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some, or even one, and mail it to me, I’ll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I won’t be tempted to hold it hostage … but will instead treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the http://www.morris.umn.edu/index.php.” Source

He subsequently had some words about the Church,

“Hey, Bill! I can think of something more vile! How about intentionally desecrating the bodies of young altar boys who respect the position of trust held by Catholic priests? I think that is a lot more vile than mistreating a cracker. In fact, I can think of innumerable vile acts going on all around the world right now, and not all of them even involve Catholicism. It takes the moral vacuum of a purblind ideological bigot like Bill Donohue to think that goring his sacred cow is the worst thing in the world,” Source

That is tolerance of others at its best isn’t it? I thought it was liberals in this country saying that we shouldn’t rush to war with terrorists who kill in the name of Allah because we should understand and be tolerant of them.

This waste of human flesh has the audacity to mention the priest scandal that when you look at them in context of the fact that fewer than 1% of the total number of priests are guilty of this improper conduct. How about we turn those facts on Mr. Myers.

What kind of profession is he engaged in when we hear every day of a new scandal involving teachers having improper sexual contact with students? Just yesterday I read of a Charter School in Southern California where multiple incidences of improper contact between teachers and students in a single school. How about those facts monkey boy?

I personally know of at least 2 Professors at the same institution in Ohio who believe that social contact between female students and themselves is perfectly normal. One actually approached a female student with an offer of a passing grade in exchange for a sexual arrangement. The student declined. But this went unreported because the student needed an earned passing grade in order to achieve her degree.

Teachers and Professors in this country have most of you snowed into thinking that they are underpaid and under appreciated when they are working part-time, receiving full-time wages, and using their classrooms as their own personal playground where they can satisfy their perversions under the guise of educating the youth of this nation. THEN one of these condescending POS “Professors” uses his bully pulpit to beat up on the Church? People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Bottom line, Catholicism is the largest single religion in this country. A country mind you that is reportedly 75-85% Christian. Catholics believe that at the consecration of the Mass, the bread and wine is transformed through the Holy Spirit into the sacred Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. That is what Mr. Donohue is referring to when he stated, “for a student to disrupt Mass by taking the Body of Christ hostage,” because in a sense that is what he did. Myers injected himself into this in order to get his jollies disrespecting the Church believing that his words are protected under free speech. That may be the case, but by putting those words on the University’s website, he is now speaking on behalf of that university. We should ask the President of the University if Mr. Myers speaks for the entire student body, staff, and himself. Email President Robert Bruininks at bruin001@umn.edu and ask him if HE feels the same as his Associate Professor of Biology.

In Conclusion, Bill Donohue released this statement on Friday,

“Myers went on Houston radio station KPFT last night saying that Bill Donohue has ‘declared a fatwa’ against him. He should know better—I don’t need others to do the fighting for me. I’m quite good at it myself. But he’d better be careful what he says, because if I get any death threats, it won’t be hard to connect the dots.

“Myers, who claims expertise in studying zebrafish, has quite a following among the King Kong Theory of Creation gang. Indeed, we’ve been inundated with hate mail from all over the world, and it all stems from those whose alleged god is reason.

“As a result of the hysteria that Myers’ ilk have promoted, at least one public official is taking it seriously. Thomas E. Foley is chairman of Virginia’s First Congressional District Republican Committee, a delegate to the Republican National Convention and one of two Republican at large nominees for Virginia’s Electoral College. His concern is for the safety of Catholics attending this year’s Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Myers’ backyard. Accordingly, Foley has asked the top GOP brass to provide additional security while in the Twin Cities so that Catholics can worship without fear of violence. Given the vitriol we have experienced for simply exercising our First Amendment right to freedom of speech, we support Foley’s request.

“We already know that Myers lost one round: the university has removed the link to his blog from his faculty page. He should be prepared to lose a few more rounds. By the way, Myers says he is delighted to have finally garnered my attention. Too bad I can’t say the same—I never heard of the guy until yesterday.”

Personally, I will live my life content in the knowledge that Myers will come to judgement before me and will in all likelihood spend eternity in the fires of hell because he has made a personal decision to reject God.

On a side note, I was once told by a priest that there is only one sin that he cannot grant absolution for, desecration of the Holy Eucharist. Only the Pope himself can grant absolution for this most grievous of mortal sins.

A word to Atheists:

Are you sure that you are right? I mean is it worth the risk if you aren’t? Because if we are right and you are wrong and there is a God, is it worth eternity of damnation because you have questions?

Lesson, before you reject God, make sure, absolutely sure that He does not exist and be willing to deal with the consequences if He does. Because they will last for eternity.

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An Arizona School Board Promotes an Illicit After Prom Activity

April 8, 2008 Education, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, Opinion, Stupidity View Comments

Though it has been forever and a day since anybody in the blogosphere has read a word from my befuddled and now pregnancy hormone enraged brain, I am alive and do (on occasion) get the chance and have the energy to pay attention to what is going on in the world beyond my growing belly. One story that has for the most part enraged me comes from World Net Daily about an Arizona high school and their prom night activities.

Apparently four of the five geniuses (I use that term extremely lightly, by the way) on the Brisbee High School board have voted to add condoms to the students’ prom night goodie bag. Along with a picture frame, candles, candy, and balloons, two condoms will also be there. Yes, you read correctly. Condoms. And not just ONE condom, but TWO….PER BAG. *Makes a face* Let’s just hand them some booze at the door too! I mean, heck, why not put a coupon in there for a free abortion. Or maybe a gift certificate to Babies ‘R’ Us for the couple to go buy a car seat for when they find out the female counterpart is pregnant because all FOUR condoms DID NOT WORK!!

C’mon people!! This is ridiculous! I mean, I’m pregnant and all that fun stuff…but I’m married! I’m also not in high school. And speaking of my being in high school (when I was, that is) they had breathalyzers at my prom! If you read the entire World Net Daily article, you will find that a Florida elementary school will be teaching their 6th graders how to correctly use condoms because they have one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates. Well let’s just show them how to “wrap it”…that will make it all better. Geez…. Because it would be so hard to teach abstinence. *sighs* I don’t know what to think anymore. And honestly, it scares the living daylights out of me. I mean, Gribbit and I will be raising a child in a time where it is more correct to have sex with whomever whenever and wherever you want rather than waiting for somebody meaningful. I understand some kids don’t get that whole idea and are so jaded because of parents that they don’t believe in that whole “waiting for the one you love” stuff. Believe me, I remember rolling my eyes when somebody would tell me that’s what they were going to do for themselves when I was in high school; however, there is something to be said for at least waiting until you’re mature enough to deal with a decision you’ve made like that.

In all brutal honesty, I was never given the opportunity to make that decision for myself. Somebody took that from me. I am jealous of people who have the ability to say “No. I’m making a better choice for myself.” What makes me angry are the ones who throw it away. What makes me absolutely livid are the adults who make decisions for children who aren’t their own. Adults who feel they know what’s best for other parents’ kids. Adults who won’t be standing over those students that night to make sure they use the condoms in those goodie bags. Adults who won’t have a thing to do in helping that girl cope with a baby she’s not ready for if just one of those four condoms doesn’t work. Adults who won’t be there when the father of that possible baby isn’t there to be a father. What kind of “adults” are these??

God be with Gribbit and myself as we try to teach our children better than these other kinds of “adults.”

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Anti-War Obama Supporters Get A Reality Check

April 4, 2008 Education, Global War on Terrorism, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion View Comments

Obama Adviser Suggests Up to 80,000 Troops Remain in Iraq By 2010

From FoxNews.com:

As Barack Obama continues to criticize John McCain for saying he’s willing to keep a 100-year troop presence in Iraq, another Obama adviser has suggested U.S. forces could stay in Iraq longer than the Democratic candidate initially thought.

Adviser Colin Kahl wrote in a policy paper for the Center for a New American Security that the United States should transition to an “over-watch” force of between 60,000 and 80,000 troops by the end of 2010, according to an article Friday in the New York Sun.

That appears to be at odds with Obama’s public position of removing all combat brigades from the country within 16 months of taking office.

This best illustrates the truth that Barack Hussein Obama’s promises are empty because he has yet to be confronted with the realities of the situation on the ground in Iraq. He simply has no clue of what he’s talking about on any issue let alone the status of the Iraq campaign.

It is easy for him to make these empty promises because he gets the support from his anti-war drones and when he no longer needs them and has to face the reality of the situation, it’s too late.

File this under beware of what you wish for. Elect Barack Hussein Obama and you may be getting something that you never wanted.

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Worst 10 Teachers Can Make 10k if They Quit

March 12, 2008 Education, News, Opinion Comments Off

An anti-union group is offering $10,000 each to the 10 worst teachers in the US. Conditions? They must be union and must have tenure (can’t be fired).

The Center for Union Facts hopes that offering severance packages will thin out the 10 worst teachers because no matter how bad they are, they cannot be fired.

The Criteria:

1. Nominations: Any person who is a legal resident of the United States who is thirteen (13) years old or older may submit nominations (this website is intended for adults; it does not knowingly accept and does not expect to receive any personally identifiable information — name, address, etc. — from persons under the age of 13). No person may submit more than three (3) nominations. No person may nominate himself or herself.

2. How to Enter: You must enter through the entry page for this program. All fields except teacher’s district must be completed with the information required. Entries are limited to 150 words in the appropriate field (nominations may be edited by Center for Union Facts). Information identifying the nominee must be included in a teacher’s nomination, but we will remove all identifying information before publishing a nomination except with the teacher’s express written permission, as described below. The deadline for nominations will close on May 15, 2008 at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

3. Eligibility Standards and Requirements: Every nomination for Worst Teacher will be screened before we publish it or consider it eligible for this program. Nominees must meet the following criteria:

must be under fifty (50) years of age

must be employed and expected to teach through the end of the normal 2007-08 school year

must be tenured teachers or the equivalent (as defined by state law)

must be unionized or covered under a collective bargaining contract

must NOT currently be undergoing administrative disciplinary procedures

Any nominee determined by the Center for Union Facts not to meet these criteria will not be considered.

4. Judging Criteria: To get a nominee in our “Top 10,” your anecdote must be true and reflect poor teaching skills or demeanor, such as stupidity, laziness, foolishness, or odd behavior. Any nomination that appears libelous, defamatory, untrue or an undue invasion of privacy will not be considered. Nominations that concern a teacher’s legitimate use of grading or discipline will not be considered. Interpreting and applying these criteria will be done exclusively by the Center for Union Facts, whose decisions are final.

5. Verification: Contact information for the nominator must also be included, but we will not voluntarily publish any information disclosing your identity at any time. However, we will disclose information if required by law, such as subpoena or court order. If one of your nominees is selected as a “Top 10 finalist” by the Center for Union Facts, you will be required to submit evidence verifying the facts behind their nominations and eligibility criteria of the nominee, if needed. Center for Union Facts reserves the right to reject any Top 10 finalist if critical information can not be verified to its satisfaction.

6. Winner Selection: After the close of nominations, the Center for Union Facts will determine up to ten (10) program finalists (ranked in the sole judgment of the Center for Union Facts) whose eligibility can be verified. Each finalist will be offered $10,000 in cash (offer expires June 30, 2008 at 11:59:59 p.m.) if he or she agrees permanently to resign or retire from any and all careers in education, including teaching or tutoring and if he or she signs, under penalty of civil law, a release agreeing to have his or her name and the reasons for his or her winning a Top Ten Worst Union-Protected Teacher award published by the Center for Union Facts. Each such winner must contractually agree that if he or she resumes a career in education, he or she will be liable to refund to the Center for Union Facts $10,000, plus interest and $5,000 in liquidated damages.

7. Role of Nominators: This is not a “contest” for nominators and there will be no prize or consideration or other recognition for nomination of program finalists or otherwise. Except as required by law, nominators will not be identified. All entries become the exclusive property of the Center for Union Facts and nominators agree that they do not retain and will not assert intellectual property or other rights to entries, including any rights to further disseminate entries.

8. Libel and Invasion of Privacy: Nominators who submit falsified entries or entries that invade one’s privacy will be subject to liability under the laws of their respective states, Virginia, and the United States.

9. Limitation of Liability and Remedies: UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, SHALL THE CENTER FOR UNION FACTS OR AFFILIATED ENTITIES OR ITS SUCCESSORS OR ASSIGNS, OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS OR HARM TO BUSINESS OR REPUTATION, ARISING OUT OF PARTICIPATION IN THE “TEN WORST UNION-PROTECTED TEACHERS” PROGRAM, POSTING ON OR ACCESS AND/OR DOWNLOAD OF ANY MATERIALS OR INFORMATION FROM ANY WEB SITE OWNED, OPERATED OR CONTROLLED BY THE CENTER FOR UNION FACTS OR AFFILIATED ENTITIES.

10. Venue: Any disputes concerning the “Ten Worst Union-Protected Teachers” program that is not otherwise resolved shall be brought in the courts of Virginia and participants consent to personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts.

Click HERE to nominate your least favorite teacher meeting the criteria above.

So why are they doing this?

From their website:

If you haven’t already read about it in USA TODAY, make sure to check out today’s launch of the full-fledged Center for Union Facts teachers union campaign at TeachersUnionExposed.com. Our Newark pilot project was only the beginning — at TeachersUnionExposed.com you can visit our new website and learn how teachers unions:

block education reform;

hamper school quality;

protect bad teachers; and

misuse teachers’ forced dues money.

Our site also features a huge quantity of completely original research into how local teachers unions keep bad teachers from being fired. See the listing of profiled unions here, or click on one of our highlights:

Boston Teachers Union

Minneapolis Federation of Teachers

the troubled Teachers Association of Long Beach

Last, but certainly not least, make sure to check out our Ten Worst Union-Protected Teachers contest. We’re taking nominations for the worst teachers in America who can’t be fired thanks to teachers unions. Click here to read the rules, and click here to submit your nomination now. We’ll be offering the “winners” $10,000 apiece to quit teaching — go visit TeachersUnionExposed.com to learn more!

Finally someone is taking on the powerful teachers unions and their ridiculous concept of tenure. This is the only industry where once you have been employed for a certain amount of time, you cannot be fired no matter how poor your work performance is. I’m sure auto workers and other trades would love to have such guarantees.

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Judge to Home-schooling Family: Enroll Your Kids in Government Schools

March 1, 2008 Education, Judicial Activism, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion, Stupidity, The Fiction of Global Warming, socialism Comments Off

A California judge has ordered a family to enroll their children into government school or a “legally qualified” private school and the children must attend. The suit was brought by “child advocates” on behalf of the couple’s two youngest children. All of the couple’s 8 children have been home-schooled, the oldest is 29 years old.

From WND:

The decision from the 2nd Appellate Court in Los Angeles granted a special petition brought by lawyers appointed to represent the two youngest children after the family’s homeschooling was brought to the attention of child advocates.

“We find no reason to strike down the Legislature’s evaluation of what constitutes an adequate education scheme sufficient to promote the ‘general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence,’” the court said in the case. “We agree … ‘the educational program of the State of California was designed to promote the general welfare of all the people and was not designed to accommodate the personal ideas of any individual in the field of education.’”

The words echo the ideas of officials from Germany, where homeschooling has been outlawed since 1938 under a law adopted when Adolf Hitler decided he wanted the state, and no one else, to control the minds of the nation’s youth.

Wolfgang Drautz, consul general for the Federal Republic of Germany, has said “school teaches not only knowledge but also social conduct, encourages dialogue among people of different beliefs and cultures, and helps students to become responsible citizens.”

We all know how that program turned out don’t we.

Specifically, the appeals court said, the trial court had found that “keeping the children at home deprived them of situations where (1) they could interact with people outside the family, (2) there are people who could provide help if something is amiss in the children’s lives, and (3) they could develop emotionally in a broader world than the parents’ ‘cloistered’ setting.

And in the process opening them up to all sorts of anti-Christian values which this family is working hard to avoid. For instance, the recent decision to teach global warming BS pseudo-science as fact in California and homosexual permissiveness.

This is an example of the courts interfering with parental rights. We are slowly moving toward what Orwell called Big Brother by taking a step backwards in this country. Are we to be like Hitler’s Germany? Are we going to allow the anti-Christian morals of atheists and perverts to corrupt our children’s lives? This decision needs to be overturned and you need to be outraged at the audacity of the 2nd Court of Appeals in California.

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