Social Justice Slow Creep

"College board president behind SAT 'adversity score' was also the mastermind of the controversial K-12 'Common Core' curriculum changes that has children just learning for a test. David Coleman, president of The College Board, which administers the SAT, was the 'architect of Common Core' – controversial K-12 curriculum standards." --Valerie Bauman

Common Core is much more about control of the citizenry that building a more productive public school system. It is the federal takeover of the education system, providing the basis for indoctrination of our youngsters. While robbing children of their free agency, it boxes them in and is prohibitive to critical thinking.

"This is not leveling the playing field. This is a savior complex. This is identity politics," Campus Reform's editor-in-chief said. "The fact that they think they can judge people based on where they come from, the color of their skin, and what they went through, I think is insulting. It's essentially saying, people who come from those backgrounds, people like me, cannot make it and I think we warned America that this was going to happen and no one paid attention."---Lawrence Jones

"The move is an attempt to do away with differences in test scores that result from disparities in wealth and education and preempts a ruling from the Supreme Court on race-based affirmative action," with a described purpose "to get to race without using race.”

So the action is racist!

“If I am going to make room for more of the [poor and minority] students we want to admit and I have a finite number of spaces, then someone has to suffer and that will be privileged kids on the bubble,” John Barnhill, assistant vice president for academic affairs at Florida State University, told The WSJ." He said he expects pushback from parents whose children go to well-to-do high schools as well as guidance counselors there.

I will skip entertaining VP Barnhill; I will be contacting President Thrasher.

As an alumnus of Florida State University, I find it unacceptable that the admissions process is tainted by intellectual elites who seek opportunities to experiment in social engineering and champion political agendas rather than rewarding hard work and accomplishment of students.

Tigers Remain Declawed

Due to the actions of the brass at Missouri, they have this coming in spades.

As the Daily Caller reports, "The image problems stem from an eruption of Black Lives Matter protests rocked the Columbia, Mo. campus in November 2015. The protests by a group calling itself Concerned Student 1950 group centered largely on Jonathan Butler, the son of a millionaire railroad executive. Butler went on a hunger strike and convinced 32 black Mizzou football players to boycott all team activities."

America was not impressed, and most consider Black Lives Matter a borderline terrorist organization.

“Black Lives Matter hates the American system of government, i.e., the Constitution and capitalism,” says Rev. Jesse Lee Patterson, founder and president of the civil-rights organization BOND. Patterson says the movement associates the U.S. with “whiteness,” and, therefore, despises the very government that appears to be endorsing it.

We noted at the time the University of Missouri was in trouble, mainly for how they appeasing Black Lives Matter, a social justice movement. This highly financed group is part of the agenda created to discredit churches, companies, agencies and organizations while creating divisions between classes through race, gender and economic status.

The New York Times notes a Mizzou journalism professor said "The protests could have been turned into an asset — a chance to celebrate diversity. “We still can.”

It seems to me that mindset remains steadfast in appeasement, not connecting with the values of most of America, and certainly from the heartland.

Mizzou should celebrate the chasing of dreams of their students through individualism and teamwork, not orchestrated diversity.

Watching the Wheels

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round, I really love to watch them roll

 

Thinking of John Lennon, who was murdered 36 years ago this evening. RIP John. Your brilliance lives on!

America sits watching the wheels go round and round.

 "It’s been 36 years since Lennon was gunned down by an assassin’s bullet on December 8, 1980, but his legacy and the lessons he imparted in his music and his activism have not diminished over the years. 

All of the many complaints we have about government today were present in Lennon’s day and formed the basis of his call for social justice, peace and a populist revolution. Little wonder, then, that the U.S. government saw him as enemy number one. 

Because he never refrained from speaking truth to power, Lennon became a prime example of the lengths to which the U.S. government will go to persecute those who dare to challenge its authority." --John Whitehead.

Well stated!

Power to the People: John Lennon’s Legacy Lives On by John Whitehead

Useful Idiots

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Rubio Right On Obama

Marco Rubio is getting rocked for being "robotic" and having canned commentary. The news media, even FOX News, the establishment and other candidates are trashing Rubio. Fine, but it is Senator Rubio who is correct; Obama is gleefully orchestrating the destruction of America as founded.

Nobody seems willing to attack Obama, but there is little problem going after Rubio.

An intellectual elite with a big time chip on his shoulder, through his successful efforts, President Obama is bringing his ideas on wealth transformation, open borders and social justice while diminishing America, who he deems an oppressor, down to the level of the rest of the world.

Upon completion of his term, we conclude he will seek the position of UN Secretary General, because his talents cannot be only limited to the shores of our fruited plain.  He will effort, in his mind boggling arrogance, seek to rule the world.

He is achieving many of his goals here in America.  It is most distressful to note that, like we are reading from the pages of George Orwell's Animal Farm, it appears we are actually living on the Animal Farm.  We continuously send representatives to Washington with one simple task; stop Obama.

They fail, miserably, over and over again.

Note comments made by Rush Limbaugh noting a quote he learned of from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.  "The Senate Majority Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, has just said there will be no stopping Obama's agenda, because to criticize Obama makes us look bad. What the hell is this campaign gonna be about if not that?"

With folks like this slime ball McConnell in the GOP, is it any wonder our nation is in such disrepair.

GOP front runner Donald Trump has often labeled Obama incompetent, but that is naive and stupid; also quite incorrect.  But why are Rubio, and Sen. Ted Cruz, the only candidates that will accurately portray Obama for the anti-American president he so arrogantly is?

Rush Limbaugh, The Truth Detector, knows.

Rush Limbaugh accurately stated “Rubio’s point is that “Obama’s not incompetent, he’s not inexperienced, he’s doing exactly what he wants to do and none of these Republican moderates will go there. You want to know why? You want to know why? You want to know why they cannot agree that Obama is doing this on purpose? It’s very simple. They cannot agree that Obama is doing it on purpose, they do not dare say that Obama is doing it on purpose, because they have all worked with Barack Obama.”

BAM! Take it to the bank, or in this case, the voting booth!!!

Rush Limbaugh, The Truth Detector

The Real Question: Why Won't Anyone But Rubio and Cruz Say Obama Is Destroying the Country on Purpose?

Directing The Masses

Donald J. Trump

It is really astonishing if you think about it with any level of curiosity.

As outlined by GOP front runner Donald Trump, with all the terrorism acts being committed around the globe, the despicable and barbaric acts being engaged upon by Planned Parenthood and the corrupt actions and blatant disregard for the law being exhibited by the Obama administration and complicit members of Congress from both sides, the media feels compelled to scold Trump on his tone.

Can you imagine?

On the surface, you might conclude the news media is so stupid they would not know a story of legitimate impact on the citizenry if it took place in the lobby of their corporate office building.  But no, nobody is that idiotic.

The mainstream news media is in full command of the facts. The stories they provide and the issues they cover are all part of an agenda to lead the American people in a direction they, in the arrogance of their intellectual elitism, determines is best determined to serve the ruling class.

Fans of dystopian writers George Orwell and Aldous Huxley often engage in debate who was more correct. Orwell considered the government would conceal information from the citizenry, and engage in rewriting the history the public was able to consume. Huxley imagined a world where the citizenry would be bombarded with voluminous information that would allow such consumption which would result in the citizenry being drunk on a sea of irrelevance.

George Orwell and Aldous Huxley
photo/OpenCulture.com

Both are accurate.

Truthful information is being concealed (gun running in Benghazi), and rewritten (see unemployment rate) as Orwell imagined and the country is ever increasingly engulfed by guilty pleasures (UFC fighting) and issues and individuals of non importance (the Kardashians) as Huxley forecasted.

Meanwhile, the freedoms we hold dear are being methodically taken from us though the orchestration of evil organizations, elected officials and social justice engineers of the ruling class.  And of course, the mainstream media.

Tigers Declawed

In the face of a majority of the Missouri football team threatening to boycott a neutral site game in Kansas City's Arrowhead stadium on Saturday night vs. BYU, demands were met with the resignation of University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe.

A favorite tactic of the left, this amounts to extortion. Mizzou, just a few years removed from being championed as a bastion of diversity having an openly gay player in LB Michael Sam, is now too racist to bear, claim the top protesters.

Please read the incidents involved, which we deem very weak as they currently are reported to substantiate the level of civil rights strife the protesters claim inflict the university.

Among the list of demands, as reported by the Independent Sentinel, was that President Wolfe must write an handwritten apology “acknowledging his white male privilege” and “recognize that systems of oppression exist.”  They also want more social justice centers, more black staff to be hired by quota, more money for black causes, and the demands of the 1969 Black Collegians met. The Black Collegians are leftist advocates.

With the group referencing the admission of white privilege, we can confirm their relationship to other similar movements seeking the same results utilizing differing avenues of approach. White privilege has been code language for the social justice movement, which includes Black Lives Matter. This highly financed group is part of the agenda created to discredit churches, companies, agencies and organizations while creating divisions between classes through race, gender and economic status. BLM is really no different than Occupy Wall Street, just using another mechanism.

In addition, although this has not become present as of yet, admissions by churches, companies, agencies and organizations and/or leaders of such agencies and institutions open a door to significant legal ramifications, not just to those centrally involved, but to all citizens and taxpayers.

“Black Lives Matter hates the American system of government, i.e., the Constitution and capitalism,” says Rev. Jesse Lee Patterson, founder and president of the civil-rights organization BOND. Patterson says the movement associates the U.S. with “whiteness,” and, therefore, despises the very government that appears to be endorsing it.

This appears an attack on the institution, an effort to advance a social justice agenda under the limited if not false premise of racism. A very concerning precedent has now been formed, and similar instances seem likely to follow.

Quotations among those supporting the group at Mizzou claim the nation does not understand the racism and level of tension dealt with on a daily basis in the state of Missouri.

Funny, the nation did not witness any such activity in Kansas City last week, where 800k citizens, of all races, gender, creed, hairstyle, musical interests and favorite superhero came together to celebrate the Kansas City Royals World Series win.

Is the struggle real in Missouri, or is this just another orchestrated event to further divide our nation while making effort to advance progressive tenants of social justice?

Our answer is evident with what just happened in Kansas City.

On Saturday night, we will certainly be cheering for BYU! Go Cougs!

A Business of Keeping Trouble

As we are involved in another city being burned and looted in the name social justice by agitators who claim grievances against supposed racial inequality and police brutality, please be advised of what Booker T. Washington informed you of a century ago.

Along with the class of colored people keeping the troubles and hardships before the public Washington describes are the Democrats, who need a downtrodden voting base to continue to turn to them for help, which since the Great Society of LBJ which declared war on poverty, has failed to produce any measurable benefit other than electing Democrats.

It is a business of keeping trouble, indeed.

Deep Freeze

Once again, the nation finds itself in a deep freeze.



Just this past year, the Buffalo Bills had to move a game from the friendly confines of Orchard Park, NY to Detroit due to a massive snowstorm that left Ralph D. Wislon stadium unable to host a game. Boston has had reached a historical record in snowfall this year as well.  It was just a few years back NASCAR had to cancel qualifying at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway was snowed under this past week.

No doubt, it will be brutal tomorrow night at the High Banks at Daytona International Speedway for the Daytona Duel 150's.

Although the media continues to hammer the public about the horrors of man made global warming, or as they now phrase it, global climate change, even as the nation freezes to death, much of the public remain convinced there is merit to these claims.  In short, they do not believe their own thermometers.

Michael Raimrez/Investors Business Daily

We have long said that Global Warming, or Global Climate Change, is among the greatest hoaxes of all time, a vehicle of the transfer of wealth.  Investors Business Daily editorialized about the re-branding, designed to mask the truth, which seems frosted upon everyone's hair tonight.

When we look for top notch weather data and forecasting, we turn to Joe Bastardi, Chief Forecaster at WeatherBell Analytics.  In a piece over at The Heartland Institute, Bastardi combats some of the propaganda presented in the media.

As global climate change summit's continue to be cancelled due to snowstorms and with the nation in yet another deep freeze, even if you have been brainwashed to believe the global warming alarmists, your freezing body is presenting you the truth.

As we have noted previously, it is important to note that global warming, or the newly defined global climate change, is not about weather.  These people have no idea if it is going to rain next Tuesday in their own back yard.  It is about governmental control, the transfer of wealth, and limitations on real property, restricting property rights under the global premise of social justice.

As the brilliant Michael Ramirez so eloquently stated, it is the truth that is the endangered species in the global climate change "lack" of debate.  The science is settled tonight, with a low of 27 degrees expected here tonight in Orlando.

False Argument of Minimum Wage

Facts are indeed stubborn.  Given the economic facts we have seen continuously seen for decades regarding the minimum wage, it should be clear the argument is not about "working families"; but rather a political agenda. Once again, the minimum wage is not a wage designed to support "working families" and raising it reduces employment.

Over at Zero Hedge today, a chart showing retail trade offers a notable emerging difference between states that recently hiked the wage and those that held firm. Retail is most telling, as the indusrty has among the highest level of these type of workers.

Retail Trade/Chart via Zero Hedge

Again, raising the wage hurts the very people the propaganda tells us it will help.  In the macro, it reduces the efficiencies of firms, raising costs and restricting their abilities to add workers, which is an overall drag on economic production regionally and thus nationally.

Fast food workers recently went on strike to obtain higher wages, not due to their hard work on the job, but because of the perception that they deserve it and the corporate employer can afford it. In an interview with Business Insider economist, Paul Krugman thinks the overall costs of raising the wage would not cause as many issues as most think.  Krugman fails to recgonize the adminstration he advocates for has no right to direct the capital of private firms through social engineering. Economically, why cause any issues? Why not reduce encumbrances firms face limiting the obstacles faced in advancing growth? 

Unless, of course, you have other objectives.

Common sense would dictate that government intervention in this arena is designed to help the workers and help the economy grow, but that is a farce.  Government mandated wage levels, along with price controls, are impediments to growth.  Therefore, the goals are not economic, but politically driven, with the plans set forth in the Cloward and Piven Strategy the objectives.

Free market capitalism, with limited governmental restrictions on business, is without question the best path to prosperity.  Under the current administration, fees, taxes and government regualtions have increased while freedom and prosperity have decreased.

In the form of the old argument regarding the minimum wage, now you have an example of why.

Have It Your Way

Another home run for IBD's Michael Ramirez. Burger King won't let wealth transformation, the economics of social justice, eat up their profits. BK will have it their own way!

Micahel Ramirez/Investors Business Daily

Core of Destruction

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.--Abraham Lincoln.

 

America is under attack from within.

 

As often as we have including that wording in one of our blog posts, it has the feel of some kind of catch phrase.  Be advised it is not.  By design, no doubt strongly enhanced by the Cloward-Piven Strategy, the tentacles of attack are so numerous you would think you were in battle with an octopus.

 

The avenue of approach employed by the Obama administration and their progressive partners, inclusive of more than a handful of GOP members, on each tentacle, has the sting of a Man of War.

 

Fitting we mention the word war, as it is becoming apparent America is in a form of Civil War, only it is on the battlefield of ideology rather than dodging bullets on a vast parcel in western Kentucky.

 

Each of the avenues of attack are uniquely dangerous, and as Obama planned, transformative. 

 

Perhaps the most destructive is attack is one currently target bombing our education curriculum in the public school system.  This initiative is supported by heavy hitting Republicans and Democrats, inclusive of Mike Huckabee and Jeb Bush from the GOP to Bill Gates, Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers, former Intel CEO Craig Barrett and companies such as State Farm Insurance and Exxon-Mobil.

 

We did an extensive blog post, A Real Rotten Core, a year ago outlining how dangerous to our freedom and liberty the initiative is.  The Common Core Standards seek to transform the system of teaching. The basis presented to the public establishing the need for the new standards center on the ability to streamline educational efforts, standardizing curriculum standards across the nation and to give our students help in competing with students around the world enabling them a more prosperous future in competing in the global economy.

 

Cloaked inside that reasonable objective is extensive data mining of our children, which as presented is an invasion of privacy and in violation of the fourth amendment.  Common Core places student in a box, limiting their potential to advance beyond the scope of the designed curriculum, emphasizing globalism and social justice over individualism and free market capitalism.

 

At the core, pun intended, Common Core is much more about control of the citizenry and indoctrination of our youth than it is about building a more productive public school system.

 

In an article at The Corner, Stanley Kurtz examines a quiet but devastatingly effective effort to replace the teaching of traditional American history in our high schools with a new, centrally-controlled, and sharply left-leaning curriculum.  As Kurtz, whose reputation is concrete solid, reports, The College Board, who issues the SAT and various AP exams, has created elaborate new framework for he AP US History Exam, will effectively force nearly all American high schools, public and private, to transform the was they teach US History.

 

I got a news flash for you.  These folks are charter members of the blame America first crowd, thinking, like our President, that American prosperity was ill gotten through thievery and oppression.  Social justice, fairness and equality will the emphasis, contrary to the foundations and principles of our Constitutional Republic.

 

Think your child can sideswipe the changes?  False.  Prospective college students will be required to satisfactorily pass the SAT, which will be heavily based on the new framework.  Indoctrination.

 

Many states, risking the loss of heavy governmental funding, are backtracking from accepting the Common Core standards.  If the public really knew the nuts and bolts of Common Core, it would overwhelmingly be rejected.  Same with the US History framework Kurtz has warned us about.

 

This Tuesday, July 22, presents a golden opportunity for you to become more knowledgeable on this subject, and physically participate in helping defeat it. Glenn Beck will assemble a cast of interested parties, pro and con, for a lengthy interactive experience live from his studios in Las Colinas, Texas.

 

As Beck puts it, WE WILL NOT CONFORM is a chance for anyone who’s tired of sitting idly by as the federal government continues its takeover of our schools to come together and do something about it. Among the parties scheduled to participate are David Barton of WallBuilders, FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe and Michelle Malkin, who has been leading the charge in opposition of Common Core.  

 

Common Core can be defeated, but we need all hands on deck.  While it has supporters on both sides, it also has opponents on both sides.  Therefore, this provides an opportunity to find common ground with those who we are normally at odds with, which is integral in reversing the downward spiral our country is in.

 

Please make time to find a theater presentation in your neck of the woods and join us in fighting those who seek to limit our freedom and liberty.  WE WILL NOT CONFORM!

 

WE WILL NOT CONFORM

Go There

A tense exchange occured up on Capitol Hill last week which I took particular notice of, as it seemingly included a direct threat to a member of the US House of Representatives.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R:TX, a member of the House Oversight Committee, was involved in an exchange with Attorney General Eric Holder.  Lets go to the tape:


(h/t: Charlie Spiering)

Attorney General Holder, as I see it, is in contempt of court for failing to provide requested documentation from The Department of Justice.  Rep. Gohmert, a former judge, has extended Holder a courtesy by even discussing the matter with him, as most in contempt of court are in jail.

Rep. Louie Gohmert

The exchange prompted me to send Rep. Gohmert a note, which read as follows:

Rep. Gohmert; your efforts in this matter are greatly appreciated. With seemingly unwavering arrogance, Attorney General Holder continues to operate outside of the law. If our elected officials, and their appointed representatives, are lawless, our nation will cease to exist as founded. I hope you and your colleagues will accept the invitation of Attorney General Holder and "go there"; and the sooner the better.

Holder is an ideologue, using his position, not to enforce the laws of our country, but to impose his brand of social justice on the nation.  For this alone, he should be impeached, as he does not have the authority under the law to personalize his position. 

Evidence of Holder operating outside the law came early in his tenure when he failed to go forward with a voter intimidation case in Philadelphia involving his buddies in The New Black Panther Party threatening potential voters at a local precinct.  Certainly, you recall the event.

As a representative of the administration of President Barack Obama, who proclaimed his office would be the most transparent in history, Holder should eagerly turn over documents requested by House committees.

However, Holder has repeatedly failed to produce such documentaion.  Not only that, in his arrogance, he threatened Gohmert "not to go there".  In addition, he personally attacked Gohmert, thinking he scored big making fun of a tongue tied moment Gohmert supposedly had in a previous exchange a year ago.

Imagine Holder sitting with venom for over a year waiting for an opportunity to hammer Gohmert only to learn Gohmert was actually extending Holder yet another courtesy.

Holder has repeatedly demonstrated he is not fit for the office of Attorney General of the United States, disregarding laws, enforcing those of his choosing and utilizing his unelected position to inflict his ideas on social justice on our citizenry.

Enough of the courtesy.

Go There.  Immediately.

A Real Rotten Core

Early in June, The Central Florida Education Summit, hosted by the Central Florida Partnership and sponsored by the Orlando Regional REALTOR Association, took place at the Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport focusing on the implementation of Common Core State Standards in Florida's K-12 Education System. 

The Central Florida Partnership, an organization backed by heavy political and business leaders in greater Orlando from both sides of the political aisle, join an astonishing number of their counterparts across the country in seemingly blinded support of this rather deceiving and cruel initiative.

Nationally, the Common Core Standards, which have been adopted by 45 states, are supported by The Obama administration, former Florida Governor and potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush, the National Parent Teacher Association, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mike Huckabee and the National Education Association, who have previously informed us their goals center around their power and NOT the children.

While Common Core is a brainchild of the Progressive movement, many Conservative individuals and groups have backed the initiative.  The National Review came out in favor of Common Core, and in an educational presentation of the evidence, Glenn Beck of The Blaze offered a rebuttal of note.

Companies including Microsoft, General Electric, Intel, Boeing, Aetna and State Farm Insurance are on board in full support.  Exxon-Mobil, who run a petroleum company under harsh scrutiny from the Obama administration, are proud supporters who felt compelled to venture outside of their corporate initiatives entering in educational advocacy and through purchasing expensive ad time for a thirty second national ad, which you can see HERE.

Although the Common Core Standards are not federally mandated, the federal government strongly encourages participation.  For those states that refrain from participation, the federal government will offer financially layered incentives and support in effort to provide entitlements masking as assistance. Ultimately, the federal government can and will withhold financial grants, aid and program assistance should a state opt out of the initiative.  We have seen the same tactics manifest themselves with regard to Obamacare.

The advertised goal from the implementation of the Common Core Standards centers around placing common standards aiming to make curriculum standards consistent across the nation aligning the standards and measuring student achievement while measuring and holding accountable teachers and schools.  Well, that does not sound so bad.  After all, we want our students nationally to excel.

Certain states have been documented as routinely failing to meet the standards demanded by the citizenry as noted by The Fordham Institute, who has received sizable grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the implementation of the Common Core Standards will likely force improvement in these states.  However, will states currently highly achieving is this arena experience regression to the mean and have their accomplishments decrease?

 As noted in an article in the Tallahassee Democrat, Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett said the 2013-14 school year will be “the year of Common Core” in Florida public schools, as the new standards make their way into classrooms at every grade level.

An article in the Tallahassee Democrat outlined differences in the currently implemented standards versus those of Common Core, which you can reference HERE.

I found the high school example particularly illustrative, which is reprinted below:

High School Math:

Common Core: Recognize and explain the concepts of conditional probability and independence in everyday language and everyday situations. For example, compare the chance of having lung cancer if you are a smoker with the chance of being a smoker if you have lung cancer.

Sunshine State: Determine probabilities of independent events. Understand and use the concept of conditional probability, including: understanding how conditioning affects the probability of events and finding conditional probabilities from a two-way frequency table.

The Common Core example astutely recognizes the statistical probabilities that exist and draw conclusions from the data sample that hold sizable merit and would be noted as reasonably correct.  The Sunshine State example also examines those same statistical inferences and recognizes the findings as reasonably accurate.  However, the Sunshine State is not limited in scope by inference that the probabilities outlined in the data are mutually inclusive.  The Sunshine State allows for critical thinking, where opportunities to examine less probable chances and outcomes are possible.  Independent events, not necessarily tied together, occur, as evidenced by the number of citizens who have been diagnosed with lung cancer who have never smoked.  The chances of finding a cure will be strongly enhanced by the educational opportunities that exist in the Sunshine State example rather than the reasonably correct interpretations found from the boxed in and limited Common Core example.

It can argued Common Core Standards provide a sound educational platform from which to operate, one that will assist lower performances to reach higher levels.  That sounds good when you say it fast, but in a brilliant piece presented last week, the impact of the Common Core Standards being implemented in The National Football League is examined.  It is not good.

While the academic side of the Common Core Standards is concerning, a much more troubling aspect has been discovered centering around data mining.  This is big in the news right now, with the NSA spying on American Citizens through phone, cable and internet properties seemingly in violation of privacy rights of the citizenry.

If you are just learning of Common Core during this read, please be advised you are way behind the eight ball in your educational efforts.  Michelle Malkin has written extensively on Common Core, and has presented very troubling information regarding data mining.  Glenn Beck also covered the topic in great detail.

However, a real world example of how far along the government is in the implementation of Common Core is noted in the following news story.  In Polk County Florida, which nestled between the Tampa and Orlando markets, without parental notification, local school officials conducted illegal iris scans on students.  This program, labeled eyeswipe-nano, is a clear violation of the privacy rights of the children and their parents as outlined in the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. 

It should be noted the lawmakers currently in charge do not respect the Constitution, the rights of the citizenry and the law of the land.  Therefore, we must conclude they are dishonest brokers who cannot be held in a position of trust, particularly when it comes to the education of our children.

A link to a governmental site outlining the data mining techniques to be utilized, inclusive of arm bracelets, iris scans and seating able to measure body heat and movement, has been taken down. However, I did read it in its entirety and can completely understand why it was taken down, as you would join me in being beyond alarmed if you read it.  Thankfully, Glenn Beck to the rescue.  Beck has an entire program dedicated to Common Core, where he actually shows you the pages which outline this material.  See the following:



The Common Core Standards place the curriculum in a box, curtailing efforts to advance beyond the scope of the designed curriculum.  By the way, who is setting the curriculum?  Perhaps those old members of the blame America first crowd?  An example of the curriculum in the literary arts is rather than classic literature an examination of executive orders, including one regarding strengthening federal environmental energy and transportation management, indoctrination right our of the UN Agenda 21 doctrine progressives seek to implement.  Sticking with the UN theme, Common Core emphasizes globalism, eliminating Americanism by removing value language.  Free market capitalism and entrepreneurship shifts to social justice, respect and fairness.  When learning of influential people in American history are children taught about Barack Obama, George Bernard Shaw, Margaret Sanger, and Doleres Huerta or Barry Goldwater, George Patton, Arnold Palmer, Billy Graham and Vince Lombardi?

While many are useful idiots who remain unaware of the evil nature of these standards, many supporters know exactly what the real reasons behind the effort are.  At the aforementioned summit, Orlando Regional REALTOR Association Chairman Steve Merchant offered "School quality is a powerful driver of property values, so anyone who owns property — or is considering purchasing property — in a community should have a strong economic interest in having good schools,” said Merchant. "Studies have consistently shown that properties near schools with higher ratings are far more likely to have higher values than those near schools with lower ratings often.”  Higher rated schools do positively impact property values, but under Common Core, the goal would be for all schools to score equally, thereby negating those higher values and eliminating incentives for under performing school districts to make effort to improve.  I will go with useful idiot on this one.

Similar to Obamacare, Common Core is much more about control of the citizenry that building a more productive public school system. It is the federal takeover of the education system, providing the basis for indoctrination of our youngsters. While robbing children of their free agency, it boxes them in and is prohibitive to critical thinking. 

It is the same as the federal takeover of the health care industry, similar to the deep governmental intervention and control of the financial markets and environmental standards, which in short can be defined as the best practices of socialism.

Sunday Night Song: 1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four.

For a myriad of reasons, recently I have been thinking about George Orwell's 1984. With the re-election of President Barack Obama, as Victor Davis Hanson appropriately pointed out in a recent Investors Business Daily editorial piece, the "Beast Reagan Aimed To Starve Good To Gorge Under Obama." Sadly, right on target.

The recent death of famed economist James M. Buchanan, a leading scholar in "public choice" economic theory, reminded us of conclusions drawn, most accurately noted that those elected to government do not leave their ideology and self interests behind at the door. While in itself this is not necessarily a bad thing, it reminds that proper checks and balances are required from the citizenry as increased government interjection in the economy reduces freedom and liberty and is destined for failure.

A case study for that conclusion is examined in an excellent article the crossed my transom the other day regarding the significant decline of many large American cities. Michael Snyder, from The Economic Collapse blog is the author, details how cities such as Detroit, Oakland and Chicago have become infested with gangs, with increasing violence and lawlessness, and are deteriorating from within.  Government in these cities, due to financial constraints caused by idiotic progressive policies of social justice, have been forced to reduce effort to combat the criminals.

Chicago is particularly noteworthy.  The south side, where the greater majority of murders are taking place, is home to our President; Barack Obama.  With MSNBC contemplating that his record as President should place him upon Mount Rushmore, it is mind boggling he could not, or would not, have accomplished anything with respect to reducing the despair and hopelessness of those in the area that leads to this type of destructive behavior.

For the failure in that regard that was Obama, now his former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is now mayor, and he has absolutely given up.  Can he not do the job, or does he have an interest in not doing the job?  It is the latter.

Those in power like to have chaos on the streets, which leads the ill-informed to think they are in need of help from anyone who can curtail the situation.  By not enforcing laws and creating dependency among the less educated, the government creates an environment of hopelessness and dependency which leads to escalating crime resulting the community to cry out for help.  When they do so, it is the government to the rescue, the same folks who created the problem.  Oh, what job security.

In reflecting back to post war London in Orwell's 1984, wild dogs roamed the streets of a rundown city of crumbling buildings and deteriorating public services.  As noted above, several major US cites are following this pattern, with dangerous, violent urban killing fields where many are robbed of their identity and are hopeless, resulting in increasing violence and civil unrest the government fails to adequately curtail, and this is not by accident.

Over at The Burning Platform blog, a series of articles have been undertaken interacting the works of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley with the ever increasing control of the government, combined with the brilliant work of British rock super group Pink Floyd.  The blog posts, Hey You, and Mother Should I Trust The Government, are simply required reading. 

While I do not agree with all the context presented, I find most of it right on target and it does give us much to decipher.  Interacting Pink Floyd with the posts is very cool, and if you reflect back on Floyd's "The Wall", it is most appropriate.

Although all us makers are quite busy keeping all the takers afloat while the Obama administration executes their transformation of wealth plan, we must create the time in our lives to get informed and resist "inner party" as they continue to gain greater control over our lives.  If not, before too long we may find ourselves on the dark side with no exits remaining for escape.

We don't need no thought control, but we do need education on how our freedoms and liberties are being reduced. On that lovely note, hoping they keep their hands of my stash, for Sunday Night Song, here is Roger Waters of Pink Floyd as he performed for the 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy relief concert.

Cliff Diving Propaganda

While the ball was dropping on Times Square New Years Eve, negotiations were well underway by our elected representatives to produce legislation to prohibit our nation from going over the "fiscal cliff".

Finally, at the very last moment, a deal was struck and the mainstream media outlets were quick to applaud the success and praise the leadership of President Obama, who interrupted his vacation to spearhead the effort.  At the corner of Wall and Broad, when the capital markets opened, the bulls were running with high end investors drunk with easy money swallowing manipulated government data, such as the unemployment rate, inflation levels and the consumer price index (CPI).

With the media gushing over the newly crafted legislation which "saved" America from the fiscal cliff, the level of propaganda distorting the truth and creating a false reality engulfing the non critical thinking low information voters would leave Edward Bernays orgasmic.

We drove off the cliff sometime ago, and the pomp and circumstance associated with crafting legislation in DC is propaganda designed to praise false successes while concealing the economic realities most cannot comprehend.

While the progressives rejoice the deal as victory, it is actually a significant defeat for not only the GOP, but American prosperity.  The deal consisted of more spending and higher levels of taxation for certain income levels while conspicuously stimulating others.  This would sadly include NASCAR, a sport I strongly support and enjoy and an corporation I am a shareholder of (ISCA:NASDAQ). 

This deal increases the deficit exponentially.  While Obama pontificates about a "balanced" approach to curbing the debt, the deal was approximately 41/1 spending to cuts.  Since we have a spending problem and not a revenue problem, contrary to the propaganda, the deal fails to address the looming catastrophe voters, and obviously many in DC, fail to recognize. Or do they?

As pathetic as it is, the government has aggravated the problem by increasing spending.  Fixing the debt will come later they proclaim, but kicking the can down the road has significant costs.

In addition, as we assist in crumbling ourselves from within, our enemies foreign, and domestic, are planning and positioning to accelerate our demise.

Sadly, Paul Ryan (R:WI) voted yes, and saying he supported it to “get this issue behind us, … prevent this massive tax increase and … focus on spending now". This is most concerning.  Ryan of all people should have a deep understanding who our opponent is.  Recall Obama, in response to Ryan releasing a plan, invited Ryan to a speech only to scold and ridicule him Saul Alinsky style.

I recognize many in GOP are progressives, and are addicted to the spending as long as they get theirs, but I am stunned so many, most notably Ryan, found Obama had characteristics as an honest broker.  Obama is a charlatan, an ideologue who governs outside of the reasonable rhetoric of his public persona and has already threatened to stranglehold the GOP with blame through media enhanced propaganda.

Now, after additional predicted failures, Speaker Boehner says he is "done negotiating with Obama".  Really?  Negotiations with parties that are dishonest are doomed to failure, and those "working" with Obama have been exposed as fools. Many claiming to oppose Obama, in the end, are progressives and that is why so few are willing to really step up the fight.

Even after all his failed leadership, Boehner was re-elected Speaker with little opposition.  Boehner, no friend of the Tea Party, should have been vigorously challenged.  Until the GOP stands up to fight, Obama will continue to destroy this nation through his implementation of social justice running roughshod over his political opponents who he carries significant disdain for.

Uncle Sam is broke, and cannot pay his debts.  The country is, and has been, in recession, although the government propaganda informs us otherwise. The economy is about to really bog down and not withstanding governmental intervention, economic realities are continuing to flood the marketplace. 

Reasonable efforts to kick start and grow the economy have not been presented, and the reasons are clear for those willing to look. The Obama administration is actively seeking the collapse of the economy, as we have pointed out repeatedly, noting the Cloward and Piven theory.  They abhor the current system, and aim to remold a new system structure after the collapse.  The new system presents significant limits on freedom and liberty, confining economic prowess and thus handicapping those aiming to better their lives through financial growth and independence.

The American public is being lied to in significant and alarming fashion, and without an increased level of involvement by the electorate, dishonest and evil people are stealing your money and freedom.

Make every effort to separate yourself from the propaganda you are hit with on a daily basis.  Find and utilize alternative sources for information, and do your own homework.  Increasing governmental power over the people, from entitlements to government run health care, reduces freedom and enhances dependency.

Founding principles must be adhered to, as free market capitalism remains the best path to prosperity.  Saving our freedom will depend on your participation, sooner or later.

Are You Justified?

A recent editorial in The New York Times was quite an eye opener.

The piece, by Steve Rattner, titled Beyond Obamacare, began with the following sentence: WE need death panels.

Are these the death panels Sarah Palin warned us about?  Not necessarily according to Rattner, but as he puts it, "unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently", the costs of Medicare will explode.

Instead of praising Palin for getting it right, which she routinely does, Rattner places blame on her for ranting about death panels which forced their elimination from the bill of a provision to offer end-of-life consultations.

If it were not for Palin, the issue of death panels would have been buried in the 2700 pages elected officials failed to read, otherwise known as The Affordable Heatlh Care Act, or, Obamacare.  Remember, the bill we have to pass to find out what is in it.

Rattner takes the obligatory swipe at Rep. Paul Ryan, (R:WI), who put forth his plan to save Medicare as part of the Ryan Roadmap for American, and praises Obama' efforts in curtailing costs when in actuality, every cost component associated with Obamacare has risen.

As economist and columnist Thomas Sowell of The Hoover Institute, and American jewell, so eloquently put it, “It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer universal health care.”.

Doing an end run around the truth misrepresenting the thought process for seniors as the end of life approaches is immoral and plain evil.  Obamacare does in fact call for a panel of unelected technocrats placed in position to ration health care services to seniors base on a set of criteria "to be determined by the Secretary". 

Will the Obamacare death panels take a similar position to famed playwright and Fabian Socialist George Bernard Shaw where seniors will be required to justify themselves?



Will those who cannot make a compelling case for themselves be denied adequate health care options as their life comes to an end?  Is this part of an effort to decrease population as a vehicle of social and economic justice.  Who will hold the unelected technocrats accountable? Typically, governments exercising these levels of control over the citizenry without accountability have abused power and have unleashed tyranny upon them.

The entire health care system is broke because of governmental interference in free markets.  Certainly, the principles our country was founded upon ask our citizenry to care for those who cannot care for themselves. Many avenues, from private donations to charities to churches, lead the way in this effort.

Individuals should create estate plans, complete with funding, to dictate how they should live their final years, with participation if desired from their family members. Unless the individual seeks governmental assistance, the government should not be involved in determining these end of life decisions.

The public sector can play a role of partnership in many areas of caring for the poor, but when the government seizes control and builds upon expanding entitlements in an effort create a culture of dependency, the residual is alarmingly negative.  Most importantly off the top, the individual is robbed of their identity.  In addition, unless population decreases (perhaps a goal of the progressives), taxes must be raised to accomodate increases in costs, unless of course care is rationed and death panels are insituted.  Raising taxes decreases economic growth and limits excess captial, which would usually leave government with less, as the Laffer Curve demonstrates.

Obama and his team have admitted Obamacare is a step toward a single payer plan. Ronald Reagan warned us that governmental health care was a vehicle to socialism, and he was right.  A glimpse of what happens when governments cannot deliver promised entitlements can be seen live now in Europe.

The way for America to avoid becoming a broken society like we see in Europe is to decrease entitlements and the creation of dependencey of its citizens by employing free market princples, where work is rewarded with fair wages with expanding opportunites for advancement, helping the citzenry regain their independence and identity.

Free market capitalism remains the best path to prosperity.  In an effort return America to prosperity, the first step would be to elect Mitt Romney as our next President, and begin the repeal of Obamacare and the death panels associated with it.

No individaul justification needed.

Sack Social Justice Economics

The GOP has a great new ad detailing the dismal state of our economy under the direction of President Obama. Please take a listen:


Obama is not making mistakes in directing the economy. In fact, the results we are seeing are exactly what he is aiming to achieve, complete with a full on collapse of our economic system in an effort to achieve social justice.

The following campaign sticker would present a true reflection of his intentions.

Familiarize yourself with Cloward and Piven to gain a further understanding of how the orchestrated collapse of our economic system achieves the goals set forth; those of a heavy handed government controlling the masses through heavy does of entitlements implementing social justice. This system of government crushes the entrepreneurial spirit, disincentives the work and robs the governed of their identity.

Even if this were a sound goal, what are the odds a government 16 trillion dollars in debt could deliver entitlements as promised?

Taking the Affordable Heath Care Act as an example, Thomas Sowell wrote "It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it."

Many think is sounds like a great plan, but as Ronald Reagan noted, "The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan". In the event you have not noticed, the plans are failing, miserably.

Tide Rolls on Agenda 21

Every two years, in keeping with governmental regulation, mandatory continuing education for many professional licensees is required. Last week, in order to keep my Certified Residential Appraiser license in good standing, 40 hours were taken in at the Peabody Hotel in on tourism row in Orlando.

Among the courses presented in the snore fest was The Introduction to Residential Green Buildings.  As you may suspect, the course provided the opportunity for advocacy of the green movement by the instructor, and the moment was seized.

The instructor surmised that homeowners were embracing energy restriction by downsizing the gross living area of homes being purchased.  To the contrary, the lowering of the average GLA is largely due to the economic status of America, which due to governmental interaction in markets has severely hampered job creation and created elevated levels of uncertainty.

Public and private sector organizations, the US Green Building Council and the Shelton Group, advocates for green energy initiatives, were referenced as leaders in assessing all things green, from measuring consumer acceptance to rating and regulating building energy efficiency.

On the course evaluation, I wrote "portions of the class unfortunately bordered on advocating the propaganda surrounding the pursuit of sustainable development, having the feeling of being "nudged" minus Cass Sunstein" closing with "Sustainable development infringes upon property rights".

It should be noted that all responsible citizens should engage in efforts to refrain from polluting and wasting energy.  In addition, in our free market society there are many opportunities as a property owners to maximize cost efficiency with regard to energy usage, and these are prudent investments.

Unfortunately, common sense initiatives have been expanded upon by governmental regulators influenced by left wing environmentalists, global warming alarmists and a very nefarious group who are supporters of Agenda 21, or sustainable development; a global effort to implement social justice.

As reported in Investors Business Daily, Agenda 21 is a frontal assault on formative principles of our founding fathers.  One of those is property rights. "Land ... cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market," Agenda 21 says.

"Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes."

Property rights are central to our sovereignty, and on these central principles there can be no compromise.

Agenda 21 is intended to foster what environmentalists call "sustainable development" in the belief that man since the Industrial Revolution has been a plague on the planet, plundering its resources while destroying nature and putting the world at risk of disastrous climate change, poverty and disease.

If you were thinking those attempting to implement strategies in this arena were those on the left wing extreme, you would be correct, and they are currently running our government. This group has done a masterful job in promotion of the greatest hoax of all time, global climate change, to the mainstream citizenry and business leaders. 

Many, perhaps fearful of being on the wrong side against a government who takes few prisoners, are eagerly on board.  Some are financially tied to government, and have no choice but to gleefully participate.  In fact, just yesterday, TARP recipient Bank of America (BAS:NYSE) pledged 50 million to combat global warming.  Have not seen a sell signal like that in a while.

Unfortunately, governmental regulators, which include the EPA, unelected regulatory Czars and Obama and his executive orders are shoving Agenda 21 down our throats, which increase costs in arenas inclusive of energy, building maintenance and regulatory compliance.  In fact, just this week President Obama said he would make climate change his top priority in his second term, although odds are increasing he won't get that chance.

Even so, as industries have bought into the climate change premise, policies in this regard are emerging to overwhelm business owners, limiting economic freedom and free market prosperity.

Agenda 21, an arm of the United Nations, is on the verge of gaining binding influence in our court system.  The Law of the Sea Treaty, up for vote soon in Congress, is a current example. As alarming as this is, America appears to be waking up as Alabama voters handed Agenda 21 such a lopsided loss, you would think Crimson Tide.

Our rights are being trampled under foot, and many remain unaware.  Under global climate change, arms of the movement are working like termites to gain control of the structure, pun intended, of our governance.  Time is of the essence, and with the Obama presidency seeming on the ropes, danger lurks behind every two by four.  Inform your friends about Agenda 21, and hit the voting booth in opposition at your earliest opportunity.

Poisonous Parting Gift of Sovereignty LOST

Dick Morris, FOX News contributor on tour for his newly released book, very appropriately titled Screwed, was a guest on Hannity the other night.  A line of topic usually reserved for Glenn Beck was given a specific segment, and you had better listen up closely.  Have at it:



Investors Business Daily, where you will find America's best editorial page, blasted the premise of tentacles surrendering sovereignty under various treaties which do nothing but provide vehicles facilitating the global transfer of wealth.  Our wealth.

While this sounds far fetched to those outside the loop, which is many our citizens who are busting their tails to provide for their families and have little time to decipher news outlets, it is alarmingly and increasingly true.

Please spend a moment reading our previous blog post on Agenda 21, which provides linkage to the evil that is associated with this movement, which centers around the loss of perhaps our most central tenant; property rights.

It was Glenn Beck that first alerted many of us of The Responsibility to Protect. Under this UN treaty, member nations have a set criteria to "push for strengthened capacities to prevent and halt genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity". 

Boy Howdy, does that sound good when you say it fast.

Glenn Beck, of course, places RP under closer examination.  Listen closely:



With the UN member nations deciding who the guilty parties are, who knows who may be in the cross hairs.  It is noted that the majority of these members are not fans of the United States, and under agreements like this, a vehicle to knock America down to the levels of other member nations under wealth transformation and social justice is engaged.

Therefore, I wonder if the UN might join a group of moonbat progressive democrats and idiots across the globe in a move to prosecute George W. Bush for war crimes? 

Dare I say that among the targets for crimes against humanity may be the loathed Israelis.  Samantha Power, wife of White House Obama Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs administrator Cass Sunstein, a the top architect of The Responsibility to Protect, is an individual who has been on record detailing her disdain for Israel. In addition, she has been described as  a woman determined  subordinate America’s national sovereignty

You think this is crazy?  It was just last week the UN felt compelled to weigh in and make demands that the sacred land housing Mount Rushmore be returned to the Native American tribes Uncle Sam stole it from.  Give them the wealth, says Obama green jobs Czar Van Jones!

For America to sign away of sovereignty through treaties with the UN giving them the upper hand in our federal court system is borderline treason in my mind. Operating under vehicles such as global warming, genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, the end game is ultimately the global transfer of wealth, because of the false premise that somehow America stole the wealth from these other countries and now supposedly oppresses them.

Climbing the crazy tree, given the distaste President Obama has for our American history and his goal to change our history and traditions and move us to a different place, I can imagine Obama relishing the opportunity to oversee change across the globe.  In future years, having set the table with the UN having jurisdiction in our federal court system, as Secretary General of United Nations, he may have left a poisonous parting gift as our President; the blueprint for the loss of the sovereignty of the United States of America.

Perhaps this is why Obama went on a global apology tour and appears to be friendly to our enemies and an enemy to our friends.  As the sun sets on the west, Obama in his arrogance seemingly aims to rule the world and bring America down to the levels of the rest of the world, presiding over his own global socialist utopia.

In his own mind, he was chosen to embark on this journey and the world lies in wait eager to follow his vision.  A vision that would lead America and world spiraling into decades of darkness.