Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Disastrous Ramifications of Government Intervention
From Obama To Parkland: Remembering Eric Holder, Arne Duncan And The New Public School Policy? by Denise Simon
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Monument Madness
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Wake Up And Get A Clue
No doubt an indictment of our educational system as an incubator of imbecilic snowflakes, there is a large amount of folks who are so far out to lunch on international relations that they may well end up dead. And sooner than they think.
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
-Instant Karma, John Lennon
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
-Instant Karma, John Lennon
Indeed, you better get yourself together, or you might end up dead, as it is not possible to get along with folks whose top goal in life is for your conversion to their religion or your death.
As the folks at Conservative Review adequately stated in review of a Blanco editorial cartoon, these idiots had better wake up and get a clue.
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Education,
International Relations,
John Lennon,
Radical Islam
Monday, November 7, 2016
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Common Core A Free Agency Departure
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.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Free Market Capitalism an Economic Sky Hook
Among the destruction, the fact that we again have lost the rule of law in a major US city is of grave concern. The lawlessness led to the unthinkable; forcing the Baltimore Orioles to cancel a game, then play a home game in front of nobody because the police were unable to protect fans, and then move a home series with the Tampa Bay Rays down to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, again, for safety purposes.
How about arresting those who fail to follow the lead of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr by engaging in looting, violence and the destruction of private and public property? Well, in Baltimore, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake doesn't think much of private property, and ironically, she is not related to the Rawlings Co. that makes baseballs.
One could argue the current leaders of the federal government are not unhappy about since it gives them the opportunity gain even more control over the citizenry. Al Sharpton, a proxy mouthpiece for President Barack Obama, quipped that due to the events of Baltimore, and the previously orchestrated protests in Ferguson, MO outside of St. Louis, it is now time to federalize the nations police departments.
Let that one sink in for a moment. Sharpton, and make no mistake, Obama, want the power in Washington and not locally in our communities, cities and states. This directly contradicts the wishes of our Founding Fathers, but Obama and his teammates view our founding documents as charter of negative liberties, limiting what the federal government can and should do. The Founders, of course, sought to limit government.
Those that have weighed in on these events include anybody and everybody. I was interested in the thoughts of two individuals; Dr. Alveda King and Dr. Ben Carson.
Dr. Alveda King, is the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, who so eloquently and effectively championed the civil rights movement. She knew both her father and her uncle would strongly disapprove of the protests in Baltimore, and said so in an editorial, although the political leadership of the city did not want to hear of it. You see, to the progressive leadership in this county, King's message is considered weak, failing to include the grievances and reparations this group feels they are owed.
As the chief neurosurgeon at John's Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Carson, who has announced his candidacy as a republican for president in 2016, could offer informative commentary given his longtime residency in the city. Carson did an interview printed in GQ, noting "Obviously I'm sad to see what's going on there."
Jesse Lee Patterson had a brilliant piece over at World Net Daily, pontificating if white America just said no!
One of my all time favorite NBS stars, legendary NBA Hall of Fame player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers. Although I am not sure if it is deserved, Abdul-Jabbar is getting hammered over his written comments about the unrest in Baltimore.
“I suggest we all pay attention to what’s happening in Baltimore, because it’s very likely that unless the economic and injustice issues raised there are addressed in a meaningful way across the country, we will be seeing many more Baltimores throughout the election season.”
Maybe Abdul-Jabbar sees thing differently than I do.
I blame much of the inner city issues in Baltimore and other major cities on the failed experiment of The Great Society, where government has infiltrated, and help break up, the family by introducing incentive killing entitlements. Marriage rates have tanked, leaving many youngsters to be raised without a Dad, or in many cases, without parents.
Entitlements from the government have placed many low income inner-city individuals and families in a box, with decreasing avenues of escape; just as it has been planned. School choice, ended by President Obama who frowns upon folks leaving the inner city for the suburbs, has reduced opportunities for those who seek to advance their education beyond the capabilities of the inner-city schools.
Government has established a permanent voting base in these cities, for those who are in regular receipt of the entitlements will likely never vote to have them taken away. Of course, they fail to recognize they have become a slave to the state. Do they even know the are rioting against the Man while voting to become a continuous slave to the Man in supporting the progressive Democrats.
There is no easy answer here. However, I have a few simple ideas:
*Faith needs to regain its rightful place as the centerpiece ones spirit.
*The family needs to re-established as paramount.
*The election of city leaders who inspire greatness; not race hustlers who claim the residents are victims. As noted in Proverbs 29:2, "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."
*Firmly establish the rule of law. If the city is lawless, commerce and brotherhood is lost.
*Educational opportunities need to be expanded, not squelched.
*Mentoring is a vehicle which can provide a vision for youngsters to find avenues of success
*Freedom; the removal of shackling governmental regulations and taxation, assisting in the establishment of the entrepreneurial spirit and individual discipline required to achieve gainful employment. Freedom to try, buy, sell and fail.
*Elimination of the grievance industry. No reparations, no social justice; just free market capitalism.
Why not give it a try? Free market capitalism is the equivalent of basketballs' unstoppable sky hook shot, a staple of Abdul-Jabbar's game. After all, how's the progressive big government Great Society working for the inner city folks? It is where dreams go up in flames; literally and figuratively.
Monday, May 4, 2015
Dreams They'll Never See
Entitlements from the government have placed many low income inner-city individuals and families in a box, with decreasing avenues of escape; just as it has been planned. The inhabitants of the inner-city, most with limited educational acumen, hit the voting booth to cast ballots for those who have proclaimed they are here to help.
However, most of these folks gaining the confidence of the inner-city population, are impostors; power hungry individuals and charter members of the ruling class who make a business of keeping trouble and utilize the low information crowd as permanent supporters.
With regard to the inner-city residents, do you think they can tell?
They cannot, and most will not force the issue, refusing to seek freedom from an oppressive government. Those with the benefits to dole out control those who receive them, from day to day life to dreams of dignity and success.
Therefore, it is said.
"Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream". Imagine being placed in a box by a ruling class which limits what you can dream?
Dreams are in flames in Baltimore. Dreams these youthful Orioles will never see.
However, most of these folks gaining the confidence of the inner-city population, are impostors; power hungry individuals and charter members of the ruling class who make a business of keeping trouble and utilize the low information crowd as permanent supporters.
With regard to the inner-city residents, do you think they can tell?
They cannot, and most will not force the issue, refusing to seek freedom from an oppressive government. Those with the benefits to dole out control those who receive them, from day to day life to dreams of dignity and success.
Therefore, it is said.
"Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream". Imagine being placed in a box by a ruling class which limits what you can dream?
Dreams are in flames in Baltimore. Dreams these youthful Orioles will never see.
Labels:
Education,
Entitlements,
Pink Floyd,
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Voter Analysis
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Ante Up
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| Elisabeth Hasselback |
On FOX & Friends, Hassleback hosted a conversation between two pundits about a proposal in Utah about young students having to pass a citizenship test. Hassleback queried whether such a testing mechanism should be utilized before a citizen could vote, which is a legitimate inquiry.
With that question, Hasselback was described by the left as guilty of aiming to bring back Jim Crow laws, which would according to the author of the article linked in the Facebook post, supposedly hammer African Americans. Hasselback's inquiry was not even remotely an attempt to suggest such a thing, rather an implication asserted by the author of the article.
During the discussion on FOX, it was the pundit from the right, Whitney Neal, who found the idea of a test unnecessary, instead championing the idea of school systems investing in more educational opportunities in the arena of civics and government. I agree completely.
It has been well chronicled, that although we continue to spend increasingly enormous amounts on public education, those investments are spent without receiving an adequate return on investment.
Again in reference to Aldous Huxley, our citizenry, particularly a great deal of representatives of our young people in their high school and college years, are drunk on sea of irrelevance. They know what the Kardasians are up to, who the new upcoming rapper on the scene is, but have no idea who their congressman is, or who the United States recently began bombing.
And they do not seem to care; with the lack of intellectual curiosity quite alarming.
On the subject of a minimum set of standards with respect to voting, I am open to investigating some options. I cannot recall the exact source of the following quote, but is fixed firmly in the seat of truth.
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
With over 50% of the citizenry receiving some sort of governmental assistance, we have reached the point described in the above referenced passage. Even if this was agreed upon as the proper direction for our government, the efforts are unsustainable for a country that is arguably insolvent. For those who champion an increase in taxation as a remedy, it is noted the significant increase in taxation needed would fail to solve the issue anyhow, because when you tax something, you get less of it.
We are a free society, but there is a responsibility that comes with being a citizen of the United States of America, and it is clear the a large segment of our society is disengaged from the political process, which allows those in the arena of governance to expand control over the ill-informed.
Those of us who are informed are outnumbered by those who are not adequately educated in the process, and now by those who are receiving governmental assistance. Many of these individuals and families are not in real need, just taking advantage of the system, which makes it more difficult to provide assistance to those who are in real need of help, a worthwhile endeavor.
Some skin in the game seems required. To restrict voting to only those who own property seems limiting, and too radical as a criteria. A testing system Hassleback queried about appears easily infiltrated by those with unsavory objectives.
Perhaps the best qualifying mechanism would require that you are either a full time student, a senior citizen receiving social security having already paid into the system, sane individuals documented with legitimate handicaps, a member of the military or an individual who is employed and pays income taxes. Individuals who fail to meet that criteria and receive governmental assistance would be ineligible. That would limit those voting to those who have skin in the game.
In addition, you must have an ID to vote. This requirement is not racist, degrading, unfair or political in nature. Adequate identification is required for many things, driving a vehicle of particular note, and would go a long way in the elimination of voter fraud. One man, one vote.
Voting is perhaps the most important role of the citizen, and protection of the integrity of the process is integral to the efficiency of the process.
I say everyone ante up. What say you?
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
A Trap of Indoctrination
Immediately following a brief PTSA meeting tonight, it was meet the teachers.
However, in our first classroom, after some announcements, the playing of The Star Spangled Banner and the reciting of The Pledge of Allegiance, we were treated to the following propaganda video singing the supposed virtues of the Common Core State Standards.
Perhaps you saw in your school, but if not, take a listen.
Interestingly enough, not that it was expected, there was no mention of data mining or any other of the evil lurking inside.
Since this was presented in the classrooms of teachers, detailed questions regarding the Common Core Standards were not able to asked. Even if asked, the teachers were not at liberty to offer any further information than the generalities we already know.
For legitimate inquiry and questioning regarding Common Core, one needs to attend the local school board. But be forewarned; the school board will not appreciate your questioning of their authority.
An example of this is a video all Americans need to see.
A father seeks to question a local school board in a Baltimore suburb regarding Common Core, an education curriculum with hidden tentacles which is being currently being implemented in some 45 states.
Wait until you see the treatment he received:
Common Core, which we labeled as being rotten earlier this year, is an evil effort to ultimately control many aspects of the future for your children; a trap of indoctrination.
As you can see from the video, school officials across the country are not taking kindly to the citizens questioning aspects of the plan and the the objectives found within, which is inclusive of data mining.
It is extremely alarming that a parent was forcibly removed and arrested for questioning Common Core. Since when are questions illegal? We The People are being silenced. This encroachment of our freedom cannot be allowed.
Please be advised; in all and every legally permissible way, I will not comply.
However, in our first classroom, after some announcements, the playing of The Star Spangled Banner and the reciting of The Pledge of Allegiance, we were treated to the following propaganda video singing the supposed virtues of the Common Core State Standards.
Perhaps you saw in your school, but if not, take a listen.
Interestingly enough, not that it was expected, there was no mention of data mining or any other of the evil lurking inside.
Since this was presented in the classrooms of teachers, detailed questions regarding the Common Core Standards were not able to asked. Even if asked, the teachers were not at liberty to offer any further information than the generalities we already know.
For legitimate inquiry and questioning regarding Common Core, one needs to attend the local school board. But be forewarned; the school board will not appreciate your questioning of their authority.
An example of this is a video all Americans need to see.
A father seeks to question a local school board in a Baltimore suburb regarding Common Core, an education curriculum with hidden tentacles which is being currently being implemented in some 45 states.
Wait until you see the treatment he received:
Common Core, which we labeled as being rotten earlier this year, is an evil effort to ultimately control many aspects of the future for your children; a trap of indoctrination.
As you can see from the video, school officials across the country are not taking kindly to the citizens questioning aspects of the plan and the the objectives found within, which is inclusive of data mining.
It is extremely alarming that a parent was forcibly removed and arrested for questioning Common Core. Since when are questions illegal? We The People are being silenced. This encroachment of our freedom cannot be allowed.
Please be advised; in all and every legally permissible way, I will not comply.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
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.
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, February 10, 2013
Handed A Gift
In our world gone mad, where the obfuscation of truth is commonplace and propaganda reins supreme, it is sadly shocking when an individual speaking truth to power seizes an opportunity to demonstrate with malice toward none the importance of the founding principles from which our country was founded.
Standing just a few feet from President Obama, Dr. Benjamin Carson, a world renowned neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, spoke at The National Prayer Breakfast this week and issued a common sense rationale regarding the escalating erosion of freedoms that are placing America on a path to darkness.
Carson struck a chord in the enlightening speech, stunning in its simplicity.
Dr. Carson attacked political correctness, our education system, Obamacare and our national debt, and there is no doubt Obama absorbed every last word. However, before we get our hopes up, we must understand the objectives of President Obama have been and remain in stark contrast to the opinions of Dr. Carson.
As Dr. Carson roamed on a range of topics, each centered on freedom, free market capitalism, personal responsibility and opportunity. Unfortunately, Obama is restricting freedom and limiting choice through an elitist oppressive government. For example, the debt is a ball and chain on every American and is handicapping our economic growth. Health care run by the government limits choice, restricts competitive incentives and is inefficient.
The comments by Dr. Carson have gone viral. Kimberly Guilfoyle and the gang over at The Five discussed the comments, with Greg Gutfield really hitting Obama. Dr. Carson was also a guest on Hannity, speaking with Sean Hannity about the speech.
Thank you Dr. Carson for using the platform you had this week to promote the founding principles which made our country great. If America was listening, you handed them a gift. Gifted hands indeed.
Standing just a few feet from President Obama, Dr. Benjamin Carson, a world renowned neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, spoke at The National Prayer Breakfast this week and issued a common sense rationale regarding the escalating erosion of freedoms that are placing America on a path to darkness.
Carson struck a chord in the enlightening speech, stunning in its simplicity.
Dr. Carson attacked political correctness, our education system, Obamacare and our national debt, and there is no doubt Obama absorbed every last word. However, before we get our hopes up, we must understand the objectives of President Obama have been and remain in stark contrast to the opinions of Dr. Carson.
As Dr. Carson roamed on a range of topics, each centered on freedom, free market capitalism, personal responsibility and opportunity. Unfortunately, Obama is restricting freedom and limiting choice through an elitist oppressive government. For example, the debt is a ball and chain on every American and is handicapping our economic growth. Health care run by the government limits choice, restricts competitive incentives and is inefficient.
The comments by Dr. Carson have gone viral. Kimberly Guilfoyle and the gang over at The Five discussed the comments, with Greg Gutfield really hitting Obama. Dr. Carson was also a guest on Hannity, speaking with Sean Hannity about the speech.
Thank you Dr. Carson for using the platform you had this week to promote the founding principles which made our country great. If America was listening, you handed them a gift. Gifted hands indeed.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Educational Failures an Exponential Problem
Last week, The King of All Media, Howard Stern, sent a staff member out on the street to check in with some Obama supporters. Stern discovered many already know; that we have a sizable uneducated portion of the electorate that extends far from a level of embarrassment, but is actually a serious matter of national security.
Take listen, but do grab a seat first:
Untold gazillions have been spent in effort to bolster our educational system, but as you can see from the results, the unions are getting rich while many of our citizens are nothing short of idiots. Rick Perry had troubling thinking of governmental departments to be eliminated, but I got one; the Department of Education.
After all, for the teacher unions, their objective has nothing to do with a great public school system, and it is not about the kids. This is impossible to imagine, but don't take my written thoughts to truth; take the words of NEA Chief Counsel Bob Chanin:
With taxpayer dollars pouring in, the public school system, run by the government, has failed miserably to significantly raise the standard level of education, not because we have poor teachers, but primarily because of the significant infiltration of the teacher union.
While this may seem like an isolated problem, if applied in macro terms, an extremely troubling objective comes into light. President Obama has spent much of first term implementing a significant extension of governmental control of the citizenry, a citizenry deemed lacking in intellectual aptitude to engage in proper decision making.
The arrogance of those involved in the orchestration of a socialistic system heavy on central planning with progressive increases in governmental power based on the needs of the collective is astonishing, but it is in full implementation right under our eyes. The government has installed and expanded policies which offer minimal benefits, trapping those uneducated individuals to a lifetime of governmental dependency, robbing them of their identity and democracy and their ability to engage in the pursuit of happiness.
On the heels of Stern's effort, we were offered another glimpse of this in Cleveland with SEIU protesters outside a Romney campaign event:
Idiots are suckered in, as they have not been adequately educated to understand freedom and basic economics. These folks welcome the benefits, not recognizing the freedoms they are giving away. In addition, as Mitt Romney pointed out in the hidden video he is being incorrectly being hammered on, those handing out the gifts will secure almost all of the votes cast by those receiving the benefits.
Securing a small portion of a particular voting base can swing an election, and if President Obama and his cohorts succeed in transforming America away from free enterprise, untold numbers will suffer with violence and despair taking root.
Mitt Romney was asked last week what the election was about, and he responded "freedom". Romney was without question correct. This election is about free stuff versus freedom, and I hope enough of those making their way to the voting booth understand a basic economic principle: there is no free lunch.
Untold gazillions have been spent in effort to bolster our educational system, but as you can see from the results, the unions are getting rich while many of our citizens are nothing short of idiots. Rick Perry had troubling thinking of governmental departments to be eliminated, but I got one; the Department of Education.
After all, for the teacher unions, their objective has nothing to do with a great public school system, and it is not about the kids. This is impossible to imagine, but don't take my written thoughts to truth; take the words of NEA Chief Counsel Bob Chanin:
With taxpayer dollars pouring in, the public school system, run by the government, has failed miserably to significantly raise the standard level of education, not because we have poor teachers, but primarily because of the significant infiltration of the teacher union.
While this may seem like an isolated problem, if applied in macro terms, an extremely troubling objective comes into light. President Obama has spent much of first term implementing a significant extension of governmental control of the citizenry, a citizenry deemed lacking in intellectual aptitude to engage in proper decision making.
The arrogance of those involved in the orchestration of a socialistic system heavy on central planning with progressive increases in governmental power based on the needs of the collective is astonishing, but it is in full implementation right under our eyes. The government has installed and expanded policies which offer minimal benefits, trapping those uneducated individuals to a lifetime of governmental dependency, robbing them of their identity and democracy and their ability to engage in the pursuit of happiness.
On the heels of Stern's effort, we were offered another glimpse of this in Cleveland with SEIU protesters outside a Romney campaign event:
Idiots are suckered in, as they have not been adequately educated to understand freedom and basic economics. These folks welcome the benefits, not recognizing the freedoms they are giving away. In addition, as Mitt Romney pointed out in the hidden video he is being incorrectly being hammered on, those handing out the gifts will secure almost all of the votes cast by those receiving the benefits.
Securing a small portion of a particular voting base can swing an election, and if President Obama and his cohorts succeed in transforming America away from free enterprise, untold numbers will suffer with violence and despair taking root.
Mitt Romney was asked last week what the election was about, and he responded "freedom". Romney was without question correct. This election is about free stuff versus freedom, and I hope enough of those making their way to the voting booth understand a basic economic principle: there is no free lunch.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Upcoming Occupy Oscillation
Friends, family and colleagues gathered today in Los Angeles to pay final respects to Andrew Breibart, who we lost much to soon late last week. It will be next to impossible to replace Breibart, but the lessons he taught and leadership he exhibited will span many to continue his work in his honor.
America will need it.
Among the many items Breibart was working on when he passed so suddenly, was the nucleus of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The mainstream media reports that the movement was a flare whose light has dimmed, a spontaneous gathering group of young Americans we can all be proud of.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
The group are for the most part useful idiot looter foot soldiers of a well financed machine of anti-capitalist, anti-American Marxist radicals, most of whom have not forgotten their efforts in the 1960's. The heavy hand of big government and all their tentacles coming together is their aspiration in effort to re-create '68.
While this video is lengthy, please allow our lost warrior Andrew Breibart to introduce you to some of the players and a handful of their nefarious objectives.
Although some of these folks are intellectually sound, many in the mid to lower levels of the Occupy movement are nothing short of useful idiots. Should the objectives of the movement meet with success, these folks will be swept under away in the tide under the hand of the intellectually elite leaders, who no longer have a use for them.
Among the topics discussed in the video, one hits very close to home for me. As a Realtor, Residential Real Estate Investor and Appraiser, I am very concerned about the effort to occupy homes, not just in an effort to re-write contracts through intimidation, but to establish a new market based on a price they dictated by socialists inspired by fairness.
Actually, price, and in turn marketplace equilibrium, is established between parties engaged in arms length transactions who through a series of sales provide a range of prices which indicate a median and a mean. Third party morons, who aspire for social justice have no place intercepting contracts, but President Obama did just that during the takeover of the car companies, and gave them precedent.
For me locally, if you are not paying your contractual obligation for any of my properties, you will be evicted as quickly as the law allows. As I say, if you are not paying, you are not staying.
If we get to a point where contract law is compromised or meaningless, the integrity of the marketplace is lost. Investors will refrain from taking any risks, and thus, growth under free market capitalism turns to nothing short of communism.
It must be recognized that this is the goal of those who are organizing the Occupy Wall Street protests. It has been a 100 year effort, and the window for opportunity to seize control is now open like never before. These power players are hoping to slam the door on capitalism before you wake up.
Efforts through health care, the churches, Big Education, the EPA inclusive of Agenda 21, regulation and taxation, the banking system, pro-Islamic (flotillas) and anti Israel actions are part of the tentacles the octopus is strangling us with.
Occupy Wall Street will move to the forefront as the summer approaches. You need to know who our opponents are and act accordingly. In the event of a crisis, the heavy hand of government will seize the chance to freedom away from the people.
Freedom is not free. In defeating this unprecedented internal threat, it is time to pay up America.
America will need it.
Among the many items Breibart was working on when he passed so suddenly, was the nucleus of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The mainstream media reports that the movement was a flare whose light has dimmed, a spontaneous gathering group of young Americans we can all be proud of.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
The group are for the most part useful idiot looter foot soldiers of a well financed machine of anti-capitalist, anti-American Marxist radicals, most of whom have not forgotten their efforts in the 1960's. The heavy hand of big government and all their tentacles coming together is their aspiration in effort to re-create '68.
While this video is lengthy, please allow our lost warrior Andrew Breibart to introduce you to some of the players and a handful of their nefarious objectives.
Although some of these folks are intellectually sound, many in the mid to lower levels of the Occupy movement are nothing short of useful idiots. Should the objectives of the movement meet with success, these folks will be swept under away in the tide under the hand of the intellectually elite leaders, who no longer have a use for them.
Among the topics discussed in the video, one hits very close to home for me. As a Realtor, Residential Real Estate Investor and Appraiser, I am very concerned about the effort to occupy homes, not just in an effort to re-write contracts through intimidation, but to establish a new market based on a price they dictated by socialists inspired by fairness.
Actually, price, and in turn marketplace equilibrium, is established between parties engaged in arms length transactions who through a series of sales provide a range of prices which indicate a median and a mean. Third party morons, who aspire for social justice have no place intercepting contracts, but President Obama did just that during the takeover of the car companies, and gave them precedent.
For me locally, if you are not paying your contractual obligation for any of my properties, you will be evicted as quickly as the law allows. As I say, if you are not paying, you are not staying.
If we get to a point where contract law is compromised or meaningless, the integrity of the marketplace is lost. Investors will refrain from taking any risks, and thus, growth under free market capitalism turns to nothing short of communism.
It must be recognized that this is the goal of those who are organizing the Occupy Wall Street protests. It has been a 100 year effort, and the window for opportunity to seize control is now open like never before. These power players are hoping to slam the door on capitalism before you wake up.
Efforts through health care, the churches, Big Education, the EPA inclusive of Agenda 21, regulation and taxation, the banking system, pro-Islamic (flotillas) and anti Israel actions are part of the tentacles the octopus is strangling us with.
Occupy Wall Street will move to the forefront as the summer approaches. You need to know who our opponents are and act accordingly. In the event of a crisis, the heavy hand of government will seize the chance to freedom away from the people.
Freedom is not free. In defeating this unprecedented internal threat, it is time to pay up America.
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