Falling Into the Same Trap

Too many times over the past several years I've seen examples of liberals labeling conservatives with broad terms that apply to anyone who doesn't think the same way they do; claiming we're racist, fascist, bigots who only deserve to be annihilated for committing "hate crimes".

But Prager U's most recent video about progressive ideology at colleges and universities seems to clearly fall into the same trap of the left's broad stroked accusations in "Dangerous People Are Teaching Your Kids".

Here's what the introduction to the video states:

You are currently funding some dangerous people. These people are indoctrinating young minds throughout the West with their ideology that’s built on resentment. In this video, Jordan Peterson, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, explains who they are and how American parents and taxpayers have found themselves funding this dangerous gang of nihilists.

While I agree with the concepts and  claims presented, I disagree with the fact that he fails to point out that there are still a few exceptions of conservative, or surviving "Kennedy type Democrats", who understand our freedoms and liberties are in danger from these nihilists who've infiltrated our institutions of higher learning. 

These rare individuals with the fortitude to stand up against such threats to free speech and diversity of ideas have been under attack for defending our long held values by these very people. Yet, this fact is completely ignored in this video.

Why do I make this point? Because, as a conservative all my life, I experienced this circumstance as a career educator. I watched it creep into the K-12 level of our public school over the length of my 30 years in the classroom. It was disturbing to watch as administrators gradually eradicated our long held values in exchange for producing the "snowflakes" and "sheeple" which now dominate our social situation today, rather than the reasoning, critical thinkers who understand the concepts behind our country being the magnet to the rest of the world's people.

Socialist/Communists have long practiced implementing five, ten, and twenty-five year plans with specific goals to accomplish within a certain period. This evil force appears to have successfully managed to destroy much of our American culture developed over the last two hundred years.

Whether our current leader and his administration will succeed in stopping this movement is something only time will reveal. 

BTW... for a different perspective of falling into the same trap, I highly recommend watching this video. It will make you think where our culture is going.

You Can Lead A Horse To Water...

You can lead a horse to water... but you can't make 'em drink.

That saying was a common figure of speech when horses were still very much a part of everyday life.

Today, when it comes to children learning in school, a more appropriate saying would go something like this...

You can send children to school, but there's no guarantee that they will learn, for several reasons.

Those who complain that public schools aren't doing a good job of teaching students today do so from a skewed perspective of the situation. 

They are usually talking about today's schools from their experience of several decades ago, when our society lived under much different social and family circumstances.

Am I saying that there aren't those teachers who are talented to the point of truly inspiring, or motivating their students to excel? No, but as in most other professions, these exceptional ones are rare. When only one teacher is recognized for the year in an entire state, or the nation, each year, it's pretty obvious.

Today there are several key factors that influence the education process in public schools in ways that are quite different when compared to back then.

The most prominent in the equation of learning is the social economic circumstance of the parent(s). 

If the household from which the child comes is within the accepted poverty level, the odds of the child excelling are extremely poor. This is so because the parent(s) of the child themselves have had a limited education. 

However, this factor is not the only one which might impact the child's learning experience.

It is a known fact that there has been an increase in public schools of the number of students (especially at the elementary level) who come to school not having had breakfast. 

This is why most schools more recently have implemented programs which provide students of low income families free or reduced cost breakfast and lunch. Research and common sense tells us that children will not be capable of focusing on learning new concepts if they're distracted by hunger.

Another factor influencing students’ ability to learn is health. Over the past couple of decades there has been an increase in the number of students who have diabetes, asthma, attention deficit disorder (ADA/ADHD) and other conditions which have been included in the schools that simply did not exist several decades ago.

The advent and rapid development of technology has also created a huge distraction to learning. This factor is not so much an impact from school, as it is in the home. 

Video games, cell phones, and cable television have all contributed to distraction for students doing homework today - to the point where many schools no longer even assign homework, knowing students will nott do it. 

Also, teachers in most districts are no longer including homework as part of the student's grade in any subject.

And any students today at most levels of the grade spectrum don't even do the in-class assignments given by their teacher as part of the educational process. Even with the teacher emphasizing to parent(s) the fact that their child is not doing the work given them in class, most of the parents do little to nothing at home to emphasize the importance to their child about doing their best, or encourage their child to try their best.

Consequently many parent(s) are surprised, if not shocked, to learn when report cards are distributed that their child is failing and didn't perform well on many, or most, of the testing categories on the end of year assessment.

Note that I've repeatedly referred to the adult in the family unit as "parent(s)" because of another huge factor in the child's experience:  many households today lack a father. A home where only the mother is present, or a "live-in" boyfriend with little to no interest in the child's learning  sends a subtle message which can affect the child's overall attitude about men in general later in their life.

Yet, much of the nation's public schools are moving towards determining the teacher's worth to the district based on how well their students are doing! That's essentially the same as determining how effective a dentist is based on how many cavities the dentist's clientele have, or how good an auto mechanic is based on how well the cars they work on perform over their lifetime.

So, when anyone speaks in a negative manner about what public schools are doing to educate today's children, just remember... You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. In other words, if the desire by the student and the parent aren't there to apply themselves to the task of taking advantage of the opportunity before them, there's no guarantee of a stellar outcome... no matter how good a teacher a teacher is, or what the teacher does in their effort to educate the child in their care.

How can I say all this? 

A teacher I know has taught in public schools for more than 30 years at the elementary level and has been dedicated and meticulously organized, persistent in her efforts to prepare students to learn the material that has been given by the district.

She has constantly changed her curriculum to meet the trending instructional material of the year - literally exhausted herself by spending hours and hours on weekends and holidays to pore over the work her students have done every week.

What many don't realize is that disciplinary consequences have completely been taken away from teachers and given solely to the principal who follows district prescribed guidelines which often send the subtle message that there are no consequences for making socially unacceptable choices.

She is retiring this month, frustrated and disillusioned at tests that are designed such that the student is unable to understand what the directions are for a problem that uses sentence structure and vocabulary that is designed for a cognitive level of a high school or college student. 

The testing industry has created a battery of contents which are completely ignoring the research on children's cognitive development capabilities at their age, and are touting this as making education more rigorous.

Some believe that this situation is deliberately designed to make the situation worse in order to justify taking greater control of the learning process in public schools. Civics, for instance, in high school has not been taught as a required course since the early 1970s. But that's a whole other post topic.

All the while, the public is being led to believe by their school districts that the whole educational process is improving its instructional delivery system while ignoring the root causes behind its largely failing results.

Is it any mystery why many families have migrated to homeschooling, or elected to pay tuition to private or charter schools?

Matching Serial Numbers?

Matching Serial Numbers

So here's the REAL story.  Amb. Stevens was sent to Benghazi in order to retrieve US made Stinger missiles supplied to Ansar al Sharia without Congressional oversight or permission. Hillary brokered the deal through Stevens and a private arms dealer named Marc Turi.

Then some of the shoulder fired missiles ended up in Afghanistan and were used against our own military. It was July 25th, 2012 when a Chinook helicopter was taken down by one of our own Stingers, but the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile and the Chinook didn't explode, but had to land anyway An ordnance team recovered the serial number off the missile which led back to a cache of Stingers being kept in Qatar by the CIA.

Obama and Hillary were now in full panic mode and Stevens was sent in to retrieve the rest of the Stingers. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the stand down orders given to multiple commando teams.

It was the State Dept, not the CIA, that supplied them to our sworn enemies, because Petraeus wouldn't approve supplying these deadly weapons due to their potential use on commercial aircraft.

Then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus after he refused to testify that he OK'd the BS talking points about a spontaneous uprising due to a YouTube video.

Obama and Hillary committed treason and THIS is what the investigation is all about, why she had a private server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and why Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of a YouTube video, even though everyone knew it was not.

Further..the Taliban knew that this administration aided and abetted the enemy without Congressional approval when Boehner created the Select Cmte, and the Taliban began pushing the Obama Administration for the release of 5 Taliban Generals.

Bowe Bergdahl was just a pawn...everyone KNEW he was a traitor.

So (at that time) we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised and a woman that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at Congressional hearings.

Perhaps this is why no military aircraft was called in because the administration knew our enemies had Stinger missiles.

The Social Engineering of American Culture

As an educator I've lived through several decades, exposed to the front lines of society's changing values.

And the more I listen to the media discussing issues impacting the American culture, the clearer it has become to me that our culture is being systematically destroyed. Why?

If one compares our nation's values today with those from sixty five years ago, it's obvious that things are very different. 

After WWII, with so many men not returning home, our nation was grateful that we were able to preserve a nation of freedom and liberty. 

Our prosperity took off like a rocket as veterans came home and returned to a peacetime society, starting  their own businesses, careers, and families. The youth of the day and those born shortly after the war grew up in a society where social etiquette was considered paramount to maintaining a culture of civility, decency, and respect for others. Idealism prevailed because society's respect for those values were kept at the forefront through our institutions.

Granted, there were undesirable elements in society then, as before, which tainted our nation's attempt to establish a "more perfect union". Those who choose to disobey the laws established to maintain a civil society will always be among us. But we as a people were focused on moving into the future with the desire to improve our opportunities for everyone. 

Yet, during this same period  a foreign threat to our nation's democracy stepped up its efforts to implement a long range plan to subvert that decency and respect.

Both from without, and from within our nation's government, communism set in motion several goals by which our freedoms and liberties would slowly be transformed so that the youth today would turn on their elders. 

Recall that Nikita Kruschev took off his shoe at the United Nations and pounded it on the table while shouting in Russian, "We will bury you!" And, recall the statement to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by a visiting Russian ambassador who said that America would be changed so much that it would eventually be like low hanging fruit, ready for picking.

The shift of our music from the likes of Buddy Holly to that of Def Leopard and AC/DC, and then to rap, which glorifies violence, sexual abuse, and illicit drugs, was another indicator of that deterioration, along with the acceptance of homosexuality, transgenderism, black on black death by gun violence, and female and gay priests in our churches who did away with organs for rock bands. On television, shows like Captain Kangaroo gave way to The Simpsons and Family Guy, is a sad testament to the effectiveness of those goals which have effectively degraded our nation's moral and cultural standards to a level of disrespect and rudeness.

During my years in public education I've seen the gradual decline in the stability of the family in society. Polls indicate that this factor is the primary concern of citizens today. There are more and more single parent households where the father of the child(ren) is absent and the mother is left to work and raise them alone. Many of these youth are left without any social skills to productively interact with their peers or their elders and end up rebelling against their mother, establishing or engaging in gangs and producing out of wedlock children of their own.

At our government level, politicians who were corrupt have now dropped their pretense and are blatantly radical in their intent to implement socialist policies that will destroy our remaining liberties and freedoms such as one's right to speak freely their opinion or to defend themselves from violent threats. Sanctuary cities and states have become the next step in promoting the illegal infiltration of our nation by foreigners who do not (nor wish to) shareour values. 

A clear decision by the majority of middle America to bring a halt to this trend is now being met with a barrage of fake news and lies which are blatant overreactions by those who are not willing to accept any differing philosophy, or let go of their desire to control the public's attitude or understanding about how so very dysfunctional our nation is today and where it's headed.

Telling It Like It Is

This gentleman from Greensboro, North Carolina in this video speaks eloquently to the city counsel on what the gun control advocates are doing as a result of the recent mass killings at schools around the country.

I urge readers to watch and share this with their email friends so they can share it too.

Enough said!
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Enigmas

(A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand)

(1) Isn't it weird that in America, our flag and our culture offend so many people, but our benefits don't?

(2) How can the federal government ask U.S. citizens to pay back student loans, when illegal aliens are receiving a free education?

(3) Only in America are legal citizens labeled "racists" and "Nazis," but illegal aliens are called "Dreamers”.

(4) Liberals say, "If confiscating all guns saves just one life, it's worth it. "Well then, if deporting all illegal’s saves just one life, wouldn't that be worth it too?

(5) I can't quite figure out how you can proudly wave the flag of another country, but consider it punishment to be sent back there.

(6) The Constitution: It doesn't need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread.

(7) William F. Buckley said: "Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other points of view, and are then shocked and offended when they discover there are other points of view."

(8) Joseph Sobran said: "'Need" now means wanting someone else's money. "Greed" means wanting to keep your own. "Compassion" is when a politician arranges the transfer.

 (9) Florida has had 119 hurricanes since 1850, but some people still insist the last hurricane was due to climate change.

Conundrums

(Something that is puzzling or confusing.)
 
"A gun is like a parachute.  If you need one, and don't have one. You'll probably never need one again."

Here are six Conundrums of Socialism in the United States of America :

1.  America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.

2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.

3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.

4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.

5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other Countries only dream about.

6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about, yet they want America to be morelike those other countries.

And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century. Makes you wonder who is doing the math.  

By the way...................

1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, But we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works.  

And here's another one worth considering....

2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money.  But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money?  What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the second didn't.

Think about it.....

Am I the only one missing something?

A Perfect Example of Fake News!

I'm checking through the posts on the Drudge Report this morning and come across this article about Rosanne Barr's response to a tweet about Valerie Jarrett.

I note the third paragraph describes Jarrett's ethnicity as "African-American". Having followed past news reports about former Pres. Obama's close advisor through his entire eight years in the White House, and knowing that from those reports having repeatedly referred to her as having an origin of Iran, I do a few seconds of searching to find verification of this.

One of the first, and most credible results comes up with this report about Jarrett's background from Judicial Watch. 

Okay, while the earlier reports may have been incorrect about her actual ethnicity, more disturbing information than that is confirmed. Learning that her father had moved to Iran reveals that, while not Iranian, is from a family which has close ties to the Communist Party, U.S.A. as well as the Muslim Brotherhood, despite the claims otherwise in the Barr article.

The paragraph in this Judicial Watch article which confirms this information from F.B.I. investigation files obtained through their F.O.I.A. requests, reveals the following:

It’s been well documented that Valerie Jarrett, a Chicago lawyer and longtime Obama confidant, is a liberal extremist who wields tremendous power in the White House. Faithful to her roots, she still has connections to many Communist and extremist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood. Jarrett and her family also had strong ties to Frank Marshal Davis, a big Obama mentor and Communist Party member with an extensive FBI file.

So, the close circle of association with Frank Marshal Davis is confirmed in that it has been known from other sources in researching Obama's background that Davis was highly influential in his early years in Hawaii.

Thus, it is safe to assert that, for the first time we know of, our nation had a Communist sympathizer at the head of our government.

Reading through the Barr article commenters at the bottom of the piece reveals that some  know all too well that she ripped off Chicago as board member of its transit authority while a lawyer there before going to Washington, D.C. to advise Obama for eight years.

With the latest revelations coming out about the Obama administration's secret use of federal agencies to spy on our current president's 2016 campaign and transition team into the White House, it will be interesting to see just how far the investigation goes in determining who ends up getting indicted by Congressional committees looking into these matters. 

I'm not holding my breath that either of them will see justice, since most high level crooks are smart enough to cover their back ends sufficiently to get off the hook.

P.S. Speaking of fake news... check out this video with Brittany Hughes explaining a couple of whopper lies about immigration told by the mainstream media.

The Mostly Unkown 2nd War of Independence

Why do most Americans living in the country today not know of this historical event?

It is because those who want to transform our nation by exploiting the ignorance about our past are today taking the principles of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s efforts to end Jim Crow laws of the south by twisting them to make unfounded and false claims which have gained acceptance because youth today haven't been learning the true history of that period. Instead, they've been learning how to be "social justice warriors" for sowing divisiveness and anarchy.

If they've heard anything about it, information has been presented by those who want to confuse youth against their own nation in a negative manner, for the purpose of distracting them from the advancements it's made in providing freedoms and liberties to every individual. 

After all, why else would everyone around the globe desire so strongly to immigrate here?

Prager U has produced its latest video with Brian Kilmeade, co-author of Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny.

This video gives a summary of the book and clearly reveals that divine providence was, once again, the major factor in the outcome of what clearly should have resulted in the end of our fledgling nation.

Yes, there are those who hate this country for several reasons, who use aspects of our history - such as slavery and genocide - which they exploit in bad mouthing it. But this type of argument ignores the reality of the existing social norms of the period which is always based on the past norms. And, it also ignores the reality that there are parts of the world where slavery is still practiced today.

The other glaring point they ignore is that our own brothers and sisters fought against each other over slavery, and state's rights, in the Civil War of the 1860s in which many died to end it.