Selective Omission

What most people never really stop and think about, or realize, is that the Media (D) has gotten very crafty in how they deal with current issues which promote their agenda and leave out evidence, facts, or information which completely negate the whole assertion on their part.

"Like what?", you ask.

Well, how about the biggest issue of the past two and a half years; Russian collusion to rig the election.

As we all know, the Media's (D) been pounding the claim that the reason Hillary lost to Trump was because Trump, his campaign, or both, were working with Russia to rig her loss in 2016. Actually, if one does some real hard recall, or research to find it online, it was Trump who made the claim during the campaign that he was the one concerned that the election could be rigged in favor of Hillary.

So, who but Pres. Obama from the Rose Garden points out how ridiculous such a concern by Trump is in this video from Real Clear Politics on October 18, 2016. Watch it for yourself!

Why do I focus on this? Because it reveals how the Media (D) has intentionally ignored this fact. Instead, they have ranted and raved on CNN, MSNBC and other liberal stations almost 24/7 for the past several years that the dossier proved that it was Trump who rigged the election.

And yet, even after the whole thing was proven a hoax once the Mueller report came out, the liberals - now in power in the House of Congress - is like a dog refusing to let it go and out to destroy a President who's making serious and siginficant changes to our seriously corrupt political culture.

Say what? If this says anything, it is that the liberals honestly believe that we "deplorables" are that stupid to believe them when they make their claim about something when it comes to their power and control issues.

The Future of Education: A View From the Inside

I've worked in public education for forty years now; 30 years full-time, and after retiring, 10 years of substituting in a few other districts around the area where I live.

I've seen the gradual shift over these years from bad to worse. The main elements I've learned which have impacted education have been the federal government, the local, state and national teacher's unions, the judicial system and the gradual removal of any control of disciplinary actions by the classroom teacher.

Most of us are already fairly familiar with the fact that, during the Carter Administration of the late '70s, at the start of my teaching career, Congress approved a new bureaucracy which was supposed to improve the quality of education; the Dept. of Education. And, although I suspected that it would not accomplish that goal, we now know from the results of the last 40 years since its inception, I was correct in my suspicion.

Instead, it's done what most other bureaucracies do; suck into the oblivion of the federal government, billions of tax dollars hiring thousands of employees which, from their distant cubicles, somewhere in Washington, D.C. thousands of miles away, exercise their infinite wisdom making regulations that, instead of making learning for students more efficient, impose all sorts of demands on state, and districts, which only accomplish the need to spend more time to fill out paperwork by teachers and administration to meet those demands. It has generated more complex requirements for the teacher  and programs to teach in order to meet the increasing diversity of students flowing into the schools. As is typical for all federal bureaucracies, it has never proposed ideas for actually making things more efficient, or cutting back on growing its number of employees over the decades it's existed.

The national teacher's union clearly is simply a political action entity - always liberal - which, because of its hundreds of thousands of members strong clout, exercises its will on Congress and the Dept. of Education by  lobbying them on their decisions for new and weirder laws and curriculum as the years have passed. 30 years ago, we wouldn't have even dreamed that children would be learning about the details of how to how to put a condom on a cucumber to prevent STDs. Now, it's the norm.

The judicial system has played a part in this deteriorating behemoth as well. With the shift by the federal government of moving away from supporting large institutions for mentally disturbed or dysfunctional individuals, many parents with children who needed proper care - which included receiving an education - due to their disabilities, organized and filed lawsuits in court to force school districts to accommodate these children during the '80s. 

In some rulings made by judges in various cases, they've imposed legal requirements for inclusive experiences of these disabled children, but without mandating any increase in funding for these programs on the state's legislature. Consequently, there was a gradual increase in the number of special education programs which the school district had to fund in creative ways, while taking from other programs such as vocational ed programs. 

As my career moved through the years, I saw more and more aides, often one adult to one child in a wheelchair, or laying on a matt in a room, tending to them during the school day. In my opinion, I doubted these children actually learned anything which really made a difference in their future, but since it was legally required, the schools had to provide the services. Now, it's a major share of the district's budget every year.

Another trend I witnessed occur over the decades was the size of district administration; a direct result of the Dept. of Education's new fangled programs required under federal laws passed by Congress. When a new superintendent came into the district and streamlined the administration by cutting staff and sending the funds to the classrooms, things actually improved. However, when that one left, and another replaced him, or her, the administration grew again and a greater share of the district's budget was eaten up to pay their ever expanding salaries which never taught any students, instead, they just harassed the teacher to carry out their edicts or monitor the program they were responsible for running. Of course, just like most of our politicians, they promised the moon, but delivered a clod of dirt.

Over these years students have become more aware of just how much power they actually have because of various social attitudes which have evolved and become dominant since my time in school as a student. We're all familiar when we were growing up that we conducted ourselves when interacting with a teacher in the classroom with respect and a willingness to comply with their directions because they were our elders. Not today! More and more of them just sit and look at you after being directed to do whatever the situation requires, and stare at you; daring you to make them, or worse yet, telling you to "F" yourself. Administrative policies and dealings with these students rarely result in any significant consequences for these offenders. Now, the state of CA is considering a law which restricts the number of suspensions for most student offenses to two per year, rather than having a program to remediate, or rehabilitate the growing occurrences of more and more severe instances of assault and disruption. As a result, the learning environment in the classroom has suffered for those students who are actually trying to learn.

Finally, just the other day while substituting in a new school near where I live, I witnessed the difference at the beginning of the day that contrasted the degree of change our school culture has gone through. When I started my career in the classroom, it was expected that every student would stand, put their hand over their heart on their chest, and participate in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag to start the day. During the span of years I taught, there was a big state-wide debate which the legislature passed a bill on regarding the flag salute issue of whether it was required. Just the other day, I witnessed half of the class of 20 students who sat quietly in their chair as the other half of the class stood as us "old fogies" and veterans would expect. It caused me to check into the law the legislature passed years ago during the debate that raged and learned that the law only requires that a student not be disrespectful or disruptive during the flag salute, but are not required to even stand with, face the flag with their arms by their side, and show any respect to our symbol we veterans served, and some who gave the ultimate sacrifice to defend.

I firmly believe that the greatest foe our nation is dealing with when it comes to changing the direction our nation's education is headed in is our collective morals as a people. Yet, as we've no doubt seen in various forms of communications, any reference in public schools over the last 40 years has been completely removed; and thus we've witnessed the rise of charter schools.More and more parents are paying private school tuition as a result in order to give their children a chance for a future, yet more recently, we've seen a rise in the dialogue of the nation that this is just "white privilege", as though they have no right to exercise any independent choice for them.

Ladies and gentlemen, if this is the path our nation is on doesn't change, then we truly are headed for ruination in the future!

Isn't It Strange?

If women are upset with Trump’s naughty words, then who bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Gray?

James Comey replied, “I don’t remember,” “I don’t recall,” and “I don’t know” 236 times under oath when being questioned, but remembered, recalled, and knew enough to write his book. Funny thing!

Not one feminist has defended Sarah Sanders. It seems women’s rights only matter if they’re liberals.

No border walls, no voter ID laws, and liberals think we’re too stupid to figure it out.

Chelsea Clinton got out of college and got a job at NBC that paid $900,000 a year. Yet, her mom flies around the country speaking out about white privilege.

If walls and guns don’t work, then please explain to me why celebrities and politicians are surrounded by them.

SOCIALISM: An idea that’s so good it has to be mandatory.

Liberals say: “Don’t let unvaccinated kids into our schools!” Yet, the same liberals say, “Let thousands of unvaccinated illegal immigrant kids into our schools!”

Bernie Sanders walks into a bar and shouts out, “Free drinks for everyone!”, then immediately looks around and yells, “Who’s buying?”

“You know that you live in a great country when even the people who absolutely detest it refuse to leave.” Candice Owens

The law which allows for the separation of children from their parents who’ve crossed the border illegally was signed by President Bill Clinton in 1997. So, why is it a problem for liberals now?

68 people were killed in mass shootings in 2018. But, did you also know that around 2,000 people were killed by illegal aliens?

… and just like that, they went from being extremely concerned about foreign interference in our elections to being for non-citizens from foreign countries voting in our elections.

MAGA – Make Alexandria Go Away

President Trump’s wall would cost less than the Obamacare website that didn’t work did. Let that sink in!

14 Million kids are living in poverty in America, and who knows how many homeless are on the streets, yet liberals fight to allow for more illegal aliens into the country.

Pennsylvania officials admit to finding 11,198 non-citizens registered to vote on their state rolls, yet liberals claim there’s no voter fraud.

Our FBI sent more armament and troops to arrest Roger Stone than the Obama Administration and S.O.S. Clinton sent to defend Ambassador Stevens in the Benghazi attack.

60 years ago Venezuela was 4^th on the world economic index. Today, it is 179^th and its citizens are dying of starvation. In only 10 short years, Venezuela was destroyed by democratic socialism.

Russia donated $0.00 to the Trump campaign. Russia donated $145, 600, 000 to the Clinton Foundation. Yet, it was Trump who was investigated for over two years at a cost $36,000,000 of taxpayers money.

Nany Pelosi invited illegal aliens to the State of the Union address, while President Trump invited victims of illegal aliens. Let that sink in!

A socialist is basically a communist who doesn’t have the power to take everything from their citizens… yet!

VOTE REPULICAN… They may not be perfect, but unlike the other party, they’re not trying to destroy our country’s language, borders and culture.

Liberals feel the same way about firearms and wealth. It’s okay for them, but not for you.

A party that support abortion over life, illegal aliens over its own citizens, and refugees over its veterans thinks its going to lecture me on morality? I don’t think so!

Sweden is the rape capital of Europe, thanks to its immigration policies. Keep that in mind when socialists say that America should be like Sweden.

Please explain how one walks 3,000 miles across Mexico without food or support, and show up at the border of the U.S. 100 lbs. overweight, and with a cell phone!

If liberals think capitalism is the problem in America, there are 195 other countries where they can get a whole lot less of it. That they don’t move there should tell you what their true agenda is.

“We spend $18 Billion a year on healthcare for illegal aliens, and the Democrats can’t find $5 Billion for border security?” Laura Ingraham

Alexandria Occasio-Cortez wants to ban cars, airplane travel, and provide universal income for doing no work, and thinks socialism works. Yet, she declares that Donald Trump is crazy!

Bill Clinton paid $850,000 to Paula Jones to get her to go away. I don’t recall the FBI raiding his lawyer’s office, do you?

A.O.C’s annual salary is $174,000. She’s demanding a 70% tax rate. So, if 70% of $174,000 equals $121,800 in taxes, then it’s time for her to pay her fair share.

Bernie Sanders owns three houses and has a net worth of over $3,000,000. Yet, he hasn’t taken in a single refugee to live in those other two houses. Fancy that!

I have something to wake up to and be grateful for every day… that Hillary Clinton is not the president of the United States.

To all anti-Trumpers… Thank you for showing everyone just how idiotic liberals really are and giving us Trump supporters a daily reason to laugh and smile.

The same media that told us that Hillary Clinton had a 95% chance of winning the 2016 election thinks I’m going to believe them when they tell us that Trump’s approval ratings are low?

The electoral college worked just fine when Hillary Clinton ran, but lost in 2016. Yet now, the Democrats are telling us it needs to be eliminated? Think about that for a moment.

The U.S. Supreme Court has had nine justices since 1868, but now the Democrats are claiming it needs to be expanded so the conservative vote can be nullified?

It’s now clear… Robert Mueller quit digging when all the tunnels kept leading back to Hillary Clinton and Pres. Obama!

Congresswoman Maxine Waters opposes voter ID laws, but requires attendees to her town hall meetings to show photo IDs to enter.

Post Mueller Report Hoopla

You may be "up to speed" on what's going on in the political scene, but check this out. You may be surprised...

First, watch this video to get a clearer understanding of what the report is all about.

Second, watch this video to get a different perspective of what the report is all about.

Third, watch this video to get a great argument by Mark Levin on Fox & Friends.

Fourth, watch this video of Rush Limbaugh on Hannity's show explaining what's going on. (March 29, 2019)

Fifth, watch this video of Mark Levin joining Sean Hannity discussing the radical liberals floating the abolishing of the Electoral College in our elections. (March 21, 2019)

Death By A Thousand Cuts?

Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge! 

At the height of the 18th century, Muslim pirates (the "Barbary Pirates") were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic. 

They attacked every ship in sight and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their governments and families to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded. 

These extortionists of the high seas represented the North African Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers - collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast - and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic. 

Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain. When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France. 

However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets. 

Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, 17 years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became America's Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States rather than engaging them in war. 

In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments. 

Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace. A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom. 

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts. 

The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran that all nations who would not acknowledge their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise." 

Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years, the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. 

The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over 20 percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800. 

Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming. 

That changed everything. 

Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States. 

Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit. 

Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but, having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery for long enough, decided that it was finally time to meet force with force. 

He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify". 

When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli. 

The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years and raged up again in 1815. The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn, and they would forever be known as "leathernecks" for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships. 

Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply. 

America had a tradition of religious tolerance. In fact, Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen. 

A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers, was unacceptable to him. 

His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States. 

This should concern every American. That Muslims have brought about women-only classes and swimming times in America at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged; Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities; ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah; public schools are pulling pork from their menus; on and on and on and on. 

It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America. By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife and helping to further the Islamists' agenda. 

 
Sadly, it appears that today America's leaders would rather be politically correct than victorious!

Here's a related piece which points out more recent events...

Muslims have been at war with the world since the 7th century and it has lasted through the 18th century. However, some will contend it never stopped. This is why many of us who know the truth about this issue choke when we hear someone say we will defeat or contain these Islamic Terrorists in a few years, or even, as Leon Panetta stated during Pres. Obama's administration, "30 years."

The facts below are historically correct.

In 732 A.D., the Muslim Army, which was moving north from Spain on Paris, was defeated and turned back at Tours, France, by Charles Martel.

 

In 1571 A.D., the Muslim Army/Navy was defeated by the Italians and Austrians as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to attack Southern Europe in the Battle of Lepanto.

 

In 1683 A.D,the Turkish Muslim Army, attacking eastern Europe, was finally defeated in the Battle of Vienna by German and Polish Christian armies.

The sad thing is that more than half of all politicians do not even know any of this. If these battles had not been won, we would most likely be speaking Arabic, and Christianity could be non-existent. Judaism certainly would NOT exist! Just consider what the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, and similar organizations have attempted to do to Israel.

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.

The following events are true historical facts. It has been many years since 1968, but history keeps repeating itself.

 

1. In 1968, Robert Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim Male.

 

2. In 1972, at the Munich Olympics, Israeli athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim Males.

 

3. In 1972, a Pan Am 747 was hijacked and eventually diverted to Cairo where a fuse was lit on final approach. shortly after landing, it was blown up by Muslim Males.

 

4. In 1973, a Pan Am 707 was destroyed in Rome With 33 people killed, when it was attacked with grenades by Muslim Males.

 

5. In 1979, the United States embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim Males.

 

6. During the 1980’s, a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim Males.

 

7. In 1983, the United States Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim Males.

 

8. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille-Lauro was hijacked, and a 69-year-old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his Wheelchair by Muslim Males.

 

9. In 1985, TWA Flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a United States Navy diver,who was trying to rescue passengers – was murdered by Muslim Males.

 

10. In 1988, Pan Am flight 103 was bombed by Muslim Males.

 

11. In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed for the first time by Muslim Males.

 

12. In 1998, the United States embassies in Kenya, and Tanzania, were bombed by Muslim Males.

 

13. On 09/11/01, four airliners were hijacked. Two of the planes were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers.  One plane crashed into the United States Pentagon, and the other plane was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of People were Killed by Muslim Males.

 

14. In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim Males.

 

15. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was Kidnapped and beheaded by you guessed it - a Muslim Male. (Plus two other American journalists who had just recently been beheaded.)

 

16. In 2013, the Boston Marathon bombing resulted in four innocent people, including a child, being Killed and 264 other people injured by Muslim Males.

 

 

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone - particularly fanatics intent on killing us - Airport Security Screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people.

Have Americans completely lost their minds or just their "Power of Reason?"

 

As the writer of the Award Winning story "Forrest Gump" so aptly put it, "Stupid is, as stupid does."