You SHOULD read these four articles

If you have a child being educated or who will be educated then you SHOULD read these four articles.  You have to know what’s going on with education right now.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/common_core_nationalized_state-run_education.html

http://tavernkeepers.com/the-common-core-agenda-part-1-lets-take-it-from-the-top/

http://tavernkeepers.com/teach-your-children-well-because-you-never-know-what-theyll-pick-up-in-school/

http://tavernkeepers.com/schools-across-the-country-are-openly-indoctrinating-our-kids/

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Obamatown

Well we’re living in Obamatown
Tax and borrowing bring everyone down
We make goods and services we need
They make almost none, just consume and impede

He gave trillions to execs on Wall Street
Took that two trillion from you and me
They get bonuses and lobby the Hill
Change all the laws, small business is killed
And we’re living in Obamatown

Bureaucratic regs are being handed down
And they’re getting very hard to pay-ay-aayyy

Yeaaaahhhh Oh-woah oh

Had a friend who started up a small firm
But the State taxed away all that he earned
And it took away four full time jobs
He had to fold, pink slips and sobs

She’s a single mom who works day and night
With three daughters 40K’s very tight
But they took her health insurance away
She pays twice as much, under the ACA
And we’re waiting in Obamatown

With the threats of Holder pushing us down
And the moderate GOP crawl his way-ay-aayy

Yeaaaahhhh Oh-woah oh

Everybody had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something’s happening on the way to that place
They’re throwing a Communist Flag in our face

Well we’re living in Obamatown
And its hard to keep a good man down
But they’re taking oh so much away-ay-aayy

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Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Hussein to Death Captured and Executed: It’s Sick.

Headline today:  REPORT: Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Hussein to Death – Captured & Executed by ISIS

This is what happens to the rule of law under a President who tells outright lies to get reelected.  If people had looked beyond “you can keep your doctor”, and gas prices mysteriously going down 50 cents per gallon in “battleground states” in the months leading up to the election, they would have seen things the President has said that are true – that he wants to “fundamentally transform America” (and he’s well on his way), that he says he carries the “dreams of my father” (his father was a sold-out, vocal Kenyan national socialist) and that he hired a man to be energy secretary who three months earlier had said, “we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”  Well, Chu’s dreams of gas prices being the levels of Europe are now well on their way.  But the cost of our President’s desire to humble and lower the United States in the view of the world has been loss of the rule of law, both here and elsewhere.

I can’t express how ghastly the above headline feels.  What a step backwards.  Saddam Husein came to power through mass executions, the same type happening now as Iraq is being allowed to fall into the hands of radicals Islamists.  If you have any question what kind of people these are just bing “Saddam throwing people from rooftops”.  I’ve seen the videos.  This is pure evil.  The President’s attitude seems to be, “Well, this demostrates a failure for Republicans, and we should respect all Muslims, and the U.S. shouldn’t be a colonial power like Britain was in Kenya.”.

Seriously, can anyone offer any other explanation?

It’s sick.

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A Large Version Of Detroit

Something we observed starkly in the past century is that the fruits of collectivism are ~always~ poverty, want, and gross inequality between the “planners” and the “masses”. In the early 90’s everyone remembered the example of East vs. West Germany. Today it seems like hardly anyone does. North Korea and South Korea provide an example today, and they are hardly ever presented in terms of the fruits of collectivism vs. the fruits of individualism.

Arguably California, Michigan, Illinois and New York contain today’s examples of the farthest governments have gone towards collectivism in the U.S. and the examples are not pretty. Detroit, a town which hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1961 and which has been politically ruled by the labor union the UAW, has fallen into decline even though the past two Presidential administrations have given billions of taxpayer dollars in corporate welfare to reward businesses which should have failed naturally and/or been restructured.

Look at these pictures of some sections of Detroit. Look through all five pages of the blog.

http://goobingdetroit.tumblr.com/

THIS is the fruit of following collectivism. With no choices and diminishing resources most people resolve to wanting to be rewarded for failing or unproductive behavior and many want someone else to do the work. Goods and services are consumed by government and union employees and by people receiving wealth redistribution, and none of these three groups is producing goods and services that society can consume in turn. It is a net drag on the economy and impoverishes everyone. And it’s reaching a tipping point in some governments across the U.S., especially with national debt now at $55,000 per ~individual~ in the U.S. And progressives in Congress and the various states show no sign of stopping the unsustainable behavior.

Don’t let progressives turn our nation into a large version of Detroit.

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Keep The Name Redskins. And Keep The Donkey Logo.

In the past few weeks there has been a nationwide push by progressives to change the name of the Washington Redskins.

In the eyes of the NFL franchise and most Americans “Redskins” is a term of pride and honor which pays homage to noble Wyandot, Lenape and Shawnee warriors that walked the Border territory around Northern Virginia.

The Democrat logo, on the other hand, is a donkey which pays homage to President Andrew “Jackass” Jackson, the founder of the Democratic party. He is also the President who signed into law the Indian Removal Act, which resulted in the Trail of Tears. If progressives really cared about honoring First Nations, they would consider prohibiting their own logo before trying to make others change non-offensive ones.

Jackson honored the Native Americans and they honored him as “Sharp Knife” and “The Great White Father”. Jackson sincerely believed Van Buren’s plan to relocate the tribes would result in peace and prosperity for everyone. But the plan was executed poorly and thousands died crossing rivers and from disease. It was a tragedy. But the U.S. government is in no way guilty of genocide. The book American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House does a great job of explaining the circumstances and facts surrounding the Trail of Tears.

Sadly the Democratic party left the good ideals of Andrew Jackson (there were many) 150 years ago and became the party of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. For the past 80 years they have been slowly morphing from the party of Forrest into the party of Leon Trotsky.

The only tribe I’ve heard of speaking out against the Redskin’s names is two leaders of the Oneidas of Northern Yew York. They have never been historically active in the Border territories of Northern Virginia; the tribes represented there are the Huron (Wyandot), the Delaware (Lenape) and the Shawnee.  The two Oneida leaders, in a political stunt, before their complaint was taken up by Harry Reid, had originally taken their complaint to the United Nations human rights watch.  It would be like Wisconsin German Americans going to the United Nations to complain about the Notre Dame college team having the name “Fighting Irish”.

I personally am 1/16 Montana Blackfoot through the French Purdy fur traders. My wife is 1/32 Cherokee.  I have also have English, French, Scottish, Norwegian and German blood flowing through my veins. But I am not any of these; I am an American.

In the U.S. everyone is equal under the Bill of Rights, in liberty and under the eventual income mobility that happens to all people in our society – regardless of physical traits – if they work hard and act responsibly.

Sadly those insisting on changing the name of the Washington Redskins are promoting racism. They are insisting that everyone must practice racism as they do- by assuming that first nation’s peoples must be hapless victims, by classifying all people of European descent as being racist oppressors by virtue of tending to have less melanin in their skins, and by trying to outlaw the celebration of culture, freedom of association and freedom of expression.

I started my career making $4 an hour at a Skipper’s seafood restaurant in the great Pacific Northwest. Most people start their careers with similar entry level jobs. With work and responsibility most people can prosper in our nation. And there is a robust safety net for those who can’t.

If someone believes that arbitrarily defined groups of people can’t prosper just because of their skin color, or they believe that some arbitrarily defined groups are oppressors based solely on skin color, then they are practicing the very definition of racism.  “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities”

People pressing for a name change to the Washington Redskins need to step back, question what they’ve been taught in public schools and progressive universities, and take a cold, hard look at their own hearts. They need to stop seeing people as arbitrarily defined Marxist classes. We do not have classes in the U.S. We are not masses. We are all only freeman and income earners from the least to the greatest, however one defines greatness.

By the way, there are no such things as “races”.  We are all humans, and individually members of families and tribes.  For every variation of human feature – eye color, skin color, height, hair color – you will find some family, some tribe, some individual on another part of the globe who has similar features, and other’s who have features which are near identical, so that one can never draw a line and say, “This is the blue eyed race”, or, “This is the red haired race”, or, “This is the 5’7″ to 5’8″ race.”

It would be silly and arbitrary to try to define a “race” based on everyone who is 5’7″ to 5’8″. It is no less arbitrary and silly to try to define race on the basis of how much melanin an individual happens to have in their skin.

We are all Americans in the U.S.A. Not “hyphenated” Americans. Just Americans.

Keep the name Redskins. And keep the donkey logo.

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