Posted on 06/12/2009 2:44:26 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen
Outstanding essay.
Big bump!
Already coming to pass. No wonder younger generations are so screwed up - they listen to all of this garbage from the political elites and the Drool-By Media and lack the skills to discriminate the propaganda these liars are spreading.
I also believe that he will crack under the pressures of reality. Then the thought of Biden and/or Pelosi in charge is terrifying.
We all are in for an unimaginably rough time.
I feel like we are watching the weather channel showing Katrina whirling toward NOLA. We knew it was going to hit. We watched it all the way from the Caribbean. It was the largest storm that had ever been illustrated on tv, covering almost the entire Gulf of Mexico.
We also knew that way too many people in the path of the storm were pretending that the damage would not *really* be too bad, because they had survived all previous hurricanes.
Continuing the analogy (although this is not the part terrifies me), the media immediately blamed George Bush, and refused to acknowledge that he had begged the politicians in LA to get into gear; and that he had sent the Coast Guard and US Navy to the Gulf ahead of the landfall of the storm.
The media is ignoring the truth about what Obama’s agenda will do to the economic future of every American.
Or the movie "Idiocracy"!
To the point.
“0bomo wants to end America as you know it...”
I think ObaMugabe has reached his high water mark and is now on the precipice of failing. The failure of the generation theft bill, the UAW bailout, huge deficits, inflation, his conceited personality, apologizing to the third world..things add up.
Interesting story. Your co-worker had few, if any, enablers. Obamination’s enablers are legion.
We are so screwed...
Millions of Obama's most fanatical supporters will be disappointed when after four years of The Great Spreader, their lives will be exactly the same as it was before he ascended to the throne. They will ask themselves "where are our free houses, free cars, free food, etc?", and it will finally dawn on them that The Grand Redistributor cannot deliver the goods.
That's an easy one. To Big Media Obama represents the real leftist they have long been waiting for. Bill Clinton was merely a poseur, an opportunist, and they knew it. They readily threw Slick Willy aside during the fight between Hillary and Obama. I'm sure Bill, as the first black president, was shocked to hear himeself characterized as a racist by the same people who were eulogizing him a few years previous i.e. before Obama. Why back a fake leftist like Clinton when you can back a real one like Obama?
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.” Adolph Hitler
(Obama certainly understands his supporters.)
“The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” Adolph Hitler
It begs the question of what ELSE from the Nazi playbook does this incredibly dangerouns malignant narcissist have planned for Amerika (spelling intentional)?
Better think about that and mobilize to STOP it WHILE THERE MAY STILL BE TIME.
BTW, if I stop posting, forward emails to me at Obama Reeducation Camp 666.
It’s a classic feedback loop.
They see their DEAR LEADER get away with his crap and are emboldened to see how far THEY can go.
Dumbed down just doesn’t seem to cover it. We’ve become a nation of total imbiciles.
I am a product of the government schools (GS). I graduated from high school in 1957 and was exposed to several hundred teachers. Most were dedicated professionals. And I can STILL name the EXCEPTIONAL ones.
Edna Kleinmeyer who didn’t just teach English: She imbued us with a love of language I carry to this day. It was Ms. Kleinmeyer who told me I had a gift for writing;
Charlie Kluckholn, the tough old wrestling coach who taught chemistry and gave me some of the best advice I had received to that time;
Charles Huffman, the homeroom teacher who helped me over a very rough spot in my life;
Franklin Jefferis, a “lowly” shop teacher, whose love of a job well done was wordlessly communicated to his kids in thousands of subtle ways. Mr. Jefferis died soon after I graduated. One October night, I “visited” him – alone — at the funeral home and wept as I thanked him one last time.
But the current GS are radically different from the system through which I passed 50 years ago. Know that my concern and hostility are NOT directed at those who still TEACH — really teach, really want the best EDUCATION for the kids, want to prepare them academically for the future.
Those feelings are reserved for SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS who have socialist/collectivist agendas or quietly acquiesce to the agendas imposed on them from above. They know that what is going on is wrong, but say nothing lest they jeopardize their careers. Author Thomas Sowell calls these folks “the anointed.” And as the title of his book on the subject, “The Vision of The Anointed,” indicates, they HAVE a vision!
That it is NOT the PARENTS’ vision is of no concern to them.
When my kids were still in the GS, my wife and I were quite active. The Principal of their elementary school chose me to represent the school in something called the LSAC (Local School Advisory Committee) program. I attended several meetings held at the County Board of Education headquarters. I came away from the VERY FIRST of those meetings with these impressions:
1. Those folks DID NOT speak English. Through tight little smirks clearly indicative of the low esteem, indeed, contempt, they had for the uninformed and ignorant gaggle of parents arrayed before them, they spoke in buzz words and technobabble code only they comprehended. At one point — to the visible relief of the other parents — I stopped one woman’s presentation and asked for a translation of what she’d said. She was NOT pleased!
2. They DID NOT want parents involved! Cookie sales and PTA? OK. Serious criticism of a course or textbook? Verboten! Your option was private or parochial school. There very little home schooling then.
3. Most of these people MAY have once been educators. They were now bureaucrats guarding their turf.
4. Many of those administrative folks were making over $50K and, though I looked for signs of it, I saw little evidence of anything resembling “work.” And this was 20 years ago when the average classroom teacher earned less than $25K.
5. There were WAY too many administrators in the GS. It is a perfect opportunity to provide make-work sinecures for “anointed” members of the educational fraternity. Four years as an Air Force instructor taught me how to spot the signs.
Here’s the “bottom line:” Simply hurling more money into the black hole of the GS WILL NOT WORK. Most of that money will NEVER get to the classroom or into the pockets of DESERVING teachers who actually TEACH. And teach what any sensible human being – REGARDLESS of race, faith or ethnicity — instinctively understands to be correct, morally defensible material.
Bush is right about one thing: We need accountability! Perhaps you recall Clinton’s asinine plan to send 100,000 PAID Americorps “volunteers” into the grade schools to TEACH KIDS TO READ. Why hadn’t their PREVIOUS teachers – OR THEIR PARENTS! — taught them to perform that rather basic skill???
Think about what you just read as YOUR local government schools continue to raise YOUR property taxes.
Another encounter with “The System”
In 1978, my wife and I came to know a young woman named Patty. She
was a devoutly religious young mother who’d become more devout when her
husband and father of her two small sons aged 2 and 6 informed her that he
was leaving. In dire economic straits, I offered to let her stay in our
former home in Chamblee — which was not rented at the time – rent-free until she got back on her feet. She had been clandestinely home schooling the 6 year
old for about 2 years using very well done Christian course materials from
an organization in Texas the name of which escapes me. The lad had recently been tested and had placed at least a year ABOVE his chronological age. As required by the government school authorities at the time, she dutifully apprised the authorities of his scores.
For reasons which would become clear in a moment, Patty had been harassed by the DeKalb County school authorities for about 6 months and, by the time she moved into the Chamblee house, had been — unbeknownst to us — ORDERED to put the 6 year old into the nearest government elementary school or suffer the consequences. Because she wanted the boys to be educated Christians, there was no way she was going to do that and she told them so.
At approximately 2 am one morning, a loud knock on the door announced the
arrival of the aforementioned “consequences.”
Dressed only in a nightgown, she was confronted by several burly police officers who thrust an arrest warrant in her face. With the now awakened 6 year old watching and the 2 year old wailing in the other room, she was handcuffed and led out the door to jail. She was tossed into a large cell with a couple of hookers and a junkie who spent much of the rest of that morning vomiting in the corner. The two young boys for whom the educational authorities professed such great concern were just left AT THE HOUSE — ALONE! Patty was later told that the bureaucrats from Children Services who were SUPPOSED to accompany the cops were late and, in their haste to get this dangerous miscreant behind bars, the cops just missed the fact that the Children Services people were, well, missing. The CS folks showed up an hour later to find two terrified kids, one of whom had just seen his mother hauled off in cuffs.
Patty was ultimately brought to trial under the Georgia Truancy Statutes. Her pro-bono attorney tore the school authorities to shreds and hers has been called THE case that opened the floodgates to home schooling in Georgia. Once they had all the facts, the jury didn’t take long to acquit her. I’m proud to have played a small part in that.
At Patty’s trial, a previously overlooked aspect of the government schools was put into sharp focus for those paying attention: The Director of Instruction for DeKalb County testified that the then current 7 hour school day consisted of an average of approximately 3 hours or less of instruction. At that time, Patty was devoting 4 to 5 hours a day to direct instruction.
He also as much as admitted that the REAL reason they wanted ALL these kids in school was the $3,000.00 per kid per year (I’m sure that number is higher in 2001!) they then got from the state and federal government. Empty seats = lost funds. As in most things, follow the money.
Patty home schooled these two boys through high school.
And how did the boys turn out?
One is now a physician and the other a budding journalist.
But that now seems to be the norm for the growing legions of home schooled kids – which most likely explains why the NEA and the government school folks feel so threatened. For what it’s worth, a home schooled kid won the last National Spelling Bee.
Thomas Jefferson believed an EDUCATED PUBLIC to be the cornerstone of the system he and the other Founders TRIED to leave behind. He would NOT, I feel certain, be a big fan of the current government education system. If he returned today, he’d home school just as he did before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0lR1KQq2-U
What Obama will do WHEN he “loses it” is what has me concerned.
I suspect that’s when the REAL trouble will start.
I hate that too. I find his speech patterns very creepy in general, but that one is particularly disturbing.
The ENEMY is THE MEDIA.
Period.
It probably won't be soon. We're likely a year or two out. There's no way to predict the big events that may come crashing onto the scene, of course. What will likely happen is that the steady drip drip drip of economic and foreign woes will continue to sap Obama's popularity, and weaken it over time. When a truly major problem (or problems) arise, of the kind that he can't talk his way out of, he'll be weakened and already on edge.
The signs of his weakness are there, if you listen to him long enough. He telegraphs his fears pretty clearly. He's afraid of losing his cool. (Which he jokes about often). He doesn't like criticism. (I've heard interviews where he pretends he doesn't pay much attention to what people needle his policies over, and then goes on to elaborate on the criticism at length.) He doesn't like his critics; personally and viscerally. He doesn't like compromising, although he pretends he does. He doesn't know how to handle defeat, or salvage a win or a tie out of one.
In other words, Obama's a heavy hitter with a glass jaw. He's never faced a real opponent. His opponents in Illinois were either disqualified on technicalities, or were electoral lightweights like Alan Keyes. Hillary tried to get somewhat tough with him, but was sandbagged by fellow Dems and the media. Certainly, McCain never did more than dance around and play defense. The rest of the Republicans are cowed and scattered.
No one, NO ONE, has really closed in and scrapped with Obama. Until his media shield is weakened, and his popularity drops, he'll be a juggernaut. Once the media turns on him, the economy tanks further, and the protests get more serious, he'll start to unravel like a cheap sweater.
I doubt the media will ever turn on him — they've invested to much emotion both against Bush and for Obama. It's not about truth but a commitment to a way of life or a world view. Clinton was a liar and it meant nothing to them. Even if America tanks it's still “Bush's fault.” It's a pernicious way of life. And if Obama cracks he'll be in rehab and loved even more so like Brittany Spears and Lindsay Lohan because that's the way we treat celebrities. Besides, he meant well... and on an emotional level that means everything. It probably gets as much mileage as "Bush's fault."
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