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Lamh Foistenach Abu! I want a turkey sammich, too! (But, we ate out - and the food was so mediocre, that we didn’t even want a ‘doggy bag’ for leftovers.) It was nice not to have to slave away in the kitchen all day, and let someone else do the cookin’ and servin’, giving me time to enjoy my guests!
But, come Christmas, that turkey will be cooked in “Yorkie’s Kitchen”, with all the trimmings, and it will be to ‘die for!’
Your Thanksgiving sounds like it was WONDERFUL, pollywog!!! Wish I was there! (((HUGS)))
Sorry to say this is starting here in Minnesota! Is this something you want for your kids?
IS THIS WHERE OUR SCHOOLS ARE GOING!?! IS THIS FOR YOUR KIDS???
WorldNetDaily http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117313
BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
Teaching plan: America ‘an oppressive hellhole’
University outlines ‘re-education’ for those who hold ‘wrong’ views
Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:15 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh, © 2009 WorldNetDaily
A program proposed at the University of Minnesota would result in required examinations of teacher candidates on “white privilege” as well as “remedial re-education” for those who hold the “wrong” views, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. (FIRE)
“The university’s general counsel should be asked to comment as soon as possible,” said the letter from Adam Kissel, an officer with The FIRE. “If the Race, Culture, Class, and Gender Task Group achieves its stated goals, the result will be political and ideological screening of applicants, remedial re-education for those with the ‘wrong’ views and values, [and] withholding of degrees from those upon whom the university’s political reeducation efforts proved ineffective.”
By any “non-totalitarian” standards, he wrote, the plans being made so far by the school are “severely unjust and impermissibly intrude into matters of individual conscience.”
“These intentions violate the freedom of conscience of the university’s students. As a public university bound by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the university is both legally and morally obligated to uphold this fundamental right,” he wrote.
The demands appear to be similar to those promoted earlier at the University of Delaware. As WND reported, the Delaware university’s office of residential life was caught requiring students to participant in a program that taught, “all whites are racist.”
Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten said the developing Minnesota plan would require teachers to “embrace – and be prepared to teach our state’s kids – the task force’s own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.”
“The first step toward ‘cultural competence,’ says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize – and confess – their own bigotry. Anyone familiar with the reeducation camps of China’s Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi,” she said.
Nevertheless, FIRE’s concern included the apparent plan for demands that teachers “discuss their own histories and current thinking drawing on notions of white privilege, hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and internalized oppression.”
“Here’s the kicker,” Fire said in its report. “The college even realizes that its efforts to impose such a severe ideological litmus test may be unconstitutional.”
Think, act, teach our way or we will ‘re-educate you until you do!
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.....now wouldn’t that have been fun!!! By the way, our son brought our new “Grand-puppy”... a sweet Pomeranian boy named Keoki! He is about 10 weeks old...they bought him on their recent trip to Hawaii!
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Lamh Foistenach Abu!