Thanks for the post and the pings, gents.
This is a must read article.
Posted on 08/22/2002 7:40:34 AM PDT by Pokey78
Thanks for the post and the pings, gents.
This is a must read article.
Last spring I read that some western state was fining the NEA for contributing an insane majority of its funs to the DNC. I was hoping that 49 other states would follow suit but even the story of that western state seems to have vanished.
Every teacher I've known for the past 15 years hates the NEA. What gives? Why is it still around? Could it be - Demoncrats?
He doesn't because it's the waning days of summer and no one is paying attention except the highly-annoyed media. You're "misunderestimating" him again. When the time is right, he'll make you proud.
Michael
When the heck are we in the west going to get this???
Congressman Billybob
Like your story, most of the teachers I know completely ignore the NEA and generally do the right thing.
NEA has to go.
Western self-loathing is primarily a subject thoroughly written about and taught in our schools of higher education. What K – 12 missed, these purveyors of the Machiavellian approach to life continue to assault the mindless once in college. “The Ugly American” is still their ‘bible’ and a best seller these days in the Mid-East and Europe.
Tolerance/Political Correctness are America’s Achilles Heel not only to the media/press but to the Islamic world as well.
The letters I have received from some NEA members tell me I have it all wrong in condemning their approach to 9/11...they can’t see what has happened to them they are so indoctrinated in Socialism/Marxism and the continued studies of John Dewey. Do you remember when Bill Clinton said loud and clear...”all children should be able to read by the eighth grade”? The children of the 60’s and 70’s are the very products of such professors and are now trying to lead our country in their failed attempts of that idyllic fantasy...socialism.
Being Compassionate brings with it the huge responsibility of doing the right thing, ethics and integrity. No lying; no Cheating therefore no Political Correctness and no Tolerance for evil.
Please see also:
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason: http://palaceofreason.com
ROFL !
Bush has done a lot of good things, but he has let us down badly here.
The very fact this issue even needs to be discussed in a serious and defensive manner indicates how badly we are losing the struggles for the hearts and minds the Liberals continue to influence with their idiotic notions!
It is not necessary to point out the defects of the other side, merely to promote ours as the best, which is what he has done. Those who want to hear the President ranting about the defects of Islam (evident to anyone with an IQ above turnip stage) are going to be waiting a long time. It is not his style nor in his nature; in the same way he campaigns by dwelling on the positive instead of going into a full-frontal attack on the democrats.
What has happened is that to the American public who might not have understood initially, they see a reasonable man who seems to be a nice guy, and then they get a hefty dose of ranting Islamic spokespeople and clerics. I do believe they have figured this out for themselves.
Besides, there are plenty of people to carry on the war against the PC culture, and it is not the President's job to do this when there are so many more weighty things on his plate.
And as far as I know, no one in my state is going to be using this NEA curriculum. We are having memorial services and videos reviewing the events of the last year.
Excerpt:
President Bush has won the first battle (Afghanistan) but he’s in danger of losing the war. The war isn’t with al-Qa’eda, or Saddam, or the House of Saud. They’re all a bunch of losers. True, insignificant loser states have caused their share of trouble. But that was because, from Vietnam to Grenada, they were used for proxy wars between the great opposing forces of communism and the free world. In a unipolar world, it’s clear that the real enemy in this war is ourselves, and our lemming-like rush to cultural suicide. By ‘our’, I don’t mean me or my neighbours or the American people. I don’t even mean the Democrats: American politics is more responsive and populist than Europe’s, and when war with Iraq starts Hillary will be cheerleading along with the rest of them. But against that are all the people who shape our culture, who teach our children, who run our colleges and churches, who make the TV shows we watch — and they haven’t got a clue. Bruce Springsteen’s inert, equivalist wallow of a 9/11 album, The Rising, is a classic example of how even a supposed ‘blue-collar’ icon can’t bring himself to want America to win. Oprah’s post-9/11 message is that it’s all about ‘who you love and how you love’. On my car radio, John McCain pops up on behalf of the Office of Civil Rights every ten minutes sternly reminding me not to beat up Muslims.
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I'd be happy if, sometime before his term ends, he'd show some indication of UNDERSTANDING it.
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