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More WA employees speak out against 'Outward Mindset' program After a union petition kicked off calling for the Washington Department of Health to end mandatory Outward Mindset training, employees say more colleagues are speaking up against the controversial training program. OLYMPIA, Wash. - After a union petition kicked off calling for the Washington State Department of Health to end mandatory Outward Mindset training, employees say more colleagues are speaking up against the controversial training program. "The response has been a ripple effect, there are staff that are more emboldened to say something," said one WA DOH worker who wishes to...

The Case for More Guns, Learn to Think Like The Sheep Who Chose to Be UnarmedAmmoland Inc. Posted on April 30, 2021April 28, 2021 by Dean WeingartenCourtesy Dean Weingarten People in the gun culture often express amazement about people who want them disarmed. They ascribe the desire to hostility and malice. It may be true for a minority of those who actively wish for a disarmed population. A significant number, likely a majority, have made a voluntary decision to be unarmed.It is important to know your opponent and to understand their motives.Three years ago, this correspondent wrote an essay on...

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the nation needs a president with an Ivy League education. “I went to an Ivy League school,” he said on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.” “I was an excellent student at the Wharton School of Finance, which is the best in the world, one of the hardest to get into in the world, maybe the hardest, but maybe one of the hardest to get into, even back then.” “That’s the kind of thinking our country needs, that mindset,” Trump added. “The fact is, that’s the kind of mindset or thinking we need...

RUSH: Now, let me suggest something here. We could all say just as easily that the Democrats, the left is responsible for Tucson. We could say it. We didn't. But we could. How? Very simple. The left -- which continues to agitate, abuse, punish, name-call, whatever -- create an environment in which the individual is smothered. They treat people, individuals, as worthless. They come up with these conspiracy theories that Bush knew about 9/11. Imagine yourself wandering aimlessly through the murk as a disturbed young man, you see one of your cities practically blown off the map and then you...

The biggest challenge facing Republicans in the 112th Congress is not Barack Obama. It is not Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate. It isn't high unemployment, repealing ObamaCare, the threat of Islamism and shariah in America, the deficit, or the looming insolvency of several (mostly blue) states. These, broadly speaking, are symptoms. The disease is socialism or, at the very least, a pervasive socialistic mindset. According to a February 2010 Gallup poll, "61% of liberals say their image of socialism is positive" and "53% of Democrats have a positive image of socialism." Overall, 36% of Americans view socialism favorably. Winston...

Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset A Swedish Scientist tells us (THE US) that "We" are (now - "were") primarily responsible for the health, economics and much more - OF TODAYS WORLD. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_state.html

Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama's closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he is responsible for "overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs." In 2008, while at Harvard Law School, Sunstein co-wrote a truly pernicious paper proposing that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and psuedo-"independent" advocates to "cognitively infiltrate" online groups and websites -- as well as other activist groups -- which advocate views that Sunstein deems...

The Washington Post yesterday afternoon reported "President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of tribal leaders conference." The transcript begins: SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [*] OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference. I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see...

The Difference: If a conservative doesn't like guns, they don't buy one. If a liberal doesn't like guns, then no one should have one. If a conservative is a vegetarian, they don't eat meat. If a liberal is vegetarian, they want to ban all meat products for everyone. If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good. If a conservative is homosexual, they quietly enjoy their life. If a liberal is homosexual, they loudly demand legislated respect. If a black man or Hispanic...

Eight years later, I am still angry about 9/11. Many people are not. In fact, many people barely remember 9/11. We have resumed our usual activities. This is good – it shows the terrorists they haven’t won. But we may also have resumed our usual patterns of thought. This is not good. The problem with 9/10 thinking is that it leads to 9/11.

The jihadist attack on innocent London residents as they made their way to work during the morning rush hour illuminates the grim reality of this era. Despite all of the claims about assimilating radical Moslems or moderating their sentiments, it is clear that whatever Western motives may be, jihadist goals are unremitting: undiluted destruction and sanguine nihilism. With another 700 injured and at least 50 killed, it is time to face this truth. These fanatics are intent on killing and maiming as many people as they can. Negotiations are not possible. With whom would one negotiate in any case? As...

Last night, while watching Hannity & Colmes, I resisted the temptation of throwing something at the television set. I’ve heard, consistently, from many conservatives who know him, that Alan is “really a nice guy”. Maybe so. But, his comments continue to be consistently absurd, mindless, immature, idiotic, perplexing and too many other adjectives defining ‘ludicrous’ to list here. One of his Wednesday comments, however, took the proverbial cake. Engaged in a conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, regarding Jane Fonda and her new book, the inevitable subject of Fonda’s Viet Nam war atrocities came up in the discussion. Please bear...

After talking with some left-wing friends this weekend, I realized now more than ever that the question of whether to vote for Bush or Kerry truly boils down to another question, “A war for our lives, or a nuisance to our lifestyle?” The later question was asked on Friday by eminent historian Victor David Hanson. He answers it with honesty and erudition, but leaves out a very important point: the fear factor. Hanson correctly identifies Kerry et al’s penchant for wanting to solve our foreign policy disputes through diplomatic bureaucracy ad nauseum -- e.g., the United Nations. He hints at...

The Beloit College Mindset List, Class Of 2008 Posted: Aug. 27, 2004 1. Most students entering college this fall were born in 1986. 2. Desi Arnaz, Orson Welles, Roy Orbison, Ted Bundy, Ayatollah Khomeini and Cary Grant have always been dead. 3. "Heeeere's Johnny!" is a scary greeting from Jack Nicholson in the movie "The Shining," not a warm welcome from Ed McMahon on "The Tonight Show." 4. The Energizer bunny has always been going, and going, and going. 5. Large fine-print ads for prescription drugs have always appeared in magazines. 6. Photographs have always been processed in an hour...

BELOIT COLLEGE'S MINDSET LIST® FOR THE CLASS OF 2008 1.  Most students entering college this fall were born in 1986. 2.  Desi Arnaz, Orson Welles, Roy Orbison, Ted Bundy, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Cary Grant  have always been dead. 3.  "Heeeere's Johnny!" is a scary greeting from Jack Nicholson, not a warm welcome from Ed McMahon. 4.  The Energizer bunny has always been going, and going, and going. 5.  Large fine-print ads for prescription drugs have always appeared in magazines. 6.  Photographs have always been processed in an hour or less. 7.  They never got a chance to drink 7-Up...

THERE is an element of the anti-war movement who live in hope that there is a huge disaster just around the corner. They will not rest in warning of its arrival. They will not be satisfied until it has happened. These are the people who have found it difficult to acknowledge that the war has achieved one mighty goal already – removal of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. This is a terrific outcome. At least Greens Leader Bob Brown had the honesty to acknowledge it unconditionally. "The end of Saddam Hussein's ruthless tyranny is a great day for Iraqis and the world,"...

Dec. 29 — In the summer of 2001, a 22-year-old Palestinian man walked into a crowded Sbarro pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem and calmly detonated a bomb strapped to his back, killing 15 people — including a 15-year-old Israeli girl — and injuring 130. The bomber was assisted by Mohammad Daghlas, a 22-year-old college student from the West Bank village of Burqa who provided the bomb involved in the attack. Via a cell phone smuggled into a prison where he's serving a 1,500-year sentence, Daghlas told ABCNEWS he regrets nothing. "If the Israelis were not committed to killing children, we would...