Why Juan and Pamika Can't Read

This video concerns America's future, tomorrow's leaders, and the direction in which the next generation will lead us.  Notice that its main speaker is Juan Williams of National Public Radio fame.  Recall also that O-buma turned his back on some 1700 economically disadvantaged inner city children in Washington, DC, in favor well-to-do campaign supporters in the National Education Association.  In the film, Williams asks incredulously, "you mean you're not standing with the kids?"

Open Secrets reports that between the NEA and the American Federation of Teachers, educrat unions donated over $67M to politicians during 2007-2008.  The NEA alone "spends more on campaign contributions than ExxonMobile, Microsoft, Walmart, and the AFL-CIO combined," and they send "95% of their contributions to Democrats."  What a neatly convoluted funding loop.  

With states hurting financially, their leaders are searching for ways to trim budgets and to maintain essential services.  One effective way is through vouchers or school choice.  The old guard education unions represent an expensive failed experiment.  We cannot afford economically or socially to continue pursuing past mistakes.  "Empowering parents to choose the best school for their children...makes good fiscal sense." 

In New Jersey, both Republican and Democratic legislators are supporting Governor Chris Christie's proposals to eliminate lifetime tenure and benefits that are cost free to education employees.  Teaching union claims that without tenure good teachers could be fired arbitrarily are specious.  "In 2008, there were 35 education tenure challenges for school employees," out of some 120,000 total workers. 

In contrast, National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel claims that teacher evaluations should "not root out bad teachers."  That's right, Roekel believes that a teacher evaluation should be a cozy, hand holding exercise to determine the amount of teacher's raise.  No valid reason exists to justify why education employees should not face the same occupational uncertainties as those who pay their salaries.

We have thrown good money after bad for so long that few people have any concept of a reasonable baseline for student and teacher performance.  Tests have been re-centered, revalued, and otherwise made irrelevant until they are useless as tests; they no longer evaluate what they claim to examine, which is exactly what union leaders want.  They desperately want to avoid any system that requires individual and total accountability.  Union "officials invariably respond to the deterioration in schools by seeking to abolish the gauges of decay, tests, for one."   

Author Peter Brimelow observes about union leaders how "masterful the educrats are at mounting a noisy, well-masked offensive at the slightest threat to their Soviet-style status quo."  They have two main objectives, to maximize the financial aggrandizement of union members and to increase the numbers in their bureaucracy.

For union leaders, it's actually all about the kids, really.  

May your gods be with you. 

Friday's Follies

File this under the heading No Crisis Should go Unexploited.  The O-bumites continue to berate BP for its bumbling, but the Prince of Prevarication has turned down help from 13 countries that have people and equipment ready to assist.  There seems to be no depth to which O-bumessiah's hypocrisy will not stoop.  He now vilifies BP's management, but he has been most willing to accept their money.

Perhaps this report from the Bartaverse can offer some insight into the O-buma's character.  It is revealing that a member of the Loopy Left complains that he is not black enough.

Do you remember the KFC Hillary bucket?  It was two small breasts, one left wing, and two large thighs.  The O-buma Cabinet Bucket is all left wings and...well, for want of a better term...sphincters. 

Some truths are self-evident.  One of them is that when government agents conceal facts, there is usually something amiss.  O-bumessiah's administration has succeeded in being the most transparent in history to the extent that the Clinton administration was the most ethical.

Granted that the governed cannot know all the secrets of those who govern.  It is likely imprudent to allow media to report the route of an upcoming presidential motorcade, even for the present administration.  Nonetheless, the extent to which the public is kept in the dark is the approximate extent to which agents of the state can engage in monkey business.

Speaking of monkey business, some dutiful Obaaama Sheeples appear to have engaged in yet another act of blatant fraud.  I am shocked, shocked to realize that the very act of intentionally deceiving the people of the United States receives so little exposure by the lapdog presstitutes.  It is especially interesting in light of the fact that doing so was considered by a Theftocrat Congress to be an impeachable offense when committed by Richard Nixon.


It is sad that there is so much hypocrisy and so little time to expose it.


Finally, this blog has offered numerous views on the sorry state of education in this nation.  This article exposes some of the worst schemes and scams that the O-bumites have perpetuated, and so much of it has been done deviously and with the tacit approval of the corrupt media.  Please follow the links, and as they say, read 'em and weep.


May your gods be with you.

Yeah But, Never did Anything Worthwhile

The photo to the left is for those of us who were trained in public school in the arts of critical thinking and keen observation.

In Texas, the State Board of Education voted to end nonfactual historical revisionism in the state's textbooks.  The Board also decided to eliminate much of the federally approved bias toward collectivism and social pandering and against free enterprise and American exceptionalism.

On the topic of education, the head of the illegally created federal Department of Education is calling for a $23b taxpayer funded bailout for the government union members of the nation's education collective.  This is in addition to the $46.7b in federal funding that is already allocated for fiscal year 2010.

The question begs to be asked as to why this group of Theftocrat supporters should avoid bearing the same degree of joblessness that affects the general public.  The loss of jobs among the nation's poorest performing educators could substantially improve education in the US.

The first improvement that could be made is to end tenure at all levels, from grade K through postsecondary education.  Perhaps local school boards should eliminate extracurricular activities altogether to lower expenses.  Greatly reducing after school programs could help also, as well as de-funding daycare facilities guised as summer schools.  Maybe we should also consider ending the Head Start program that provides cost free daycare for those entitlement hustlers whose primary function is producing TANF recipients.

The second scheme needing to get the ax is the jigsaw classroom with its mandated involuntary servitude and dumbed to the lowest level curriculum. Establishing competition between and among educators, creating strict accountability, and requiring that the bottom one-half of teachers, staff, and administrators re-apply for employment each school year could help to separate the wheat from the chaff, especially if the applicants pay the costs of their evaluations.

There is much that could be done to improve our educational products, drive down their costs, and make quality education more readily available and affordable for all citizens; however, that would necessitate applying capitalist principles to a group of subsidized collectivists, a politically unlikely prospect. Additionally, many of us would have to develop the discipline and character needed to keep one's greedy hands off of the public coffers, another unlikely prospect.

May your gods be with you.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

This is how we reach out and touch someone.  Imagine what it would take to continue fighting against an enemy who can kill you with one shot from a mile and one-half away.  Envision the sort of fanaticism that would be necessary to continue opposing our combined forces when we can tag you from long range with a sniper, a UAV, a cruise missile, or up close and personal with a Navy SEAL team.

The best things in life are free, or so goes the saying.  What about free solar panels for homeowners?  Are you weary of paying the local utility to burn fossil fuels to produce your power?  The start up cost for solar power is beyond the means of many, if not most, homeowners; however, here is a way to acquire a zero down solar system and start running your computer, dishwasher, water heater, and refrigerator with clean, efficient sunlight.

Another thing that is free is trouble.  This jerk personifies the reason that God gave us concealed weapon permits.  There are nine effective methods of eliminating this sort of threat to the public.

Americans are prohibited by government from owning land outright.  This is one of the ways that they do it.  Even with a paid off mortgage and a deed in hand we still do not own the land on which we live.  Government agents determine how we can use our land, how we can dispose of it, and they keep a permanent tax lien against it that cannot be satisfied.  If we stop surrendering tribute to the tax collectors, people with guns come and remove us from our land and sell our assets at a public auction.

Liberty is freedom from interference by government agents in the lives of individuals.

Some of the people who most interfere with the lives of individuals are members of the nation's education collective.  This government union has a nearly uniform agenda across all 50 states.  It is an agenda that vilifies and balkanizes children along race and gender lines.  This agenda panders to non-achievers, social miscreants, and classroom disruptors.  It also forces children into slave labor as bright, motivated students are required to do the work of the slackers in their work groups.

War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength.

It has been said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned.  O-buma hammed it up for a fawning crowd of pseudo-journalists as crude oil covered the Gulf of Mexico.  This clown-in-chief is building quite a legacy.  The question begs to be asked as to why there is so little national media coverage.  National and global media fairly shrieked over the smaller Exxon Valdez spill, and the Gulf is just as environmentally sensitive and valuable as its Alaskan counterpart.

Do you feel good about taking your children or grandchildren to the beach?  Have you contacted your elected officials?

May your gods be with you.

Education in America

It has not been just the laziness and ineptitude of far too many teachers that has caused education to fail in this country.  Greedy trial lawyers' use of frivolous lawsuits to establish demographic quotas for school suspensions has left educators with virtually no means to discipline unruly students. 

This is but one reason that we should support education vouchers for private schools.  It might be justified to respect, or at least take seriously, someone who shoves a gun into your face and robs you.  A person who pencil whips you deserves absolutely no respect.

On the topic of furtive and devious behavior, American universities are factories of progressive propaganda that champion the socialist, totalitarian, and fascist form of government that they have put into place.  These institutions foster the education colleges that produce classroom teachers who inculcate into unsuspecting children values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that are consistent with progressives' ideals.  They are responsible for giving students diplomas that they cannot read.

These videos are two good examples of the products of American education.

It is a dreadful mistake to allow these people to bargain collectively.  Government unions are antithetical to public interest.  The reason for collective bargaining is to gain leverage against employers.  First, they are not employees; they are overhead.  Second, the leverage is against us, the taxpayers.  Now in Florida, we have the recently outed Communist Charlie Christ who, in an act of political groveling, vetoed proposed legislation that would have eliminated tenure and established merit pay for teachers.

This article and its video version offer 10 suggestions that will greatly improve academic achievement in the US.  These recommendations, along with removing political indoctrination from the curriculum, would go a long way toward improving education.  By the way, we should also end the practice of paying tenured professors to conduct ersatz research in Provence for three months each summer while graduate teaching assistants substitute for them in their classrooms.

May your gods be with you.