President Obama’s Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009
PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities: President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009

Before the Speech:
• Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by asking the following questions:
Who is the President of the United States?
What do you think it takes to be President?
To whom do you think the President is going to be speaking?
Why do you think he wants to speak to you?
What do you think he will say to you?
• Teachers can ask students to imagine being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools? Teachers can chart ideas about what they would say.
• Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
During the Speech:
• As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
What is the President trying to tell me?
What is the President asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
• Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
• Students can record a

Read the full document here.

Obama’s word is NOT gospel and responsible parents should not allow their children to be used as pawns in the Obama administration’s agenda.

Get your kids out of school on September 8, and show Obama and his minions that their attempts at indoctinating our children are not going to go on without a protest.

The last two paragraphs of that article:

Or is the new hypocrisy an eerie sort of psychological compensation at work? Perhaps the more Al Gore rails about carbon emissions, the more he can without guilt enjoy what emits them. The more Professor Gates can cite racism, the more he himself is paid to spot it. And the more a Tom Daschle wants to tax and spend for health care, the less badly he feels about his own chauffer and tax avoidance?

Here’s a little advice for all of America’s aristocratic critics: a little less hypocrisy, a little more appreciation of your good lives — and then maybe the rest of us will listen to you a little more.

Read it all here.

So who’s telling the truth? Obama or his critics?

President Reagan opposed socialized medicine because it does not lead to choice. It is just another means for the government to take away your liberties and to tell you what you can and cannot do with regards to your health care needs.

Reagan’s words are as fresh today as they were then.

Was she informed, or was she briefed? Oh wait, she was misled! And the CIA lied! Yes, like they lied about the presence of WMD! She just had to throw in that zinger, didn’t she?

What a bold faced liar! She deserves to be hauled up in front of Senate hearing committee and let’s investigate, yes let’s investigate all those torture memos! Let’s find out her role in approving the enhanced interrogations techniques on those captured enemy combatants!

What say you that she had something to do with Obama doing a 180 about releasing those “torture” pictures?

Kudos to Donald Trump for seeing the bigger picture and for seeing through the not so subtle attempts by the mainstream media and the homosexual activists, to villify and dethrone Miss California.

I love Donald Trump’s zinger about President Obama holding the same view as Miss California’s! “It’s the same answer the president of the United States gave,” said Trump. No kidding! How come Perez Hilton does not call the President on his stance on gay marriage? How come no one in the mainstream media ever said anything that Miss California’s view on marriage is no different than that of the President’s, Hillary Clinton’s and more than half of the people of California who voted for Proposition 8?

I can just picture tomorrow’s TV morning shows …. how disappointed those libtards on CBS’s Morning Show and those at NBC will be by Donald Trump’s decision to allow Miss California to keep her crown. They were so gleeful this morning when new nude pictures of Carrie Pejean surfaced! As for David Shuster of MSNBC, I wished he had choked on his vomit!

There’s one thing that is just so predictable with these liberals. They talk about tolerance and free speech, but only if you agree with them.

Don’t know what I am talking about?

How about this story reported by CNSNews.com – Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request?

If Obama objects to signs and symbols reflecting Christianity near him, he should not have spoken at a Catholic University. But then again, he has to cover up his ass after claiming that America is not a Christian nation.

So now he has to put to rest that niggling suspicion that some people have about him being a secret Muslim. Hence that speech, held at Georgetown University and making references to the Sermon on the Mount about building something on a rock …

No, of course the false messiah doesn’t want to share the stage with the name of the real Messiah behind him! There’s only room for one messiah at a time! And yes, he’s the one we’ve been waiting for!

Yeah. Right.

What was all that talk about the country being a nation of cowards where the subject of race is concerned?

I agree with Rush Limbaugh today, he, Rush, is no coward. Look what his reference to race with regards to Donovan McNabe got him? Cries of racism!

Want to know who the racist is? Jeremiah Wright and ilks like him! And guess who sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church pew, for 20 years and soaked all that in? Obama, you betcha!

And when Eric Holder says we are a nation of cowards, he is actually saying we are cowards because we don’t agree with his view of how the subject of race should be treated! And that is treat minorities and their rights with liberal kid gloves, and bend over backwards to address their perceived grievances.

I like Ward Connerly’s reaction to what Eric Holder said.

The old saying, “be careful of what you wish for,” applies here.

In characterizing the American people as “cowards” for not openly discussing their attitudes about race, the attorney general seems to be be anxious to provoke a dialogue about the subject. Yet, there is no evidence, based on his presidential campaign, that President Obama wants to have such a discussion.

Moreover, it is difficult to have such a discussion when some with differing views are harshly and publicly attacked for their views. For example, when asked about my initiatives to end race preferences, candidate Obama labeled them as those “divisive Ward Connerly initiatives.” Such characterization is hardly consistent with the view that we should openly put our views about race on public display.

I also believe the attorney general is out of step with the majority of Americans when he implies that the source of and solution to most social disparities is race. I believe most Americans are no longer content with this line of thinking and its ultimate conclusion of race-based solutions to resolve these disparities.

I am sure there are lots of black people like Ward Connerly who feel the way he does about Holder’s speech.

I love handbags and I couldn’t resist this contest where I stand a chance to win a  free handbag from HandBag Planet.  I am sure there are lots of other women out there who would also love to win a free handbag, but what the heck – I won’t win if I don’t enter the contest, right?

I know Doug will complain if I add one more handbag (if I am lucky enough to win, that is) to those that are already hanging in the closet!   :lol:

Does that remind you of kids singing their praises of their Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il?

Besides being a dunder head, Ms Pelosi is a partisan hack who takes every opportunity to bash Bush.   So the financial crisis is the result of Bush’s failed economic policy, eh?   And the financial crisis is a result of there being no regulation, no supervision on the markets, eh? (Watch Pelosi’s speech here)

How about this video to remind Ms Pelosi about the culpability of her fellow Democrats with regards to the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?  Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick should be jailed for fraud.

There is a disturbing phenomenon creeping into the public debate about all things 9/11. Increasingly, Sept. 11 is compared to hurricanes, bridge collapses and other mechanical disasters or criminal acts that result in loss of life, with “body count” being the primary factor that keeps it in the top spot of “worst in the nation’s history.”

Misremembering is as dangerous as forgetting. If we must know one thing, it is that the Sept. 11 attacks were neither a natural disaster, nor the unfortunate result of human error. 9/11 wasn’t the catastrophic equivalent of a 3,000-car pileup.

The attacks were not a random act of violence or insanity. They were a deliberate and brutal act of war committed by religious fanatics engaged in Islamic jihad against the United States, all non-Muslim people and any Muslim who wishes to live in a secular society. Worse, the people who perpetrated the attacks have explicitly told us that they are not done.

Sept. 11 is a date that comes and goes once a year, but “9/11″ is with us every day. The body count keeps rising – Bali, Riyadh, Istanbul, Madrid, Beslan, London, Amman.

We now clearly know that the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was part of the holy war against America. When we previously dismissed this as a random attack by crazy men and declared ourselves lucky that “only six lives were lost,” we effectively disarmed ourselves. Eight years later, six became 3,000. While the comparison to other “tragedies” may help us cope with what has befallen us, we must resist being glib and intellectually careless.

Our fellow human beings were not “lost” in 1993 or on 9/11. They were torn to pieces. We must not give the enemy any quarter. We must confront the reality of their acts.

Full article here.

When Zawi, my blogger friend, brought us to a market in Kota Bharu, Doug and I couldn’t resist eating a durian there and then. Most hotels do not allow durian to be brought into the room because of the foul stale smell of durian that can permeate through the whole hotel, so eating the durian at the market was the simplest solution to the problem!

I told my mother about how cheap the durians were in Kota Bharu and she was so envious! In Miri, they weigh the durian and a good durian would usually cost more than twenty ringgit each and there’s no guarantee that the one we bought would be any good!

This is the durian that we paid for and ate. It only cost eight ringgit fifty sen (about US $2.50). It was delicious!

I snagged this picture from Zawi’s blog. We were too busy eating the durian to take a picture of ourselves eating the durian. I love durians but unfortunately it gives me gas. But this time, the price for having to deal with gas was worth paying.