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Missouri Education Watchdog 2012-05-27 12:27:00

stlgretchen — Sun, 27 May 2012 19:27:00 +0000

Worldwide Hippies Blog: Don't follow the political Pied Pipers of Education

Welcome to the Sunday Education Weekly Reader 05.27.2012. From the twitter world:

More like cubic zirconium...."Race to the Top" was described in the Washington Post as "the crown jewel of the Obama adm's education reform agenda http://bit.ly/LzsRAt

Perhaps this headmaster needs to choose his words a bit more carefully or enroll in a writing class....Headteacher claims school had 'overcome accidents of birth' to produce ...: The head has previously been honoure... http://bit.ly/LlNeVT

Does Team Obama even know what it and Arne Duncan want in education? A big stumble....You know, when you have TPM pushing back on Democratic rhetoric, then you have a problem: http://bit.ly/LnHUhh

Worldwide Hippies call both Republican and Democratic view of education for what it is: spin. "Where the campaigns tried to score on each other was in the sacred realm of DC policy, where terms like “choice, accountability, and reform” are inflated with mythic technocratic significance by the Very Serious People. And left totally out of the melee was whether either candidate can come close to telling the truth." Gotta love hippies.... Romney, Obama Vie For Who Can Hurt Education The Worst http://bit.ly/K0b5vs

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Educational conundrum for the week:

Where are headed with the common core? Students able to think outside the box...or just a cog in the workforce machinery? Can Cory Booker give us a peek into how thinking/speaking/learning alike is the end result of education reform applied in the workforce?

From Ann Althouse:

"Thinking outside the box may solve problems in the real world."

"But in the political realm, creative noodling will get you cast into the outer darkness. No matter which way you lean, The Machinery requires cogs, not cognizance."

Kathleen Parker, talking about Cory Booker.

Rally for Common Sense Wrap-up

dsm — Sun, 27 May 2012 04:22:00 +0000

Conservatives from around the midwest flocked to the Patriot Field of Dreams on May 19th, 2012, to attend the Rally for Common Sense in Holts Summit, Missouri. Dozens of speakers and musicians informed and entertained a crowd of about a thousand people. The YouTube playlist above includes the following videos:

There's more video over at ConservativeTVOnline.com including video of Darin Chappell (I had camera issues during his speech) and video of Alfonzo Rachel that's actually in focus unlike mine--sorry Zo!

It was an amazing group of speakers. I thought the best political/moral/philosophical commentary was from Alan Keyes, so if you've got a little over half an hour, I think you'll enjoy what he has to say. When it comes to pragmatic political outreach to the black community, K. Carl Smith's framing of the discussion around Fredrick Douglass's life and philosophy was tremendous. Make sure you watch that and then go get his book: Frederick Douglass Republicans: The Movement to Re-Ignite America's Passion for Liberty.

The total running time for all of the videos above is a little over four hours.

Photos of some of the speakers:

Slideshow:

Rally for Common Sense Wrap-up

dsm — Sun, 27 May 2012 04:22:00 +0000

Slideshow:

Video: Robert Zubrin: Radical Environmentalists and Other Merchants of Despair

dsm — Sun, 27 May 2012 02:28:00 +0000

Reason.tv: Robert Zubrin: Radical Environmentalists and Other Merchants of Despair:

"We have never been in danger of running out of resources," says Dr. Robert Zubrin, "but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained."

In his latest book, Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, Zubrin documents the history of dystopian environmentalism, from economic impairment inflicted by current global warming policies to the Malthusian concern over population growth. "Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the 19th century as it actually did. You can get rid of Thomas Edison or Louis Pasteur, take your pick."

Zubrin sat down with Reason Magazine editor in chief Matt Welch to discuss his book, the difference between practical and ideological environmentalism, and how U.S. foreign aid policy encourages population control.

Video: Robert Zubrin: Radical Environmentalists and Other Merchants of Despair

dsm — Sun, 27 May 2012 02:28:00 +0000

Reason.tv: Robert Zubrin: Radical Environmentalists and Other Merchants of Despair:

"We have never been in danger of running out of resources," says Dr. Robert Zubrin, "but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained."

In his latest book, Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, Zubrin documents the history of dystopian environmentalism, from economic impairment inflicted by current global warming policies to the Malthusian concern over population growth. "Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the 19th century as it actually did. You can get rid of Thomas Edison or Louis Pasteur, take your pick."

Zubrin sat down with Reason Magazine editor in chief Matt Welch to discuss his book, the difference between practical and ideological environmentalism, and how U.S. foreign aid policy encourages population control.

Student Summer Employment: "Begin A Career In Progressive Politics Progressive Jobs!"

stlgretchen — Sat, 26 May 2012 22:38:00 +0000

Your student might just become Presdent with a career in Community Organizing!

The above title is from a craigslist posting for student jobs. When did community organizing become a career? Does community organizing make the United States STEM ready and globally competitive? Do you remember this posting from last year about jobs for students to fight far right extremism and advance progressive causes?

Your student has more opportunities on craigslist to advance those causes this summer. :

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Maybe community organizing jobs are the only ones available to your student this summer since 100,000 jobs have been given to foreign students by the Obama administration. From ign.com:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/24/number-of-high-school-students-with-jobs-hits-20-y/

Wow, just 16% of high school students are employed for the summer, an all time low. That is down from 32% in 1990.

Meanwhile, over 100,000 foreign students will land summer jobs here in the US under a US work sponsored travel program.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...ut-americans/2012/05/22/gIQA3D1CjU_story.html

In a time where outsourcing American jobs is viewed unfavorably, I hope future Administrations spend a bit more time trying to get American teenagers these jobs.

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Apparently the focus from these self-named grassroots, community organizing groups isn't centered on the influx of foreign teenagers taking jobs American students could be working this summer or the high unemployment of high school/college aged students. From another craigslist posting (I'm wondering if "progressive issues you care about" include future full-time employment for American citizens):

Get A Jump On November! Looking To Start Or Continue A Career In Community Organizing? Excited About Working Hard On Crucial Victories In 2012? Want To ... Progressive Jobs

Begin a Career in Progressive Politics

Date: 2012-04-26, 11:39AM MDT
Reply to: see below

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Remember Memorial Day – and those who threaten it

Van Harvey — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:58:00 +0000

Here at the start of Memorial Day weekend, I want to join up with what conservative bloggers around the blogosphere are making an effort to draw attention to - not because it has a connection to Memorial Day, but because of how entirely opposed to, and antithetical to, everything those who are being honored this weekend, died for.

When you pause this weekend, and bow your head in memory of those whose lives were spent in purchasing the liberty you enjoy today, remember that there are people alive today, here, now, who are doing their very best to tear down and destroy, what those who died in service to our nation, sought to preserve.

One of these people Brett Kimberlin, is a former domestic terrorist, as was and is, Bill Ayers, the sort of characters that our President likes to pall around with. Back in the day, Kimberlin and was known as 'The Speedway Bomber', when during the 1970's, he terrorized an Indiana town with a string of bombings, which were all the worse, because they weren't done for a specific cause, but only to cause mayhem, Helter Skelter like:

"...In the worst incident, Kimberlin placed one of his bombs in a gym bag, and left it in a parking lot outside Speedway High School. CarlDeLong was leaving the high school football game with his wife when he attempted to pick up the bag and it exploded. The blast tore off his lower right leg and two fingers, and embedded bomb fragments in his wife’s leg. He was hospitalized for six weeks, during which he was forced to undergo nine operations to complete the amputation of his leg, reattach two fingers, repair damage to his inner ear, and remove bomb fragments from his stomach, chest, and arm. In February 1983, he committed suicide...."

And yet, after release, while posturing for 'liberal causes, one of his organizations, 'Justice through Music', it states,

"“We support the aspirations of youth worldwide to be free to express themselves, and we take a stand against oppressive regimes that suppress freedom and deprive citizens of basic human rights,” Kimberlin’s website continues."

, he spends the bulk of his time terrorizing conservative bloggers, such as Aaron Worthing and even a Los Angeles D.A. - you've got to follow last two links - I can't do them justice here. Read them.

These people posture as "liberals", but they are nothing of the sort. Proregressive Leftists like the look & feel, and the market share, of the word 'Liberal'... but few of them have bothered to look into what the word means, and those ones, if they stay leftists, simply turn the page and 'move on'.

Those who aren't willing to turn a self-blinding eye, will recognize that people such as Kimberlin and Bill Ayers and his wife and fellow 'former' domestic terrorist, Bernadine Dohrn, they have things in common which bar them from association with words having to do with true Liberty. They believed and continue to believe in the same leftist ideals, they are drawn to the same patterns, mindsets, dispositions, the sorts of things which made Dohrn say, in reference to the original 'Helter Skelter' of the Manson Family murders:

"... at the Weatherman "War Council" meeting in 1969, Ayers' fellow terrorist and now-wife, Bernadine Dohrn, famously gushed over the barbaric Manson Family murders of the pregnant actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, and three others: "Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"

And as Jonah recalled yesterday, "In appreciation, her Weather Underground cell made a threefingered 'fork' gesture its official salute." They weren't talking about scratching up the wall-paper."

The type of mind that can gush about a murderer sticking a fork in a victims stomach, and take that imagery as a symbol of their "movement's" ideals... that is not a mindset that is conducive to a respect for human life, much less that of Liberty.

Your life and your liberty are prices that they are willing to pay for what they want
When a proregressive leftist dares to call themselves a "Liberal" (one who loves and strives for Liberty – our Founders were Liberals in that classical sense), just keep in mind that these are the people they associate with, rally around and defend. Bret Kimberlin, Bill Ayres, Bernadine Dohrn – they are cut from the same cloth as are the hoods of the KKK or Swastikas of the National Socialists - not only that 'Might makes Right', but that it is right to do so, with any amount of force and violence, murder and mayhem, as may be 'required', and to do so without regret.

Your life and your liberty are nuisances to them. The Rights which protect you are obstacles to their Utopian plans. Your life, Your Liberty, Your Happiness, are the petty cash they are willing to expend as payment for the utopia they want to force everyone to live in.

They murdered before just to make a "Wild" point, just to stir things up, they never renounced their previous actions, they've never expressed regret... and you think that today... they are ok? You are comfortable with the idea of their being close to your president? Of having close input into the HealthControl bill that is currently threatening this nation?

If you don’t fear Kimberlin and the rest of these people, and their current ‘legitimacy’, and as in the case of Ayers & Dohrn especially, their highly influential positions in the education of your children, if that doesn’t fill you with a profound feeling of dread, you are a fool.

Men & Women have died for this nation, died to support the Constitution which preserves the liberties you are still able to enjoy, even today. Remember - there is a reason for this weekend, and for some it is more heartfelt and meaningful, than for others. Enjoy the day, enjoy your family and the liberty to do so, but remember - prices were paid, and some paid their all.

There are people around you today who'd just as soon spit on those we dedicate this weekend to remembering.

Remember that.

Remember Memorial Day – and those who threaten it

Van Harvey — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:58:00 +0000

"...In the worst incident, Kimberlin placed one of his bombs in a gym bag, and left it in a parking lot outside Speedway High School. CarlDeLong was leaving the high school football game with his wife when he attempted to pick up the bag and it exploded. The blast tore off his lower right leg and two fingers, and embedded bomb fragments in his wife’s leg. He was hospitalized for six weeks, during which he was forced to undergo nine operations to complete the amputation of his leg, reattach two fingers, repair damage to his inner ear, and remove bomb fragments from his stomach, chest, and arm. In February 1983, he committed suicide...."

And yet, after release, while posturing for 'liberal causes, one of his organizations, 'Justice through Music', it states,

"“We support the aspirations of youth worldwide to be free to express themselves, and we take a stand against oppressive regimes that suppress freedom and deprive citizens of basic human rights,” Kimberlin’s website continues."

"... at the Weatherman "War Council" meeting in 1969, Ayers' fellow terrorist and now-wife, Bernadine Dohrn, famously gushed over the barbaric Manson Family murders of the pregnant actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, and three others: "Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"

And as Jonah recalled yesterday, "In appreciation, her Weather Underground cell made a threefingered 'fork' gesture its official salute." They weren't talking about scratching up the wall-paper."

At what point does spin become lying Arne Duncan?

Anngie — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:08:00 +0000

This week Secretary Duncan participated in the Labor Management Conference in Cincinnati. It looks like the conference wasn’t that interesting, because he had a lot of time to tweet about it. The tweets sounded wonderful until you really analyzed them, and put them up against what action the DOEd is taking. Then you realized every one of them was a bit of propaganda straight out of Edward Bernays' manual.