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In some of these posts over the past few months, we told you about some of the information being taught in our public schools. Some of you were skeptical. 

Well, this should really shock you as it did one of the school board members who objected to the reading and to one of the teachers in the meeting. He just hung his head apparently in shame, then walked out of the meeting.

On Glenn Beck’s radio program this morning, an excerpt from a Tuscon school board meeting was played wherein a young woman read portions (including page number references) from a book used in the Controversial Ethnic Studies Curriculum for grades 3 through 12. 

This seemed to be an emotional reading for the people attending the meeting so we researched it to find the actual video.

We found it.

References to “Blood-sucking Capitalists”, the “F” word, “S—”, and “BullS—” appear to be used quite extensively throughout the book.

Caution: This video contains language you may not want to hear! But, that’s kind of the point, isn’t it? Should the “offensive” language in a public school textbook be censored in a public meeting but not in the classroom? What about the kids? 

I’m thankful that this young woman cared enough to review the textbook and then had the courage to confront the school board.

What are our kids and grand-kids being taught? 

Shouldn’t we be more involved in our kids’ education?

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

(From NewsRealBlog.com)

By Chris Rowan

It is news to no one that our educational system sucks. American students are consistently out-performed by students in other countries year after year.

Why?

Liberals, progressives, socialists, communists, “compassionate” conservatives (i.e., neocons, RINOs, liberal Republicans) , teacher unions, and other leftist groups would like you to believe that it is some combination of bad schools, teachers, and financing. The solution, as they see it, is to engage in a game of Three Card Monty where students are shuffled from schools that are “failing” them, to schools that will allow them to “succeed” –as though success is a magical elixir of brick, mortar, and fairy dust that is present in some schools and absent in others.

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By Chris Rowan
Originally published at NewsRealBlog.com

One of the more comforting aspects of the major religions is the belief that there is justice in the hereafter and the wicked are ultimately punished. One of the reasons why so many people are willing to risk everything to come to the United States is the belief that we have a system of justice that is fair and impartial, so that even the very poor and politically unconnected can expect a modicum of justice in this country.

At least, that’s what I would like to believe. More importantly, that is what I would like to convey – with conviction – to my children. But it is getting harder and harder to suspend disbelief about our “impartial” judicial system. Read the rest of this entry »

(From NewsRealBlog.com)

By Chris Rowan

David Aikman of Townhall.com posted a 1-minute podcast commentary today that should be of great interest to conservative moms and dads out there – “Alinsky: In Your Child’s Classroom?“ 

According to Aikman, 

. . . the nation’s largest teacher organization, the National Education Association, has sent an email to all its teacher members advising them to use Alinsky’s teaching in educating their students – OUR children and OUR grandchildren. Considering that one of Alinsky’s ethical principles was that the end justifies the means, American parents ought to think long and hard whether they want their children brainwashed by followers of Alinsky. 

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From American Thinker
By Paul Kengor

After years of digging into countless pages of FBI files, KGB documents, Soviet media archives, dusty old copies of the Daily Worker, declassified Comintern Archives on Communist Party USA, and much more, my book was finally going to press, exposing how the communist movement, from Moscow to New York, cynically manipulated — read: duped — liberals/progressives for nearly a century.

Among the words haunting me as I delivered the final manuscript were these: “I am open to the possibility that herein I myself have been duped on occasion.” I acknowledged the likelihood that later declassified documents might reveal certain “innocents” in my book as actually something far worse.

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Helena Public Schools are considering adoption of a controversial sexual education program that has parents in an uproar.

The December 14 broadcast of PBS’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook is titled “Showdown in Copenhagen,” which would lead one to believe that opposing parties there are facing off against one another over the role humans have in affecting the global climate. 

Nothing could be further from the truth. 

In order to fully appreciate this particular broadcast, the listener must already believe

1. The science on climate change is “settled,” the planet is warming, and humans are to blame.
2. The undeveloped “poorer” nations of the world have been shafted by the developed “richer” nations and deserve “climate justice.”
3. The chief villians are the United States and China, but (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) – it’s really just the United States.
4. Catastrophe can be ameoliorated, but not averted, only if draconian cuts in carbon emissions are enacted by developed nations (i.e., the United States) immediately.

Most of the broadcast was unremarkable because it started with the shared but unspoken proposition that AGW is actually happening and is the result of our pumping huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.  Once that leap has been made, discussion naturally turns to matters involving how to lower carbon emissions as rapidly as possible, which nations are most at fault, and how much the carbon-pulluting developed nations owe the poor, undeveloped nations.  Ashbrook channeled the frustration felt by all leftists when he asked one of his guests

When you look at these negotiations, there is no King of the Hill here, there is no single nation that can lay down the law and say ‘This is how it’s going to be,’ is there?

Every so often, leftists let slip their affinity for authoritarianism.  If only Mussolini were here, he could play King of Copenhagen and dictate “This is how it’s going to be” to the world.  Wouldn’t that be great?

Throughout most of the program, Ashbrook completely ignored Climategate and its impact on the Copenhagen conference.   Finally, about 40 minutes into a 46 minute  broadcast, a caller from Davenport, Iowa, asks

Could you guys talk a little bit about how some of the science that mankind is causing global warming, climate change . . . that there are some scientists saying that isn’t true, and for every scientist or climatologist that says that it’s man and his SUV causing this “change,” there’s another scientist saying that’s not necessarily true.  The world is constantly changing, and now that we have this Climategate thing, we have scientists covering up the science that says there is no global warming.

Ashbrook immediately dismissed the idea that for every global warming scientist alarmist there is a skeptic.  There are actually many more alarmists than skeptics, which somehow “proves” AGW. 

Wow, science is easy!  All that is needed to make the fantastic real is consensus.  So, if we can get a plurality of scientists to proclaim “The earth is flat,” then – by George! – the earth is flat.  Similarly, if we wanted to travel in faster-than-light spaceships, all that is required is a group of scientists to beeeeee-LEEEEEEEEVE in faster-than-light spaceships and  – KA-ZAMM! – just like that, it just happens.

Ashbrook’s guest stammered in response that there will always be dissenters but the bulk of the evidence points towards very damaging effects, which avoids the central question – why, in light of the Climategate revelations, should we believe ANY of the so-called “evidence” peddled by the Elmer Gantrys of climate science?

Is it any wonder more Democrats than Republicans believe in ghosts and fortune tellers?

(Posted at NewsRealBlog)
by Chris Rowan

Exhausted after a full day of kayak fishing in the waters off Green Island in the Lower Laguna Madre, I plopped down on the floor and crossed my legs under the coffee table  in front of the TV.  I stared at the laptop for a moment, then opened it and pressed the “On” button.  Roused from hibernation, the laptop displayed what I had last seen – a reminder to watch “The People Speak” on The History Channel.

Ugh.

I had done a little research weeks ago on Howard Zinn and his pseudocumentary, so my expectations were rather low.  Still, tired though I was, I felt compelled to watch.

I was able to endure fifteen minutes.

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(H/T to Art Cohan)

The Peter Morrison Report

Many of you will recall my report earlier this year on the social studies TEKS currently being worked on by the State Board of Education.  The documents produced by the appointed liberal-dominated committees were full of Leftist propaganda and pseudo-history and are destined for Texas classrooms unless Texas conservatives make their voices heard.  A conservative activist, Bill Ames, who participated in the committees has written three new articles detailing this outrage, and more importantly, how YOU can help:

Article 1 | Article 2 | Article 3

Please take the time to read these articles and make your voice heard.

One of the problems pointed out by Ames is that not enough conservatives were appointed to serve on the committees.  We need to fix that.  The next opportunity to serve is to review textbooks up for approval in 2010, primarily English Language Arts.

The textbook committee is the last ditch for conservatives to prevent liberal propaganda in textbooks, and provides a forum to directly challenge textbook publishers who push this stuff on our kids so they don’t have to rewrite the content they serve up in liberal states like California.  To serve on the 2011 committee, you have to apply. 

You can read details here.  The application form is here.

This process involves a couple of expense-paid trips to Austin to serve on your committee. It’s a great opportunity to serve our state.  Once you apply, be sure and notify your SBOE member (you can find your member here) so he or she can follow up, as the TEA bureaucracy tends to find reasons to reject the applications of conservatives.

Here’s an overview of the process and application instructions from TEA:

The Texas Education Agency is now accepting nominations for the state review panels that will evaluate instructional materials submitted under Proclamation 2011. The deadline for submission is December 18, 2009.

Proclamation 2011 of the State Board of Education calls for instructional materials in the following areas:

- Prekindergarten Systems
- English Language Arts, Grades 2 – 8
- Spanish Language Arts, Grades 2 – 6
- English as a Second Language, Grades K – 8 – Student and Teacher Editions
- Spelling, Grades 1 – 6
- Handwriting, Grades 1 – 3
- Speech, Grades 6 – 8
- English, Levels I – IV

State review panels will convene in Austin during parts of June and July of 2010 to review instructional materials submitted under Proclamation 2011. Appointed state review panel members will serve for one week during that period. Members will attend an orientation/training meeting at the beginning of the week, and should plan to remain on-site for a period of five days to conduct the evaluation. The Texas Education Agency will reserve hotel lodging, and reimburse panel members for all travel expenses, as allowable by law.

Please complete and return the application via email to Review and Adoption at review.adoption@tea.state.tx.us. Please save this form beginning with “nom_” followed by the nominee’s complete last name and the first initial of the nominee’s first name (example: Gerry Washington would be “nom_washingtong”).

Completed forms should be returned no later than December 18, 2009.  Thank you for your participation.
 
PO Box 8742, Lumberton, TX 77657, USA

With nothing better to do, I opted to watch the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. 

Big mistake.

The whole movie was annoying.  It was formulaic, for one thing.  There was the whiny, know-it-all brat of a little kid.  The beautiful young female scientist.  The eeeeeeee-vil conservative presence in the White House that always shoots from the hip and asks questions later.  The gung-ho yet ineffective military officer. 

I was a school teacher for 10 years, and I know formula writing when I see it.  You take elements from several stories and rework the plot, change the characters a bit, and presto!  You have a “new” story.

The remake takes elements from the Tom Cruise vehicle War of the Worlds (another remake), Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Matrix, among others.  That’s why watching it for the first time felt like watching a re-run.

But it got worse.  Much worse.

There’s a scene when the beautiful scientist (Jennifer Connelly) takes the alien (Keanu Reeves) to see a leading scientist (John Cleese). 

That’s right – John Cleese plays the Nobel Prize-winning scientist.  Really pushing the limits of belief suspension, aren’t they?  And Boffin wins the Nobel for his work in (get this) altruistic biology.

Cleese and the alien have the following exchange:

Boffin/Cleese: Well, there must be alternatives. You must have some technology you have that could solve the problem.

Alien/Reeves: The problem is not technology. The problem is you. You lack the will to change.

Boffin/Cleese: Then help us change.

Alien/Reeves: I cannot change your nature. You treat the world as you treat each other.

Boffin/Cleese: But every civilisation reaches a crisis point eventually.

Alien/Reeves: Most of them don’t make it.

Boffin/Cleese: Yours did. How?

Alien/Reeves: Our sun was dying. We had to evolve in order to survive.

Boffin/Cleese: So it was only when your world was threatened with destruction that you became what you are now.

Alien/Reeves: Yes.

Boffin/Cleese: Well, that’s where we are. You say we’re on the brink of destruction, and you’re right.  But it’s only on the brink that people find the will to change; only on the precipice that we evolve. This is our moment – don’t take it from us. We are close to an answer.

Sound familiar?  It should:

Remarks in Des Moines, Iowa: “Our Moment Is Now”

Remarks with Senator Hillary Clinton in Unity, New Hampshire

Address in Berlin at the Victory Column in Tiergarten Park

Remarks and an Exchange with Reporters Announcing the Nomination of Admiral Dennis Blair as Director of National Intelligence and Leon Panetta as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Address During the Inaugural Whistle Stop Tour in Wilmington, Delaware

Remarks at the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia

Obviously, Cleese is channeling Obama.  I’ll bet you didn’t know that Obama was in a major motion picture.

There is so much wrong with this movie, it’s hard to know where to begin.  It is so obviously and blatantly awful that the makers of the movie must have had an agenda.  There is no other explanation.  They simply didn’t care whether the movie made any money or not.  They had a more important purpose – To Save America and the World (from George Bush and eeeeeee-vil conservatives).

(From Newsreal Blog)

by Matthew Vadum

Standup comedian Anita Dunn, who doubles as President Obama’s White House communications director, now claims she was only joking when praised Mao Zedong by calling him “one of the two people that I turn to most,” Glenn Beck revealed on his TV show today.

Hilarious! There have to be 70 million murdered Chinese rolling in the aisles! What a knee-slapper.

Beck revealed last week that Dunn idolizes Mao, the brutal Communist dictator of China responsible for the slaughter of tens of millions of innocent victims.

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