There are several higher up on my presidential list of the big names offered up by the media, but it is amusing to see this list of three things offered up as the worst dirt an insider has on Palin:
Sarah Palin Tell All Book Leak – iVillage:
http://www.ivillage.com/sarah-palin-tell-all-book-leak/1-a-326003?obref=obnetwork
If you get caught cheating on students’ test scores, maybe you can make a career of negotiator for teachers’ unions like Mike Mulgrew:
Says NY Daily News:
Teachers union chief Michael Mulgrew’s free-spending ways make him a Knucklehead:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/02/25/2011-02-25__ufts_wretched_excess.html
Your Police state against home-schooled children:
Another case of anonymous tips and authoritarian authorities going after maverick non-conformists, thinking they are open season.
“Deputies seek protection after threatening family:”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=268349
However, the judge said that under federal law, an anonymous tip, “without more, does not constitute probable cause.” In this case, the anonymous tip was clearly targeted at this family for home-schooling their children.
Education IS the point when you talk about education! And teachers’ unions are about equalizing the field between those who produce good results versus the one who produce more pathetic performance.
In other words, today’s unions, as measured by what they DO not what they SAY, they are about
(1) union dues for union bosses and top-down rule,
(2) to contribute to political causes that get more money for them from you and me and
(3) to protect bad teachers,
(4) seniority without regard to quality education or results,
(5) supporting the super-rich elites’ political program (Darwinism, excising God from education, Gaia-based religion, dissolving bottoms-up republics in favor of the worldwide Orwellian “governance”,
(6) creating a monotonous monolithic institution that puts our next generation through a cookie-cutter view of the world..
..and that’s just a partial list…
The initial post for this thread of discussion was the pathetic performance of America’s school kids today.
No amount of noise and static will cover up the unavoidable fact that this pathetic performance reflects on the politicized government schools regime under which both politicians and teachers’ union bosses and some of the teachers use OUR children as political footballs.
That’s the problem with anything government sees fit to control. Everybody with a stake in such things now has to lobby for its interests. Socialist plutocrat zillionaires, corporate lobbyists and UNION lobbyists, with specific interests, now telescope down to what affects them and a piece of those entitlement programs, set-asides, research money, subsidies.
While meantime, there are pathetically few rich that are actually supporting free market principles, such as “Please don’t subsidize me”.
Private sector unions must consider the market forces that their employers must face, lest they price themselves out of the market.
Public sector unions can “go for broke” because governments have legal extortion power, they can gut everybody else’s bank accounts.
The politicized government school systems in the nation have seen themselves forced to improve their results because of the “threat” of competition that they are still trying to kill off. This is one of the direct measurable effects of the Jeb Bush “opportunity scholarship” program for poor kids in poor-performing schools, where one school that got an “F” before now is excelling.
And private schools do it with a lot less money.
Here is the gaping wide window into the soul of the topmost bosses of the biggest leftist operative organizations and their leaders and lackeys in the political arena:
Their opposition to vouchers exposes the fact that they want to rob the chance that the poor may have to get their kids a decent education.
25% of teachers in Washington and Baltimore send their own kids to PRIVATE schools. But they oppose vouchers for the kids they teach in those schools, whose parents cannot afford to take their kids out and many of whom, educated in those same schools, don’t know the difference.
“Private schools for my kids for me”, they do, “but not for thee”.
–trutherator
Proverbs 21:13 ¶Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Matthew 7:12 ¶Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Psalms 94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
(1) Well-regulated was clearly explained by the Founders as “well-trained”. Folks with guns in their homes ready to fight.
(2) The main purpose of the 2nd as EXPLICITLY expressed was the security of a free state. They meant to make sure the populace had the freedom to carry and practice at shooting, so they could form a militia against attacks against the constitution from outside or inside the borders.
(3) James Madison and others of these elected leaders and founders also made clear that the arming of citizens clearly was a protection against marauders and thieves.
Of course history bears out all three points very clearly.
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” —Thomas Jefferson
Not for nothing George Soros supports causes that push for government-created industries, it’s easier to make profits on government decrees that muddy up the free market, which is less predictable.
Not like he’s even hiding this. What happened to the protests against “greedy” corporate raiders?
Philanthropy. Riiiiiiggghhht.
Whattaya know:
Obama, saying he wanted to make his government the most transparent ever (ho-hum, how many times have we heard that before?), did open up the logs of the visitors to the White House, but NOT the logs from the offices next door, where he meets, for example, with ALF-CIO president Richard Trumka.
The matter in Wisconsin, and spreading, is about recruiting union workers for whatever future plans they are building. They would like to use them to break the will of taxpayers and of the American people.
Collective bargaining by government workers creates a conflict of interest on the part of elected representatives and government in general.
A private company has to make the concessions from its revenues, meaning, its own pockets.
Government management negotiators are not paying out of their pockets, because they get their pay from the same place as the government worker unions: you and me and whoever either pays taxes directly, or pays taxes indirectly from the “multiplier effect” of tax collection.
–trutherator
One thing I appreciate about John Stossel’s programs is that he brings in some of the best and most articulate spokesmen for views opposite his own, to hash out the issues. But he didn’t do it in my opinion when it came to the issue of believing in God, in the show available at the following link:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/205277/stossel-thu-dec-16-2010#s-p1-so-i0
In fact, the priest he brought on used an argument similar to what I think is the straw-man caricature of faith Carl Sagan put into his novel “Contact”, in which he painted a picture of advanced aliens so benevolent that it boggles the mind how a smart guy can be so hopelessly naive.
The priest in the segment made the argument more forcefully and possibly more convincingly than the one in Sagan’s atheist imaginations, but a believer that holds to evolution cannot say much about the evidence of God. The kind of love people can have among themselves is for sure one of the evidences for God, but it’s not enough at all.
Schermer thinks that he can say are “close to” figuring out where matter came from, and threw out “string theory” as one answer, but string theory has not been demonstrated one time. And even for the universe they think they know, they have no clue as to what 90 percent of the universe consists of!
Schermer has his own confirmation bias.
I just wish he would bring a better spokesman for faith in God there. Maybe he just buys the empty non-logic of thinking creationist arguments and its cousin, design is too fringe. He’s doing himself a great disservice if so.
I was once an atheist, but followed science, history, facts and logic to believe in the Bible again.
I despise the “argument from no proof”, aka “God of the gaps”. Truth is, agnostics are intellectually more honest with themselves than atheists like Schermer, because materialism and faith in what they call “science” is their own “god of the gaps”.
Like he said about Stalinism, his is a faith in materialist explanations, a faith in “godless explanations” so to speak.
Dinesh D’Souza is a better spokesman, and Ravi Zacarias is invited to hostile campuses around the world.
And by the way, despite the offer of sneering arrogance that Schermer offers at creationism, the fact is that the foremost scientist spokesmen for atheism, agnosticism, and evolution, stubbornly refuse to debate creation scientists anymore, because when they first ventured to do so, they were soundly humiliated.
Fact is the major branches of science were founded by believers in creation, including the arguably best scientist of all time, Isaac Newton, the foremost scientists who articulated the formal steps of the scientific method, Roger Bacon.
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