Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Chinese General: Prepare for Combat
Gen. Xu Caihou, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, considered the most senior military political commissar, said Friday that military forces should be “prepared for any possible military combat,” state run Xinhua news agency reported.
Obama In 1998: "I Actually Believe In Redistribution"
At an October 19, 1998 conference at Loyola University, Barack Obama spoke against "propaganda" that said government doesn't work and the need to "pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution."
Monday, September 17, 2012
Uncommon Knowledge with Thomas Sowell
Hoover fellow and author Thomas Sowell discusses his essay "'Trickle Down Theory' and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich.'" Click the following link to read his essay
http://media.hoover.org/documents/Sowell_TrickleDown_FINAL.pdf
To listen to an mp3 of the interview go to:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/uncommon-knowledge-audio-edition/id384420950
http://feeds.feedburner.com/UncommonKnowledgeAudio
Sharia Adherence Mosque Survey: Correlations between Sharia Adherence and Violent Dogma in U.S. Mosques
Mordechai Kedar, David Yerushalmi, Sharia Adherence Mosque Survey: Correlations between Sharia Adherence and Violent Dogma in U.S. Mosques, December 2011, Perspectives on Terrorism, a scholarly international journal of the Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI).
Abstract
A random survey of 100 representative mosques in the U.S. was conducted to measure the correlation between Sharia adherence and dogma calling for violence against non-believers. Of the 100 mosques surveyed, 51% had texts on site rated as severely advocating violence; 30% had texts rated as moderately advocating violence; and 19% had no violent texts at all. Mosques that presented as Sharia adherent were more likely to feature violence-positive texts on site than were their non-Sharia-adherent counterparts. In 84.5% of the mosques, the imam recommended studying violence-positive texts. The leadership at Sharia-adherent mosques was more likely to recommend that a worshipper study violence-positive texts than leadership at non-Sharia-adherent mosques. Fifty-eight percent of the mosques invited guest imams known to promote violent jihad. The leadership of mosques that featured violence-positive literature was more likely to invite guest imams who were known to promote violent jihad than was the leadership of mosques that did not feature violence-positive literature on mosque premises.
MEQ granted permission to Perspectives on Terrorism to publish a more extensive analysis of the study’s conception, methodology, and results.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
NETANYAHU SAYS IRAN ‘20 YARDS’ FROM A NUCLEAR WEAPON
“It’s like Timothy McVeigh walking into a shop in Oklahoma City and saying, `I’d like to tend my garden. I’d like to buy some fertilizer.’ … Come on. We know that they’re working on a weapon,” Netanyahu explained.
“You know, they’re in the last 20 yards, and you can’t let them cross that goal line,” Netanyahu said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “You can’t let them score a touchdown, because that would have unbelievable consequences, grievous consequences for the peace and security of us all, of the world really.”
Netanyahu cited historical examples known to most Americans to make his case: President John F. Kennedy’s demand that the Soviets remove its missiles sites in Cuba “maybe purchased decades of peace,” Netanyahu said. And absent a similar “red line,” then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein faced a U.S. attack in 1991 after invading Kuwait.
“Maybe that war could have been avoided,” Netanyahu said.
The prime minister also pointed to America’s inability to prevent the 9/11 hijackings as proof that intelligence can fail.
Netanyahu insisted that his motivations are not political, but reflected a key sense of urgency.
“What’s guiding my statements is not the American political calendar but the Iranian nuclear calendar,” he remarked.
“All the things that you see now in these mobs storming the American Embassies is what you will see with a regime that would have atomic bombs,” Netanyahu said on CNN, reiterating: “You can’t [let] such people have atomic bombs.”
The Israeli leader summarized: “I think that there’s a common interest of all Americans, of all political persuasions, to stop Iran…This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the Middle East.”
Obama as Savior, Grandkid, by John G.
John G. Is 63 years old and owns a small business. He's a life-long Republican and sees his dream of retiring next year has all but evaporated. With the stock market crashing and new taxes coming his way, John assumes now that he will work to his dying day.
John has a granddaughter. Ashley is a recent college grad. She drives a flashy hybrid car, wears all the latest fashions, and loves to go out to nightclubs and restaurants. Ashley campaigned hard for Barack Obama. After the election she made sure her grandfather (and all other Republican family members) received a big I told-you-so earful on how the world is going to be a much better place now that her party is taking over.
Having lost both roommates, Ashley recently ran short of cash and cannot pay the rent (again) on her 3 bedroom townhouse... Like she has done many times in the past, she e-mailed her grandfather asking for some financial help.
Here is his reply:
Sweetheart, I received your request for assistance. Ashley, you know I love you dearly and I'm sympathetic to your financial plight. Unfortunately, times have changed. With the election of President Obama, your grandmother and I have had to set forth a bold new economic plan of our own...."The Ashley Economic Empowerment Plan." Let me explain.
Your grandmother and I are life-long, wage-earning tax payers. We have lived a comfortable life, as you know, but we have never had the fancier things like European vacations, luxury cars, etc... We have worked hard and were looking forward to retiring soon. But the plan has changed. Your president is raising our personal and business taxes significantly. He says it is so he can give our hard earned money to other people... Do you know what this means, Ashley? It means less for us, and we must cut back on many business and personal expenses.
You know the wonderful receptionist who worked in my office for more than 23 years? The one who always gave you candy when you came over to visit? I had to let her go last week. I can't afford to pay her salary and all of the government mandated taxes that go with having employees.... Your grandmother will now work 4 days a week to answer phones, take orders and handle the books. We will be closed on Fridays and will lose even more income.
I'm also very sorry to report that your cousin Frank will no longer be working summers in the warehouse. I called him at school this morning. He already knows about it and he's upset because he will have to give up skydiving and his yearly trip to Greenland to survey the polar bears.
That's just the business side of things. Some personal economic effects of Obama's new taxation policies include none other than you. You know very well that over the years your grandmother and I have given you thousands of dollars in cash, tuition assistance, food, housing, clothing, gifts, etc., etc. But by your vote, you have chosen to help others -- not at your expense -- but at our expense.
If you need money now sweetheart, I recommend you call 202-456-1111 . That is the direct phone number for the White House.. You can also contact the White House here:http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/%C2%A0;...
You yourself told me how foolish it is to vote Republican... You said Mr. Obama is going to be the People's President, and is going to help every American live a better life. Based on everything you've told me, along with all the promises we heard during the campaign, I'm sure Mr. Obama will be happy to transfer some stimulus money into your bank account. Have him call me for the account number which I memorized years ago.
Perhaps you can now understand what I've been saying all my life: Those who vote for a president should consider the impact on the nation as a whole, and not be just concerned with what they can get for themselves. What Obama supporters don't seem to realize is all of the money he is redistributing to illegal aliens and non-taxpaying Americans (the so-called "less fortunate") comes from tax-paying families.
Remember how you told me, "Only the richest of the rich will be affected"? Well guess what, honey? Because we own a business, your grandmother and I are now considered to be the richest of the rich. On paper, it might look that way, but in the real world, we are far from it..
As you said while campaigning for Obama, some people will have to carry more of the burden so all of America can prosper... You understand what that means, right? It means that raising taxes on productive people results in them having less money; less money for everything, including granddaughters.
I'm sorry, Ashley, but the well has run dry. The free lunches are over... I have no money to give you now. So, congratulations on your choice for "change." For future reference, I encourage you to try and add up the total value of the gifts and cash you have received from us, just since you went off to college, and compare it to what you expect to get from Mr. Obama over the next 4 (or 8) years. I have not kept track of it, Ashley. It has all truly been the gift of our hearts.
Remember, we love you dearly.... but from now on you'll need to call the number mentioned above. Your "Savior" has the money we would have given to you. Just try and get it from him.
Good luck, sweetheart.
Love, Grandpa
"Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to
prove they are insured... but no one must prove they are a citizen!"
L.A. County Sheriff's, Sharia-Compliant?
The film maker was "convicted on bank fraud charges, violated terms of his probation in relation to the video and its uploading onto the Internet." He had been ordered not to own or use devices with access to the Internet without approval from his probation officer -– and any approved computers were to be used for work only. `Defendant shall not access a computer for any other purpose,' the terms read.
Britain AD
A series of three one hour programmes, presented by leading archaeologist and sheep-farmer Francis Pryo, re-examine Britain A.D, the Arthurian myth, the British national character and the mysterious period of British history known as 'The Dark Ages'. Finding new and previously unexplained evidence Francis Pryor overturns the idea that Britain was crushed under Roman rule, then reverted to a state of anarchy and disorder after the Romans left in 410 AD. Instead of doom and gloom Francis discovers a continuous culture that assimilated influences from as far a field as the Middle East and Constantinople. Francis is confronted by evidence that confounds traditional views of Britain as a powerless bunch or warring barbarian tribes. Nor was there the invasion of bloodthirsty Anglo Saxons, rampaging across the countryside, which our school books have always depicted. With new archaeological evidence Francis discovers a far more interesting and complex story, one that puts the continuing energy of the Ancient Britons at the core. According to conventional wisdom, native British culture was suppressed by 400 years of Roman rule, and the withdrawal of the mighty imperial army in 410AD threw the country into a state of primitive barbarism, which only came to an end with the invasion of the more advanced Anglo Saxons. With detailed archaeology, cutting-edge academic research and his own brand of iconoclasm, writer and broadcaster, and presenter of Britain AD, Francis Pryor argues that we've got this version of British history wrong. Francis shows how archaeologists are beginning to reveal that the early history of Britain was in fact a vibrant period in which the population thrived from a series of foreign influences from as far afield as the Middle East and Constantinople without losing its own cultural identity. In the first episode Francis tells the story of Roman Britain from the perspective of the native Britons rather than the conquering army, and reveals that the invasion was not a brutal suppression of indigenous culture, but a mutually beneficial experience which the Britons may have actually instigated.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Hertz Muslims Fired
A lawsuit accuses Hertz of intentionally creating a “hostile work environment owing to religious, race and national origin discrimination” by terminating the drivers.
Is this discrimination or is the company justified in terminating the workers? Why?
Ian Hunter, 15 September 2012, Washington DC, The Howard Theatre
15 Sep 2012 Washington DC The Howard Theatre
Before the show while chatting with the roadie M.C. and Steve pulled up while I was leaving. I wished them a good show and shouted that the last two nights were great. They both said "thanks" and I responded the same.
I ran into Paul Page before the sound check to tell him I am glad that All American Alien Boy was still in the set, it was moved to a later point in the show and I thought perhaps at World Cafe Live it was not to be played: otherwise, I would miss his bass solo which is first-rate. Paul introduced me to his buddy Pat Fitzgerald, the drummer from Martin's Folly, who had driven down with him from NYC.
On 2003's "From Hope," Martin's Folly featured a cameo appearance from Ian Hunter on "I Wish I Was Your Mother."
Ian Hunter visits Som Records for an interview with Kid Congo Powers.
Excerpt from "All The Way From Memphis"
"All The Way From Memphis"
"All The Way From Memphis"
"Sweet Jane"
Ian Hunter and the Rant Band, "Sweet Jane," ripped from YouTube clip with Jing
After "Sweet Jane," when the band leaves for an encore, James Mastro, guitar, flings his guitar pick into the crowd. I was looking down at my camera but I felt something light, such as a guitar pick hit my left wrist. Sure enough, as I looked around on the floor, it was James' pick, which says "James Mastro," on one side, and, "Picks the hits" on the other.
James Mastro Pick
Picks the Hits
"All The Young Dudes"
"All The Young Dudes"
Reviews
Ian Hunter & the Rant Band -- Howard Theatre - Sep 15th
Doors open 6 pm
Show 8 pm
Friday, September 14, 2012
Ian Hunter, 14 September 2012, Highline Ballroom, NYC
"Slip Into Something"
1st part of "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"
"Once Bitten Twice Shy"
"WHEN I'M PRESIDENT"
Bruce Remy version
Unsteady Freddie version
"The Moon Upstairs"
snippet of "Saturday Gigs"
"Words (Big Mouth)"
"Comfortable (Flyin' Scottman)"
"Ta Shunka Witco (Crazy Horse)"
"Black Tears/Just Another Night/What For"
"Isolation"
(excerpt)Ripped from YouTube clip by Jing
Just the Way You Look Tonight
Bruce Remy version"Just the Way You Look Tonight"
Featuring Jesse Hunter
"I Don't Know What You Want"
Ripped from YouTube clip with Jing
Proud Papa Ian embraces Jesse after singing lead.
Jesse Hunter -- "I Don't Know What You Want"
"Fatally Flawed"
"All the Way From Memphis"
Christine Ohlman and Andy York were on and off the stage throughout doing backup vocals. Ian backed up his son Jesse on I Don't know What You Want. Jesse, Andy, Christine, another gal who I missed her name when introduced, and Lisa Ronson finished with Dudes. Songs from the new CD included Comfortable, Fatally Flawed, WIP, What For, Black Tears, Just the Way you Look Tonight, Ta Shunka Witco, I Don't know What You Want, and Life.
Friday, September 14, 2012, Showtime @ 8:00 PM, Doors open @ 6:00 PM
Venue web site
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The Truth About the Refugees: Israel Palestinian Conflict
The Truth About the Refugees: Israel Palestinian Conflict
Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon explains the historical facts relating to the issue of refugees in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The video explains the reason there are still refugees after more than six decades is because of Arab leaders' recalcitrance to accept their brethren and the United Nations which created a separate agency with unique principles and criteria. The video also highlights the issue of the Jewish refugees who were forced out of their homes in the Arab world, and were subsequently absorbed by the State of Israel.
Ian Hunter, 13 September 2012, Philadelphia PA, World Cafe Live
"When I'm President"
"Black Tears"
Version 2"Black Tears"
"Fatally Flawed"
"All The Way From Memphis"
"All The Way From Memphis"
Roll Away the Stone
Saturday Gigs
Life
All The Young Dudes
Encore:
Roll Away the Stone
(Mott the Hoople song)
Saturday Gigs / Life / All The Young Dudes
"All The Young Dudes"
Comfortable (Flyin' Scotsman)
Once Bitten Twice Shy
Fatally Flawed
Words (Big Mouth)
Wash Us Away
23A Swan Hill
All The Way From Memphis
(Mott the Hoople song)
All American Alien Boy
Black Tears
Just Another Night
What For
Isolation
(John Lennon cover)
When I'm President
Flowers
I Wish I Was Your Mother
(Mott the Hoople song)
Ta Shunka Witco (Crazy Horse)
Sweet Jane
(Lou Reed cover)
Ian Hunter, as good as ever, at World Cafe Live
Thursday, 13 Sep 2012, Philadelphia PA, World Cafe Live, Doors 7pm, Show 8pm, Downstairs Live
Venue Web site
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
EGYPTIAN COPTIC CHRISTIAN TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS: ‘I AM A WOMAN AND I’M A COPT. I’M A FOURTH-CLASS CITIZEN’
EGYPTIAN COPTIC CHRISTIAN TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS: ‘I AM A WOMAN AND I’M A COPT. I’M A FOURTH-CLASS CITIZEN’
This week, Egyptian political activist Cynthia Farahat testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the House of Representatives. Reps. Frank Wolf and James McDermott presented Under Threat: The Worsening Plight of Egypt's Coptic Christians.
Ms. Farahat spoke about her experiences as an activist and co-founder of the Liberal Egyptian Party in 2006, while in her twenties-- the platform of which argued for "secularism, human rights, capitalism, the rule of law, and rejection of pan-Arabism and Islamic imperialism," not to mention the rejection of Shariah.
“I‘m a woman and I’m a Copt. I’m a fourth-class citizen in Egypt.”
That was among the many chilling revelations put forth in a testimony to Congress this week by Egyptian political activist Cynthia Farahat. The Coptic Christian and co-founder of the Liberal Egyptian Party, testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the House of Representatives, sharing her experience on the worsening plight of Christians under sharia law, and soon-to-be Islamic authoritarian regime in Egypt.
Reps. Frank Wolf and James McDermott presented the hearing, “Under Threat: The Worsening Plight of Egypt’s Coptic Christians.”
According to the Center for Security Policy, the organization that organized the hearings and brought this must-see video to The Blaze’s attention, describes Farahat’s political platform as advocating, ”secularism, human rights, capitalism, the rule of law, and rejection of pan-Arabism and Islamic imperialism.”
Below is a partial transcript of Farahat’s moving testimony before Congress. The video follows:
In 1971, President Sadat introduced shariah law to the constitution and now I think it’s, qualifies to say that Egypt is a constitutional theocracy and it’s not a modern state. The consequences were that Copts are no longer, according to shariah law, identified or defined as citizen. I have an Egyptian passport, but I’m not a citizen. The concept of citizenship is a Western concept that does not apply to us in Egypt. I‘m a woman and I’m a Copt. I’m a fourth-class citizen in Egypt. A first-class citizen in Egypt is the Sunni male, Muslim male. The second-class is the Sunni female. The third-class is the Coptic male. And fourth-class is the Coptic female.
And that’s why none of the people that committed crimes, none of the criminals that committed crimes against Copts were prosecuted in any way. Because it is against shariah law and that’s a fact. It’s not an opinion. To persecute someone for – a Muslim, for killing, raping, torturing, or vandalizing the property of a non-Muslim or a dhimmi. So this is our legal status. And this has been happening under the Mubarak’s so-called moderate regime, an ally of the West, and it’s now happening now. It was only inevitable that they take their radicalism a step further and start killing Copts in the street in front of TV cameras with live ammunition and running them over with armored military vehicles they probably got from the United States of America.
INDONESIA MUSLIMS PRAISE 9/11 JIHADISTS
Indonesian protester holds picture of a disfigured Obama at an anti-US demo in Jakarta (the Muslim country Obama grew up in.)
The SEALS Removed One Target
Tom Schad was a Gainesville man who originally paid for the ad along I-35; the sign, inspired by an email, shows two camouflaged, armed men, and references the Navy Seals removal of a threat to America. It then tells viewers to remove another threat in November.
Marines Sent After U.S. Ambassador, Three Other Americans Killed
Two Navy destroyers, dozens of Marines, federal investigators and intelligence assets are being sent to Libya; I hope someone who is knowledgeable can be sent so that Obama does not endanger more of our people.
Muhammad Movie Trailer - "Innocence of Muslims
Sam Bacile, 56, the movie’s writer and director, is an Israeli, Bacile lives in California and works in real estate development. The self-described Israeli Jew told the Associated Press, from an undisclosed location, that Islam is a cancer and that the film was intended to make a political statement, while condemning Islam on the whole. The English-language movie spans two hours and is entitled, “Innocence of Muslims.” Bacile claims that more than 100 Jewish donors helped put up the $5 million to make the film, which has reached no measurable level of success, possible.
The background of the film is even stranger; nothing about this production makes much sense.
The RightScoop, EXCLUSIVE: Open mic captures press coordinating questions for Romney “no matter who he calls on we’re covered”
Before Romney issued his statement today, an open mic capture the press coordinating questions to ask Romney, with one saying “no matter who he calls on we’re covered on the one question”. It was transcribed but the audio is available for verification:
One of the CBS News reporters is believed to be Nancy Cordes who works for CBS News.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: …pointing out that the Republicans… *unintelligible* …Obama….
CBS REPORTER: That’s the question.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: *unintelligible*
CBS REPORTER: Yeah that’s the question. I would just say do you regret your question.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Your question? Your statement?
CBS REPORTER: I mean your statement. Not even the tone, because then he can go off on…
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: And then if he does, if we can just follow up and say ‘but this morning your answer is continuing to sound…’ – *becomes unintelligble*
CBS REPORTER: You can’t say that..
**Later**
CBS REPORTER: I’m just trying to make sure that we’re just talking about, no matter who he calls on we’re covered on the one question.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Do you stand by your statement or regret your statement?
http://www.therightscoop.com/exclusive-open-mic-captures-press-coordinating-questions-for-romney-no-matter-who-he-calls-on-were-covered/
Next President Romney defends criticism of White House’s handling of Libya
Rewind
Hillary Clinton on Gaddafi: We came, we saw, he died
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
If Israel Matters; You Can't Vote for Obama
Joe Pags interview with George Birnbaum, former Chief of Staff for Netanyahu, about the Democratic platform.
16-Year-Old Questioned by FBI Over School Work
The video clip promotes the presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul, was put together by sixteen year old Justin Hallman as part of a project for his American Government class. The video helped earn Hallman an A+.
Islamists Attack U.S. Embassy, Raise Islamist Flag
"The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims."
Monday, September 10, 2012
SPORTS COLUMNIST: TIM TEBOW ‘DOES WHAT THE BIBLE ASKS OF HIM’
SPORTS COLUMNIST: TIM TEBOW ‘DOES WHAT THE BIBLE ASKS OF HIM’
Gloria Yvone Brackett with Gun Stalks Representative Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) Sunday night in a church parking lot in Spartanburg County, S.C.
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LAFFER CURVE: ECONOMICS
UCLA professor and author of “Left Turn” Dr. Tim Groseclose makes the case for Prager University. The educator explains the revered Laffer Curve (an economic chart and theory created by famed economist Arthur Laffer).
Sunday, September 9, 2012
G. Edward Griffin’s film entitled ‘Why in the World are they Spraying?”
Long Island Sky Watch brought the film maker to screen the film before it was released.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Ian Hunter, 07 Sep 2012 Catanzaro, Italy – Settembre Al Parco Festival
Italian Promo over clip of "When I'm President"
"I Wish I Was Your Mother"
first song from the sound check.
The Rant Band: bit of
"Black Tears"
and"When I'm President"
from Catanzaro (ITA) pre-soundcheckPrior to the soundcheck at the "September in the Park" festival in Catanzaro (ITA) on Sept. 07 2012, members of the Rant Band did some tracks without their Boss and M.C. Bosch.
"Black Tears"
last song from the sound check.
Set List
Memphis
All American Alien Boy
Black Tears
Just Another Night
Cleveland Rocks
Isolation
Comfortable
OBTS
Fatally Flawed
Flowers When I'm President
Crazy Horse
Wish I was your Mother
Wash Us Away
SweetJane
Sweet Jane
Roll Away The Stone
Saturday Gigs
Life
All The Young Dudes
"Roll Away the Stone"
"Saturday Gigs"
"Life"
"All The Young Dudes"
Art of the Western World - Episodes 1 & 2
Episode 1: The Legacy of Greece
Episode 2: Imperial Stone - The Art of Rome
TSA Kicks Woman Off Flight For Bad Attitude
“Let me get this straight, this is retaliatory for my attitude, this is not making the airways safer it’s retaliatory.” “It pretty much definitely is,” the TSA screener responds. The incident began when the woman refused to allow TSA agents to carry out a controversial policy where they test drinks for explosives that are purchased by passengers after they have already passed through security. “This was inside the terminal at the Houston airport,” the woman writes on her You Tube channel.
Friday, September 7, 2012
October Baby Stories 05: Finding Hannah
October Baby Stories 05: Finding Hannah
October Baby - OFFICIAL Trailer
Gianna Jessen Saline Abortion Survivor
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Ontario High School, 467 Shelby-Ontario Road Ontario, OH 44906 Phone: 419-529-3969 Fax: 419-529-5649: Islamic Indoctrination in American Public School
Subject: The Islam Project for ninth graders in the Ontario High School
TO: Mary Bennett, President, Ontario Board of Education
Mrs. Shelly Fisher, Vice President, Ontario Board of Education
Mr. Andy Chalk, Member, Ontario Board of Education
Mr. Tom Beck, Member, Board of Education
Mr Sam VanCura, Member, Board of Education
I appreciate the Ontario School system and recognize that it is one of the better school systems around. Your leadership is evident in the buildings, financial management and quality of education provided to our children. It is obvious you each take your responsibility seriously. I also appreciate your accessibility. It was very easy to find your web site, read the board minutes, and acquaint myself with who you are.
Now allow me to introduce myself. I am the grandmother of new ninth grader, C xxxxx. C, her sister, and her parents live with my husband and myself. I am very involved in the lives of my grandchildren and we regularly discuss educational topics. These girls do not play video games and spend their time texting. We play board games and work together on projects and interact a lot. My husband and I both work full time and invest the rest of our lives in our family. It is Connie who brought this book to my attention and asked if I would read it to get my opinion.
A book of historical fiction called "A stone in my hand" was assigned to the class as mandatory reading prior to the first day of school. It is written in the first person voice of a Muslim Arab child living in the Gaza during the intifada years of 1987 - 1993. I was more than stunned and appalled at this agenda for English and Social studies assigned to ninth graders this year. I have no problem with historically accurate studies, studies of other cultures and religions. But I do have a problem with a slanted presentation that is clearly anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and pro-Islam. Not only am I offended at the book, but today I had a chance to review the the worksheets sent home as homework for this 9 week course. The worksheet's title is "Islam Project - Growth of Islam". Islam is a very specific religion. So this, in my opinion, is religious indoctrination masked as Social Studies and English. This is not an elective class on world religions. How in the world did this happen?
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I want to know at what level the decision was made to choose this book and this agenda and why there was not also offered an alternative to students whose families may be Jewish or Messianic gentile believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? I instructed my granddaughter not to read out loud the prayer to allah on page 8 of this book. It is a violation of our religion to speak a prayer to another god. I regret she even had to read it in order to comply with this assignment. I certainly hope there are not any children of Jewish origin in the ninth grade there. This course of study is the height of insult to them. The very first page of this book contains a translated "nursery" rhyme, written by a young girl living in the Gaza:
"I am the child of Palestine
I have my cause and I have my rights
When I see my older brother
Taken up into outlaws' hands
I cry out the international cry
That if they shoot me to my death
I'll clutch a stone in my right hand
And never forget the martyrs' cause."
Understand that the "outlaw" is any Jewish person and the "martyr" is an Islamic Arab child who was taught that suicide bombing is a righteous thing to do.
The "Islam Project" worksheet directs our children to a Muslim web site (www.zawaj.com). I consider that unwise and dangerous. Islam is not a religious system to be laid out before our children lightly, and certainly not one they should explore on line without serious informed parental supervision. Surely you must know of the incredibly abusive treatment of women that is rampant in the fundamentalist Islamic cultures - the Jihad suicide attacks that mothers are encouraged to send their sons and daughters on with promises of financial reward - the rockets being fired every day - NOW - from Gaza into Israel by the hundreds of thousands. This is not a nice pretty "let's all just get along" religion. Will there also be a "Judeo / Christian project" in which the birth of the Jewish state of Israel is presented and the holocaust explained? How about the attack on infant Israel by the highly organized armies of the surrounding Arab nations a few days after it became a state? How about the 6 day war and the Yom Kippur war? Will all of that be explained also? Will the Twin Towers attack be included as part of the full understanding of Islam? Will these children be told that, to a fundamentalist Muslim, it is a "divine" act to murder all infidels - non-Muslims - and every one of these children would be included in that group? I doubt it.
I fully understand the principles of diversity and learning other cultures and religions. I am an RN in a management position and have created diversity curriculum and taught it to my staff. I have a college degree and have studied most of the religions of the world, to some degree. I have worked in Alabama, Massachusetts, Haiti and Russia and spent time in Israel. I personally subscribe to Messianic Judaism. So I have more diversity in my experience than most people. To make Islam appear to be just another happy - go - lucky religion that we just need to understand better to get along, would not have prevented the twin towers from being attacked nor would that "tolerance" stop men, women and children from strapping bombs to their bodies and riding buses into crowded places in Israel. I have been to Israel twice. I was there during the Hebron Massacre and had to be escorted out of Jericho with the Israeli army. I personally saw Muslim Arab men lined up along the road to Jericho, hurling huge boulders into passing Israeli cars in protest over the Hebron incident. Will that side of this religion and culture also be taught?
What this agenda is doing is so dangerous, so offensive that I cannot believe it got anywhere near a school curriculum. Are not other parents outraged?
I read through all of your bylaws and Board meeting minutes looking for someplace that addressed who is responsible for choosing your curriculum but I could not find that information. I would certainly like to know. Who reviews this before our children do? Did any of you read this book? Were you aware of this 9 week agenda? How did this happen?
Thank you for your time. I hope this generates some concern and investigation.
Sincerely,
A concerned grandmother
STOSSEL PLAYS SPOOF OF PUFF DADDY‘S ’MISSING YOU’ IN MEMORY OF INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB
STOSSEL PLAYS SPOOF OF PUFF DADDY‘S ’MISSING YOU’ IN MEMORY OF INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB
On Thursday, December 1, 2011, Fox Business' Stossel debuted the new video "Missing You: The Incandescent Light Bulb Ban" by internet sensation Remy. Reason's Nick Gillespie discussed the federal ban on conventional light bulbs, which starts in 2012.
About 5 minutes.
"Missing You - The Incandescent Light Bulb Song" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO5lGpFGcJY
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
THE TOP 5 RESPONSES FROM DNC ATTENDEES WHEN ASKED: ‘HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BELONG TO THE GOVERNMENT?’
Revealing Politics conducted a simple survey of several DNC attendees, asking one question: “How does it feel to belong to the government?”
Here are the top 5 responses:
- “It feels like one big happy family to belong to the government, because if we feel that way, we are more safer [sic], um, we should feel the government should be able to help us and be able to take care of us.”
- “Who knows, I haven’t never had another feeling, so I can’t tell you how it feels not to belong to the government.”
- “Regardless of where you live, you are going to be owned by someone at some point.”
- “I believe that, but unfortunately the Republicans don’t.”
- “Feels great, I support that.”
Best of the Rest:
- “We all do belong to the government as U.S. citizens.”
- “We are all part of our community, a national community as Americans.”
- “It makes you feel united.”
ACORN Whistleblower
Part I: http://www.youtube.com/embed/3CmkbShVqNA?feature=player_embedded
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/embed/gy6odnqyLeU?feature=player_embedded
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
DEMS AGAINST GOD AND JERUSALEM
Host Bret Baier confronted Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in Charlotte about the Democratic Party’s decision to remove all mentions of the word “God” from their official 2012 platform.
#3554 - Egyptian Cleric Abd Al-Rahman Mansour Gives Guidelines for Wife Beating in Islam Al-Nas TV (Egypt) - August 17-18, 2012 - 02:06
#3554 - Egyptian Cleric Abd Al-Rahman Mansour Gives Guidelines for Wife Beating in Islam
Al-Nas TV (Egypt) - August 17-18, 2012 - 02:06
Ian Hunter, 02 Sep 2012 - Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle WA
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When I'm President
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All The Way From Memphis
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Isolation (John Lennon)
Once Bitten Twice Shy
Fatally Flawed
Flowers
When I'm President
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