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.
Monday, June 11, 2012
House committee schedules contempt vote against Holder
House committee schedules contempt vote against Holder
Sunday, June 10, 2012
SPIN DOCTOR: THREE TIMES DAVID AXELROD IS ASKED WHETHER THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS ‘DOING FINE’ & THREE TIMES HE AVOIDS THE QUESTION
SPIN DOCTOR: THREE TIMES DAVID AXELROD IS ASKED WHETHER THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS ‘DOING FINE’ & THREE TIMES HE AVOIDS THE QUESTION
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
Star Parker
Star Parker: Wall Street protesters simply want more government
Star Parker: Welfare dependency destroys black families
Star Parker on Poverty: What happened to self-initiative?
Interview by Matt Friedeman with Star Parker at the Value Voters Summit by the American Family Association in Washington, DC on October 7, 2011.
Star Parker: It's easy to blame problems on others and excuse the lack of self-initiative. What happened to good old-fashion planting a garden?
The challenge is that poverty in America today is that it has been redefined. You don't need to be in serious need, you just need to make bad choices and find yourself in the category of meeting government assistance.
In 2008, Harvard Law classmate, law review colleague remembered Obama as ‘a pretty cold fish’
“He said, ‘Look, what do you care who does the work?’” Liebau recalled Obama saying in reference to her management of the law review. “’It is the same amount of work for you to hand out the work no matter who it goes to, so why fight it? Do what’s easiest for you. Give the work to the people who will do the work, and just don’t worry about the people who don’t want to pull their weight.’”
Liebau wasn’t impressed.
“I guess I was young and naïve: I was like, ‘Ah but that wouldn’t be fair,’” she said.
“And what surprised me is apparently that didn’t bother Barack at all. It was just kind of like — take the easy way out. Why bother yourself with all these silly notions about justice and fairness? Do what works. Revealing? I don’t know. Good advice? I didn’t particularly think so.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/03/harvard-law-classmate-law-review-colleague-remembered-obama-in-2008-a-pretty-cold-fish/#ixzz1xE8idXPB
Thursday, June 7, 2012
What constitutes as a “Green Job”?
What constitutes as a “Green Job”? We are willing to loan $38.6 billion for programs that would help save or create 65,000 jobs, equating to over $5 million per job. This video asks if you know what the Obama Administration considers a “green job”? The video features audio of Rep. Issa‘s questioning of the president’s top Labor Department statistician during a hearing on 6 June 2012.
Judiciary Oversight Hearing Spotlight "Fast and Furious," Holy Land Foundation
CSPAN
Rep. Gohmert appears at 2:27:43 asking about the Holy Land Foundation trial.
WASHINGTON, DC
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Attorney General Eric Holder was asked about leaked wiretap applications related to the government’s “Fast and Furious” operation aimed at arresting members of drug cartels. Committee Republicans say the documents show that senior Justice Department officials knew the operation involved a tactic known as gun walking, where smugglers are allowed to move guns across the border with Mexico.
The Attorney General said the documents contain no reference to gun walking. His testimony came before the annual Justice Department Oversight hearing at the House Judiciary Committee.
The Justice Department’s voting rights enforcement actions were also discussed, with Republican members questioning the Department’s effort to stop a purge of the voter roles in Florida.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) pressured the Attorney General with contempt of Congress because he believes the Justice Department has moved slowly in response to the committee's investigation. The Justice Department has said they can not disclose the thousands of supporting documents the committee has requested because it would interfere with the Agency's ongoing investigations.
The operation allowed illegal gun purchases along the Southwest border in Arizona, intending to track the weapons to cartel leaders. Instead, around 1,700 guns were misplaced. Eventually they appeared at crime scenes in Mexico, and two were recovered after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in Tucson.
Additionally, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) called on Attorney General Holder to answer to DOJ’s apparent selective enforcement on immigration and drug policy.
Rep. Gohmert appears at 2:27:43 asking about the Holy Land Foundation trial.
WASHINGTON, DC
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Attorney General Eric Holder was asked about leaked wiretap applications related to the government’s “Fast and Furious” operation aimed at arresting members of drug cartels. Committee Republicans say the documents show that senior Justice Department officials knew the operation involved a tactic known as gun walking, where smugglers are allowed to move guns across the border with Mexico.
The Attorney General said the documents contain no reference to gun walking. His testimony came before the annual Justice Department Oversight hearing at the House Judiciary Committee.
The Justice Department’s voting rights enforcement actions were also discussed, with Republican members questioning the Department’s effort to stop a purge of the voter roles in Florida.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) pressured the Attorney General with contempt of Congress because he believes the Justice Department has moved slowly in response to the committee's investigation. The Justice Department has said they can not disclose the thousands of supporting documents the committee has requested because it would interfere with the Agency's ongoing investigations.
The operation allowed illegal gun purchases along the Southwest border in Arizona, intending to track the weapons to cartel leaders. Instead, around 1,700 guns were misplaced. Eventually they appeared at crime scenes in Mexico, and two were recovered after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in Tucson.
Additionally, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) called on Attorney General Holder to answer to DOJ’s apparent selective enforcement on immigration and drug policy.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) also pleaded with Holder to provide Congress with the documents from the Holy Land case. Once again, the attorney general would not budge or make a firm commitment.
TEEN CLAIMS OBAMA IS ‘MAKING KIDS GAY’ IN RADIO SHOW RANT AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY
Caiden Cowger is a 14-year-old who hosts a twice-weekly radio show based in West Virginia. It may be safe to assume that Cowger’s following is relatively small, but he’s getting now national attention.
He goes as far to say President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are “making kids gay.”
‘YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL’: WELLESLEY HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER GIVES THE MOST BLUNT COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS EVER
Wellesley High School teacher David McCullough had apparently had enough of feeding blithering platitudes to his students and decided to tell the truth. The result sparked controversy among the parents, who didn’t like hearing their children accused of being cosseted and pampered little brats who believed they were special for no reason. But sometimes the truth hurts. Read the greatest hits below:
You are not special. You are not exceptional.
Contrary to what your soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you… you’re nothing special.
Yes, you’ve been pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble-wrapped. Yes, capable adults with other things to do have held you, kissed you, fed you, wiped your mouth, wiped your bottom, trained you, taught you, tutored you, coached you, listened to you, counseled you, encouraged you, consoled you and encouraged you again. You’ve been nudged, cajoled, wheedled and implored. You’ve been feted and fawned over and called sweetie pie. Yes, you have. And, certainly, we’ve been to your games, your plays, your recitals, your science fairs. Absolutely, smiles ignite when you walk into a room, and hundreds gasp with delight at your every tweet. Why, maybe you’ve even had your picture in the Townsman! [Editor's upgrade: Or The Swellesley Report!] And now you’ve conquered high school… and, indisputably, here we all have gathered for you, the pride and joy of this fine community, the first to emerge from that magnificent new building…
But do not get the idea you’re anything special. Because you’re not.[...]
“But, Dave,” you cry, “Walt Whitman tells me I’m my own version of perfection! Epictetus tells me I have the spark of Zeus!” And I don’t disagree. So that makes 6.8 billion examples of perfection, 6.8 billion sparks of Zeus. You see, if everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless. In our unspoken but not so subtle Darwinian competition with one another-which springs, I think, from our fear of our own insignificance, a subset of our dread of mortality – we have of late, we Americans, to our detriment, come to love accolades more than genuine achievement. We have come to see them as the point – and we’re happy to compromise standards, or ignore reality, if we suspect that’s the quickest way, or only way, to have something to put on the mantelpiece, something to pose with, crow about, something with which to leverage ourselves into a better spot on the social totem pole. No longer is it how you play the game, no longer is it even whether you win or lose, or learn or grow, or enjoy yourself doing it… Now it’s “So what does this get me?” As a consequence, we cheapen worthy endeavors, and building a Guatemalan medical clinic becomes more about the application to Bowdoin than the well-being of Guatemalans. It’s an epidemic – and in its way, not even dear old Wellesley High is immune… one of the best of the 37,000 nationwide, Wellesley High School… where good is no longer good enough, where a B is the new C, and the midlevel curriculum is called Advanced College Placement. And I hope you caught me when I said “one of the best.” I said “one of the best” so we can feel better about ourselves, so we can bask in a little easy distinction, however vague and unverifiable, and count ourselves among the elite, whoever they might be, and enjoy a perceived leg up on the perceived competition. But the phrase defies logic. By definition there can be only one best. You‘re it or you’re not.
Holder: "Fast & Furious" is Not "Fast & Furious"
House committee schedules contempt vote against Holder
Holder: "Fast & Furious" is Not "Fast & Furious"
Should the Attorney General "run guns" to Mexico that leads to the death of an American border patrol officer? Why or why not?
Under questioning from Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who read excerpts of the emails at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department oversight, Holder claimed that the phrase “Fast and Furious” did not refer to Fast and Furious but instead referred to another gun-walking operation known as “Wide Receiver.”
This came not long after a tense confrontation between Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Holder as lawmakers attempted to keep the heat on Holder and his administration.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
MSNBC’S MARTIN BASHIR CONFRONTS OCCUPY SUPPORTER OVER ANTI-SEMITISM
“There’s been some reporting that anti-Semitism has begun to emerge and…” Bashir began. Simmons incredulously interrupted, “Can you repeat that?!”
The interview had initially begun amicably, with Bashir asking multiple softball questions before completely gobsmacking Simmons.
“Well, anti-semitism,” Bashir repeated.
“Can you repeat that?” asked a mystified Simmons. “Where’d you get that from — Bill O’Reilly or somebody?”
“No, let me show you,” Bashir said. “A group called the Emergency Committee For Israel has released this advert, watch this.”
Obama Gaffes
Then-Senator Obama referring to Pennsylvanians as “bitter” people who “cling to guns or religion.”
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’ WISCONSIN RECALL POSTMORTEM
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/real-news-from-the-blaze-wisconsin-recall-postmortem/
WHY WON’T THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE APPOINT A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEAKS?
WHY WON’T THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE APPOINT A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEAKS?
During Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole’s appearance Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on another matter, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, asked him if a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate a recent series of leaks that possibly emanated from the White House, Roll Call reported.
During Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole’s appearance Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on another matter, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, asked him if a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate a recent series of leaks that possibly emanated from the White House, Roll Call reported.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
‘GO VOTE’: MILWAUKEE TEACHERS UNION PRESIDENT BRAGS ABOUT PUSHING RECALL IN CLASSROOMS
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/go-vote-milwaukee-teachers-union-president-brags-about-pushing-recall-in-classrooms/
Religious freedom
Oliver Thomas: Religious freedom has its limitations
Here’s a video railing against Measure 3 as unnecessary and dangerous:
Here’s a video showcasing support for the proposal:
MINN. HIGH SCHOOL REQUIRES ENTIRE SENIOR CLASS TO TAKE BREATHALYZER BEFORE GRADUATING
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/minn-high-school-requires-entire-senior-class-to-take-breathalyzer-before-graduating/
Clinton's Revenge? Romney record 'sterling,' Insults Obummer at Fund Raiser, Morris Says Clinton Wants Obama to Lose
CLINTON SLAMS OBAMA: 'I’M THE ONLY GUY WHO GAVE YOU FOUR SURPLUS BUDGETS'
On 4 June 2012 in New York City Obama and Clinton held a joint fundraiser. Bill Clinton had to remind everyone of the difference between his presidency and Obama’s.
“And, I care about the long term debt of the country a lot. Remember me, I’m the only guy that gave you four surplus budgets out of the eight I sent.”
Former Clinton Adviser Dick Morris - 'Bill Clinton Does Not Want Barack Obama to Win' [6-04-2012]
Boston College Law Grad Gets Job: $4.81 per hour, which is a fraction of minimum wage
Open Job At Boston Law Firm Pays Just $10,000 Per Year
BC Law students pay $44,000 per year to study at the school.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Economics: Green Energy Stimulated Goes Bankrupt
Tenn. truck stop got stimulus money despite bankruptcy
Cf. http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111003/NEWS0201/310020028/E-Tenn-truck-stop-got-stimulus-money-despite-bankruptcy?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
LA Top Cop in Bed with Muslim Brotherhood
Deputy Chief Michael Downing of the Los Angeles Police Department officially partners with the Muslim Brotherhood to fight Muslim terrorism. Downing calls the Muslim Brotherhood "Like Democrats and Republicans."
The Los Angeles Police Department’s Deputy Chief Michael Downing, who is the Commanding Officer of the Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau, shows some knowledge of the Muslim Brotherhood, but dismisses accusations that it is currently a threat because, in his words, it has “evolved and changed.”
On May 15, 2011, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Muslim Public Affairs Unit held a town hall at the Islamic Center of Southern California, a mosque with Brotherhood origins. It was moderated by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, a group that was founded by Brotherhood ideologues. Tom Trento of The United West held up a copy of Shariah: The Threat to America, authored by top national security experts, and asked if the speakers believe that there is a Muslim Brotherhood presence in Los Angeles County and what is being done about it.
Downing answered the question by conceding that he is “sure” that the Brotherhood is in his county, but did not address its threat potential. Trento approached him after the event and, on videotape, Downing said that “the message is not to demonize the Brotherhood here” because it has “evolved and changed.” He compared it to how there are more moderate and more extreme elements of the Republican and Democratic parties and said it would be wrong to oppose a group like the Muslim Students Association just because it was founded by the Brotherhood.
He then encouraged Trento to study ijtihad, an Islamic concept that permits independent scrutiny of specific interpretations. When Trento responded that, according to mainstream Islamic theology, ijtihad is “closed,” Downing disagreed, only saying, “it’s not.”
The United West’s video of the encounter then quotes the 2011 edition of the Encyclopedia Britanica about ijtihad, confirming that it was declared a thing in the past by the Islamic schools of jurisprudence by 1258 A.D. Downing would later use the incident as an example of those who “want to instill fear in the hearts of the American people because they don’t tell the truth.”Downing’s response isn’t surprising. In 2010, he said, “CAIR is not a terrorist-supporting organization” and condescendingly added that anyone who disagrees with him is an “amateur intelligence officer.” Apparently to Downing, the federal government only consists of amateurs. In 2007, a court filing by the federal government stated, “From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.” By Downing’s definition, District Court Judge Solis is also an amateur because he ruled that the government provided “ample” evidence tying CAIR to Hamas to uphold the “unindicted co-conspirator” designation.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Tea Party Television Views Occupy: Language
Sally Zelikovsky is a former attorney, turned mother of three. She is the Founder of Bay Area Patriots and Coordinator of the San Francisco Tea Party.
"America has to wake up to this new reality: the Cold War battle between
communism and capitalism is back, only this time it's on our front porch.
It went underground in the 70s, got an education, put on a suit, bought a
house and had a couple of kids. Then it used the schools to educate new
foot soldiers and manipulated the pop culture to indoctrinate the next
generation of fellow travelers who seek to create a new world order in the
image of old world Marxism." Read the entire article, "The Revolutionaries'
Revenge" by Sally Zelikovksy at http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/the_revolutionaries_revenge.html and watch "The
Occupation Manifesto" produced by Sally Zelikovsky, Steve Kemp, and Virginia Walters
and listen to the Occupiers
discuss their Marxist vision for America.
Read the "American Thinker" article at http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/the_revolutionaries_revenge.html
Saturday, June 2, 2012
For Greater Glory, Review by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
Religious liberty is never guaranteed by anything but our own vigilance. Even in this country, contempt for religious faith, and especially the Catholic faith, is alive and well.
This film is about the the dramatic and tragic tension which occurred when a secular world view imposed itself on the profoundly religious Mexican culture of the early 20th Century. Lives were lost, and many became martyrs. Originally beatified on Nov. 22, 1992 by Pope John Paul II, 25 Mexican martyrs, including priests, seminarians, and laity were canonized by His Holiness in the Jubilee Year of 2000. The cost in blood of promoting the cause of these Mexican saints is not commonly acknowledged. His Eminence, Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas was assassinated within a year of the beatifications on May 26, 1993. And the recently retired archbishop of Guadalajara, Cardinal Juan Sandoval was maliciously poisoned, though his life was saved though emergency surgery. During the Holy Year 2000 the Catholic Church was falsely accused of using the canonization of these Mexican Martyrs to politically influence the Mexican elections. This is when the "interconstitutional commission" comprising representatives of the federal and state governments and the Catholic Church determined that the killing of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas of Guadalajara, Jalisco on May 26, 1993 was not accidental.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Upholds Government’s Use of Taxpayer Funds to Support Sharia
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that a federal taxpayer lacks “standing” to challenge the government’s use of taxpayer funds to support sharia-based activities. A former combat Marine who served in Iraq was the plaintiff in Murray v. United States Department of Treasury, et al. The federal lawsuit alleged that the U.S. government’s takeover and financial bailout of AIG was in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. As argued by American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), by propping up AIG with taxpayer funds, the U.S. government is directly and indirectly promoting Islam and, more troubling, sharia. And as the Sixth Circuit noted in its opinion, Murray objects to his tax money being used to support sharia because it “forms the basis for the global jihadist war against the West and the United States.” Using tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, has directly promoted and supported sharia as a religious legal doctrine in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Islamists For Pascrell: Anti-Semitism in American Politics
The Islamist poster urges the “Arab diaspora community” to “elect the friend of the Arabs” and billed the race as “the most important election in the history of the [Arab] community,” according to one provisional translation.
A New Jersey congressional race is becoming a referendum on a candidate’s Judaism. Islamists are going after a Jewish congressman. Islamic Jew-hatred rears its ugly beheading for the first time in a congressional race.
The Democratic primary race in northern New Jersey has devolved into a highly competitive proxy war over Israel, pitting the state’s pro-Israel community against a growing constituency of Arab [Muslim] voters who have accused a sitting congressman of putting Israel’s interests before America’s.
As the race between Democratic Reps. Steve Rothman and Bill Pascrell nears its Tuesday finish, veteran political observers on the ground have expressed concern at the way the battle between the two veteran lawmakers has transformed into a troubling ethnic brawl.
Krauthammer: Obama admin leaking intelligence on virus attacks to boost chances in Nov is scandalous
http://www.therightscoop.com/krauthammer-obama-admin-leaking-intelligence-on-virus-attacks-to-boost-chances-in-nov-is-scandalous/
It’s beyond a problem, it’s a scandal. Leaking the details that we saw in that plan about a very very highly secret operation, the name of the operation, how it worked, when it worked, how it leaked out, the fact that we had Israeli cooperation, the name of the Israeli unit – all I was missing were the Hebrew names of the Israeli agents and their street addresses in Jerusalem.
You wonder how and administration could do this, could allow all these secrets out and jeopardize what we’ve done, simply as a way to boost a president in an election year. I think it is a scandal.
How a Secret Cyberwar Program Worked
Obama and Israelis Collaborate on Stuxnet Against Iran
"Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games."
Friday, June 1, 2012
REAL HISTORY: THE FOUNDING OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE
In 1910 Senator Nelson Aldrich, JP Morgan and a few other influential bankers took a private railcar to a remote and exclusive club on Jekyll Island, GA. There they hatched the plan that eventually became the Federal Reserve Banking System.
Secret Service Interrogates Anyone Who Questions Obama's Eligibility
This video documents federal agents coming to the home of anti-Obama activist Rudy Davis aka LoneStar1776. There seems to be a campaign by the Secret Service to learn personal information about political critics of Obama. In a free country it is disconcerting to see the US Government sending armed agents to interrogate political activists. If Rudy were a Muslim this would be considered harassment and Islamophobia but law-abiding citizens who disagree with Obama are questioned.
This Is How Obama's 'Green Energy' Cronyism Works
Representatative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), chairman of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight, and Government Spending, questions John Woolard, president and CEO of BrightSource Energy, about using political influence in order to receive $1.6 billion from the Department of Energy loan-guarantee program during a May 16 hearing:
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Entrepreneur vs. Union Boss
‘I TOOK MY OPPORTUNITY’: EXPLOSIVE, EMOTIONAL DEBATE BETWEEN FOX BUSINESS’ CHARLES PAYNE AND UNION LEADER ABOUT COLLECTIVE VS. INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENT (WITH BLAZE EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE OF THE PRE-ARGUMENT THAT DIDN’T AIR)
PROFESSOR’S APPALLING RANT TO STUDENTS: COPS ARE ‘PIGGISH,‘ CONSERVATIVES ARE ’SCHMUCKS,‘ AMERICA IS ’PERVERSE PLACE,‘ NEED TO REVISIT ’USEFUL’ MARXIST CONCEPTS
PROFESSOR’S RANT TO STUDENTS: COPS ARE ‘PIGGISH,‘ CONSERVATIVES ARE ’SCHMUCKS,‘ AMERICA IS ’PERVERSE PLACE,‘ NEED TO REVISIT ’USEFUL’ MARXIST CONCEPTS
The talk was a panel discussion entitled ‘The Transformation of Poverty Governance’ and revolved around how America is handling it’s welfare state.
According to The University of Pennsylvania Professor Philippe Bourgois:
- Conservatives “brutalize the poor” and are “mean-spirited schmucks”
- Police are “rough, mean, vicious, nasty and piggish”
- Police will make up charges to incarcerate you
- Karl Marx is “useful” and we need to revisit his concepts
- The prison system in America is “an unjustifiable outrage”
- America is a “perverse place, not the Land of the Free”
- Doctors “make tons of money” off the poor
NYC MAYOR BLOOMBERG’S ACTUAL DEFENSE OF LARGE DRINK BAN: ‘WE’RE SIMPLY FORCING YOU TO UNDERSTAND’
“The idea here is, you tend to eat all the food in the container in front of you,” Bloomberg said on MSNBC Thursday afternoon. “If it’s a bigger container, you eat more. If somebody put it in a smaller glass or plate or bowl in front of you, you would eat less.”
And then there’s this: “We’re not taking away anybody’s right to do things, we’re simply forcing you to understand that you have to make the conscious decision to go from one cup to another cup.”
“It’s not perfect, it’s not the only answer, it’s not the only cause of people being overweight – but we’ve got to do something,” he added. “We have an obligation to warn you when things are not good for your health.”
And: “I would just like to … force the consumer to hopefully move over to the less fattening drinks and everybody will be better off.”
‘Real News From The Blaze:’ Is Grade Inflation Producing a Generation of Overrated and Entitled Graduates?
‘Real News From The Blaze:’ Is Grade Inflation Producing a Generation of Overrated and Entitled Graduates?
The White House has announced it has granted more exemptions to No Child Left Behind, giving schools more flexibility to design curriculums that work best for their students, as long as they agree to meet certain educational benchmarks in exchange for the exemptions.
As more and more colleges and universities use ‘flexibility’ in their grading systems, there has been an increase in grade inflation, which some say leads to under-equipped, overrated, and overconfident graduates entering the work force.
Former college professor and Department of Education official Lori Roman joined “Real News” Wednesday to break down the negative effects grade inflation has on the development of students and the overall economy.
The competitiveness of academia secures high tuition-paying admitted students and the demands of increasing generations of entitled kids spiking grades.
The White House has announced it has granted more exemptions to No Child Left Behind, giving schools more flexibility to design curriculums that work best for their students, as long as they agree to meet certain educational benchmarks in exchange for the exemptions.
As more and more colleges and universities use ‘flexibility’ in their grading systems, there has been an increase in grade inflation, which some say leads to under-equipped, overrated, and overconfident graduates entering the work force.
The competitiveness of academia secures high tuition-paying admitted students and the demands of increasing generations of entitled kids spiking grades.
With more students receiving "A"s than ever, are our kids getting smarter, or, is this grade inflation?
‘Real News From The Blaze:‘ What’s the Difference Between Tea Party and Establishment?
‘Real News From The Blaze:‘ What’s the Difference Between Tea Party and Establishment?
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
SEE PBS INFILTRATE THE MOST DANGEROUS BRANCH OF AL QAEDA IN YEMEN
Watch Al Qaeda in Yemen on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
CNN ANCHOR ACCUSES THE BLAZE‘S WILL CAIN OF BEING ’DISHONEST‘ FOR DENYING ’BIRTHER’ UNDERTONES IN ROMNEY SPEECH
And, with John Sununu the following exchange took place:
“It’s not an issue,” Sununu argued. “There is nobody in the Romney campaign that believes that the president was not born in the United States.”
“So then how come someone doesn’t say, Donald Trump is wrong?” O’Brien pressed.
“Donald Trump is wrong,” Sununu acknowledged. “The President was born in the United States.”
“That may be the first time,” O’Brien grinned.
“No it isn’t, ma’am,” Sununu snapped. “It’s just because you don’t read enough.”
PROTESTORS AND SUPPORTERS OF REP. ALLEN WEST CLASH AT TOWN HALL
PROTESTORS AND SUPPORTERS OF REP. ALLEN WEST CLASH AT TOWN HALL
A half dozen officers from the Boca Raton police department were on hand to run interference between West supporters and those who West said were hired by “the San Francisco billionaire” from the Credo SuperPAC but the real scuffles (and yes, I mean plural ) began, as they often do, during the audience question period where a woman interrupted the Congressman to argue her point on gay marriage. When approached by West’s security, the anti- West crowd began to loudly complain about the security team’s tactics, calling them storm troopers and accusing them of “Gestapo-like” behavior.
Ironically enough, West was so unafraid to engage in dialogue with the protesters that he engaged one or two of them in long one-on-one conversations, and good naturedly swatted down the ones that only came to scream at him. Examples of both exchanges were captured in this video, where West responded to a questioner who accused him of having no solutions with the line, “Put me in charge of this country and I’ll show you solutions.”
Not one to back down from a fight, West said, as he was surrounded, “I’m gonna stand right here.”
The words became physical when a West supporter with a cane responded to a woman who used profanity toward a man by shoving her and threatening to hit her with the cane. Police were around, but did not act forcefully with any of the people attending. One man, an anti-West protester, gently bumped the BPR camera person twice, purposely trying to intimidate.
A half dozen officers from the Boca Raton police department were on hand to run interference between West supporters and those who West said were hired by “the San Francisco billionaire” from the Credo SuperPAC but the real scuffles (and yes, I mean plural ) began, as they often do, during the audience question period where a woman interrupted the Congressman to argue her point on gay marriage. When approached by West’s security, the anti- West crowd began to loudly complain about the security team’s tactics, calling them storm troopers and accusing them of “Gestapo-like” behavior.
Ironically enough, West was so unafraid to engage in dialogue with the protesters that he engaged one or two of them in long one-on-one conversations, and good naturedly swatted down the ones that only came to scream at him. Examples of both exchanges were captured in this video, where West responded to a questioner who accused him of having no solutions with the line, “Put me in charge of this country and I’ll show you solutions.”
Not one to back down from a fight, West said, as he was surrounded, “I’m gonna stand right here.”
The words became physical when a West supporter with a cane responded to a woman who used profanity toward a man by shoving her and threatening to hit her with the cane. Police were around, but did not act forcefully with any of the people attending. One man, an anti-West protester, gently bumped the BPR camera person twice, purposely trying to intimidate.
‘LET MY PEOPLE GO!’: ILLINOIS STATE REP. GOES ABSOLUTELY BALLISTIC DURING SCREAMING SPEECH OVER PENSION VOTE
Illinois State Rep. Mike Bost
US CALIPHATE CONFERENCE AMERICA 2012 -- REVOLUTION: LIBERATION BY REVELATION
US CALIPHATE CONFERENCE AMERICA 2012 -- REVOLUTION: LIBERATION BY REVELATION
Capacity Focus, 46: Distance-oriented e-Learning, the Moodle CMS, and Xerte and Exe authoring systems
This course in the Scratch Programming Language shows how Moodle works, with multimedia elements. The Mt Orange demo dummy school, shows how Moodle can be used to develop a cybercampus. As tutorial sessions 7 & 8 above show, Xerte can be integrated, and of course so can be other content development packages.
Quick and dirty: tutorial covering the Xerte Online Toolkits Graphics and Sound page including optional properties.
Where do we go for something that is educationally structured, and would fit with education content management systems like Moodle?
The sampler is available and it is free for download and it is integrated with Moodle for use on a 2 GB memory stick. A sandbox for experimenting is helpful since the idea is that Xerte is Moodle's salvation. Finally, eXe may be a simpler approach.
Quick and dirty: tutorial covering the Xerte Online Toolkits Graphics and Sound page including optional properties.
Where do we go for something that is educationally structured, and would fit with education content management systems like Moodle?
The sampler is available and it is free for download and it is integrated with Moodle for use on a 2 GB memory stick. A sandbox for experimenting is helpful since the idea is that Xerte is Moodle's salvation. Finally, eXe may be a simpler approach.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
SARCASTIC ‘CATASTROPHE AWARD’ GIVEN TO 3RD GRADER ANGERS PARENT
SARCASTIC ‘CATASTROPHE AWARD’ GIVEN TO 3RD GRADER ANGERS PARENT
Harry Stein, No Matter What… They’ll Call This Book Racist: How Our Fear of Talking Honestly about Race Hurts Us All
Harry Stein, No Matter What… They’ll Call This Book Racist: How Our Fear of Talking Honestly about Race Hurts Us All
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Turns Killer
Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will
The Times interviewed 36 current and former advisers for its piece, and they painted a picture of someone who has changed:
They describe a paradoxical leader who shunned the legislative deal-making required to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, but approves lethal action without hand-wringing. While he was adamant about narrowing the fight and improving relations with the Muslim world, he has followed the metastasizing enemy into new and dangerous lands. When he applies his lawyering skills to counterterrorism, it is usually to enable, not constrain, his ferocious campaign against Al Qaeda — even when it comes to killing an American cleric in Yemen, a decision that Mr. Obama told colleagues was “an easy one.”
Abortion, Pro-Life, The War on Baby Girls: Part 1 - Undercover in Texas
Sign the petition NOW to stop the killing of girls, just because they are girls! www.ProtectOurGirls.com
Over 100 millions girls are missing today. These girls were victims of gendercide. The war on baby girls begins in the womb.
AUSTIN, May 29 -- Today, Live Action released a new undercover video showing a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Austin, TX encouraging a woman to obtain a late-term abortion because she was purportedly carrying a girl and wanted to have a boy. The video is first in a new series titled "Gendercide: Sex-Selection in America," exposing the practice of sex-selective abortion in the United States and how Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry facilitate the selective elimination of baby girls in the womb.
"I see that you're saying that you want to terminate if it's a girl, so are you just wanting to continue the pregnancy in the meantime?" a counselor named "Rebecca" offers the woman, who is purportedly still in her first trimester and cannot be certain about the gender. "The abortion covers you up until 23 weeks," explains Rebecca, "and usually at 5 months is usually (sic) when they detect, you know, whether or not it's a boy or a girl." Doctors agree that the later in term a doctor performs an abortion, the greater the risk of complications.
The Planned Parenthood staffer suggests that the woman get on Medicaid in order to pay for an ultrasound to determine the gender of her baby, even though she plans to use the knowledge for an elective abortion. She also tells the woman to "just continue and try again" for the desired gender after aborting a girl, and adds, "Good luck, and I hope that you do get your boy."
"The search-and-destroy targeting of baby girls through prenatal testing and abortion is a pandemic that is spreading across the globe," notes Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action. "Research proves that sex-selective abortion has now come to America. The abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood, is a willing participant."
Six studies in the past four years indicate that there are thousands of "missing girls" in the U.S., many from sex-selective abortion. The U.K., India, Australia, and other countries ban sex-selective abortion, but the U.S., save for three states, does not. On Wednesday, Congress will debate the Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act (PRENDA), which would ban sex-selective abortions nationally.
"Planned Parenthood and their ruthless abortion-first mentality is the real 'war on women'," says Rose. "Sex-selective abortion is gender discrimination with lethal consequences for little girls."
The complete, unedited video and transcript can be viewed at www.ProtectOurGirls.com, a hub of research and information on sex-selective abortions.
Live Action is a youth led movement dedicated to building a culture of life and ending the human rights abuse of abortion. They use new media to educate the public about the humanity of the unborn and investigative journalism to expose threats against the vulnerable and defenseless.
For further information, please contact Dan Wilson or Jameson Cunningham with Shirley & Banister Public Affairs at or and email at media@liveaction.org
Monday, May 28, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Pissants Avoid Military as Hero
‘COME UP WITH A MORE NEUTRAL TERM’: MSNBC PANEL DEBATES USING THE WORD ‘HERO’ TO DESCRIBE FALLEN SOLDIERS
A follow-up, but at least he did apologize.
CROWD REBUKES PIVEN FOR SAYING TEA PARTY DOESN‘T ’LIKE THE IDEA OF A BLACK PRESIDENT’
We’ve already covered the fact that Frances Fox Piven spoke at Messiah College — a Christian, higher education facility. Now, what we haven’t delved into is exactly what the radical academic had to say.
Sure, we told you that Piven admitted that the “tea party is an authentic movement,” a curious comment to say the least. But many of the news reports that recapped the event left out her more devilish commentary (which, as is usually the case, was in the details).
In addressing the successful right-leaning conservative movement, Piven seemed to allude a to her belief that the Tea Party is motivated by racism. Below, see her begin to dive into this mantra (which has become commonplace for many people on the left). In fact, she even says that the Tea Party doesn’t “like the idea of a black president.”
You’ll hear a man in the audience respond to her charges, saying, “as long as he follows the constitution we don’t care what color he is” (referring to President Barack Obama). Hear her comment and the man’s response.
And when it comes to GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, Piven seems to think that the successful businessman may merely be a tool to help shield the racism that she thinks is espoused by many of those who oppose Obama.
MRC.tv’s Stephen Gutowski describes the odd compliment that Piven gave to the Tea Party later on in the speech (i.e. “authentic movement”).
When pressed by a student, as you can see at the end of that video, Piven back tracks and says that she doesn’t believe the entire Tea Party is racist or that race is their only motivation. That reversal in tone from earlier in her speech took an even sharper turn at the end of the night. So much so that she ended her remarks with a compliment for the Tea Party.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Marxists March Against the Rich (Repubs) no Dems allowed - Part 1
Part 1 of 2 ( before the march) Part 2 of the March is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpA7I9biuDE
Post with pictures here
http://thesilentmajority.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/acorn-fellow-marxists-march...
Noon.October 11, 2011. 59th St and 5th Ave, A Marxist Lead March up 5th Avenues to the homes of the wealthy. The belligerents held banners and signs that represented ACORN, The Workers Party, Teamsters Unions, CUNY and the Socialist Party .
BTW- there is brief nudity by one participant from 4:14 to 4:32 (if you want to skip past this)
This was a protest a against Financial Seems only the Repubs are being accused of being greedy. Democrats Billionaires are the Good-Guys so they were not included. Decided to ask 4 different reporters (from MSM Networks) if they were aware of who had been left off this list. Alternately they played dumb or insisted that Murdoch was on the list and therefore my claim was incorrect. And a network cameraman informed me it was okay for Bloomberg to be left of the list, because this was for the VERY rich... (?)
This march means more overtime for the police and obviously there had to be less police in their neighborhood precincts as there was a large contingent that had to walk the marchers from 59th to 95th street. Before the march, there was lots of MSM media eagerly interviewing the 'average' folk who came out for this rally. The unwashed mob from Zuccotti seems to be missing in the UES march.
Part 2 will be a bit of the march. Never expected much to happen at the homes of these 'greedy' Billionaires, so after Murdoch's residences, I left...
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