Home schooling our style
I'm going to start keeping a running list of politicians I endorse. Not that any one cares, but even though I often say get rid of them all, there are in fact a small hand full in Washington that are worth keeping.
Today I give you Michele Bachman (R) Minnesota, congress woman. First, this is the state that gives us Al Franken - I think they need Michelle. Second, Michele is said to be Pelosi's number one target - enough said. If Pelosi is afraid of Michelle that is pretty much all I need to know.
Ms Bachmann is going after ACORN. She is trying to expose the fact that the so called defunding of ACORN was actually just for one month. Soon the faucet will be turned right back on and ACORN will get all their funds flowing back. Maybe this is why there has been so little yelling by ACORN. It was a CYOA moment for congress, nothing more.
Ms Bachmann is also saying things like "to heck with party" I'm going to do what is right. She has taken in 23! foster kids. What a woman. This is the sort of representation we all need.
I'll be sending her some small bit of money. Pelosi and friends are raising massive quantities to get rid of this one woman. If the Dems can troll nation wide to raise money to get rid of a congress woman (supposed to be a local race?), then we can reach across state lines too...
So there, thus far my list of endorsements is a list of one
Michele Bachman
If you want to learn more about her I believe she is going to be on Glenn Beck this evening (5pm FOXnews - for the great unwashed :)
Today I give you Michele Bachman (R) Minnesota, congress woman. First, this is the state that gives us Al Franken - I think they need Michelle. Second, Michele is said to be Pelosi's number one target - enough said. If Pelosi is afraid of Michelle that is pretty much all I need to know.
Ms Bachmann is going after ACORN. She is trying to expose the fact that the so called defunding of ACORN was actually just for one month. Soon the faucet will be turned right back on and ACORN will get all their funds flowing back. Maybe this is why there has been so little yelling by ACORN. It was a CYOA moment for congress, nothing more.
Ms Bachmann is also saying things like "to heck with party" I'm going to do what is right. She has taken in 23! foster kids. What a woman. This is the sort of representation we all need.
I'll be sending her some small bit of money. Pelosi and friends are raising massive quantities to get rid of this one woman. If the Dems can troll nation wide to raise money to get rid of a congress woman (supposed to be a local race?), then we can reach across state lines too...
So there, thus far my list of endorsements is a list of one
Michele Bachman
If you want to learn more about her I believe she is going to be on Glenn Beck this evening (5pm FOXnews - for the great unwashed :)
I really hate people who drive in parking lots as though they are the only ones in the lot and rules of the road were somehow suspended as soon as they left the main road.
Where did you maroons learn to drive?
And I really get annoyed with people who do not know how to make a left turn. Honest to God it is not that difficult. The left side of that yellow line where you are wanting to turn belongs to people going the other direction - just sayin. And if you have pulled into the intersection for the turn, please, when the light turns red, make the stinking turn! Don't just sit there in the intersection! If you are sitting in the intersection because you are afraid of running the light --- guess what, you already ran it by sitting there dumb butt! Left turns people ARE JUST NOT THAT HARD!
People driving in their warm dry car should allow those walking in the cold rain to cross the road (or parking area) first, come on - courtesy (it ain't common) please?!
And what the heck is with this new idea of if you find you are in the far right lane and see you have pretty much missed your left turn just shooting across the lanes and turning anyway?! (same for being in the far left then shooting over to the right) When I was learning to drive I was taught that if you miss your turn, continue on until you can make a safe turn to reverse your direction then go back and make the correct turn. Now people will simply STOP! and hold up traffic so they can move all the way over?! Good Googledy Moogledies! I've even seen people backing up On/Off ramps on the interstate! What the freaking heck. Lord deliver me.
There are more...
Where did you maroons learn to drive?
And I really get annoyed with people who do not know how to make a left turn. Honest to God it is not that difficult. The left side of that yellow line where you are wanting to turn belongs to people going the other direction - just sayin. And if you have pulled into the intersection for the turn, please, when the light turns red, make the stinking turn! Don't just sit there in the intersection! If you are sitting in the intersection because you are afraid of running the light --- guess what, you already ran it by sitting there dumb butt! Left turns people ARE JUST NOT THAT HARD!
People driving in their warm dry car should allow those walking in the cold rain to cross the road (or parking area) first, come on - courtesy (it ain't common) please?!
And what the heck is with this new idea of if you find you are in the far right lane and see you have pretty much missed your left turn just shooting across the lanes and turning anyway?! (same for being in the far left then shooting over to the right) When I was learning to drive I was taught that if you miss your turn, continue on until you can make a safe turn to reverse your direction then go back and make the correct turn. Now people will simply STOP! and hold up traffic so they can move all the way over?! Good Googledy Moogledies! I've even seen people backing up On/Off ramps on the interstate! What the freaking heck. Lord deliver me.
There are more...
Here are the promised photos of the Fion-a-lantern
And just because it makes me giggle to see Gusgus le Pew
Because someone told me they wanted to see more pictures of my pretty girl, here is Impress Me Rosalita - affectionately known as Rosalie, Rose, or Rosie.
And my new bumper art, I've gotta get the car washed so I can apply the message :)
And just because it makes me giggle to see Gusgus le Pew
Because someone told me they wanted to see more pictures of my pretty girl, here is Impress Me Rosalita - affectionately known as Rosalie, Rose, or Rosie.
And my new bumper art, I've gotta get the car washed so I can apply the message :)
Why to laugh, that is why. Pretty much the number one reason - number two being to sometimes bitch about something, but mostly just to laugh. Lots of you make me laugh. Several others who never visit here, and frankly do not know I visit them, also make me laugh.
Just in case no one has checked him lately - Crabby Old Fart makes me laugh!
Just in case no one has checked him lately - Crabby Old Fart makes me laugh!
It is a sad day indeed when Hamas has more intellegence, credibility, and judgment than the Nobel Prize Committee
"Obama has a long way to go still and lots of work to do before he can deserve a reward," said Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri. "Obama only made promises and did not contribute any substance to world peace. And he has not done anything to ensure justice for the sake of Arab and Muslim causes." - Reuters
But the chief Palestinian peace negotiator, Saeb Erekat, welcomed it and expressed hope that Obama "will be able to achieve peace in the Middle - Reuters
So now peace prizes are awarded on HOPE? and promises of CHANGE?
Lord deliver me from evil.
aside: man - everybody posting on this. i name my post, go read stuff and find another post with the same name - rename mine - lather rinse repeat... haahaa, maybe great minds think alike, but not sure how i fit into that paradigm...
"Obama has a long way to go still and lots of work to do before he can deserve a reward," said Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri. "Obama only made promises and did not contribute any substance to world peace. And he has not done anything to ensure justice for the sake of Arab and Muslim causes." - Reuters
But the chief Palestinian peace negotiator, Saeb Erekat, welcomed it and expressed hope that Obama "will be able to achieve peace in the Middle - Reuters
So now peace prizes are awarded on HOPE? and promises of CHANGE?
Lord deliver me from evil.
aside: man - everybody posting on this. i name my post, go read stuff and find another post with the same name - rename mine - lather rinse repeat... haahaa, maybe great minds think alike, but not sure how i fit into that paradigm...
I love Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio!
Pam wants to know why this time. Here is the link to the article that reminded me how much I just love this man
But I've loved this guy from the first time I heard about him. We need to find a way to clone him.
Pam wants to know why this time. Here is the link to the article that reminded me how much I just love this man
But I've loved this guy from the first time I heard about him. We need to find a way to clone him.
Fiona thinks Gus's Halloween costume is funny, or maybe she thinks his "tail" is funny. Worry not, Gus will get to laugh at her too - oh yes, she has a new costume too, heeheee
So, it is the end of a busy week here in beautiful Asheville, NC. Earlier a video of school kids here made the national news and my was a hornet's nest stirred. I've watched and listened to the local voices since the vid was revealed and now I have a thing or two to say myself.
The teachers, administration, and local school board have all with one voice said this video was a 50 some second clip of a 30 min or so program presented by the kids last February. Word is there was no fuss at the time and I know the video was on line a little while before someone, somewhere took note. The program is said to have been on important people in American History, and their most famous quotes or phrases (other examples said to have been included were Amelia Earhart and Abraham Lincoln). It is also claimed that the part on Obama was simply a celebration of his great accomplishment and the grand step forward our country has made in race relations and moving beyond "the racist past" of our country.
Many people here have complained about the negative response of conservatives to this video, saying that the children were very proud of their program but now are frightened and confused by the furor. It is also claimed that security at Sand Hill Venable Elementary School had to be beefed up due to threats made against the school and the children. If you try to find the vid on Youtube now you will either find the video has been removed, or the children's faces have been blocked. I am glad this last has happened, not that any of the kids could be identified by anyone but those that know them anyway, not that any of us would even want to identify them.
So now my thoughts on the subject.
1) Even if the program was a far reaching program on famous Americans, their achievements and quotes, it was way out of line to include a sitting president in their program, no matter who that president may be. Including a sitting president, by its very nature, is political in content. If the school wants to do a similar program the February after Obama leaves office, fine - he would then be part of history, not a part of politics as it currently exists. Under no circumstances was it appropriate for the children to be made to perform in this manner at this time. The teacher, or whomever wrote this program including political content should be called on the carpet and disciplined in some suitable manner (don't ask me what that might be because I said suitable and anything I could come up with might be considered anything but suitable)
2) Using children, your own or worse yet those of others, to project your political opinions is disgusting at best - beyond the pale in a teacher and see #1 above for how it should be handled.
3) Anyone threatening these children in anyway should be stripped naked and flogged in public. The children here were total innocents in every way. Any parent who was aware ahead of time what was to be quoted by their child in this program, and who did not do something about it, should be similarly flogged.
4) Of course the children were proud, not necessarily of the Obama part of their program, but because they practiced, prepared, and presented a program to their parents (this was a PTO- PTA type - program). Children love to be on stage, give programs, be applauded - and the only way they would be confused about it all now is if the grown ups who are supposed to be protecting them have somehow drawn the children into the furor. No way they would be at all aware without adults dragging them into the fray.
5) Of course people have reacted negatively to the video. First of all, many if not most of us understand that these children are being indoctrinated, brainwashed, and used. And, many if not most of us find this more than simply distasteful. When we have seen the singing praises to Obama video from the school in NJ, the prayers to Obama video courtesy of the Gamaliel Foundation, and the infamous address by Obama to our school kids complete with website of classroom ideas - you know, I don't need to list - It goes without saying it wouldn't take much to raise our hackles, and the video from SHV was plenty enough to do just that, so take your self righteous condemnation of our reaction and shove it. Those of you who are liberal teachers, administrators, and school boards bring it upon yourselves. Perhaps you should think before you use our children for your puppets.
The teachers, administration, and local school board have all with one voice said this video was a 50 some second clip of a 30 min or so program presented by the kids last February. Word is there was no fuss at the time and I know the video was on line a little while before someone, somewhere took note. The program is said to have been on important people in American History, and their most famous quotes or phrases (other examples said to have been included were Amelia Earhart and Abraham Lincoln). It is also claimed that the part on Obama was simply a celebration of his great accomplishment and the grand step forward our country has made in race relations and moving beyond "the racist past" of our country.
Many people here have complained about the negative response of conservatives to this video, saying that the children were very proud of their program but now are frightened and confused by the furor. It is also claimed that security at Sand Hill Venable Elementary School had to be beefed up due to threats made against the school and the children. If you try to find the vid on Youtube now you will either find the video has been removed, or the children's faces have been blocked. I am glad this last has happened, not that any of the kids could be identified by anyone but those that know them anyway, not that any of us would even want to identify them.
So now my thoughts on the subject.
1) Even if the program was a far reaching program on famous Americans, their achievements and quotes, it was way out of line to include a sitting president in their program, no matter who that president may be. Including a sitting president, by its very nature, is political in content. If the school wants to do a similar program the February after Obama leaves office, fine - he would then be part of history, not a part of politics as it currently exists. Under no circumstances was it appropriate for the children to be made to perform in this manner at this time. The teacher, or whomever wrote this program including political content should be called on the carpet and disciplined in some suitable manner (don't ask me what that might be because I said suitable and anything I could come up with might be considered anything but suitable)
2) Using children, your own or worse yet those of others, to project your political opinions is disgusting at best - beyond the pale in a teacher and see #1 above for how it should be handled.
3) Anyone threatening these children in anyway should be stripped naked and flogged in public. The children here were total innocents in every way. Any parent who was aware ahead of time what was to be quoted by their child in this program, and who did not do something about it, should be similarly flogged.
4) Of course the children were proud, not necessarily of the Obama part of their program, but because they practiced, prepared, and presented a program to their parents (this was a PTO- PTA type - program). Children love to be on stage, give programs, be applauded - and the only way they would be confused about it all now is if the grown ups who are supposed to be protecting them have somehow drawn the children into the furor. No way they would be at all aware without adults dragging them into the fray.
5) Of course people have reacted negatively to the video. First of all, many if not most of us understand that these children are being indoctrinated, brainwashed, and used. And, many if not most of us find this more than simply distasteful. When we have seen the singing praises to Obama video from the school in NJ, the prayers to Obama video courtesy of the Gamaliel Foundation, and the infamous address by Obama to our school kids complete with website of classroom ideas - you know, I don't need to list - It goes without saying it wouldn't take much to raise our hackles, and the video from SHV was plenty enough to do just that, so take your self righteous condemnation of our reaction and shove it. Those of you who are liberal teachers, administrators, and school boards bring it upon yourselves. Perhaps you should think before you use our children for your puppets.
Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.) on health care bill - “confusing” "arcane," "confusing," "hard stuff to understand," and "incomprehensible." "gibberish"
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