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All elected officials should be required to watch this brilliantly done ten minute civics lesson at least twice a day.

ditto that, kathleen.

i'm stealing this one, van - with a hattip to you.

This is something never taught in public schools

"This is something never taught in public schools."

It will be on Monday. I see an essay in the near future for about 75 kids.

I recall learning this in my seventh grade civics class.... but that was a little before the liberals seized the educational system in the early 1960's and launched their great dumb-down project. After all, it is the only direction they were capable of taking education. Down to their level.

You may recall those days, back when they marked your papers with large red F for failure to make sure Mom and Dad didn't miss it. Remember how we had moms(F) and dads(M) in a stable nurturing family back then? The boldness of the red F was issued without regard to what it did to our self-esteem but rather was to motivate us to avoid future embarrassment by working a little harder to advance upward instead of just stewing in the broth of mediocrity.

And the teaching was so effective that to this day I still can recite the opening of the Declaration of Independence and Preamble to the Constitution... yet can't remember my neighbor's new baby's name.

But that was long ago. There aren't many left to teach something they don't know themselves and if they did the union wouldn't allow it. We must all be equally poorly educated comrade.

Those who are never learn history have no choice but to repeat its failures.

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You didn't really do that to your mother, did you?

I am a reformed liberal. I feel as though I have only really been politically conscious since about 2000. Luckily I came upon my more conservative leanings just as my daughter started in the public school system. As I am not in a position to completely home school my daughter, I subsidize her overtly liberal public education with this very sort of material presented here. I hope everyone else who is trying to raise their children with good conservative values is doing the same as I. Thank you for this civics lesson. My daughter will be viewing it within the hour, and several times again over the next months to come.

Good news! A Hamas leader has been killed
by Israeli airstrikes.

"Nizar Rayyan, the most senior Hamas figure to be killed since 2004, had urged suicide attacks against Israel."

One wonders how many open-minded liberals would not allow this to be shown in a classroom, and of course, it is dangerous, close-minded, right-wing propaganda, so it should be suppressed, in the interest of freedom.

Happy New Year, all

This video has been on my mind all day. I fear America has just made the leap over the cusp between republic and oligarchy. If there exists no essential difference between Republicans and Democrats in Congress, have we not already surrendered to the oligarchy? I was content to believe that economic constraints might limit the Obama administration. Now I believe that the only limitations will come from competition between the oligarchs. The congressional bail-outs amount to nothing less than looting of our national wealth by a select few.

It's no wonder the MSM was so frantic to see Obama elected. Backing the right horse means the media will be invited to the feast. Sarah Palin had to be destroyed because she was recognized as the antidote to oligarchy. Her record of fighting entrenched corruption in Alaska indicates that she is one of us, a tribune of the people, not to mention an armed patriot.

I like to check into Moonbattery every now and then for the giggles. It's not funny anymore. Things have turned all of a sudden deadly serious. The collapse of (small 'r') republican principles is no laughing matter. The historic parallels are too numerous now to be denied. Our dependent electorate would rather live in coddled slavery than stand for liberty.

I don't need to state the obvious conclusion to patriots who might read my comments. But the next time I hear the words "to die for" I won't be thinking of cherry cheesecake. Indeed, I'll think back to the day I walked the field at Lexington Common. I can still see in my mind's eye a British officer ordering the rabble to disperse. He was answered with an expletive, followed by the snap of a trigger, and then a shot. Lead defines "gravitas" better than any word in the thesaurus. There's probably a Latin phrase in there suitable for a coat of arms, perhaps even a pun.

Well, it has now been made explicit.

"Filling the atmosphere with Greenhouse gases associated with global warming could push the planet into a new ice age, scientists have warned... glaciation could happen again if global warming is not curbed, the university's school of geography, earth and environmental sciences warned."

So, whether it warms or cools, it is the fault of humans. And for the same actions.

Scientists say so!

Obviously, we must stop warming the planet before we freeze to death. Or continue warming it to stave off the Big Freeze. Or something.

*Greenhouse Gases May Cause Global Glaciation*

It's deja vu all over again. Thirty some years ago we derelict humans were being warned about the next ice age we were causing.

Portraits in Counter-Moonbattery: Branford Marsalis and the Foolishness of Self-Esteem Based Education.

RBO - Ahmed Yousef of Hamas Twice Endorsed Barack Obama

THE UAW/BIG 3 COALITION AGAINST THE AMERICAN PUBLIC

If any reader cares, I’m currently in process of determining which car to purchase or lease in February. That’s when my lease on a 2006 Honda Accord expires and despite incentives being offered by the Honda dealership, and by a competing Toyota dealer, I was seriously considering an American car.

Back in ‘06, I had narrowed my choices down to a Camry, an Accord, and a Chevy Impala. The Chevy salesman helped me cut my picks down to the two Japanese makes when he invited me to give an Impala a test drive. This particular model had more bells and whistles than I would ever use or ever learn how to use.

Nevertheless, even though I’m generally more a meat and pototoes than glitz and glamour car guy, I decided to give it a shot.

The salesman, Mr. X, was very upfront as I slid behind the wheel on a heated leather seat. “Someone already bought this car,” he said with a wink and some amusement, “but I’m sure he wouldn’t mind your giving it a test drive.”

His chances of making a deal went flying out the tinted windows with that candid confession. Unbeknownst to the new owner of the car, this salesman was willing to turn a new vehicle into a demo simply because it was available on the lot. I thanked him for the offer but passed on a test drive and told him why and he was visibly shocked.

Now, I’m well aware that Mr. X was not a member of the UAW but it struck me then that his blase’ attitude toward a buyer who had paid him a handsome commission was symptomatic of the domestic auto industry three years ago.

Frankly, John Q. Public, they didn’t give a damn.

It’s all very patriotic to buy American and keep our bucks stateside rather than sending them to Japan or Germany or Sweden or (soon) to China and I’ve more than done my bit in that regard.

I’ve purchased new American vehicles– a 1971 Mercury Cougar, a 1977 Dodge Aspen wagon, a 1983 Oldsmobile Omega, and a 1986 Ford Country Squire. With the exception of the Cougar, my last pre-K (pre-kids) car, every one of them was a pig to one degree or another.

The Aspen was the sister to the Plymouth Volare which Lee Iaccoca called the worst car Chrysler ever built, which had to have been an understatement. The misnomered Omega was GM’s version of its worst car and featured rack and pinion steering which literally fell apart. The Ford had starting issues and when it did start it raced and refused to bow to the braking system.

As they might say, thrice burnt, once shy so I’ve refused to buy an American car for a generation even though Detroit finally wised up and now turns out products which are fairly competitive in quality to those of foreign manufacturers.

With the economy in the doldrums and the Big 3 automakers on the verge of bankruptcy, I figured this time around I’d allow a Ford, GM, or Chrysler product another chance. That is, until I read some figures and heard stories about the Motor City and its employees. They convinced me that Mr. X’s attitude still prevailed and was still the order of the day with Detroit’s rank and file.

The recent, disgraceful bailout of the Big 3 which, along with the other excursions into profligate socialism, the bailouts of AIG, Wall Street, and the American banking system, are said to be imbalanced and unfair efforts to help the elite to the detriment of the little guys, which is largely true.

However, one huge group of little guys, the membership of the United Auto Workers, seems to be doing pretty damned well. Uncle Sam’s generosity simply cemented in stone their outlandish work rules and perks.

CNSnews.com...
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)

Chrysoer's blog.

Not their smartest move...

Chrysler's blog.

Oops!

Dead Rotting Hippie Corpses. A nice start, anyway. Faster, please.

And speaking of Dead Hippies: Bush hater kills self in failed "mass death" attempt.

California Taxpayers May Get IOUs instead of refunds. Try sending the state an IOU for your tax bill and see how hell that works out.

Berlet,
Try a new Ford. Consumer Reports has ranked them as good or better than Honda and Toyota.

SLIME magazine is now comaring BARACK OBAMA to ABRAHAM LINCOLN what a shallow liberal rag DIRTY LYING SCUMBALL JOURNALISTS