Wednesday, May 26, 2010

This Week's Treason

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I'd hang the leaker by the neck, then cut down the body and give it a fair trial. But nobody's going to be punished. High-ranking officials can get away with manslaughter, if not murder. An Army captain would go to prison. A political appointee can expect a promotion.

-- Ralph Peters




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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Fuckn' with the Chilluns' Minds

The Washington Post reports on the Texas state school board approval of a new text book:
The Texas state school board gave final approval Friday to controversial social studies standards that minimize the separation of church and state and say that America is not a democracy but a "constitutional republic."

The changes, which passed in a series of 9 to 5 votes, could have reverberations far beyond the Lone Star State's schools and its 4.7 million students.

Many teachers, academics and politicians on both sides of the aisle have condemned
the standards.

According to the WaPo, the new standards include the following outrageous changes:

The new standards say that the McCarthyism of the 1950s was later vindicated -- something most historians deny -- draw an equivalency between Jefferson Davis's and Abraham Lincoln's inaugural addresses, say that international institutions such as the United Nations imperil American sovereignty, and include a long list of Confederate officials about whom students must learn.

They also removed references to capitalism and replaced them with the term "free-enterprise system."


Sons of bitches!!! Fuckn' with the chilluns' minds!

Oh, wait, as Ann Althouse points out, the WaPo does a bit of misrepresenting of its own on the actual changes.

Virtually everything cited in the article to make the curriculum seem controversial is misstated! Appalling!

This conservative asault on the chilluns' minds is being held at bay here in Washington, as we read, also in the Washington Post, and yet without so much clucking, fear and loathing, about an innovative new teaching strategery at The Field School, a local private school:

When Chris Walker signed up to take an advanced honors seminar at the Field School, teacher Emily Kleinman was concerned. The junior hadn't met the prerequisite for the course, and that meant Kleinman needed to have a serious conversation with his mother. "I called his mom because I was really worried because he hadn't seen any episodes of 'Lost,' " Kleinman said. "And I wanted to make sure it was okay with her that he watch all five seasons in three weeks."

Ingesting hours upon hours of inscrutable narrative twists and Smoke Monster attacks is a requirement for an honors seminar? It is at the Field School, a private middle and high school in Washington that for the past two years has offered the elective "Lost in Philosophy," a wide-ranging, often student-driven course that delves into numerous disciplines -- philosophy, literature, ethics, science -- and explores them all through the prism of ABC's series about plane crash survivors desperate to understand a befuddling island.

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The pass-fail class, offered at a beginners' level during the 2008-09 school year and as an advanced option this year, is co-taught by Kleinman, a history instructor, and Kabe ErkenBrack, who teaches geometry.

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They read the works of philosophers whose names are referenced on the show . . . They plumb the ethics involved in the famed Milgram experiment at Yale, a study of people's willingness to blindly follow orders, . . .They read Genesis for greater insight into the show's biblical themes. . . . They deliver oral presentations on time travel and create art.

And they say every moment has been an education.

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And in case you're wondering how their parents -- you know, the ones who pay that $30,000-plus annual tuition -- feel about their scholarly pursuits, the kids say they're very supportive.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Ass Heap of History

TIBETAN spiritual leader the Dalai Lama:
"I am a Marxist," the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said in New York, where he arrived today with an entourage of robed monks and a heavy security detail to give a series of paid public lectures. . . "(Marxism has) moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits," the Dalai Lama, 74, said.

Back in February of this year, the Dalai Lama visited the White House and was ignominiously shown out via the back door near the trash heaps.
Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dalai Lama, being escorted from the White House through a back door, through the Palm Room's door near the WH garbage area Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

This appears to have been one of those rare unconsciously correct decisions by the White House.

Moral ethics? Marxism through the vehicle of communist and socialist regimes is responsible for the deaths of approximately 160,000,000 people during the 20th Century. He should ask the Tibetans how they feel about Marxism. Oh, wait . . .

What a shameful, arrogant fool.

Shut up, and meditate.

Bear



Chart of the Day:

How is the stock market performing? It all depends on how you measure. When measured in US dollars, the Dow currently trades approximately 28% below its all-time record high. However, when measured with that other world currency (gold), the picture is even more bleak. To help illustrate the point, today's chart presents the Dow divided by the price of one ounce of gold. This results in what is referred to as the Dow / gold ratio or the cost of the Dow in ounces of gold. For example, it currently takes 8.5 ounces of gold to "buy the Dow." This is considerably less that the 44.8 ounces back in the year 1999. When priced in gold, the US stock market has been in a severe bear market for the entire 21st century.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010

Separated At Birth?!



Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Lidia Bastianich, Renowned Italian Chef

One cooks pasta, the other cooks the Constitution.

Why People Eat Birds

Monday, May 3, 2010

Twit in Chief

Why is President Barack Obama twittering? More specifically, why is President Obama twittering the following message on the Monday following the exposure of his administration as first responder hacks in the face of a libtard's bread and butter issue of environmental rape and slaughter and the attempted car bombing of Times Square by a "middle-aged white guy" and the riotous anti-anti-illegal immigration demonstrations spurred in part by the President's own fear of his daughter's unfinished ice cream cones melting in the curb where her father lays beaten and bloody after being "harrassed" by Arizona law enforcement:

At 4:30 p.m. ET, join David Plouffe for a strategy session on #OFA's plan for 2010 and how you can get involved. http://j.mp/9vqMAt
This is the President of the United States tweeting this!




Let's say it again: the President of the United States!

His picture is next to the tweet. Tweeting about Organizing for America, a non-Executive Branch, private sector organization, albeit the successor organization to Obama's campaign, the one through which the president can permanently campaign on all his little diabolical programs to change the country.

Still, he's President now. And what's he tweeting? A reminder about a call-in strategy session, conducted by David Plouffe, now a public servant in the employ of the Executive Office of the President, for Democrats on how in November not to end up zipped up in a full body leather outfit and mask with an S&M ball shoved in their maw and chain around their neck tied to a rusting old radiator in a basement of an abandoned house in Detroit.

That tweet goes into the great big bin of official presidential communications.

Unlike all of President George Bush's tweets about Halliburton's contracting strategy, there are no madeup words or mispellings, so we have to give Obama some props on that.

Still, who is this guy? Some kind of community organizer?

SBD is heartened by the fact that the President of the United States has to tweet his tweeps about a strategy session to stave off the November implosion. The loyal opposition is doing something right. But how weak is this man in his understanding of his responsibility to this nation that he sends out that tweet. That it's on his schedule to send that out. Even that it's on his flack's schedule to send that out under his name.

There is no dignity left in the office nor sense of decorum nor sense of the appropriate when the President feels this level of comfort in sending out reminders about his own personal independent fund raising organization.

As Americans, we strive to respect the Office of the President, to instill in our children the same respect, even when we disagree with the man occupying the office, but it's very, very hard these days.

To wit, what a punk.


LATER THAT DAY . . .:

Well, I guess the first message wasn't enough for the Twit in Chief's tweeps.



You stay focused, Mr. President!