Thursday, September 24, 2009

It's all in your mind.

Piggybacking on the video circulating of kids singing praise to Obama, there's this from Michelle Malkin, via Smart Girl Nation:

Even with all of the hoopla over the lesson plan suggestions, some schools still found ways to push support for the President. A few days after President Obama’s speech, one of the members of Smart Girl Politics contacted me and was upset about something that had transpired in her daughter’s school. Her daughter, a senior in high school, had come home upset because, although the speech was not shown in her school, her anatomy teacher had made the class watch the President’s health care speech. After the video was shown, the students were given a short quiz about the speech. The questions asked gave the assumption that the answers provided in the President’s speech were fact and not opinion. The students were given no opportunity to discuss opposing views or have a debate on the topic. In fact, when one student stated that the President had lied, the student was told that kind of talk was unnecessary. Students in the class with opposing views were forced to remain silent or whisper amongst themselves.

Also important to note this afternoon: the Hannah Giles Defense Fund link.

52 comments:

  1. I'll say it once again. I am so glad we decided to put our two girls in a good private Catholic school. Well worth the price.

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  2. Uhm, uhm, uhm, Barack Hussein Obama
    He said all should lend a hand to make the country strong again
    Uhm, uhm, uhm, Barack Hussein Obama
    He said we must be fair today, equal work means equal pay
    Uhm, uhm, uhm, Barack Hussein Obama
    He said take a stand, make sure everyone gets a chance
    Uhm, uhm, uhm, Barack Hussein Obama
    He said red, yellow, black and white, all are equal in his sight
    Uhm, uhm, uhm, Barack Hussein Obama
    YEAH. Barack Hussein Obama


    Sing it with me!

    //

    Where's the ACLU? What happen to separation of Church and State?

    We have Obama El Jireh*.

    *El Jireh, the Lord Will Provide.

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  3. I hear that, Erik.

    I think the temptation to deify Obama and/or advance his agenda is just too strong for some public school teachers.

    I used to have a (liberal) music teacher friend who honestly thought it was her job to guide her students in matters going on at home with their parents. We had quite the argument about this at a Starbucks one day.

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  4. JCM, can you imagine the outcry from the left if teachers had behaved this way in reverence of President Bush?

    Furthermore, I would have agreed with them. This is just sick.

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  5. Maybe I'll change my name to Desert Ahmed Sage?

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  6. DesertSage, did you land that job in Afghanistan yet?
    Or why would you consider such a name change?

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  7. I can't wait until next year when we get to hear about the sudden upswing in people naming their babies "Barack", "Hussein", "Obama", or some combination of the three...

    Not that their is anything wrong with a name like "Obama Smith" or "Hussein Johnson" or "Barack Hussein Obama Washington"...

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  8. DesertSage, did you land that job in Afghanistan yet?
    Or why would you consider such a name change?



    Playing phone tag with the KBR recruiter.

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  9. Another conservative target resigns

    The National Endowment for the Arts said Thursday that its communications director, Yosi Sergant, has resigned.

    "This afternoon Yosi Sergant submitted his resignation from the National Endowment for the Arts. His resignation has been accepted and is effective immediately," said a spokeswoman, Sally Gifford, in a statement.

    Sergant, who helped make artist Shepard Fairey's "Hope" image ubiquitous as an organizer of Obama campaign support from artists, had seemed to mix the NEA's work -- essentially non-partisan politics -- with the administration's legislative agenda on a conference call reported on by Andrew Breitbart's new conservative site, Big Government.

    "I would encourage you to pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know, there’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service," Sergant told artists on the call, which he reportedly invited some of them to attend. "My ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative communities utilities and bring them to the table," he said.


    /buh bye

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  10. Playing phone tag with the KGB recruiter.


    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



    Seriously, though, I used to work for KBR. Halliburton, too. ;0)

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  11. I can't wait until next year when we get to hear about the sudden upswing in people naming their babies "Barack", "Hussein", "Obama", or some combination of the three...

    Or Bambi. I think I will name my next dog 44. 44Magnum that is.

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  12. Apparently the leader of the little sing-a-long is Charisse Carney-Nunes.
    (Notice the Myst rip off)

    Wrote this little gem for skulls full of mush.
    I Am Barack Obama

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  13. I never thought I'd see anything like this in my lifetime in America. I really did not.

    I am perfectly happy having a black president. It's the American-guilt-indulging, socialist-leaning, borderline Christ-like object of worship stuff I'm having so much trouble with.

    Call me crazy.

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  14. Tell me about it, RB

    Nothing much to tell, really. A few software gigs here and there, mostly related to the natural gas industry.

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  15. eatit, I'm sure some will find that a horrible tragedy.

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  16. RB, I actually knew a little girl named Reagan. It used to be very common to name babies after prominent figures. In Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel," two of the main character's brothers are Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland, which were in fact the real names of Wolfe's brothers (they were twins). I don't think it's a great idea, and I say this as someone who was originally named Hillary. (Thankfully, my adoptive parents changed it.)

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  17. RB,
    Not that their is anything wrong with a name like "Obama Smith" or "Hussein Johnson" or "Barack Hussein Obama Washington"...

    OT, but in the same vein:
    Did anyone ever wonder where Lucas got the name for 'Luke Skywalker' from? My personal guess would be that he got influenced very much by the hippie era, much more so than from real SciFi. IMHO

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  18. Nothing much to tell, really. A few software gigs here and there, mostly related to the natural gas industry.


    Overseas? War zone? Good pay?

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  19. Product Description
    I Am Barack Obama is not a book about Barack Obama. Rather, it allows children to see themselves through the inspirational story of President Obama growing up as an ordinary child asking, Who will change the world? Ultimately, he realizes that he will. I Am Barack Obama is also the first children's digibook available interactively along with its companion print edition.


    He'll "change the world", all right. The question is how.

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  20. Erik, I think I will name my next dog 44. 44Magnum that is.

    ♪♫ You took the names right out of my nic,
    you took the names right out of my ava-a-tar ... ♫♪

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  21. Afternoon Erik, folks.

    Eric: Trust but verify. Trust but verify. Trust but verity... ;)

    However I've got to agree, putting the kids into a Catholic school was probably a good move.

    CC: Call me crazy.

    Call over a half a nation crazy.

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  22. At least half, enuff. Confidence in his leadership has dropped like a stone.

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  23. I think the temptation to deify Obama and/or advance his agenda is just too strong for some public school teachers.

    You've got that right.
    He's like a drug to some people.
    I'm just astounded at the lack of any sound judgement on display here.
    Are you freakin' kidding me ?
    She thought this was perfectly acceptable behavior for a public teacher.
    Grounds for immediate dismissal.

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  24. CRS Report: Honduran 'coup' appears legit

    In response to the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, the U.S. State Department cut off foreign aid to Honduras and stopped approving visas for government officials. The U.S. is even threatening now to de-legitimize that nation's upcoming November elections, and has been treating the interim government of Roberto Micheletti as a rogue regime.

    But State's is not the only opinion. By way of contrast, a new report (click here for the pdf) from the Congressional Research Service bears out what our editorial board has been pointing out for months now: The situation in Honduras should not be a cause for concern in Washington. It should a relief.

    President Zelaya, who was attempting to subvert the constitutional order of Honduras by seeking re-election (considered a crime there) was removed from office by the order of civilian authorities, and the constitutional order of succession was honored afterward.


    /whoopsies, someone better tell Hillary and Obama that their man in Tegucigalpa is a crazed, paranoid, anti-Semitic common commie criminal

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  25. eatitorwearit: Honduras seems like such a no-brainer to me, yet Obama managed to get on the wrong side of history and drag most of the world along with him. It's bad enough he wants to play footsie with dictators; in this case, he's trying to help a would-be dictator overthrow a constitutional government. Unbelievable.

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  26. Good grief.

    Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper

    These people won't be happy until we're back to using corncobs and the Sears catalog in our low-flow outhouses.

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  27. eatitorwearit: The question now is , will the State Department listen or pay attention to the Congressional Research Service?

    /not taking odds on this one, Zero may undo decades of conservative efforts.

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  28. doppel: I for one despise enviromentalists and John Wayne toilet paper.

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  29. P2, here's how I distinguish. A conservationist is someone who loves the natural world, wants everyone to be able to enjoy it, and is determined to preserve as much as possible for future generations while still exploiting natural resources responsibly. An environmentalist is someone who loves nature more than people and wants to make people suffer so nature can assume primacy over the built environment. I'm a conservationist.

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  30. Agreed doppel. That's the best definition out there. Most tree huggers are practically neo-luddites.

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  31. ETR, my daughter and s-i-l have put my granddaughters in a Catholic school. She worried about the expense, and I told her that because they were making the right move, it all would work out.

    And it has.

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  32. NY Nana, sorry couldn't view the video "due to copyright restrictions."

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  33. Squatch, I'm right there with you. They would be the first ones freaking out if someone did something similar about GWB - but no one would have.

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  34. JCM,
    I am out of your loop I guess. Here in Germany:
    "This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions."

    If I have search words I could go on from there, in case it's save.

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  35. CC,

    The closest thing on the right is the high regard for the late great Ronald Wilson Reagan.

    But the high regard is not so much for the man, but the ideas he stood for. His is honored for his steadfastness for the ideas, but it is the fundamental ideas that are held in reverence.

    It leads to another aspect of the left right divide. The right we're based on ideas, so when we agree on issue, it's about the issue. Not the individual. We might even disagree about other things.

    On the left they see disagreement about an idea as equivalent with an attack on the individual.

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  36. *biting tongue, biting tongue*


    /ouch.....

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  37. Callahan,

    Here's the title.

    BARACK OBAMA KIDS AND HITLER YOUTH SING FOR THEIR LEADER

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  38. Is it beer o'clock yet? I think I need a drink.

    /captcha: barcut
    //no really

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  39. Phil,

    I think I hear Bar Wench jangling her keys!

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  40. Lets take this conversation in another direction.

    Move on. New adventure. What's done is done.

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  41. Is it beer o'clock yet? I think I need a drink.

    You are 3 drinks behind.

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  42. CC it is down-right scary.

    Please excuse and pardon any delays in posting - grill, dogs, Ms Enuff..schtuff.

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  43. Squatch and Jim in Virginia please check your email.

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