Interesting opinion piece in the WSJ about No Child Left Behind which appears to be exactly what has happened. More and more states are opting for extensions or exclusions because they can’t meet the deadlines required by the Act. This act also prompted the big push for vouchers and charter schools. Since charter schools are starting to really take off, the unions want to get into the business so that they can get more membership and lock up the public school system once again. I get pretty fed up with excuses like we need to “import” more and better talent because we can’t find any home grown. Is it any wonder? Every time we give grace for anything, everyone wants grace. You hold teachers accountable and they do a work-around. Instead of wasting tax dollars on union teachers, sub-standard teachers, and lazy children, why doesn’t the state just give every school age child $500 and let them find their own education. If they want to spend the money for anything else, at this point, I really don’t care anymore. Our future generation of maids, janitors and ditch diggers. Save time worrying about immigration visas for others. If the system is already failing and the kids can’t make a go at it, why continue? Anymore jobs are requiring a minimum of 4 year college degree. Huh? We have plenty of those and no jobs to be had. Half the children with public education STILL can’t read, write or speak. Time we gave up on the nonsense and make the kids and teachers responsible. Let it be their loss, not mine!
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Another women’s self defense introduction class is coming to Sterling.
Eugene Delgaudio Needs You April 20
(Public Statement issued earlier)
I need YOUR help to pass out flyers in Sterling walking door-to-door. Here are the details:
EVENT: Pass out Women’s Self-Defense Seminar flyers with Supervisor Delgaudio
DATE: Saturday, April 20th
TIME: 9:30 AM
LOCATION: Chick-fil-A, 46920 Community Plaza in Sterling (Sugarland Plaza, on Route 7 by the Shoppers)
BREAKFAST AT CHICK-FIL-A INCLUDED! At Chick-fil-A, I will provide breakfast, talk about some upcoming events in Sterling, and then we will head out in groups to go door-to-door to pass out flyers to the Sterling community. I need 20 Sterling American volunteers for this activity.
Supervisor Delgaudio’s WOMEN’S SELF DEFENSE CLASS SATURDAY MAY 4
We put all the top experts in once place.
SATURDAY MAY 4 10 A.M. TO 12 NOON STERLING CLAUDE MOORE REC CENTER on Cascades Parkway in Claude Moore Park. 2 hour Introduction to tactics, physical preparation for self defense along with resources from local experts who either train, teach or arm women as a business or avocation. Free Admission. (LIMIT 100 participants, ten volunteers needed)
The last event became one of the historic moments in Sterling history.
I would highly recommend any self defense classes offered to women and all. The more techniques and learned talents available to you, the more broad and available tools around you will be at the ready. This is an introduction class but further education is what I recommend. Women–refuse to be a victim. Fainting and urinating are NOT self defense techniques. They are “hail Marys” invented by the left and will succeed in getting you hurt or killed. There is no substitute for REAL self defense.
Although all genders are welcome to pass out these flyers, the classes are for WOMEN ONLY! That means gropers, transvestites, girly boys or equal opportunity males need not apply as it is not for them. California has those classes.
I could make a hundred part series about this but I ain’t gunna. It will be a long-short post with enough to prove a point. There are many thousands of examples I could cite but I’ll save that for comments. This isn’t about political parties as much as it is about cultures, therefore, we will deal with just conservative constitutionalists and liberals.
Let’s just start with the name. “Civil War” is a northern coined term. The name infers a conflict between two factions attempting to gain control of the government which was not the case. Neither was it a “War between the States” because, although each state was sovereign, each state was not fighting another state. Rather a collective of states, creating a nation, was fighting another nation. Now Southern Nationalists use and prefer the term “War for Southern Independence” but I don’t really agree with that because through secession, the South had already declared and received its independence. No, it was only when the north invaded the South had war begun and the term most appropriate would be the “War of Northern Aggression”. But I’ll accept any of these terms you use and feel comfortable with here.
How did it come about? The liberal north would have you believe it was about slavery. That is what all the Yankee textbooks say since they have been the “teaching texts” used in public schools since the war began. That would also be the lies that the liberal Yankee politicians and the money-grubbing elitists, with the aid of print (newspapers) and periodicals (magazines) pushed upon the people (sound familiar?). So let’s briefly look at slavery.
Slave trading was in existence before the colonies of America. It was introduced into America decades after the establishment of Jamestown. Slavery was in the U.S. Constitution. Slave trading was sanctioned and protected by international law.. It matters not how anyone feels about slavery today. Of the time it was law and natural order, be it right or wrong. The majority of the population in the colonies could not afford slaves. You also had as many people in the South as in the north that didn’t believe in slavery and thought the practise should be abolished. Slaves were necessary to build the industry in the north as well the farming in the South. Now I will show you a sampling of the deceit, lies and hypocrisy of the north.
Virginia was the first state to prohibit slave trading in 1778. After the law was enacted, any slave that entered the state was deemed “free”. In the north, it wasn’t until there was enough cheap white immigrant labor available for industry before states started “emancipating” slaves. That emancipation worked like this: if you were over 21 years of age when the law came into being then you were deemed “free”. If under 21, you were a slave for live. All children born unto slaves after the law were slaves to age 21. Unlike the South, whites in the north wouldn’t work side by side with slaves and caused great revolts. Matter of fact, Negroes couldn’t do any work that might displace a white worker. Then the north made laws about non-voting and no education for slaves or freemen. Then they changed residency requirements so that freemen couldn’t live among the whites. Sometimes, not even in the STATE! Even though Massachusetts went through emancipation, it NEVER repealed its slave law. But it did pass a law after emancipation that every black, mulatto or Indian that came into the state longer than 2 months would be whipped publicly. If the individual didn’t leave, they would repeat the punishment. Needless to say, Massachusetts got the affect it wanted in ridding itself of those undesirables. Nice, equality, non-racists people, don’t you think?
Since slaves were property and worth so much, before, during and after emancipation (that’s right, AFTER), those kind Yankees would sell their slaves to traders in the Caribbean or the South. After all, it would be a shame to lose on an investment. The “after emancipation” part is when Yankees would capture slaves up north and not return them (which was against the Constitution) but continue SELLING them. This includes the freemen they came across also. Never let a dollar go to waste. You see, as a whole, Yankees didn’t like Negroes nor Indians and they surely didn’t want them around in their neighborhoods. So they promote the lie of civil, equality, non-racists when they were anything but.
So, as you can see, it wasn’t about slaves but about greed and power. I’ll further prove it here. The north’s wealth derived from taxes, tariffs and trade. Before the beginning of hostilities, there were more millionaires in the South than in the north. In 1860, if the South were an independent nation, it would rank 3rd highest of all European and American economies. In 1786, John Jay, of New York, enraged Southerners and showed further the Yankee liberal mentality, by pushing to give rights of the Mississippi to Spain in exchange for ports there. This would have shut down the flow of goods through Southern ports and redirect that trade through the higher tariff northern ports. Just one of many underhanded things liberals pushed.
George Lunt, author of Origin of the Late War noted,
In 1833 there was a surplus revenue of many millions in the public treasury which by an act of legislation unparalleled in the history of nations was distributed among the Northern States to be used for local public improvements.
He never met Obama.
President James Buchanan’s message to Congress declared,
The South had not had her share of money from the treasury, and unjust discrimination had been made against her….
Patrick Henry warned the South about placing her faith in the good will of the north when he spoke out against the proposed Constitution:
But I am sure of the dangers of this system [the Federal Constitution] are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country [the South] are to legislate for us–when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.
Did you notice the use of the word “country” as it pertained to the South even BEFORE the ratification of the Constitution?
Just after the Revolution, northern states transferred all state war debts to the federal government. That debt would be paid by the government raising tariffs, which would be a windfall for the north, while the South paid the lions share of tariffs. My, my. You can think of this as the few paying for the many. You could also compare it to the Southern middle class supporting the Yankee liberal elitists. In 1859, cotton export alone, was valued at $161,434,923 where the TOTAL export of ALL goods from the north was $78,217,202. There is a plethora of examples of how the north passed laws and imposed tariffs on those “ignorant, lazy, rednecks” in the South. Oh, yes, the north hated the South, even more than the Negroes.
Since the beginning settlements, there have been two very different and distinct cultures in America. In the agrarian South, outside of the plantation system of 159,000 individuals, you had plain folk who were not class conscious and not in open competition with larger planters. They believed in GOD, morality, family, community and the freedom and independence from government to pursue happiness and leisure. They had great respect for and communed with nature. Happiness in work and leisure was their understanding and goal. The “money-grubbing” industrial north was focused on dedicated work (think punching a time clock) to earn wage and profit in order to buy “things” (think Paris fashions, fine furniture, show horses, etc.)–all focus being materialistic. Yes, these were two very distinct and different cultures that truly were never homogeneous nor ever could be.
But let’s just put all this cause of hostility into perspective from the words of the great emancipator, Abe Lincoln. When Lincoln was asked why the north should not let the South go, his reply was this:
“Let the South go? Let the South go! Where then shall we get our revenues?”
Where indeed!
I did a post years ago about disrespecting the American flag. Some Richmond blog picked up on it and railed what an aggressive individual I was. Many comments from liberals how it is a right to desecrate the flag and that it is only “cloth”, nothing more. Well, this bone-headed teacher decided to demonstrate ignorance to his class……3 TIMES! You would think that we should be teaching respect and love of our country but I guess not.
At the same time, the Gates did this study about teachers quality related to student test scores. The study has mixed reviews but it tends to be credible for the most part. Now if we can show that good teachers make a difference, why is there so much push-back about evaluations on teachers? Because we might weed out ones like the dipshit above? Because kids might start learning? Because unions promote stupidity? I can think of a thousand excuses but not one good reason. We need to educate our children if we pay for that publicly. We need to send inferior teachers to a fed job or McDonalds. And we need to promote wholesome and moral people for positions in teaching–not ideologues.
Too many commentors here are illogical and irrational. Why? Because they work on “feel good” rather than laws and data. Their information comes from the MSM and there back hip pocket…which means they haven’t a clue. This is a post I am writing so that you may comment yet others haven’t a clue the difference between the two. Clips and magazines, right and wrong, GOD’s law and man’s law. At the bottom of the fold I will attach a funny e-mail I received, only I didn’t laugh. It shows the insanity of those that NEED to feel good without good reason or substantiation. Now the commentors I am talking about wouldn’t have a prayer for credibility if it weren’t for the upside down nature of our recent society where we are being run and dictated to by the asylums of the criminally insane. Yes, I do mean criminal. Not only does the mechanations of this country refute GOD’s law in its daily dealings, they refuse to follow those laws of man. CHANGE. HOPE. PEACE. All hollow words to promote an ideology to further the destruction of our republic, our society and our species.
The polar bears are dying out because of global warming. So are the tigers. You can “figuratively” adopt one for 60 cents a day. Where does the money go? You can help an orphan in another country for the same amount of “saving” a dog from being slaughtered by the SPCA (the same people asking for the money that doesn’t save ANY animal) for just 50 cents. Where does the money go? It is nothing more than “feel good” while doing nothing. NOTHING! How about our homeless? The insane? The working class? Who is there to save them? We have an ignorant degenerate filling the WH with holiday trees while someone dies on a heat vent in the street. We have people pushing gun laws while discipline is taken out of the home, the Constitution is taught incompletely in the schools, national idols are criminals and perverts, and GOD isn’t allowed anywhere near the public square.
There is always a risk in life. By making “feel good” laws, dire consequences prevail. By ignoring those laws which made our republic in the first place, dire consequences prevail. There is no utopia here on earth. We use to do the best we could with parameters but now we just keep muddying the waters with confusion, discord and dismay. Ideology. Other than what our fore-fathers gave us from the beginning, I feel, has no place. Especially when that original pact is mis-interpreted and refused to be followed. We don’t need more “change” going “forward” but to look back from where we started and change things back to where they belong. Any other course is but further destruction of our intended way of life continue reading…
Um, like, well….I just axe that read this article.. From what I am reading with the comments, this comes just in time. Many have reading comprehension and I can start to understand why. The article seems to cross so many boundaries and touch most aspects of our lives and well being.
My daughters used to bug the heck out of me, always asking what this word and that word meant. “I need to do my homework and I don’t know what is being said”. Well, I fixed that. I bought them a Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary for them to do their own research. Between the useless complaining on their part and my being stubborn, they figured it all out and did fine by it. Their vocabulary and understanding excelled because THEY got better understanding by researching on their own. I don’t ever mind helping nor do I mind giving a push. I DO mind when I am being conned or expected to do the work for someone else who wants to take the easy way out. I see both the laziness and the results of a lack of initiative this article alludes to. Some people commenting here might be enlightened by it. As Wolve says, NVCC is right down the road and willing to help.
You already know how I feel about unions and public schools. Let me preface this-again-with “there are good teachers and there are those where it is nothing more than a job, benefits and a pay check”. This is one big Charlie Foxtrot.
The governor of Louisiana (pronounced LOU-ZEE-ANNA) felt the state needed to help those kids in C, D and F rated schools get an education so what he did was give vouchers for those in need of an education. Why weren’t those kids learning in those schools? Must have been the buildings. Oops, buildings don’t teach. Must have been the kids. No, they were looking for the education they weren’t getting from the C, D an F schools. I wonder who to blame here? Anyway, the teachers union got wind of this and sued the state to put the kids BACK INTO THOSE BAD SCHOOLS! Really? I thought liberals cried about everything for the children. Where was their sympathy in this case? Right, it’s about the paycheck. How can they hold their positions if the kids vacate the schools, just so that they can learn. This is how pathetic things have gotten.
Oh, wait! Seems a judge has sided with the teachers as you can see in this article. Bobby is hopping mad and rightly so. I think he should start taking some of the monies for allocation and start giving less to the PS and more into vouchers. Put enough bad teachers on the unemployment line and maybe they will catch on. If not, oh well. At least the kids won’t have to suffer stupid and maybe have a chance at self responsibility and an earned living through a REAL education.
