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a wise insider Rayo.Azul

It occurs to me that as they seek to overwhelm every system, we are all going to be faced with individually-overwhelming force, and it will be much more necessary to help our neighbors and friends in ways we would never have done before. Prayers will be needed. Service will be needed. Work will be needed. No more living near people and never knowing a thing about them. We will have to become a whole network of support for one another. If we don’t, then we will fall individually before the onslaughts leveled against us.

“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out, many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs. . .
It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names”
Barack Hussein Obama from Dreams of My Father

“I found solice in nursing a pervasive sense of grievancee and animosity against my mother’s race”
Barack Hussein Obama from Dreams of My Father

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The Whitehouse has plans also to directly educate the children about the importance of healthcare reform, the census and the environment. This is just the beginning. Why not address the children when they are home, with their parents?

So that you can see how the children are being enlisted to help produce propaganda for this administration, the classroom helps for k-6 teachers is pasted below the letter. Additional helps for grades 7-12 teachers are linked in the body of the letter.

In a related story, this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcPA1ysSbw (be sure to watch to the end) was shown at a school assembly in Farmington UT. Where else might children be viewing it?

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Dear Principal:
In a recent interview with student reporter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP-695ATg-c, Damon Weaver, President Obama announced that on September 8 — the first day of school for many children across America — he will deliver a national address directly to students on the importance of education. The President will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning. He will also call for a shared responsibility and commitment on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that every child in every school receives the best education possible so they can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives as American citizens.

Since taking office, the President has repeatedly focused on education, even as the country faces two wars, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and major challenges on issues like energy and health care. The President believes that education is a critical part of building a new foundation for the American economy. Educated people are more active civically and better informed on issues affecting their lives, their families and their futures.

This is the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation’s school children about persisting and succeeding in school. We encourage you to use this historic moment to help your students get focused and begin the school year strong. I encourage you, your teachers, and students to join me in watching the President deliver this address on Tuesday, September 8, 2009. It will be broadcast live on the White House website http://www.whitehouse.gov 12:00 noon eastern standard time.

In advance of this address, we would like to share the following resources: a menu of classroom activities for students in grades preK-6 and for students in grades 7-12. These are ideas developed by and for teachers to help engage students and stimulate discussion on the importance of education in their lives. We are also staging a student video contest on education. Details of the video contest will be available on our website http://www.ed.gov in the coming weeks.

On behalf of all Americans, I want to thank our educators who do society’s most important work by preparing our children for work and for life. No other task is more critical to our economic future and our social progress. I look forward to working with you in the months and years ahead to continue improving the quality of public education we provide all of our children.

Sincerely,

A. D.(abbreviated for their protection)

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PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities: President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009

Before the Speech:
• Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by asking the following questions:
Who is the President of the United States?
What do you think it takes to be President?
To whom do you think the President is going to be speaking?
Why do you think he wants to speak to you?
What do you think he will say to you?
• Teachers can ask students to imagine being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools? Teachers can chart ideas about what they would say.
• Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
During the Speech:
• As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
What is the President trying to tell me?
What is the President asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
• Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
• Students can record any questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions.

After the Speech:
• Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty.
• Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:
What do you think the President wants us to do?
Does the speech make you want to do anything?
Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
What would you like to tell the President?
• Teachers could encourage students to participate in the Department of Education’s “I Am What I Learn” video contest. On September 8th the Department will invite K-12 students to submit a video no longer than 2 min, explaining why education is important and how their education will help them achieve their dreams. Teachers are welcome to incorporate the same or a similar video project into an assignment. More details will be released via http://www.ed.gov.

Extension of the Speech: Teachers can extend learning by having students
• Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in those areas. It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily.
• Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.
• Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom.
• Interview and share about their goals with one another to create a supportive community.
• Participate in School wide incentive programs or contests for students who achieve their goals.
• Write about their goals in a variety of genres, i.e. poems, songs, personal essays.
• Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.
• Graph student progress toward goals.

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the quote i was looking for but didn’t have in front of me :

“I found solice in nursing a pervasive sense of grievancee and animosity against my mother’s race”
Barack Hussein Obama from Dreams of My Father
he is selling us into slavery…

take off your rosy glasses and LOOK at his advisers his self-appointed communist,Marxist and socialist Czarsthe people and places he was raised in ..

in his own words he is racist.
he a spoiled narcissistic brat.
he is NOT a role model.
look at his own actions on 9-11 last year contemptuously tossing a rose  his own wife cared NOT to accompany him.
he has no respect for our military or veterans or old people. or the constitution.

So today i’ve done a lot of thinking about political parties..

you see this week I have gotten a lot of people telling me how I HAVE to think .

or telling me I’m not “enough” of something to belong in a group.

I’ve been told I’m not libertarian enough:

because I refuse to support amnesty for illegals.

because I’m pro-life

That I’m not pagan enough because I’m pro life.

That I’m not pagan enough because I’m a capitalist.
Ect..

so.

I have decided to . disown the lot of the party system .

BTW i feel the libertarians are being usurped by liberals .. playing word games just like they used to usurp first the democrats in the 1960’s and 1970’s then the Republicans in the mid 1990’s and 2000’s .

I feel from 2005 on the libertarian party has been co-opted by “progressives” who don’t have a spine but plenty of shiny new words…

So as I do yearly about this time I’m going to examine where I stand on my political ideals .. my value system ..

I know I have shifted a bit from last year .

so here goes , Why Mary Conley is unelectable..and doesn’t fit any molds ..

Energy

1 word :capitalism,

let the free market decide. we aren’t stupid. I was buying CFL bulbs before they were trendy because i liked not having to replace them every 1 to 2 year and the cost cut in my electric bill. although there are somethings they just don’t work in … dimmer switches.. now LED’s they work in dimmers are less toxic and even more cost effective..

I resent the government telling me , what light bulb i MUST buy. how hot or cold my rooms can be . when i can have my lights on, how much water i can use like I’m some freaking 2 years old.

I’m not stupid ,and I’m probably more environmentally conscious then half the moronic greenies out in Los Angeles that drive there “carbon off set” hummers to work with just one person in the vehicle and tall mocha-frappecino on the 10 hypocrisy it kills me !!

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By the way my gas powered Civic gets better highway mileage then your Prius , my battery doesn’t have a half-life of doom ..and my car is almost fully recyclable. where as yours is toxic.

Crime/ Defense

the FEDERAL government should only be responsible for punishing people who commit treason, or terrorism. this includes illegal aliens that commit crimes fall under federal offense and should be dealt with harshly.

the very purpose of Government, as defined in the 2nd paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, is “to secure these [unalienable] rights, Governments are instituted among Men”, “that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

To fulfill this obligation, the Preamble of the Constitution states one of the duties specifically delegated to the Federal Government is to “Provide for the common defense”.

US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clauses 11 – 16 give Congress further direction and authority in this area, including the power “To raise and support Armies” and “To provide and maintain a Navy”.

I support capital punishment when the punishment fits the crime.

 

Federal involvement in state and local criminal justice processes should be limited to that which is Constitutionally permitted.

All other crimes and laws need to fall to the states .

In other words it should be up to the states to regulate drugs, and legalize them if they want up to the states to set the laws and punishments and to enforce them , without fear of repercussion from the federal government.

and yes I Do think we should legalize cannabis as a Prescription Drug .

Use the model that is working in southern CA set up by the Farmacy.

again supported here:

The 10th Amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The 4th Amendment states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

 

Gun Control

nope

I’m an NRA member, subscribed to the liberty mag , not the hunting or sport one that really should sum it up…. the second amendment , isn’t about.

hunting or sport it is about protecting yourself from the government .

“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”

– Thomas Paine, American revolutionary.

 

 

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

Thomas Jefferson
1743–1826

 

The 2nd Amendment strictly limits any interference with gun ownership by saying: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

 

 

Big Government ?

I believe that the Authority of the federal government is extremely limited . that is to establish and maintain post roads ..and to Protect out boarders

The closer civil government is to the people, the more responsible, responsive, and accountable it is likely to be. The Constitution, itself, in Articles I through VI, enumerates the powers which may be exercised by the federal government. Of particular importance is Article I, Section 8 which delineates the authority of the Congress.

The federal government was clearly established as a government of limited authority. The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution specifically provides that: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

James Madison said: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.” (Federalist Papers #45) The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people (Amendment X).

constitutional parties website

Domestic Federal Aid/welfare

I’m 100% against any federal welfare. again back to the tenth amendment .

it’s not the Governments job to take care of you..I read this today and Ii think it sums it up nicely.. again from the constitution party’s website.

The Declaration of Independence declares “all men … are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights …That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men …“

The Preamble of the US Constitution shows how these rights are to be secured including “provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare“.

Two clear distinctions should be made here:

1. Provide implies actively and financially supporting, promote implies a more passive approach.

   • For example, I’ll promote that we put on a grand feast, but I want you to provide it!

2. General Welfare is not the same as individual Welfare. General Welfare would benefit the people generally; individual Welfare targets a certain segment of society to benefit, such as the poor.

Providing Individual Welfare is not authorized in the Constitution.

Education

I also tend to agree wit the libertarians on welfare and education.

I feel the Federal government should have no say on how our children are taught.

that homeschooling shouldn’t be demonized , and that all schools should be private.

I also support disbanding all unions.

Unions are a relic of a fascist time in the United States and should be disbanded.

They are no longer needed , all States have adopted Labor laws that were not present when unions were needed and they have served there purpose .

I feel they are now thug organizations , coming repeatedly to the defense of immoral, sometimes criminal teachers at the risk of our children ,. while forcing more money to be funneled to either the unions or these bad teachers(teachers that are benched or sent home on paid leave ) . Unions allow accountability and consequence to be taken away , the lose of these things dull the work ethic of the teachers and hurts the educational quality our children receive.

I feel good teachers should be able to get promoted regardless of “tenure” if their children are learning, and excelling and Bad teachers should be able to be fired, with out having to go thru long drug out battles .

example from a LA times story

Joseph Walker, former principal of Grant High School in Van Nuys, says that because of the uphill battles that administrators face in terminating teachers: “You’re not going to fire someone who’s not doing their job. And if you have someone who’s done something really egregious, there’s only a 50-50 chance that you can fire them.”

Environment: see energy!

controlled burns are GOOD, as is thinning the white tail herd in NY!!!

Health Care and Government

word :capitalism,

let the free market decide. we aren’t stupid.

Executive Orders

bad mojo!

again I shall let the constitution party people sum it up..

 

Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution clearly restricts the power to make laws: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States”.

Presidential Executive Orders are clearly “legislative powers”.

We oppose the use of Presidential executive orders that make law or otherwise usurp the Constitutional authority and responsibilities of the legislative and judicial branches. This Constitutionally subversive practice must be stopped by Congress. All unconstitutional executive orders must be repealed.

if they were slightly less preachy I’d join these guys..

unfortunately I feel a Pagan showing up at there party

…… would get me burned at the stake…

Immigration

enough…

i support the entire stance of the constitution party in this matter

Immigration

US Constitution, Article 4, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; James Madison: “When we are considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to guard against abuses … aliens might acquire the right of citizenship, and return to the country from which they came, and evade the laws intended to encourage the commerce and industry of the real citizens and inhabitants of America, enjoying at the same time all the advantages of citizens…”

We affirm the integrity of the international borders of these United States and the Constitutional authority and duty of the federal government to guard and to protect those borders, including the regulation of the numbers and of the qualifications of immigrants into the country.

all of it :

Social Security

I don’t believe the federal government should provide any welfare .

I believe that citizens should have private savings and be responsible for themselves and their families .

I believe that the government should stay out of business to ensure a more robust and stable market , by allowing the natural course of business evolve .

Taxes

I do not feel that income tax is legal.

That 95% of federal programs should be cut or handed over to the states, or privatized

Family

well here I agree with a simple statement made by Glenn Beck…

 

The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.

 

Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson

 

 

I’m moving 2000 miles back cross the country for several reasons . Of those reasons the most important is to be closer to my family.

Matthew is staying behind in Los Angeles for a few months but they will go fast ,and we will be home on the east cost .

He misses his nieces and nephews and his father. We would rather take huge pay cuts then continue living so far from the ones we love.

 

Faith

I believe there is a creator.

yes I am Pagan to be precise a Devotee of Brighid ,

I’ve spoken on values vs belief before.. here.. if you want to delve deeper into that subject from my point of view.

Sanctity of Life

 

One of the changes from last years view was I was Pseudo-pro choice , to a a serious change of heart and a staunch pro-lifer.

chalk it up to motherly instinct kicking in if you want .

But what really opened my eyes was an article written by a mid-wife and witch that is in the right hand column “pagans for life”.

This was the first time I saw the Pro-life movement addressed from another Pagans perspective and it means a world to me to have a reaffirming view point.

We need strongly committed speakers to reinforce what out hearts tell us but our head ..barraged by the general “consensus” , stereotypes and static externally fed to us, , rationalizes and ignores .

The Declaration of Independence states:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.

The Preamble of the Constitution states a purpose of the Constitution to be to:

“secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”.

We declare the unalienable right of Life to be secured by our Constitution “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Our posterity includes children born and future generations yet unborn. Any legalization of the termination of innocent life of the born or unborn is a direct violation of our unalienable right to life.

I don’t fit any one party but their are bits of other parties I agree with .

this snip-it comes from the constitutional parties website , some of this come from the libertarians most of it is snipped directly from the founding documents and words of our founding fathers.

and these are my positions in 2009 .

right wing extremist shop , an answering comments:
http://www.cafepress.com/Ps…

The back of the shirt is the bill of rights Paraphrased with the full text of the tenth amendment .I’m a right wing extremest .. the T shirt

Im a Right Wing Extremist :

I Believe :

in the RIGHT to life, including the unborn ,
in the RIGHT to worship or not, in a manner I choose
in the RIGHT to Liberty and Freedom.
in the RIGHT to PURSUE happiness
in the RIGHT to Bear Arms
that the Government works for ME ,not I for it.
that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,

or to the people.
I believe we should honor our soldiers, and veterans .

I believe in the right NOT to have my children and grandchildren
SPENT into slavery by the federal Government !

I also made “Don’t tread on me .

and Pro-Life Pagan shirts .

since I’m in the teeny % of a teeny % of a teeny % faction of paganism or at least it seems that but I’m willing to bet their are more conservative Pagan out ther , there just still in hiding.

come out come out !!