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I’m appalled that liberal ideology has pushed its way into the preschool arena. I should not be appalled because every day we wake up to another horror from this administration. From where in our country do these sick and twisted ideas begin?

Safe School Czar (which after some investigation you will agree is an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one) Kevin Jennings is the former head of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) whose stated mission is:
to empower gay youth in the schools and to stop harassment by other students. It encourages the formation of Gay Student Alliances and condemns the use of hateful words. GLSEN also strives to influence the educational curriculum to include materials which the group believes will increase tolerance of gay students and decrease bullying.

What is amazing is the list of recommended reading the group proposes for teachers to purchase for required reading or for students themselves to obtain. From Big Government:
Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one’s self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview.

This is the America promoted by Barack Obama and the radical far left. A March 2000 GLSEN youth conference at Tuft University was fully supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education and some of the presenters even received our tax dollars!

So it is not surprising to read about the Helena Montana Public School Board considering a graphic sexual curriculum for preschool and primary students. The K12FinalHealth will be voted on by the board next month. The Montana Family Foundation is fighting the proposal:

According to the draft proposal, beginning in kindergarten, school nurses will teach students proper terms such as “nipple, breast, penis, scrotum and uterus.” And once they are promoted to first grade, children will learn that sexual relations could happen between two men or two women. By the time students are 10 years old, instruction will include the various ways people can have intercourse, be it vaginally, orally or through “anal penetration,” according to the proposal.

I think the worst thing beyond this dangerous proposal and direction our public schools are taking in this “politically correct” environment is the attempt to take over for parental responsibility in a nanny state. The McDonald’s Happy Meal debacle is just one example–deciding that it is appropriate to teach graphic sexual content to primary students goes beyond the pale.

Each morning before my long onerous workday, I try to read a little of the Bible. I have a version that is chronological to the events as they actually happened. It’s slow going: I figure at the rate I’m moving, I’ll be done in 5 years (Hah!). Right now I’m reading Numbers. Moses has gotten the Jews and their life of torture away from Egypt (Exodus) and they are beginning their 40-year wander of the desert. The reason they are wandering the desert is because they refused to maintain their faith in God when He provided for them multiple times (saving them from the Egyptians, taking them through the Red Sea, feeding them with manna, giving them the tabernacle, etc.). I think the last straw for God was when they refused to have faith that He’d save them from the Amalekites and Canaanites who according to their scouts were “giants” who would crush them. Even though Canaan was the “land of milk and honey” promised to them, they just couldn’t wrap their little nomad brains around it. So God gave them 40 years to wander through the desert and think about it, letting natural death take its toll. Many of those who had begun the trip with Moses never made it there.

As I read this each morning and especially this July 4th weekend, I am having a dawning awakening of the road we’ve been on in America for over a hundred years. We started out with a belief in God’s natural laws being higher than even our Constitution—the law of the land. From an early writing of The Forerunner:

To understand the Constitution and this government of laws, it is important that we realize that the founders saw that because the rights they were seeking to protect were God- given, Creator- endowed rights, they would not be able to be sustained in society unless they were protected under a code of law which was itself in harmony with the Creator’s law. They called this higher law, “natural law” or the “laws of nature.” James Madison, known as the major framer of the American Constitution, and one of its brilliant defenders, identified the leading principle for the success of the first form of a Republican government: “We have stacked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self- government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”

The Declaration of Independence was revered by our 16th president. Abraham Lincoln stated in his famous Gettysburg address:

…It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

How far we have come from when those historic words were spoken. Little by little, we have allowed our liberties to be spuriously dismantled by self-satisfaction and complacency. Laws have been passed, liberals elected to decision making positions, “progressive” leftists put in the White House, judges allowed to create law from the bench and all of this moving further and further away from the incredible blessings we were given whence we first began.

When I heard Elena Kagan feign ignorance about the credence of the Declaration of Independence that 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….

…I felt such disgust. In so many ways, we have moved far from the ideals, which began this exceptional country. And let’s look at that Declaration of Independence. Let’s look at what our forefathers said in this famous document about a tyranny rule in England:

“…But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity, which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain {King George III} is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.”

And then the Crafters listed the series of events behind their decision to push for independence from England. It was a message to the world that heralded substantiation for what was to come–the American Revolution of 1776. As I re-read this document, the many liberties that have eroded away from Americans seemed to call out from the page as if an epistle from the past. Some of the violations the founders experienced are eerily similar to what is happening now. I listed what I find to be stark comparisons. Others stated in the original Declaration of Independence have not yet happened to this generation but they serve as beacons of warning for our future if our present administration is not stopped.

They wrote, in part: To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world…

King George and Obama

Sources: Red State, Chicagobluesgirl, Fox News, Weekly Standard, Hot Air, Reuters, Mega Dittos, Fox News

Furthermore, our forefathers stated:
“In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

The importance of getting authentic conservatives into Congress cannot be overstated. November 2010 truly is our last opportunity to save America. There will not be another one.

Like the Jews who became complacent with all God had done for them and ended up wandering the desert for 40 years, so we will be consigned to a different way of life for us and for our descendants for generations to come.
Continue reading ‘Wandering for Generations Toward Despotism’

From 73Wire.com: There is much behind the story of what got us here; Democrats historically have painted a picture of the GOP being evil and corrupted by the big money from the big donors that they would have you believe are the root cause of all that has gone wrong with America. From “big oil” to Wall Street to rich people of all shapes and sizes, Democrats want to decide for us who can be trusted and who can not. Of course, anyone paying close enough attention will quickly realize that organizations such as CodePink, MoveOn, the now-defunct ACORN, and the SEIU (read “big” labor) have been in the back pockets of Democrats for a generation…so the real issue here is not THAT a lot of money is at stake when Politicians run for office…it’s which stack of cash is clean and which is dirty…and who DECIDES.

In the case of the recently-passed DISCLOSE Act, the lights have finally been turned on in America’s kitchen and the Democrat roaches are ducking for cover (along with the 2 Republicans who voted alongside them- Cao and Castle). It’s a fairly short bill compared with others (such as the Health Care Reform debacle) and even those not readily inclined to understand “lawyer speak” should be able to traverse its sections and “wherefores” sufficiently enough to understand its basic intent…what is less obvious is the impact it will have on our ability to directly participate in the Political process…OUR political process…to the extent our Constitution had always intended.

This bill will allow big organizations to continue donating big dollars to Politicians, so long as their membership is over 500,000 strong, they have at least one member residing in every state, and they meet certain tax-exempt criteria. It also prevents large dollars from being donated by individuals and small groups and… in my opinion worst of all…it extends to 90 days prior to an election all the limitations to free speech we were guaranteed in the Constitution would never be abridged… and just barely “got back” when the Supreme Court struck down parts of the ill-conceived McCain-Feingold bill when it rendered its Citizens United decision:

‘(B) in the case of a communication which refers to a candidate for any other Federal office, the period–
‘(i) beginning with the date that is 90 days before the earliest of the primary election, preference election, or nominating convention with respect to the nomination for the office that the candidate is seeking; and
‘(ii) ending with the date of the general election for such office.

This is outrageous. But it is instructive as well. We can no longer engage in discussions about candidates and their campaigns and their policy positions during the period 90 days prior to their primary/caucus/conventions and running all the way through the November election. In the case of President and Vice President it’s 120 days. Not only are we not allowed to speak…we’re not allowed to speak during the WHOLE of the campaign and election cycle when people are actually paying attention enough to consider whether they’ll even bother going to the polls! Democrats have the most to gain here…it is the Democrat party “we, the People” mean to teach a lesson to in 2010, and they’re trying to fend off the revolt that’s already being amassed against them before it’s too late.

On the grounds of having our freedom of speech revoked, alone, this bill should not be signed into law. I’m moderately optimistic that, even if Obama DOES sign it, the Supreme Court will quickly strike it down. Until then, you only need to understand 2 simple points; we’re not allowed to speak with our mouths or keyboards or checkbooks, and unless we belong to an organization with membership sizes only the big Labor Unions currently enjoy, we’re not even allowed to participate in a campaign…other than to cast a vote in the primary and the General election.

Understand this as you consider the implications for Tea Party movements, people looking to become Precinct Committeemen, or work directly FOR a campaign; don’t bother (according to the Democrat intentions here) because your voice won’t count, your money’s not welcome, and your opinion is no longer suitable for public purview…it has been outlawed.

Solicitor General Elana Kagan should be opposed for any number of reasons:

• She is a judicial activist, who agrees with former Justice Thurgood Marshall that the Constitution given to us by the Framers was “defective” and that it contained “outdated notions of liberty, justice and equality.”
• Her “judicial hero” is former Israeli justice Aharon Barak, who said a judge “may give a statute a new meaning … the statute remains as it was, but its meaning changes, because the court has given it a new meaning that suits new social needs.”
• She is anti-military and pro-homosexual. While dean of the Harvard Law School, she kicked military recruiters off campus, in defiance of a federal law which had been upheld by the Supreme Court on a unanimous vote. She said she “abhorred” the military’s ban on open homosexual service, and called it a “moral injustice of the first order.”
• She believes in the supremacy of international law over the Constitution. While dean at Harvard Law, she dropped the required course in the Constitution and replaced it with a required course on international law.
• She is pro-abortion and anti-life. She has contributed financially to pro-abortion groups, and believes that abortions should be taxpayer funded.
• She believes that the government may ban political pamphlets and books during an election season, in violation of the First Amendment’s free speech protections.
• She is anti-Second Amendment. She is “not sympathetic” to the claim that individuals have the right to keep and bear arms under the Constitution.
• She is pro-Muslim. At the same time she kicked military recruiters off campus, she allowed Saudi Arabia to recruit lawyers for work on Shariah-Compliant Finance.
• She is anti-capitalist and pro-socialist, once writing glowingly of “socialism’s greatness.”
• Former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork said that if Kagan is confirmed “you will have a court that is much more to the left than we have today.”

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Why do over 90% of blacks still support Obama? In a June 2010 article from Medhill Report out of Northwestern University in Chicago, we learn some interesting though not surprising opinions regarding this phenomena:

“For so long, we’ve heard ‘we black, we this, we can’t rise above, can’t get a job,’” said Thomas, who has worked to help black families in Garfield Park for the last 10 years. “But it can be done, it’s proven. Look at Obama. Look at what he did.”
“It’s about job security with me,” said Billy Avery, a letter carrier for 25 years. “I have a feeling that Obama, who came from nothing, will have my back when times get hard. So I bring that to work with me.”
Lang said an Obama administration is capable of the same types of social changes put forth by Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
“He doesn’t have to do anything for me,” she said. “He’s already done so much for African-Americans by just being elected. But he will do what he promised for the nation. He’s a hard worker and he’ll have help.”
“I work with kids who sometimes feel as though hope is lost or that things will not change in their communities,” said Lenore, who also coaches North Lawndale’s baseball and bowling teams. “Barack came from similar situations as these kids, not having his father around. My students can now say, ‘somebody that looks just like me can have the highest office.’”
“Any African-American can make it as long as they put their mind to it,” said Darrius Caston, an 18-year-old senior.
“If Obama can become the president, I can do my homework and I can handle school,” Stewart said.
To Lenore, an Obama presidency can change perceptions and realities in a struggling neighborhood like North Lawndale.

What these and other statements I’ve heard say to me is that Obama does not have to do anything at all to change things for the better and it does not matter if in actuality he changes things for the worse–the fact that he got elected–that he is a black figurehead is all he has to do for this population. If the black face on the television and in the news says inspiring things, looks and acts the part, it is enough of an incentive to garner black American support. Only 11% after almost two years of destruction of our constitution can see the danger in this man. Perception and impression are hard icons to break down it would seem. And, the belief that government must “do something for us” has deep roots in the community.

On the other hand, what would be some signs that the mystique is beginning to crack or fade? What would it take to shake the foundation on which this group stands?
Doug McAdam is a sociology professor and director of urban studies at Stanford University. He said the optimism created by Obama’s campaign could fall flat if his administration is unsuccessful in delivering policy change or economic improvement.

“There’s a real potential for disillusionment or renewed despair two years into his administration,” McAdam said. “And beyond this disillusionment, it’s possible down the road for many to call for the end to programs such as affirmative action because Obama’s in office.”

But the fact that the seeds of economic destruction have already been planted and in many cases born fruit and promulgated does not seem to have sunken in. For the past half century a Democratic presidential candidate has been guaranteed an automatic 85 to 90 percent of the black vote. This stands in stark contrast to rampant evidence that Democrats have sought for this same amount of time to keep minorities in poverty and in need purely for the sake of Democrat votes and power. The left, who has hijacked the Democrat party, seeks to do the same to the Hispanic population in this country. The destruction of the black family is a prelude to what will happen to the now strong and hard working Hispanic family institution. Case in point is the recent failure of the voucher system which sought to raise minority children out of failing public schools. It was the Democrat supported unions that kept this vote from going forward.

The Republican party has done more for the black population and family than the Democrat party has ever promised to do (and has not done). The lip-service and media hype for the left gives the “appearance” of helping the downtrodden but in actuality keeps minorities and the poor subjugated for its own gain. From Black-and-Right Blog:

“…this is what happens when blacks blindly give their support to a party that has to be reminded every two years not to take it for granted. Obama Democrats, too, believe they have the black vote locked and now can devote the rest of their time using the usual race-baiting tactics aimed at illegal Latinos.”

It is true that the GOP is FOR ALL Americans but you would never know it by listening to Michael Steele the supposed head of this party.
“You really don’t have a reason to {vote Republican}, to be honest — we haven’t done a very good job of really giving you one. True? True,” Republican National Chairman Michael Steele told 200 DePaul University students Tuesday night.
Duane Lester, the author of this April 2010 article in American Blogger, states quite plainly what Steele should have said but didn’t:
1. Black Americans should vote Republican because we know the economic policies of the Democratic party hurt your demographic especially hard. Consider the minimum wage. When it is raised, young black Americans face higher unemployment rates than other demographics.
2. Black Americans should vote for Republicans because the policies of the Democrat party have destroyed the black family. Look at what Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society has done to the black family. It’s in ruins. It wasn’t Republicans that did that. It was Democrats.
3. Black Americans should vote for Republicans not because of what Republicans will do for black Americans but because we stand for all Americans. We don’t differentiate between races or religions. We don’t believe in group or identity politics. To the Republican party, it’s about protecting the liberties of all Americans equally.

And this protection extends to Latinos, blacks and ALL Americans. But blacks and Latinos may find themselves in opposition to each other helped, in part, by the vote-getting maneuvering by the Democrat Party: From Black-and-Right:

Blacks are not impressed by the law-breaking, self-inflicted adversity suffered by illegal aliens, in fact some are downright hostile. All one need to and look at the make up of South Central Los Angeles, formerly the black community.

It is brown and the Latinos there have been quite public with their intent to drive blacks out. Peacefully by breeding, violent if necessary.
With the latest crisis that can’t go to waste, the Obama Administration is now using the Arizona immigration law to codify the Latino vote against Republicans in an attempt to save the Democrat majority. I guess one could say it’s ironic that the same party that excused its own segregationist past by revising the intent of the ‘Southern Strategy’, has now implemented its own.