That Entitlement Mentality...
>> January 29, 2010
where does it come from you ask? From the top down it would seem.
A recent article in World Net Daily suggests that Speaker Pelosi is hosting a year round frat party and we're not invited!
Read the whole thing here. Read more...
"Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said today. "And these documents suggest the Speaker's congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else."
Pelosi, D-Calif., recently joined President Obama on a Judicial Watch list of Top 10 corrupt politicians because of her "sense of entitlement," the group said.
"Politicians believe laws and rules (even the U.S. Constitution) apply to the rest of us but not to them. Case in point: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her excessive and boorish demands for military travel. Judicial Watch obtained documents from the Pentagon in 2008 that suggest Pelosi has been treating the Air Force like her own personal airline," the evaluation said
More Motivation
Ok, so the last one wasn't exactly a "Miss Me Yet" moment. Can't blame a guy for tryin'. Whilst I was having fun with the Automotivator, I couldn't help myself, so here's another.
The Automaton's First Automotivator
>> January 28, 2010
As a possible fourth panel to the Troglopundit's ongoing motivator series, I submit....
Update: Thanks Mr. Troglopundit sir.
Update II: Linked by Moe Lane. Much obliged. Read more...
Update II: Linked by Moe Lane. Much obliged. Read more...
Left Wing Propaganda Forced on TX Teachers
>> January 27, 2010
In this installment of The Peter Morrison Report:
Public schools in Texas are already steeped in political correctness, but the never-ending assault on our children's minds by way of liberal indoctrination is getting even worse. A recent report from a whistle blower reveals the far left-wing agenda being pushed on our children in the guise of education.
Click here to send a fax to TEA Commissioner Robert Scott to let him know Texans do not want their teachers to be subjected to left-wing propaganda:
http://www.morrisonreport.com/fax_test/index.php?faxID=86
Commissioner Robert Scott
William B. Travis Building
1701 N. Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas, 78701
Phone: 512-463-8985
Fax: (512) 463-9838
Email: commissioner@tea.state.tx.us
Full report:
Recently the conservative website WorldNetDaily featured a shocking report from someone in the process of applying for teaching certification in Texas. As part of the certification process, he
was required to read several extremely disturbing online articles. He chose to remain anonymous for fear of being punished for speaking out, because there are radicals deeply entrenched in the
Texas educational system who don't want this information to be made public.
Some of the materials that this prospective teacher was forced to read if he wanted to be certified to teach in a public school had absolutely nothing to do with education as most people understand it. Instead, their purpose was instilling in future teachers the idea that their role in kids' lives is to act as agents of "social change" in the classroom, all in the name of "multiculturalism."
Multiculturalism is one of those liberal buzzwords that are so dangerous precisely because they can mean whatever the speaker or writer wants them to mean. In the past few decades, innocuous sounding terms like "social justice" and "celebrating diversity" have become code words used to sneak a radical left wing agenda past an unsuspecting public. Extreme liberals now want to use teachers to indoctrinate our children in the name of multiculturalism.
On one of the websites that is required reading for future teachers, there's a discussion of what multiculturalism means. Even this site admits that there's no fixed meaning; but all the
definitions they propose make it clear just what multiculturalism is all about - indoctrinating our kids with a radical left-wing agenda. One of their suggested definitions is "education change as
part of a larger societal transformation in which we more closely explore and criticize the oppressive foundations of society and how education serves to maintain the status quo -- foundations such as white supremacy, capitalism, global socioeconomic situations, and
exploitation."
This ideological jargon makes it perfectly clear what our kids will be learning if we don't put a stop to this. They'll be taught that white people are a bunch of racists; free enterprise is unjust and socialism means fairness for all; and the main reason third world nations are impoverished is because they've been exploited by greedy, oppressive Western countries. In other words, instead of being given a real education, our children will be taught the philosophy espoused by Barack Obama and his former pastor Jeremiah Wright, who famously said "white folk's greed runs a world in need."
That's just the beginning. If there's one trait all left wingers share, it's their unrelenting hatred of traditional family values. The new "certification standards" that liberals want to impose on
Texas teachers are no exception. Future teachers are warned that they must not harbor any feelings of "heterosexism," and that one of their main functions as a teacher will be to eliminate this same "heterosexism" in their students. This is apparently just as important as teaching reading, writing and arithmetic, if not more so, because schools now serve a higher purpose, which is "the transformation of society" to eliminate all forms of "prejudice" and "oppression."
Heterosexism is the radical new PC term for the belief that homosexual conduct is immoral, or in any way inferior to heterosexual behavior. It's now established liberal doctrine that homosexuality and heterosexuality are moral equivalents which should be treated exactly alike, and anyone who disagrees is guilty of "hate." Of course, traditional Americans don't view homosexuality as being on an equal plane with opposite sex attraction, and part of the teacher's job is to eradicate this "privileging" of heterosexuality in the minds of our children. The ultimate goal is the very "transformation of society", in the words of the radical left wing website future teachers are required to read.
What would a "transformed society" look like to these people? Look no further than a book published in October of last year by Sarah Schulman to see what they have in mind for us. Schulman is a lesbian activist, as well as a professor at City University of New York, College of Staten Island. She's also a Fellow at New York University, and is considered one of the leaders in the fight against "homophobia" and "heterosexism" in America. Here's what one reviewer says of her book, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences: "In her book, Schulman offers a strategy for dealing with homophobic trauma: Homophobia should be identified as a sickness, with families court-ordered into treatment programs." To be clear, Schulman is not talking about people who physically assault homosexuals. She's talking about people who regard homosexuality as immoral. She says they're "sick" and they should be forced into "treatment" until they're "cured."
That's just one aspect of the "transformation of society" agenda Texas teachers are now expected to take part in. These social engineers want Texas schools to teach this moral insanity to our
innocent children, in order to lead the next generation into their brave new world, where free enterprise is oppression, Mom and Dad are racists, America and the rest of the Western World are the cause of third world poverty, and Christianity and traditional moral values are labeled as hate.
It's imperative that we raise our voices against our schools being used to perpetrate this outrageous radical agenda. This sort of stuff is the last thing our future teachers should be reading, but some of them are being forced to if they want to become teachers. When WorldNetDaily contacted the Texas Education Agency about this, their spokesperson downplayed it, saying these new "standards" aren't statewide; Texas schools are divided into 20 Education Service Center regions, and so it's only a regional issue, as if that settled the matter.
That's not good enough. None of the Education Service Centers should be requiring prospective teacher to read through this radical left wing propaganda in order to become certified to teach.
They shouldn't even be recommending this sort of material in the first place. Our children are our most precious heritage; they're not pawns to be programmed and used by liberals to accomplish their radical goals of "transforming society."
Contact Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott and demand that he put a stop to this practice of forcing prospective teachers to read these materials, no matter where in Texas it's happening:
Click here to send a fax:
http://www.morrisonreport.com/fax_test/index.php?faxID=86
Commissioner Robert Scott
William B. Travis Building
1701 N. Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas, 78701
Phone: 512-463-8985
Fax: (512) 463-9838
Email: commissioner@tea.state.tx.us
Sources:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=120622
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/initial.html
Link fixed.
http://www.slate.com/id/2187358/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Schulman
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee262
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Marine Steps on IED Without Scratch
Awesome!
My Grandma sent me this, it's about young Marine who grew up in her church.
On a Marine foot patrol here through the predawn chill of Friday morning, he stepped on a pressure-plate rigged to roughly 25 pounds of explosives. The device, enough to destroy a pickup truck or tear apart several men, was buried beneath him in the dusty soil.
It did not explode.
Lance Corporal Mathison’s weight triggered the detonation of one of the booby trap’s two blasting caps. But upon giving an audible pop and tossing small stones into the air, the device failed to ignite its fuller charge — a powerful mix of Eastern Bloc mortar rounds and homemade explosives spiked with motorcycle parts, rusty spark plugs and jagged chunks of steel.God Blesses Our Troops.
Glad to see the NYT can publish some good news every now and again.
Read the whole thing here. Read more...
Economic Bling 'n Busta Move
>> January 26, 2010
Hayek vs Keynes Rap...
Gotta gits me some Hayek.
HT: Little Miss Attila
& American Digest
Who woulda thunk to see those words hangin' in the labels yo.
Obummer Reads to Sixth Graders
>> January 25, 2010
He has finally found his target audience.
This has been circulating lately. Word is that this image is NOT photoshopped. Take a look.
We are really in trouble if he sees himself in the light this portrays. I mean really. He's also got the freakin Presidential Seal Prayer Rug, a Presidential Podium plus two Two TWO! teleprompters and the Secret Service agent to keep him warm and cozy. Most people I know would have walked in, pulled up a little kiddie chair and talked to those little people like they were well, little people, young men and women, not serfs or peons to be impressed or spoken down to, which is just what he did.
What our Prez wants is...
More Cowbell.
HT: Hummers and Cigarettes
Cowbama graphic via No Sheeples Here and Mako Snark
Update: It seems the Robot made a wee mistake pointing out the three Three THREE! monitors on the floor in front of Obummer. After closer review and searching, I've found out that two of those were the teleprompter bases and the man standing behind is in fact Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Sorry about that Arne. Although I must say, you're looking in pretty fit there. I thought you were Secret Service. Ooops! I still would contend that the center box IS a monitor speaker which, with the teleprompters is overkill for a speech to 30 students.
Ok, there it is. My first correction. Now, If we could get some in Congress to recognize some of their mistakes, we'd get along just fine.
Cheers! Read more...
Obama Bans No-Bid Contracts!
... ummm, not so much. From Fox News
A synopsis of the contract published on the USAID Web site says Checchi & Company will "train the next generation of legal professionals" throughout the Afghan provinces and thereby "develop the capacity of Afghanistan's justice system to be accessible, reliable, and fair."That's nice. Friends of the Obama's and the DNC teaching the Afghani's how to be just and fair? Where did they get that knowledge?
The legality of the arrangement as a "sole source," or no-bid, contract was made possible by virtue of a waiver signed by the USAID administrator. "They cancelled the open bid on this when they came to power earlier this year," a source familiar with the federal contracting process told Fox News.
Funny how the left will bitch and moan all over the place when the right does something questionable, but when the shoe is on the other foot, well, let's just say that I'll bet the hue and cry will be far removed from the front pages of the NY Times or any MSM sources.
I wonder how "fair" I could be with 24 million.
HT Quigley Read more...
Astroturf - alicious
I love it when the projectors get caught projecting...
There are a couple of bloggers already in the lead on this, so I'll hand it off to them....
Patterico's Pontifications has an ongoing expose'.
NiceDeb also has some interesting points.
Update: additions from NiceDeb here.
and more at The Underground Conservative.
Oh, and Attila Girl has some other stuff too... Read more...
Southeast Texas Political Forum
>> January 24, 2010
Just received this...
A non-partisan political forum will take place on Thursday,
January, 28, from 6:30 to 10p.m. at Lumberton High School,
located at hwy, 69 north, across from Walmart.
The event will feature political candidates vying for state and
county seats in the upcoming March Primaries and November
General Elections.
There will be a question and answer session after a free
refreshment break and voter registration will be available on-
site,,,
HT Julie at SETX TEA Party Patriots
Darth Hammer - Too Funny
>> January 23, 2010
And while we're on The Darth Side...
Use The Farce Luke.
Found at The JawaReport
Friday Link Roundup
>> January 22, 2010
Palin stumps for McCain! Payback?
I hope that's all it is, but she owes him nothing really. He owes her, as far as I'm concerned.
Michelle Malkin has the scoop.
Crash Landing For Err America
Call the Waaaaambulance.
Air America said 10 consecutive quarters of declining ad revenue and the difficulty of making money on the Internet contributed to its troubles.It seems there is no remedy for bad management and a message no-one wants to hear.
Say Goodnight Gracie.
Look! Is it Air America's death knell? Is it Obummer and Pelosi's Corner Bar? Wherever this sign is pointing to, it looks to me as if someone skipped Marketing 101. Or, perhaps they are trying a new "Victim Marketing Strategy" Whatever they are selling, like Obama and Pelosi and Reid, no-one is buying.
Little Miss Attila warns the testosterone wielding among us to Please Remain Calm.
Sorry LMA, I was waaay ahead of the curve on this one. :)
NEW! Solar Panel Shingles! Way Cool.
And a complete Congressional Primary calendar.
Via Instapundit, of course.
Also, more Robot Love:
From Instapundit.
The fetish continues?
I've been meaning to post this. Been a busy week at work.
Read more...
Woodshed Politics
>> January 20, 2010
Tuesday, the Massachusetts Independents and Conservatives ran roughshod over the Democrat machine. To say that I'm ecstatic would be an understatement. OBummer probably needs a couple more TVs in the WH after doing some impromptu, unscripted demolition, but that's OK, he's got the taxpayers' money and a Nobel Prize to pay for them.
But, before we commence breaking our arms patting ourselves on the back, we need to look at what happened in Mass. and consider how to do it better next time.
Senator Scott Brown is a liberal Republican. Granted he's the lesser of two evils and will serve the purposes of the nation by being in that seat for sure. But I think one can easily show that he leans much farther left than most in the Republican party. So here's what I'm really getting at. We've got less than a year before the 2010 elections. We need Real Conservatives in the upcoming elections if we are to keep up the momentum and I'm not just talking on a state or national level.
Get Local and Get Vocal:
Former Speaker of the House Thomas "Tip" O'Neill once said "All politics is local."
I agree. We need to start from the bottom up. Nominate the best candidates you can find for your local elections. This is where the grass roots will really take hold in the next two or three election cycles. If we can catapult some of these into State offices this year, fine but the point is, most of those running at that level are already entrenched in their campaigns. So let's set about finding the future Conservative leaders this year.
On Term Limits:
To all those people who keep up the "Term Limits" and "Throw Them All Out" mantras. I want to point out just how dangerous those philosophies are. For one, they are rooted in a lazy attitude towards politics. It says that you are too lazy to do your own research. Does the politician you are about to throw out deserve to be thrown out like bad house guest? If so, good. Kick them out but remember, in the end we voters are at fault for letting the freeloader stay in the guestroom for too long.
If you are truly voting your political beliefs then he may be the right person for the job and with the TL or TTAO philosophy, you've just taken a valuable asset off the playing field. Especially in the case of an experienced politician, the newly elected will be slowed by the learning curve and possibly outflanked by the opposition. I would rather we keep the good ones and get rid of the bad.
Another argument against TL would be that a politician who knew he was about to lose his seat would have no accountability, no allegiance to the voter who should grade his performance. That sets up the special interest buying a vote at the last of his term, with no repercussions except for the citizen. The answer to this is not term limits. The answer is a more involved and informed voting base.
Define Your Beliefs:
This is merely a caution not to vote angry. We need to vote for something, not against something else and getting started locally is the only way to set up future elections for that end.
This past Presidential election is a perfect example of a population voting against a person rather than voting for a set of principles. We all know where that got us. That kind of angry voting lead us to the situation we're in now. With government breathing down our backs and threatening to take over one sixth of the economy.
But it also awakened us and got a lot of people fired up!
Let's stoke that fire with fresh blood from the local woodpile.
HT Villainous Company
The American Conservative
Thank You Doug Ross!
Doug Ross's Journal is Da Absolute Bomb! And his readers are pretty explosive themselves.
You make a small time Texas Robot feel a little bigger. Much grass for the linkage Douglas. You Rock!
Massachusetts Update: 8:25pm CT - Live
>> January 19, 2010
Gateway Pundit comes through again!
Live streaming the Scott Brown election party.
I'm just sitting here at my local beer joint trying not to celebrate too early. However, I will raise a bottle of American brewed beer in a salute to the descendants of the original Tea Party participants.
Thank you for waking up with the rest of us. Welcome to the party.
Cheers!
UPDATE: Coakley Concedes!
Texas' In-State Tuition Law - Unconstitutional
Our second installment of The Peter Morrison Report:
Summary of this week's report:
Under current Texas law, illegal aliens qualify for in-state tuition at state colleges and universities, paying far less than legal immigrants and American citizens from other states. This
benefit costs Texas taxpayers tens of millions of dollars annually, and the amount is getting higher every year. IRCOT has filed suit to put a stop to this outrage. Let's support their efforts, and also contact our lawmakers to demand they repeal the law.
Full report:
Many Texans aren't aware of it, but public colleges and universities in Texas are required by law to treat illegal aliens better than American citizens who live in other states. Back in 2001 the legislature passed a law letting illegal aliens pay the same tuition as legal Texas residents pay, as long as they've been in the country for at least three years, and promise to apply for permanent residency. Meanwhile, a young man or woman who is an
American citizen, but grew up a few miles across the Oklahoma or Louisiana state line, has to pay thousands of dollars more than the illegal alien to attend the same Texas university.
There are certainly good reasons to charge out of state residents higher tuition at public universities than Texans pay. State funded colleges and universities are set up primarily to educate Texans. In-state tuition rates are subsidized by Texas taxpayers, and so if out of state students want to attend one of our schools they're more than welcome to, but they'll have to pay extra for the privilege and don't get the Texas taxpayer subsidy. This is standard operating procedure in almost all states, and has been going on for decades. There's nothing unfair about it.
It becomes extremely unfair, however, when people who are in the country illegally are given in-state tuition, which is subsidized by the taxpayers of Texas, while American citizens from other states have to pay thousands of dollars more per semester. We are now becoming second class citizens in our own country. American citizens from out of state are treated worse than people who shouldn't even be here in the first place, people who are breaking the law every day they remain in America.
Liberals and RINOs like to claim that giving illegal aliens in-state tuition at taxpayer expense is a good "investment." According to this theory, because the illegal must promise to seek permanent residency, it encourages them to assimilate and become legal citizens, and in turn they become role models for other illegals to emulate. They also say that it's far better for them to go to college and get employment training so they can become productive members of the economy, which justifies the massive tax subsidies they receive.
They're wrong on all counts. Illegal aliens shouldn't be "assimilating" in the first place. They should be returning to their country of citizenship, not freeloading here. As far as the "role model" argument, all we do when we give illegal aliens tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer subsidies for college is to encourage even more illegal immigration. That's Economics 101 - what you subsidize, you get more of. Compounding this is the fact that legal immigrants who respect our nation's laws don't qualify for the lower tuition. We're rewarding illegal immigrants and
punishing the ones who follow the rules. Their third argument is also faulty. If we need more productive workers in the Texas economy, we could simply quit charging higher tuition for out of state Americans.
It's an outrage that this law was ever passed, as it's blatantly unconstitutional. Finally, a patriotic organization is stepping up to the plate to do something about this injustice. The Immigration
Reform Coalition of Texas (IRCOT) has filed a lawsuit to put a stop to this practice. IRCOT spokeswoman Rebecca Forrest spoke to the Lone Star Report about the lawsuit:
"We believe Texas is in clear violation of federal law by giving cash grants to illegal aliens. Texas is currently treating illegal aliens better than it treats legal residents and American citizens, and we obviously want our leaders in Texas to change this situation...we want people to come legally, obey our laws, speak our language and assimilate."
IRCOT is a fine organization working hard to reverse the invasion of illegal aliens, and deserves your support. Former Supreme Court Justice Steven Wayne Smith is also a party to the lawsuit, which speaks well of the solid legal argument the suit is based on. Several states have passed similar laws, but there's a growing groundswell of opposition from outraged Americans fed up with their government coddling illegal aliens. Oklahoma recently rescinded its law, and even in liberal California, the state appeals court ruled their version unconstitutional (although it's been appealed to the state Supreme Court).
Texas' in-state tuition law is not only unconstitutional; it's also extremely expensive. No government office tracks the figures, but The Lone Star Foundation estimated that in-state tuition for illegals cost Texas taxpayers approximately $18 million in 2003 and nearly $35 million in 2005, nearly doubling in just two years! If that rate of growth continues, it won't be long before its costing Texas over $100 million per year. As long as our government refuses to get serious about stopping illegal immigration, that figure is going to keep going higher every year.
We've got high hopes that the IRCOT lawsuit will be successful, and that the expensive, unjust practice of granting illegal in-state tuition benefits will be officially declared unconstitutional.
It's a travesty that IRCOT has to even take this to court, because our legislature could rescind the law at any time. There's no excuse for it ever being passed in the first place, but in today's economy, it's even more indefensible. We can't afford to be giving tens of millions of dollars every year to illegal aliens who shouldn't even be here in the first place, while legal immigrants
and American citizens have to pay their own way to attend Texas universities.
We should all support IRCOT and their efforts to nullify this unjust and wasteful law, but we shouldn't stop there. Contact your legislators today and demand that they repeal the in-state tuition law. They have the authority to do so, and there are no good reasons why they shouldn't. When it comes to illegal immigration, it's often the federal courts that impose these liberal policies, and there's little we can do about it. That's not the case this time. It's our own elected officials in Texas who passed this law, and it's time we demanded they repeal it.
Sources:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6772447.html?plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:0ae09396-5284-4525-95a5-276c5f0602be
http://www.ircot.com/documents/Lone_Star_Rpt_IRCOT_Lawsuit_12-18-09.pdf
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Is It Just Me...
or does Instapundit have a robot fetish lately?
Here's one.
And another.
Hmmm.
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