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		<title>Hope &amp; Scumbag: &quot;Safe&quot; School Czar&#039;s Reading List</title>
		<link>http://stephenkruiser.com/2009/12/04/hope-scumbag-safe-school-czars-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Kruiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[wordpress plugins and themesGateway Pundit and Michelle Malkin have the details. I think paraphrasing the Bard himself would be most fitting here: The first thing we do, let&#8217;s kill all the czars. You want to know the best way to keep schools safe? Keep all the pervs who want kids reading sex books away from [...]]]></description>
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<p>I think paraphrasing the Bard himself would be most fitting here: <i>The first thing we do, let&#8217;s kill all the czars</i>.</p>
<p>You want to know the best way to keep schools safe? Keep all the pervs who want kids reading sex books away from them.</p>
<p>Before any of my lefty friends help themselves to a plateful of misplaced righteous indignation let me make something perfectly clear: this is NOT about the gay stuff. It&#8217;s about the sex stuff and I don&#8217;t care who is having the sex.</p>
<p>I do, however, find it particularly distasteful to read stories about five and six year old kids sneaking off into the woods to &#8220;take off their pants and play with each other, usually fondling each other&#8217;s genitals.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not sex education, that&#8217;s child porn.</p>
<p>In the pantheon of great literature that school kids could be studying how does anyone justify slipping in some soft-core kiddie porn? I will patiently (somewhat) listen to any argument about how a tale of two <i>very young</i> boys diddling each other in the woods prepares a young mind for the rigors of competing in the real world.</p>
<p>Maybe we should start having Obama appointees vetted by <i>To Catch A Predator</i>. Wait, it&#8217;s an NBC production, they&#8217;ll clear everyone anyway.</p>
<p>What this is really about is the increasingly disturbing sexualization of young children, gay or straight. If they are bombarded with sex in pop culture <i>and</i> in school it&#8217;s only logical to believe that they&#8217;ll begin manifesting the overtly sexual nature of the world.</p>
<p>I scramble all the time to minimize my daughter&#8217;s exposure to this kind of crap. My hand cramps from the tight grip I have to keep on the remote to nuke the commercials. President Obama himself said in &#8220;The Audacity of Hope&#8221; that he wished he could watch sports with his daughters without having to see erectile dysfunction commercials over and over again. Sheltering kids from the 24/7 sex stuff in the media is almost full time work for parents, we shouldn&#8217;t have to worry about them being exposed to even more prurient garbage in school.</p>
<p>The subject matter on this &#8220;approved&#8221; reading list isn&#8217;t appropriate for any age. Adults don&#8217;t need to read about kindergarteners fondling each other either.</p>
<p>Let Kevin Jennings pursue his personal agenda and work with his little group all he wants.</p>
<p>But keep him and his disgusting kiddie porn books the f**k away from my kid. </p>
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		<title>When &quot;For The Children&quot; Really Isn&#039;t</title>
		<link>http://stephenkruiser.com/2009/10/30/when-for-the-children-really-isnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Kruiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[wordpress plugins and themesAnother Lefty feel-good idea gone horribly awry. Wow, it turns out that the best way to make non-English speaking students stop feeling isolated and make them part of American society is to make them speak English. Waiting for La Raza to condemn this as racist in 3&#8230;2&#8230; Yes, I&#8217;m about to go [...]]]></description>
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<p>Wow, it turns out that the best way to make non-English speaking students stop feeling isolated and make them part of American society is to make them speak English.</p>
<p>Waiting for La Raza to condemn this as racist in 3&#8230;2&#8230;</p>
<p>Yes, I&#8217;m about to go off on another &#8220;politics of emotion&#8221; diatribe.</p>
<p>Like most modern education ideas designed to make the kids&#8217; lives easier while they&#8217;re in school, long-term ESL programs have the predictable effect of hurting the kids outside of school.</p>
<p>This is what happens when the showered-up hippies are allowed to create policy with their hearts instead of their brains. Simple logic tells us that your best chance for success in any country is a command of that country&#8217;s native language.</p>
<p>But in the minds of the modern public educator, it&#8217;s mean to expect kids to, um, learn stuff while they&#8217;re in school. Especially if they&#8217;ve come here from another country and don&#8217;t speak English well.</p>
<p>In other words, they struggle because they lack the one tool that it&#8217;s insensitive to make them quickly learn how to use so they won&#8217;t have to struggle any more. Makes sense, doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>Between logic like this and the frequent <a href="http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_13669698" target="_blank">back room deals with teachers unions</a> these poor kids barely stand a chance.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m probably an ethnically insensitive bastard for wishing these kids had a fighting chance. </p>
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		<title>What Indoctrination Speech?</title>
		<link>http://stephenkruiser.com/2009/09/03/what-indoctrination-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Kruiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[wordpress plugins and themesMany of my friends on the left consoled me last November by saying I&#8217;d probably have more fun and more material working from the opposition. Holy crap were they right! That is, it&#8217;s fun until this poop-flinging bunch of lefty monkeys completely dismantles the Constitution and exiles me to a patchouli camp [...]]]></description>
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		<div style="display:none;"><a href="http://www.24wn.com">wordpress plugins and themes</a></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><p>Many of my friends on the left consoled me last November by saying I&#8217;d probably have more fun and more material working from the opposition.</p>
<p>Holy crap were they right!</p>
<p>That is, it&#8217;s fun until this poop-flinging bunch of lefty monkeys completely dismantles the Constitution and exiles me to a patchouli camp in Berkeley.</p>
<p>For the moment, however, it&#8217;s an unmitigated blast watching Team Lightbringer egregiously overreach and stunningly underachieve.</p>
<p><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/03/too-many-democratic-congressmen-behaving-like-jackasses-for-bloggers-to-keep-up-anymore/" target="_blank">There&#8217;s enough toolishness coming from the left</a> to keep a staff of bloggers busy but I&#8217;ll stick with the topic from the previous two days: the Obama &#8220;Can&#8217;t Start &#8216;Em Too Young&#8221; speech on Sept. 8 and some of the uproar surrounding it.</p>
<p>Obama staffers arrogantly assumed they could do the Alinsky two-step and begin organizing the community while they&#8217;re still practically in utero and went ahead with a blatant attempt at indoctrinating school kids. In days gone by, the more insidious aspects of this plan would have been restricted to internal memos or kept to a word-of-mouth level. Such precautions aren&#8217;t considered by an administration and president who have spent precious little time outside of the &#8220;Cone of Sycophants&#8221;.</p>
<p>By now I&#8217;m sure most of you know that the professional record scrubbers (the only competent people working for this president, it seems) have <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/02/whitewashing-the-obama-education-speech-guides/" target="_blank">flushed the most offensive portion of the lesson plan</a> down the memory toilet.</p>
<p>Which, in a roundabout way, brings me to my point.</p>
<p>I actually watched the response to this on cable news last night. I don&#8217;t like watching cable news but I figured I could hazard it for one night without getting a rash.</p>
<p>The response from the Democrats was all along the lines of &#8220;But the president is only going to talk about setting goals, studying hard and being responsible!&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course he is. President Obama&#8217;s greatest skill as a politician is an ability to maintain plausible deniability at all times. It&#8217;s almost genetic with him. People have worried that he might be the next Jimmy Carter, I say he&#8217;s more like the next Richard Nixon.</p>
<p>President Obama doesn&#8217;t do the dirty or unsavory stuff. <i>Virtually everyone around him does</i>, however. <i>He</i> may not say anything over the top next Tuesday but <i>his</i> Secretary of Education already did that part for him.</p>
<p>I have had it rammed down my throat for over a year that Barack Obama is brilliant, aware and engaged. A real, hands-on type of leader, they say. For his supporters to constantly sing this song then claim that he&#8217;s above the fray every time one of his people acts like a total bunghole is a bit disingenuous.</p>
<p>Which is it? Is he the Smartest President In The History of EVER, or is he what you used to tell us Ronald Reagan was?</p>
<p>I am going to defer to the judgment of my friends on the left who have more intimate knowledge of the man they worship and say he&#8217;s brilliant.</p>
<p>Which means he knows exactly what goes on in his name.</p>
<p>The Secretary of Education told the teachers of America to make the school kids ask themselves how they could help President Obama <i>and</i> spelled out how they could make the children hold themselves accountable and achieve these goals.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s deliberate indoctrination, not an &#8220;Oops!&#8221; moment from an otherwise fair administration.</p>
<p>The web site may have been scrubbed but the seed has been planted for the teachers.</p>
<p>And they know whence the orders came.</p>
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		<title>Advance Copy Of Obama&#039;s School Year Kick-Off Speech</title>
		<link>http://stephenkruiser.com/2009/09/02/advance-copy-of-obamas-school-year-kick-off-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Kruiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[wordpress plugins and themes(To be videotaped in Smug-O-Vision) Hello. I&#8217;m President Barack Obama and I&#8217;m very grateful for this opportunity to speak to the people I feel are most important to the future of America, and to you students too. Many thanks to the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers for letting [...]]]></description>
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<p>Hello.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m President Barack Obama and I&#8217;m very grateful for this opportunity to speak to the people I feel are most important to the future of America, and to you students too. Many thanks to the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers for letting me into your &#8220;homes&#8221; so I can talk to <em>your</em> children.</p>
<p>I remember being a young , confused school boy, wishing that President Nixon or President Ford would give me some guidance as to what I should think or do during the school year. But they never did. Why? The answer, as any good teacher will tell you, is simple.</p>
<p><em>Republicans hate children.</em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s true. When scientists at the UN aren&#8217;t busy coming to consensus about Global Cooling/Warming/Whatever-Works-This-Week they&#8217;ve proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that people who vote Republican just don&#8217;t like you.</p>
<p>As you embark on another year of learning I urge you all to focus on the important things, like whether or not mommy and daddy are driving hybrid vehicles. Or putting those squiggly little light bulbs in all the lamps in your house. People who don&#8217;t do these things hate Earth.</p>
<p> Just like the Republicans do.</p>
<p>Let me talk for a moment about personal responsibility. As president, I have to take responsibility for many of the tough choices I make, especially ones that are made because George W. Bush screwed everything up. You may face similar choices this year in school. I want you to take ownership of your decisions even if they&#8217;re made more difficult by the fact that President Bush hated education. We can&#8217;t keep blaming the past.</p>
<p>But we can persevere and keep trying to.</p>
<p>The first time you have a big test the next day I want you to imagine this:</p>
<p>&#8220;What if I got the H1N1 virus tonight and infected my whole class? And what if we all died because none of us had adequate health care? All of my work studying for this test would have been wasted!&#8221;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want to scare you but there are many things that could turn all your study time into a big waste because you didn&#8217;t notice the bus that was about to hit you while you were disoriented from having the flu and you couldn&#8217;t get treated because Republicans won&#8217;t let me pass health care reform.</p>
<p>As most of you know, Sen. Ted Kennedy recently passed away. And as you heard his grandson say in front of God and everyone, health care reform was the defining issue of his life. The Catholic Church wouldn&#8217;t have allowed him to say that during mass if it wasn&#8217;t so important. Sen. Kennedy had a fondness for younger people, too. Early in his career, he worked at bridging the gap between himself and young, female campaign staffers. Let&#8217;s not let his legacy drown in negativity.</p>
<p>My staff and I don&#8217;t want you to struggle with knowing what&#8217;s right like we had to as students. That&#8217;s why we have supplied some lesson plans to your teachers to help all of you. When was the last time a Republican cared that much about you?</p>
<p>One of the first questions in the lesson plan involves why it&#8217;s important to listen to your elected officials. I know that many of you still listen to your parents and that&#8217;s perfectly all right. But you need to realize something. Your parents are working very hard, many of them at two jobs so they can pay for the brutal choices I&#8217;m making now because George W. Bush just plain sucked. It is difficult for them to know a lot of stuff because they work so hard. Politicians don&#8217;t have to work as hard so we have more time to know stuff. It really is that simple.</p>
<p>So ask your parents questions that they can answer easily when they are exhausted. Things like, &#8220;Where&#8217;s the can opener?&#8221; or &#8220;Why did President Bush make things so hard for President Obama?&#8221;</p>
<p>For the tougher questions in life, ask your teachers and listen to your elected officials. Remember though, some elected officials <em>can&#8217;t</em> be trusted so you should always check with your teachers first about which ones can.</p>
<p>I want all of you to begin each school year believing that your education could make you President of the United States one day. Like school, it&#8217;s got it&#8217;s rough spots but has a lot of great things about it. Like being able to order a hamburger and fries any time of day or night. Or looking at Michelle bend over in the garden in her special &#8220;First Lady shorts&#8221;. Sorry, that&#8217;s probably just the scotch talking now. I shoot about a hundred of these videos a week for various &#8220;grassroots&#8221; organizations and it gets a little tedious.</p>
<p>One of the last things your teachers are going to ask you to think about is what you can do to help me, President Barack Obama.</p>
<p>We have covered the most important things already, so let&#8217;s recap them.</p>
<p>Listen to me.</p>
<p>If I am not available, listen to the elected officials your teachers tell you are cool.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t bother your poor parents with questions about the important things in life. They&#8217;re very tired.</p>
<p>And remember the two most important words any American can say whenever faced with tough times and criticism:</p>
<p>&#8220;Bush&#8217;s fault!&#8221;</p>
<p>Good luck this year. I&#8217;ll see you all in December for my &#8220;What To Think On Your Non-Denominational Break When Your Parents Might Tell You Something&#8221; speech.</p>
<p>And thank you teachers for, well, you know.</p>
<p>(<a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/02/obama%E2%80%99s-classroom-campaign-no-junior-lobbyist-left-behind/" target="_blank">Michelle Malkin has a very thorough run-down</a> of various indoctrination efforts by the left today.)</p>
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		<title>We Have Come For Your Children III</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Kruiser</dc:creator>
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		<div style="display:none;"><a href="http://www.24wn.com">wordpress plugins and themes</a></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><p>Unfortunately, the first two installments of this were lost in the server move debacle a few months ago. It all started with a top-down coordinated effort by the Obama transition team, teachers unions and public education officials to tell the youth of America why the new president was the coolest kid on the block. Taking the cue like a perfect union automaton, my daughter&#8217;s 5th grade teacher then sent an email detailing the bash (including a potluck brunch!) they were going to have for the inauguration, complete with the lesson plans distributed by Team Lightbringer.</p>
<p>Had there been big elementary school love-fests during the inaugurations of George W. Bush?</p>
<p>**crickets**</p>
<p>OK, had any incoming administration ever had the <i>audacity</i> (couldn&#8217;t help myself) to begin directly indoctrinating school kids through its life partners, the unions?</p>
<p>&#8220;Can I get a Hammer &#038; Sickle in the house?!?!?.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now, as my daughter begins middle school, she&#8217;ll be treated to a kickoff speech by the president himself! Better yet, the Secretary of Education has taken time out from the task of asking for more money and delivering fewer results to <a href="http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/bts.html" target="_blank">send along some downloadable talking points</a> to help mold the little minds.</p>
<p>The public education system in America has served as one of the greatest bullshit shields for the Democrats these past twenty years or so. They get to pluck heart strings with tales of just being concerned <i>for the children</i> while putting an indoctrination network in place. The green agenda at my kid&#8217;s elementary school was talked about more on the first day last year than anything actually having to do with education.</p>
<p>This post is not the place for a detailing of the workings of the indoctrination system. I&#8217;ll just deal with the speech and talking points.</p>
<blockquote><p>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. </p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s from Secretary Duncan&#8217;s letter. All noble ideas, right?</p>
<p>Sure. But also things that should be communicated at home. Teaching and parenting are separate. OK, <i>were</i> separate.</p>
<p>The letter itself isn&#8217;t as creepy as the discussion points download. Rather than just let the kids enjoy a little &#8220;rah-rah&#8221; from the President of the United States, they want to make sure that the <strike>Borg</strike> teachers get message drilled into the brains of the future faithful.</p>
<p>Here are a few gems from &#8220;Pre-K to 6&#8243; notes.</p>
<blockquote><p>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?</p></blockquote>
<p>I need a shower already.</p>
<blockquote><p>What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do?</p></blockquote>
<p>These first two examples are indicative of what&#8217;s wrong with this representative republic these days. The power drunk elected elitists in Washington believe that it&#8217;s more important that <i>we</i> listen to <i>them</i>. That&#8217;s the reverse of how it works. Yes, even for the president. True, some executive decisions need to be made but this letter began with a question about why it&#8217;s important to listen to ALL elected officials. It&#8217;s not.</p>
<blockquote><p>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?</p></blockquote>
<p>In case they didn&#8217;t get it the first time. This isn&#8217;t a suggestion, it&#8217;s a brain-washing manual.</p>
<p>The reinforcement of the &#8220;What does he want me to do?&#8221; crap continues. There&#8217;s also a contest and some more &#8220;suggestions&#8221; for lesson plans.</p>
<p>&#8220;So what&#8217;s the big deal Stephen?&#8221;</p>
<p>This:</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>Extension of the Speech: Teachers can extend learning by having students</strong></em></p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>Their</em> goals?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not paranoia if it&#8217;s actually happening.</p>
<p><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/01/obamas-sept-8-speech-to-schoolchildren/" target="_blank">Michelle Malkin has more background</a> on Team Lightbringer&#8217;s Youth Mobilization Movement</p>
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