Gateway Pundit and Michelle Malkin have the details.

I think paraphrasing the Bard himself would be most fitting here: The first thing we do, let’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 them.

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’s about the sex stuff and I don’t care who is having the sex.

I do, however, find it particularly distasteful to read stories about five and six year old kids sneaking off into the woods to “take off their pants and play with each other, usually fondling each other’s genitals.”

That’s not sex education, that’s child porn.

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 very young boys diddling each other in the woods prepares a young mind for the rigors of competing in the real world.

Maybe we should start having Obama appointees vetted by To Catch A Predator. Wait, it’s an NBC production, they’ll clear everyone anyway.

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 and in school it’s only logical to believe that they’ll begin manifesting the overtly sexual nature of the world.

I scramble all the time to minimize my daughter’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 “The Audacity of Hope” 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’t have to worry about them being exposed to even more prurient garbage in school.

The subject matter on this “approved” reading list isn’t appropriate for any age. Adults don’t need to read about kindergarteners fondling each other either.

Let Kevin Jennings pursue his personal agenda and work with his little group all he wants.

But keep him and his disgusting kiddie porn books the f**k away from my kid.

OMG.

This is why my daughter’s mother and I make sure she stays out of LAUSD.

Indoctrination runs deep in public schools. When President Obama kicked the school year off with a speech that the mindless robots teachers could use as a template for making sure the kiddies were infused with a 1969 mindset, we on the Right were accused of being paranoid. For the millionth time, Lightbringers, it’s not paranoia if it is actually happening.

The beautiful thing about being a small part of the anti-Obama noise is that I don’t have to engage in conspiracy theories. His faithful followers are so blinded by his presence that they have no fear of exposing themselves as ridiculous. All I need to do is quote them.

Homestead Strike Role Play

Brief Description:
In a classroom simulation of the 1892 Homestead Strike, students learn about industrialization and the conflicts and common interests between native-born unionized craft workers and immigrant nonunion laborers. Students caucus in five worker groups and present various viewpoints on craft unionism, the strike, Carnegie’s plans to reorganize his steel mill, and the future of their jobs. The simulation culminates in a mass meeting of all the workers in which students debate and vote on whether to join the strike and the union. Following the simulation, students analyze the outcome of their experience (who won the strike vote and why) and determine issues they want to learn more about and take action on to meet their needs. Some examples: identify union vs. non-union employers in our local economy, interview union members about the causes and impact of the strike in their community, research and disseminate information about workers’ rights today.

Grade Level:
9-12

Progressive Democrats want to indoctrinate children because they know that their commie bulls**t doesn’t fly with adults who have any experience with the real world. They may have the teachers on their side but we are still the parents.

Step up.

September 2nd, 2009 episode. More on the indoctrination speech. Obama announces bonus health care speech!

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September 1st, 2009 episode. Let the public school indoctrination begin!

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After what I’m sure were several trips back to the drawing board after the administration got caught with its intentions out there for all to see, President Obama’s speech to the school kids is available for public consumption.

I don’t for a moment believe that this is the speech that the president originally intended to give. I also don’t believe in Santa, the Great Pumpkin or any desire to negotiate on the part of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The speech in its current form is fairly innocuous. As Michelle Malkin reminds us, however, there is more going on here than mere words on White House letterhead. And I as I have been writing, this will be completely ignored in the Land of Unicorns and Make-Believe.

I got a comment on the previous post asking me if I was upset about President George H.W. Bush asking the school kids to write letters. Since I was a young, single road comic then and not the father of a middle school kid it didn’t really bother me. I also explained that I wasn’t a huge fan of GHWB so it probably would have if I did have a school-aged child at the time. (For the record, my favorite people with the last name Bush from the past 20 years are Barbara, Laura and that dude who sells the baked beans on TV.)

Anyone who bothers to pay attention will know that I’m a pretty big “keep the federal government the f**k out of my life as much as possible” kind of guy. I don’t really care which party is in charge. It’s like a trip to the dentist for me: I want the minimum done to keep things moving along smoothly.

The HUGE difference between POTUS 41 and POTUS 44 giving a speech to school kids is that America’s class rooms are being run by what amounts to an ideological publicity army for #44. The “get the kids on board to help this president and hold them accountable” portion of the lesson plan may have been erased from the Dept. of Education web site but I guarantee that it’s been taken to heart by the academic faithful already.

Like media bias, the indoctrination is almost always very subtle. For example, there’s a meeting for the parents every year on the first day of school. At my daughter’s elementary school, this meeting was used to introduce the school’s focus and goals for the year. Last year, we spent about 10 minutes meeting the PTA officers and being exhorted to volunteer, which is fine. We then spent the rest of the meeting (25 minutes or so) discussing the school’s efforts to go green.

A relentless focus (that wasn’t the last we heard of it, believe me) on which garbage can to throw the plastic in isn’t what I send my kid to school to learn. I’ve got that covered, thanks. You guys handle the reading, writing and math.

Whenever I complain about this I get a lot of people (on the right and the left) asking me why I don’t simply send my daughter to a private school or home school her.

My answer: I shouldn’t have to.

Public schools exist for one reason: to educate American children. Not to indoctrinate them. I spent half my education life going to Catholic schools, where indoctrination is the order of the day. I know what it looks and sounds like. You can dismiss me as paranoid all you want and I’ll keep coming back with examples.

Public school teachers are overwhelmingly Democrat, which does not (to borrow a phrase from the left) adequately reflect the makeup of the country. And they exist in an echo chamber. It’s hard for them to imagine that there are people out there with differing political views because they so rarely encounter them in daily life.

Last year, my daughter’s teacher went out of her way to make sure we knew that she didn’t agree with Ronald Reagan’s politics while telling us how much our daughter enjoyed a field trip to the Reagan Library. It was as if she was afraid that the mere utterance of Reagan’s name would offend us somehow. So, even though they went to the Reagan Library the chances that they heard much in the way of praise for him weren’t very good. (For the record, I didn’t pass along any indoctrination when she came home that night-I just asked if Air Force One was as cool as it looks in pictures.)

This same teacher threw a potluck school day party for Barack Obama’s inauguration. It was part of a school-wide celebration. They must have been low on paper plates when Pres. Bush was inaugurated, there were no parties then.

So, while the web site may have been scrubbed of any offending words and the speech itself seems relatively harmless, the underlying problem hasn’t disappeared just because the administration and its mouthpieces in the MSM are pretending it has. Naturally, those who benefit from ideological bias will always say it doesn’t exist. Hell, I’ve still got friends on the left who swear that the New York Times isn’t biased.

Even the New York Times doesn’t make that claim any more.

More for the record: I would never keep my daughter home for something like this. Why? Because we communicate well and I can provide some context and perspective without ramming my own political beliefs into her head.

But I do keep paying attention to what’s taught in class. I think that makes me a responsible parent, not, as some Hope and Change types would have you believe, a raving lunatic.

Happy Labor Day.

Sometimes I just have to sit back and admire the brutal but stealthy efficiency of the Team Lightbringer narrative driving machine.

When the Secretary of Education announced that President Obama wanted to kick off the school year with a speech to the recruits kids, it set off quite a to-do over here in Bitter Clinger Land.

There was, of course, a very real reason to be suspicious of the president’s motives. Sec. Duncan sent along a lesson plan which I’m sure he’ll tell you the president knew nothing about.

Mierda de toro.

This president shoots more videos than a porn star in Chatsworth to make sure his OFA faithful stay on message. It’s all a top-down, coordinated effort with him so you can bet whatever recession money you have left over that he knew full well what was in the lesson plan.

Once more, here was the sections that made people like me go all “WTF?!?!?”:

Extension of the Speech: Teachers can extend learning by having students

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.

If the president was merely giving the kids a little pep talk, “Anyone can grow up to be president!” speech, whatever would he need the help of the students for?

Something stunk and those of us who aren’t card-carrying members of “Hope And Gosh He’s Dreamy!” smelled it right away. The stench grew so strong that the administration had the above section removed from the lesson plan that was posted on the Dept. of Education web site. It was a tacit admission that the administration knew these words would justify any trepidation some of us might feel about the president’s motives.

Now that the offending passage has been removed, the Obama faithful are doing what they do best: playing make-believe. This week’s game involves pretending that all of us who can remember WAY back to last Tuesday and the “help the president and make them accountable” marching orders are paranoid.

And so much more.

This is from Tim Rutten in the LA Times:

Those who are whipping up hysteria over the president’s address are playing a dangerous game with an unhinged segment of public opinion.

Gee, I wonder who he voted for?

According to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Obama 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.”

Sounds innocuous. Who, after all, could be against good study habits, personal responsibility and productive lives?

Again, what were the kids supposed to help him with if the speech is just “innocuous” rah-rah?

No mention of that anywhere in this article though. The Jedi mind trick worked.

This blog quotes me and a some other winger blogs that wrote about the speech.

These guys make me miss the John Birch Society.

Hope. Change. Unicorns.

I get quoted in the comments there too so there are at least two people over there who survived a dangerous brush with reality this week.

My hometown paper had the Associated Press dutifully quoting Gibbsie from his Friday press conference and ignoring the actual cause of the uproar.

Gibbs said former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, both Republicans, delivered similar speeches to students.

But did they tell the teachers to make the kids ask what they could do to help the president?

I keep bringing this up because I’m very, very curious about what they were supposed to be helping with. You know, kind of like a journalist would be if this shoe was on a Republican foot. Oh wait, there aren’t any journalists covering this president. Just members of the Fan Club and they have to check their curiosity at the door.

There’s “Local Angle” sidebar piece with this article that boldly goes where all defenses of President Obama go when there aren’t any facts to be discussed.

Meanwhile, Cathy Mackie, a 58-year-old social worker, said the controversy “is beyond me.”

“Here is a black man who was raised by a single mother. You just know he wasn’t rich. And he rose to become the president of the United States. He’s telling every child out there — Hispanic, black American, Asian — that they have a chance to be president of the United States.”

Mackie said she fears that bias lies at the root of some of the furor. “You can put as much sugar as you want on it, but racism is racism and I’m calling it that.”

Membership in the Fan Club also includes a lifetime supply of race cards with the instruction to “use liberally” printed on the back.

These are just a few examples out of forty or so that I’ve read in the last three days. One thing they have in common is that each one reports on the content of the president’s speech as if it had been made available on the Dept. of Education website. Speculation is being reported as fact while facts aren’t being reported at all.

Paranoia seems most prudent right now.

Many of my friends on the left consoled me last November by saying I’d probably have more fun and more material working from the opposition.

Holy crap were they right!

That is, it’s fun until this poop-flinging bunch of lefty monkeys completely dismantles the Constitution and exiles me to a patchouli camp in Berkeley.

For the moment, however, it’s an unmitigated blast watching Team Lightbringer egregiously overreach and stunningly underachieve.

There’s enough toolishness coming from the left to keep a staff of bloggers busy but I’ll stick with the topic from the previous two days: the Obama “Can’t Start ‘Em Too Young” speech on Sept. 8 and some of the uproar surrounding it.

Obama staffers arrogantly assumed they could do the Alinsky two-step and begin organizing the community while they’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’t considered by an administration and president who have spent precious little time outside of the “Cone of Sycophants”.

By now I’m sure most of you know that the professional record scrubbers (the only competent people working for this president, it seems) have flushed the most offensive portion of the lesson plan down the memory toilet.

Which, in a roundabout way, brings me to my point.

I actually watched the response to this on cable news last night. I don’t like watching cable news but I figured I could hazard it for one night without getting a rash.

The response from the Democrats was all along the lines of “But the president is only going to talk about setting goals, studying hard and being responsible!”

Of course he is. President Obama’s greatest skill as a politician is an ability to maintain plausible deniability at all times. It’s almost genetic with him. People have worried that he might be the next Jimmy Carter, I say he’s more like the next Richard Nixon.

President Obama doesn’t do the dirty or unsavory stuff. Virtually everyone around him does, however. He may not say anything over the top next Tuesday but his Secretary of Education already did that part for him.

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’s above the fray every time one of his people acts like a total bunghole is a bit disingenuous.

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?

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’s brilliant.

Which means he knows exactly what goes on in his name.

The Secretary of Education told the teachers of America to make the school kids ask themselves how they could help President Obama and spelled out how they could make the children hold themselves accountable and achieve these goals.

That’s deliberate indoctrination, not an “Oops!” moment from an otherwise fair administration.

The web site may have been scrubbed but the seed has been planted for the teachers.

And they know whence the orders came.

(To be videotaped in Smug-O-Vision)

Hello.

I’m President Barack Obama and I’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 “homes” so I can talk to your children.

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.

Republicans hate children.

It’s true. When scientists at the UN aren’t busy coming to consensus about Global Cooling/Warming/Whatever-Works-This-Week they’ve proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that people who vote Republican just don’t like you.

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’t do these things hate Earth.

Just like the Republicans do.

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’re made more difficult by the fact that President Bush hated education. We can’t keep blaming the past.

But we can persevere and keep trying to.

The first time you have a big test the next day I want you to imagine this:

“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!”

I don’t want to scare you but there are many things that could turn all your study time into a big waste because you didn’t notice the bus that was about to hit you while you were disoriented from having the flu and you couldn’t get treated because Republicans won’t let me pass health care reform.

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’t have allowed him to say that during mass if it wasn’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’s not let his legacy drown in negativity.

My staff and I don’t want you to struggle with knowing what’s right like we had to as students. That’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?

One of the first questions in the lesson plan involves why it’s important to listen to your elected officials. I know that many of you still listen to your parents and that’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’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’t have to work as hard so we have more time to know stuff. It really is that simple.

So ask your parents questions that they can answer easily when they are exhausted. Things like, “Where’s the can opener?” or “Why did President Bush make things so hard for President Obama?”

For the tougher questions in life, ask your teachers and listen to your elected officials. Remember though, some elected officials can’t be trusted so you should always check with your teachers first about which ones can.

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’s got it’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 “First Lady shorts”. Sorry, that’s probably just the scotch talking now. I shoot about a hundred of these videos a week for various “grassroots” organizations and it gets a little tedious.

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.

We have covered the most important things already, so let’s recap them.

Listen to me.

If I am not available, listen to the elected officials your teachers tell you are cool.

Don’t bother your poor parents with questions about the important things in life. They’re very tired.

And remember the two most important words any American can say whenever faced with tough times and criticism:

“Bush’s fault!”

Good luck this year. I’ll see you all in December for my “What To Think On Your Non-Denominational Break When Your Parents Might Tell You Something” speech.

And thank you teachers for, well, you know.

(Michelle Malkin has a very thorough run-down of various indoctrination efforts by the left today.)