Eric Holder, the U.S. Attorney General invoked the power of the Justice Department when he threatened to litigate against the State of Arizona to thwart the implementation of SB 1070 on the grounds the bill was “unconstitutional” and possibly racist. Two weeks later he looked like a confused deer in the headlights of a congressional hearing when he admitted he had not read it. Still, he somehow knew it was “misguided”. He claimed his comments were based on what he “gleaned” from newspapers and TV and what he had heard from “others” who had read the bill.

Janet Napolitano, Head of Homeland Security, also admitted to not having read the bill either, during a senate hearing, but quickly added that she “knew” what was in it insisting it was “bad law enforcement” and she would not have signed it were she Governor of Arizona. She also repeatedly called it “misguided” in other interviews.

Assistant Secretary of State, P.J. Crowley was next to admit on Fox News to not having read SB 1070 after referring to it as “misguided” and having a “high risk of racial profiling” while trying to defend Michael Posner’s comments in China calling the new law a “troubling trend” and an “indication” that the United States “has to deal with issues of discrimination”. Later when confronted by Bill O’Reilly on the Factor,, Mr. Crowley may have overstepped his bounds by even claiming that he knew Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, believed that in enforcing the AZ law there “is great potential for racial profiling”.

But it was President Obama who jumped first to criticize SB 1070 publicly on, April 23 – the day it was signed, calling it “misguided” and claiming it would allow police to “harass Hispanics going out for Ice cream” adding that it threatened “to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe.”. Only after repeated inquiries as to whether he had actually read the bill, the Whitehouse was finally able to state on May 23, following four weeks of harsh criticism, that President Obama had, in fact, read the bill.

Greg Jarrett hit the on the head in his interview with Crowley when he said, “Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder, both who have been on numerous talk shows criticizing this law, sheepishly admitted they haven’t even read it, and apparently you haven’t either – What’s going on?’.

What is going on? They all certainly appear to be “Nifonging” SB 1070. Or maybe, the top Federal Law enforcement officers in the current administration are just similarly talented with an unusual prescient ability to know what is in bills they have not read. And it is only an uncanny series of coincidence they all referred repeatedly to SB 1070 as “misguided” and predicted or warned of racial profiling, maligning Arizona law enforcement personnel – arrantly implying that they would abuse the law to persecute Hispanics.

Not to be outdone Obama’s kool-aid drinkers have rushed to judgment emulating their psychic leaders, comparing Arizona to Nazi Germany and claiming it would lead to police harassment, hate crimes, picking off “dark-skinned people standing on street corners” and pulling over innocent people of color “driving down the street”. These outrageous claims are the best indication that the true believers are just as likely to jump to conclusions based on hearsay and emotion parroting the Obama administration without bothering to check the facts by actually reading SB 1070. It doesn’t matter that 70% of Arizonans – including a large contingent of Citizens of Hispanic heritage – support the law. The kool-aid brigade bray their criticism with a self-righteous indignation reminiscent of the “Gang of 88”.

After being subjected to countless uninformed, angry opinions I finally printed the bill, highlighted a few lines and now I carry a copy with me in my organizer. When confronted with these unfounded accusations, rather than argue, I simply pull it out, place it in their hands and ask them to show me where it says that in the bill. It has turned out to be quite amusing. Of course they cannot find what is not there – but not for lack of trying. My favorite response is the ubiquitous “Wait a minute, wait a minute. I’ll find it. I know it’s in here”. They are usually so confident because they heard it in a TV soundbite – that fountain of all liberal knowledge.

The version I keep with me is sixteen pages. And it is a pretty easy fifteen minute read.

At the top of the first page in Sec. 2 it clearly refers to enforcement permitted only by Federal Law and goes on to require immigration status to be “verified with the Federal Government pursuant to 8 United States code Sec. 1373(c).” In Sec. 3 it says “the final determination of an Alien’s immigration status shall be determined by a law enforcement officer or agency “who is authorized by the Federal Government to verify or ascertain an Alien’s immigration status” or “in communication with U. S. immigration and enforcement” again – pursuant to code sec. 1373(c). So it is in complete compliance with Federal Law and requires Federal determination/assessment of an Alien’s immigration status.

On page four, Sec. 4, it states, “Notwithstanding any other law, a peace officer may lawfully stop any person who is operating a motor vehicle if the officer has reasonable suspicion to believe the person is in violation of any civil traffic law”. I looked, but couldn’t find the part where it authorizes police to pull over dark-skinned people…..

In fact, on page six Sec. 6, it plainly says “The attorney general or county attorney shall not investigate complaints that based solely on race, color or national origin”. That pretty much cancels out racial profiling.

On page seven, Sec. 6 it goes on to stipulate that subsequent to investigation and determination that a complaint is not “false or frivolous” the attorney general or county attorney “shall notify the United States immigration and customs enforcement of the unauthorized Alien”. So enforcement really relies on the Federal Government.

That is pretty much it in a nutshell. It simply limits enforcement to the existing Federal Law. It requires the Federal Government to finally determine the immigration status of suspects. It prohibits racial profiling. And it requires notification to the Federal Government of the presence of illegal Aliens who have broken the law. The rest of the nine pages left deal primarily with employers who knowingly employ illegal Aliens.

Don’t take my word for it. Please read the bill for your self. It won’t take long and is written in language easily understandable to the layman (or laywoman). The complete text of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 is available on the link below:

http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf

Keep a copy with you and share it with the angry and emotional soundbite sheeple. But go easy on them – they really believe they know what it says without reading it because, after all, like our venerable U. S. Attorney General, the Czarina of Homeland Security, the State Department and our President – they heard all about it on TV.

Perhaps you missed it. It made the news for a couple of days and was subsequently shoved quietly under the rug of media collusion. After all, the rationalization for it is hardly defensible. Californians possessed with a modicum of common sense could hardly stomach the hubris with which the educational establishment blithely defended one more snowflake in the avalanche of stupidity responsible for the continued decline of a school system that only forty-five years ago was the best in the world. Without the alternate media of the internet this story would have disappeared unobtrusively. God bless the bloggers who shined a light on it before the dinosaur media could obfuscate and hide another horrendous fiscal malfeasance.

Of course I mean the recent announcement of the Los Angeles County School District to spend 120 million dollars to install solar panels on district schools. They bragged that they were setting an “example for other school districts to follow”. These academic bozos spoke glowingly of the LAUSD leading public school systems across the country as a model of “green” operational enlightenment. Wow, sounds pretty impressive, doesn’t it? They are going to show the whole nation how to capture clean energy from the sun and reduce the school systems energy costs. For a mere 120 million dollars they bragged they could save the school district a whopping 5 million dollars per year! Did you catch that? LAUSD braniacs figured how to save 5 million taxpayer dollars in the worst recession since the great depression by spending 120 million dollars. With that kind of “savings” it will take twenty-four years to recoup their investment and break even! What a deal. No wonder student math scores are in such a rapid decline. Doesn’t anybody in the Los Angeles schools have a calculator? Didn’t anyone bother to divide 5 million into 120 million before they scheduled their embarrassing press conferences?

Apparently not. According to David Crippins, chairman of the district’s school construction bond oversight committee, “We are fighting for our economic lives,” calling the plan, “absolutely essential, because we must become energy independent and, especially here in California, we must create our own jobs.” This from the chairman of the bond oversight committee. In the midst of massive teacher layoffs and pay-cutting the feckless leader of fiscal responsibility for the Los Angeles Union School District cites “fighting for our economic lives” and “creating jobs” as justification for recklessly spending an obscene amount of tax dollars on a scheme that makes no sense economically. His ‘plan’ is to fire teachers to hire solar panel installers? And I don’t know what the functional life of a solar panel is, but I would be surprised if it exceeds twenty years. If not, this hair-brained project may never recoup its cost. But of course, that doesn’t really matter. The taxpayers will foot the bill. Educational administrators look at the American worker as an endless well of revenue. It doesn’t have to make economic sense. The important thing is their commitment to ideology. “Green” technology is one of their many socio-economic causes du jour – logic and common sense be damned. What they want is an opportunity to stand in front of the cameras and thump their chests and crow about how enlightened they are – I mean, how cool – they’re going “green”!

This is just one more example of the extremist ideology trumping common sense in our public school systems. It is difficult to understand how the educational establishment can be so oblivious to the effects of their fanatical commitment to their political dogma. It is a sad fact that the longer American students are exposed to our public school systems the farther behind they fall scholastically compared to students from other countries. And yet, I recently heard an “educator” taking calls from angry parents on a radio show defending the system and talking down to the callers repeatedly citing his “forty-five years of experience” as grounds for his superior expertise. Listening to this ignoramus all I could think about was how humiliated he should have been to admit that he had even been any part of such a dis-functional and inefficient system. He should of been ashamed to admit it, instead of holding it up as some sort of credential justifying his professional qualifications. Yet there he was, petulantly telling the parents he knew better than they did. Kind of like the helmsman at the wheel of the Titanic when it hit the iceberg citing that experience as the reason he would be expert at teaching aspiring ship pilots.

The apex of American student SAT scores was 1964 – Got that? For forty-six years the “progressive” educational curriculum of our public schools has slowly eroded the scholastic competence of our students. Dropout rates are increasing. School violence has proliferated to the point we need armed officers on campus. Many High School graduates cannot even read their diplomas or place Mexico against a map of the United States, but our educational establishment is hell bent on continuing its headlong nosedive into academic decline in pursuit of their misguided ideology. As evidenced by the hapless self-righteous indignation of the bonehead on the radio and the illogical rationalization of the “bond oversight” committee chairman, there is little hope the educational establishment will wake up and chart a different course on its own. These career parasites need to be removed and replaced with new leaders with fresh innovative ideas. To accomplish real, positive change our public schools need revitalization from imaginative leadership committed to effective education rather than ideological zealots bent on promulgating their political philosophy. Only the people have the power to accomplish this and it will have to be done at the polls.

Next election don’t just vote out the career politicians, vote out the academic dinosaurs on the public school boards. Get rid of the arrogant school leadership – like the High School Principal that recently sent a memo to a parent telling her “To eat shit and die” for daring to think she should have some influence on what the school taught her children. Replace them with anybody untainted by the current system. Or would you rather subject your children to educators that can’t work a calculator, but know in their hearts that political ideology is more important than math, economics or common sense?

I think it was Fritz Pearls that said insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over while expecting a different outcome – What does it make you if you keep repeating the same behavior over and over while the results just keep getting worse – public school establishment administrators?

As the quality of our public schools and Universities plunge, the academic morons chant endlessly the three big lies; that the problem is the government doesn’t provide enough money, classes are too large and, of course, the really big problem is the parents! They say if lazy parents would just teach their unruly children a little respect and discipline they would behave in school – riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Most of you will probably agree that you can get away with a lot more at school than you can at home. If the blame can be laid at the feet of the parents it is only because they have allowed the schools to usurp their parental responsibility. Mychal Massie agreed that parents need to step up and take a larger role in managing their children’s education when he said, “Not every public school is bad, and not every private school is good. I agree that, thanks to Jimmy Carter’s creation of the Department of Education, we now have commissioned centers of agitprop, i.e., government schools that have taught state-sponsored liberalism and misinformation for nearly four decades. I still argue that this only takes place because parents have abdicated their responsibility for the education of their children.” Amen.

In good faith, most parents have assumed the schools were in fact teaching their children the skills needed to go out into the world and function as responsible productive members of society. They believed in their hearts that the schools were teaching their children the same skills they were taught. Historically the foundation of K-12 education in the United States has been the three “Rs” – reading, writing and arithmetic (for this generation: that is an old tongue in cheek joke: “reading, ‘riting & ‘rithmatic”). Unknown to most parents, these basics have been steadily supplanted in recent years with a “progressive curriculum” emphasizing social and political issues, with devastating results. The academic skills of the average American student have been seriously degraded. You students are the ones who have been shortchanged by the very people entrusted with your education.

Without a basic competency in reading, writing and ciphering it will be difficult for you to learn much of other subjects like geography, literature, political science, biology, psychology, or anything else, yet our schools continue to obsess on socio-political indoctrination at your expense. They have become propaganda mills rather than true centers of learning. They are much more interested in pushing their nanny-state political ideology and sexual values than teaching skills that will help you succeed in life. The fact that 1964 was the apogee of SAT scores doesn’t seem to matter – as American students continue a 40+ year freefall in academic achievement our schools continue to sacrifice real life skills and scholastic proficiency on the altar of liberal ideology. Did you catch that? For almost a half a century American students have been in a scholastic decline while our “progressive” educators continue to promulgate ideology over education.

Outside of a few breakout schools providing exceptional schooling – schools producing students consistently ranking high internationally – the trend for several decades has been a decline in the scholastic ability of American students compared to foreign students. Our world ranking has dropped like a stone and yet we continue to graduate students lacking basic remedial skills. American schools which once led the world have now fallen behind many third world institutions.

Incredibly, the more time American students spend in public school the more they fall behind the rest of the world. As fourth graders, U.S. students rank in the top four or five countries in the world, but as they continue on through the system they fall farther and farther behind. By the time they graduate from high school their international ranking has dropped below more than forty more industrialized nations. And this gap continues to widen right on into college. But, the unabashed educational establishment has all but abolished teaching its charges the skills necessary to function as independent and productive members of society in favor socio-political indoctrination. Buzz words, talking points and sound-bites that promulgate liberal ideology have replaced the traditional curriculum undermining the development of critical or creative thinking skills.

Take “diversity”, the new uber-concept. The obsession with “diversity” is a perfect example of the institutional academic retardation rampant in today’s public education system. If you attended a public school during the last ten years or are presently a student at most universities then you have been programmed like Pavlov’s dogs to respond positively to this word. Teachers, professors, schools and universities boast endlessly of their commitment to “diversity”. And now after being captive since early childhood to these academic lemmings, you know in your heart that diversity is “good”, but is it always?

Look it up. Diversity literally means “different or varied”. It implies a range of differences. Is a range of differences always a good thing? Or can it sometimes prove an obstacle to success? Have you ever heard that too many cooks spoil the broth? A diversity of elements in a metal alloy can give added strength or flexibility. On the other hand a diversity of elements in a metal alloy can also lead to structural weakness or too much rigidity. Exactly what influence the diversity of elements has on the alloy depends on what those “diverse” elements are and how they interact with each other. Just the fact that the elements are “diverse” has little or no bearing at all on the quality of the alloy.

A diversity of opinions in a political forum may lead to a strong consensus as well as an ideological impasse. On other occasions it can lead to chaos or anarchy. A diversity of political opinion can be desirable or make it impossible to forge a cohesive effort – again, depending on the nature of the diversity of the elements involved.

I seem to remember an ancient story of a great tower being built that was halted after a great deal of construction due to the chaos caused by the many different languages spoken by the workers. Communication became so difficult the entire project was abandoned. Apparently a diversity of languages was not a plus in the Babel construction industry.

Try an experiment – hold a pencil with one hand firmly gripping each end. Bend it until it breaks – not too difficult, huh? Now bundle as many of the same uniform size as you can comfortably hold and try it again. This time it will not be so easy. If your bundle is sufficient you probably will not able to break it. One pencil is easy to destroy, but many together are strong enough to withstand the effort to break them because there is strength in unity.

Now take it one step further and bundle up a couple different size pencils, a piece of celery, a straw, two red vines, a dog turd and a breadstick and try to break it. That is a pretty diverse bundle and yet you can probably break it easily – Not much strength in that diversity.

Next, bundle a couple of different sized pencils, a piece of hard rubber hose, a plastic ruler, an iron rod and a steel rod (roughly the same dimensions as the original pencil) and try to break it. You will probably be unsuccessful because there is more than sufficient strength in this diversity.

So diversity by itself is neither good nor bad. It is nothing more than the definition of a range of differences. Allow me to repeat that for students who have been brainwashed into believing diversity in and of itself is a panacea: Diversity by itself is neither good nor bad. It is nothing more than the description of a range of differences. It is what that diversity brings to the process that defines its value. “E Pluribus Unum” is our National Motto. It was adopted by our Founding Fathers in August 1776. The translation of this Latin phrase is, “Out of many, One”. It describes an action of many uniting into one. This profound concept celebrates the value of diversity as a source of strength when used as a foundation to forge unity because there is strength in unity and as a Nation we need to be strong to survive. Remember – one pencil is easy, but many together are strong and hard to break. So, in reality, there is strength in “unity”, but “diversity” is at best – relative. Yet our public schools and universities obsess endlessly about diversity at the expense of societal unity.

This bastardization of “diversity” is only one of the many political agendas promulgated by an educational establishment apparently aimed at molding students into good little political drones instead of teaching them to think for themselves. Independent thought begets diversity. Sadly, our public schools and universities are anything but diversified. Progressive political groupthink is pervasive. “Diversity” to them, really means anything non-conservative. Try challenging your teachers to define “diversity”. Chances are, they will be unable to do so without using liberal talking points. In fact, do not be surprised when their defense of this concept consists primarily of them accusing you of being racist or bigoted.

Surprisingly, the universities (our vaunted institutes of “higher learning”) easily outstrip the K-12 public schools in their groupthink bias. If you think the media is leftist, check out the political affiliations of college instructors. In many of our most acclaimed universities the staff is overwhelmingly liberal. In some cases entire departments are staffed by admitted leftists (by now some of you sheep are seething by my use of the term “leftist”. That is only because you have been conditioned to hear terms like “ultra right, right-wing nuts, religious far right”, etc. as accurate, but corresponding terms describing the left are generally described as hate speech by academia. You have been taught to get angry at such talk – are you?). The point is, you are being proselyted and politicized more than educated.

As public school students you have not been exposed to a diversity of ideas. Regardless of instructor claims to the contrary, the academic ivory towers regularly censor social and political comments that disagree with their political agenda. A few universities have even gone as far as setting aside “free speech” areas as the only place on campus where certain subjects can be discussed (these are generally located in areas not likely to get much exposure for the participants). Did you get that? If you disagree with their politics they won’t let you talk. Just recently a Professor at Central Connecticut State University called the campus police on a student who had fulfilled an assignment to discuss a “relevant issue in the media” because the student’s topic was gun violence on campus and he had the temerity to suggest that if students with legal concealed carry permits were allowed to carry guns on campus many of the mass attacks could be stopped earlier. That evening the police summoned him to their office, listed the guns he owned and asked where they were (legally locked in a safe at his home twenty miles away). Apparently the Professor had filed a complaint with the campus police, stating that his presentation had “frightened some of the students”. She actually called the police on a student for discussing an idea.

Evidently, the timid Professor is so emotionally opposed to the Second Amendment she was willing to ignore the First Amendment to shut her student up. Whatever your take on the Second Amendment is, take a minute tonight and read the First Amendment to our Constitution. Then tell me how our Universities have arrived at campus censorship except in designated areas? Do our purveyors of diversity actually think they can decide what you can say, when you can say it and where you can say it! What convoluted rationalization did they employ to come up with this policy?

It wasn’t much of a stretch. I doubt if they have thought this unconstitutional policy through. They think so highly of themselves, they just know you dummies need to be told what to think and they are just the authorities to do it. Still, it is difficult to understand the immense pompous condescension of the educational establishment in modern times. A hundred years ago college educations were hard to come by and were enjoyed primarily by a tiny minority of the gifted or wealthy. To be a college professor in those days was quite an accomplishment. They were an elite cadre worthy of great respect, because only a relatively small segment of our population had the privilege of attending an institute of higher learning, let alone obtain a graduate degree. Fewer still were qualified to teach.

Today however, that is no longer the case. A college education is readily obtainable to most Americans. There are now tens of millions of undergraduate degrees, Masters Degrees, Doctorates and their equivalents, yet our Professors still assume a delusional air of elitism and accomplishment as if they are more intelligent and accomplished than everybody else.

When your Professors pontificate try not to be too impressed. They may seem awfully smart to young students, but there is an old saying that should be kept in mind as you listen to their diatribes: “Them that can, do. Them that can’t, teach” . There much truth in this. Think of it this way – would you rather go mountain climbing with someone who has real world experience or someone who has read a whole bunch of books about it? Or would you rather fly with an experienced pilot or someone who has ‘studied’ flying for years, but never actually sat in a pilot’s seat?

Does your professor walk the walk as well as talk the talk? Does your Psychology Professor have a real viable private practice or do they just have one or two actual (student) clients? Has your Literature Instructor ever actually been published outside of the textbooks they authored (and force you to buy to pass their class)? How about your Journalism Professor – have they ever held a job in the real world practicing what they preach? How many books have they sold to non-students? Have they ever regularly written for a newspaper or periodical? Has anybody outside of their classroom ever heard of them?

Does the person teaching you actually know by experience what it is like to function in the real world or simply tell others how to? If they do, count yourself fortunate. Academics often start their careers as student teachers and move on up within the hierarchy with limited experience outside the educational system. But, there is big difference in studying a subject and experiencing it – between thinking about what it might be like and actually having done it.

In too many cases the truth is these Bozos couldn’t make a living in the real world. That is not to say all of them are worthless posers. I can think, (as you probably can) of a handful in my life that were undeniably intelligent and inspiring. I have known great teachers that had a profound influence upon my life, but the fact is they were a minority. Today they are even fewer and farther in between – you don’t believe it? Try ‘Googling’ “unqualified teachers”, but you had better set aside some time because you are going to find numerous articles and studies from all across the Nation documenting the rampant incompetence among our public school teachers.

Our college and university instructors may be more proficient remedially than public school teachers, but many lack the ability to engage in real critical thinking. Like the dopey CCSU Professor, they feel deeply, but seem unable to think deeply. Their passions are conceptualized via buzz words and soundbites. More often than not our educational institutions are overwhelmingly staffed by ideological lemmings devoid of individual thought, but steeped in socialist groupthink, teachers who can’t pass their own tests and professors that have never worked in the real world. Yet you spend more hours per day with them than you do with your own family.

But who cares more about your education – your family or your school? Your educators don’t. They are all about preserving their personal empire. Efforts to teach outside their ideological box are typically met by hostility from the ivory towers of academia. Those who disagree will find themselves censured or forced to leave and there isn’t much chance of significant change in the near future. The teachers unions are among the most powerful in the Country. They are the tails that wag our political dogs. Their political influence is undeniable and like everything else it is about their own personal power and money.

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why the schools are so diligent at making sure you attend, but not so diligent about actually teaching you anything useful? They don’t seem to care if you if learn anything, but they damn well want you in attendance every day. Year after year they continue to promote students into higher and higher grades even though they can’t perform competently where they are – why?

Because our schools have become big business. Just follow the money! They refuse to hold students too accountable lest too many become angry or discouraged and drop out of school. This prospect is horrifying, but not because they are concerned with the student’s ability to function productively in society – it’s about the money. The government pays each school a specified amount of money, per student for each day attended. Got that? Every morning when you show up for roll call the school cash box chings another deposit. You are their golden goose. Without you they cannot support their cumbersome, overburdened system. That is why they want you there every day. Like Gordon Gecko - they want the money.

That is also the reason for their vehement hatred of Home Schooling and Charter Schools. It is the basis of their opposition to school vouchers. They can’t stand any competition. If they truly cared about you they would be supportive of all programs and institutions that delivered results. After nearly a half century of academic decline they would surely welcome a “diverse” educational spectrum that enhanced student competence. But the drive for money and power – not academic proficiency – is their primary objective.

Both Home Schoolers and Charter School students routinely outperform their public school counterparts. Public school student academic competence is embarrassing when juxtaposed with the non-public school students. It is not even a close contest. But rather than welcoming alternative programs the educational establishment wants to shut them down. They only see them as a threat. Every student enrolled outside of public school is viewed as money out of their pocket and money is what it is all about.

The public schools receive an obscene of amount taxpayer dollars, their unions and lobbyists wield incredible political influence and they enjoy the full support of the media, yet the majority still cannot hold a candle to Mom teaching across the kitchen table from an old book. Yet even with all that money too many public schools are dirty, violent, shabby facilities. They suffer with dilapidated buildings, old athletic equipment, not enough books, antiquated technology, unqualified teachers – but the Administrators always seem to get their share of the moolah.

There are almost four dozen school Superintendents in the State of California alone, who earn more money per year than the Vice President of the United States! Somehow they can’t quite figure out how to budget billions and billions of dollars well enough to make sure there are enough books to go around, but they can sure make certain they get their “vig” off each student that shows up for class. Did you catch that? Your Superintendent gets a portion of the daily stipend from the State for each student’s attendance. Some get as much as forty dollars per student per day. Multiply that by the number of students in your school district and you can understand their huge incomes. Your Superintendent wants you in class because he/she gets a “commission” on it! Every morning when you answer roll call another slice of taxpayer dollars gets added to the Super’s paycheck.

Your school maybe old and beat up, but you can bet your District Superintendent’s house is big, beautiful and up to date. Check it out!

If the posers who run our educational system really believe in it, why do so many teachers, administrators and politicians opt to put their children in private schools? Because they care deeply about how their own children turn out. They understandably want the best for them. As for the rest of us? – Public schools are just fine – as long as we show up and they get their money.

The administrators of our public schools know the score. They are perfectly aware that recipients of graduate degrees in education have GPAs and personal test score averages lower than most other graduate programs. Some are certainly the ‘best and brightest’, but unfortunately these may be the exceptions that prove the rule. Teachers and professors are more likely to be mediocre seekers of security and status in a non-threatening environment rather than shakers and movers willing to risk much to accomplish much.

This explains their pathological lack of creativity. It is why they parrot each other politically. Don’t be intimidated. Think independently and don’t be afraid to debate them. With a little preparation you can resist the groupthink and make up your own mind. A little knowledge will beat the hell out of a lot of propaganda. Don’t think it will be easy. They have the power. They will try to shut you up or make you go away. They want you to get in line and conform to their ideology. They need you to support their corrupt system. If you do think independently they will attempt to ridicule you into silence. That is their primary tool. But, if that doesn’t work they will try, as at CCSU, to enforce their will using the legal system.

Be strong. Don’t back down. Argue with them when they indoctrinate. The last thing they want is to incorporate a diversity of thought – they have to be the authority. You see, if you think outside their socio-political box you may prove them wrong. Since their hubris is founded on their belief that you are not qualified to make your own decisions – they need to be right in order to keep their power over you. They will go to great lengths to maintain this delusion.

But, the winds of change are blowing. The toothpaste is out of the tube. The general public is universally unhappy with the state of our public schools. For now the educators retain a death lock on the politics of education, but that grip is losing its strength. The people are demanding accountability and change – real and effective change for the better. Every day more and more students abandon public education for Charter schools and home schooling. Others move to better districts. The ability to freely choose between schools is an option being sought by parents across the Nation. The pressure to provide school vouchers substantial enough to subsidize non-public education is increasing. All of which threaten the rotten-to-the-roots tyranny of the public school system. The pressure is on. Keep it up. A couple more good whiffs and the whole corrupt system is going to start coming come down.

They can obfuscate by blaming a lack of funds, class size or your parents, but the truth is the blame can be laid squarely at the feet of those we have entrusted to educate us. They have more than enough money now. The United States educational establishment already spends more money per student than any other country in the world. All they need to do is learn to budget responsibly by spending that money on the students and facilities – not the administration. Granted, smaller classes may be better and increased parental involvement is necessary. But the root of the problem is the politically driven agenda carried out by inept administrators and unqualified instructors bent on accumulating ever more money and power at your expense. Some of the very top schools in the Nation have overcrowded classrooms and are located in some of the poorest school districts, proving daily that although these issues need to be addressed they are not the cause of our public school demise. They are only red herrings employed to demand ever more money and increased power.

The really good news is parents are catching on and the impetus for effective change is building. Once we get Mom and Dad on board the disasterous reign of the progressive education is doomed. Still, it will take a long, concerted effort to change this monopoly. Its proponents are deeply entrenched and will fight to the death to keep their status quo. They have the most powerful lobby in the Country. They have strong political support and media backing, but we can do it. Next time you go to the polls, cast your ballot on educational issues against anything supported by the educational establishment. Elect people to your school board from outside the system. Report unqualified teachers and administrators abusing their power. Tell your parents when they force their views on you. Urge them to attend the PTA and monitor its actions. Finally, take a few minutes and write your political representatives and demand a complete overhaul of our public schools and universities.

Most important, fight them from the inside. Don’t sit passively and allow them to peddle their socialist dogma and politically correct values. Stand up for your beliefs. Be firm in your convictions. Seek outside sources of information and know of what you speak. Pit your knowledge against their emotion. Don’t be contentious or resort to acrimony even when they do. Be honest, articulate and respectful, but don’t back down. If you stay calm while you disagree it will drive them crazy.

Now be good students and go to school and argue with your teachers.

A beacon of hope from an otherwise dark Congress emerges from Arizona as one of their own asks them to “put their money where their mouth is”.

Only a year ago it was business as usual in Washington. Legislators from both sides of the aisle jostled for position in front of the microphones arguing endlessly without getting anything done. The people were frustrated – really frustrated. Chief among their grievances against the political leadership was the charge that they were no longer listening to the people. Trust in the government had plummeted. Confidence in its ability to work cohesively for the common good was on the slide. Congressional approval ratings nosedived to an all time low of 14%. Angry voters, finally fed up, confronted the seemingly deaf legislators at Town Halls across the country. Then, sparked by an MSNBC host’ s call for a ‘new tea-party’, Americans dissatisfied with the representation of both Democrat and Republican lawmakers, began a new movement to make themselves heard. The people began to reject traditional party affiliations and organize themselves. As a result, the first significant change in voter demographics gave impetus for a new voice – by the people.

Pew Research Center released a surprising report last spring documenting the emergence of this spontaneous movement. The divide between Democrats and Republicans was growing. But, voters, increasingly leery of government regulation and spending, were deserting both in record numbers and meeting in the middle. For the first time in seventy years more voters identified themselves as ‘independent’ of either of the two mega-parties. Yes, you read that right – for the first time since the Great Depression, independent voters outnumbered both Democrats and Republicans. For millions of disaffected voters this was huge. They found they shared common ground with millions of other Americans. Too many had felt ignored for too long by the very people elected to represent them. Feeling frustrated and forgotten in the endless power struggle and pathological partisanship on Capitol Hill, they were moving en masse to distance themselves from both parties to form a new and independent power base.

According to Pew, Centrism had emerged as a dominant factor in public opinion as the Obama era began. And now a year later, according to the Brookings Institute, the current polarization of the Democrats and Republicans is greater than at any time since the Teapot Dome Scandal of the 1880s. But even now, as poll after poll shows the gap is wider than ever, this new majority migration toward the center has grown into a formidable bloc of voters large enough to possibly determine the outcome of the 2010 and 2012 elections – and it is attracting more former partisans every day. Both party behemoths are continuing to hemorrhage members and although the Democrats have lost slightly more of their base than the Republicans, both parties are losing them to the independent movement at an alarming rate. Despite the fact the Dems like to portray independent grassroot movements as dominated by violent kooks, right-wingers and racists and the Republicans try to claim them as an extension of the GOP, the truth is that neither party seems to grasp the nature of this historic shift. Pelosi, Reid, Graham, Dodd, Collins and thier perpeptual incumbent colleagues are cluelessly meeting behind closed doors and in back rooms valiantly pursuing business as usual, trying to ‘make deals’ and ignore their constituents with arrogant disregard. Yet, in spite of all of their bi-partisan posing the two parties are moving even further apart ideologically and the more moderate majority is coming together without them. Even though Pew reported almost a year ago that, “The political values of independents are mixed and run counter to orthodox liberal and conservative thinking about government.”, neither party seems to be listening – or are they?

A remarkable member of congress stepped up this week and asked her colleagues to put their money where their mouth is. In what is sure to be an unpopular move with her fellow lawmakers, Congresswoman, Ann Kirkpatrick, D-AZ, introduced a new bill to cut the pay for members of congress by 5%. Although the annual savings to taxpayers would be less than five million dollars per year (congressional salaries are $174k + per yr), Rep. Kirkpatrick noted that with congressional approval ratings under 20 per cent, she thinks its time the American people started docking their pay, “The last time Congress took a cut in pay was 77 years ago. I don’t know anyone who has not had a pay cut in 77 years”, she said. “I’m putting my money where my mouth is” she added, “I’m leading by example and I hope my colleagues join me”. And she’s not kidding – she has already begun voluntarily applying 5% of her monthly pay checks to pay for the national debt! She joked in a FOX News interview that this hasn’t made her the most popular member of the House of Representatives, but it is gaining bi-partisan support. In fact, as of yesterday, 21 fellow legislators – both Democrat and Republican – had signed on as co-sponsors. Only 21 out 500, but it’s a start. More important, Arizona has a new Congresswoman who ‘gets it’. A savings of five million dollars will hardly pay down the national debt, but taking a 5% cut in pay – especially when 100% of congressional office overhead, travel, food, mailing, phone service, entertainment and more are already paid for by the taxpayers – would certainly signal a symbolic solidarity with the people they purport to serve.

In a era of obscene conspicuous consumption where professional politicians obsessed with their re-election and keeping their nose in the public trough, live like royalty on the tax dollars of hard working Americans it would be reassuring to see them sacrifice something. Even as they propose taxing “Cadillac health care plans”, but maintain their own fat cat, super-posh plan and threaten our retirement by borrowing our Social Security while protecting their own platinum-plated pensions and benefits, driving around in limos talking on cel phones, and eating out in expensive restaurants – all at the expense of working Americans – a few of the more transparent have already suggested they have contributed ‘enough’ because they didn’t get a pay raise this year. These pampered professional political parasites who intend to spend the rest of their lives on the public gravy train need to be weeded out this fall and replaced with representatives who are there to serve the people – not themselves. How do we tell who is for us and who is for themself? I think the new Rep from Arizona just suggested a great litmus test.

Like Representative Kirkpatrick says. “Is it too much to ask congress to take a 5% pay-cut? I don’t think so”. I don’t think so either. OK, Congress, the balls in your court – how are you going to play it?

I heard this supposedly true story many years ago in graduate school. Please bear with me as I try to tell it as I remember it – I am sure I will massacre it handily I, but I will welcome anyone who knows the facts and can verify its authenticity. As I said, it has been a long time since I heard it, but I think I can accurately convey the spirit of it and it really does have a point relative to our current financial crisis.

It seems that the largest purveyor of jars of green olives in the nation was concerned about their decreasing sales profit margin. Although they enjoyed a healthy lead over their competitors and enjoyed the lion’s share of the green olive market they wanted to improve profits so they decided to bring in an “expert” to advise them. The expert consultant set up an office with a small support staff in their corporate headquarters and proceeded to study the situation. He toured the orchards that grew the olives and studied the planting, cultivating and harvesting procedures. Next he examined the storage and ripening process. He spent time with their transportation division noting how the olives were moved from the farm to storage and from storage to the plant. He carefully observed the bottling, packaging and shipping to the markets. Finally he looked at the marketing and sales procedures. After months of study he and his staff considered the mountain of data they had compiled and suggested a course of action.

He complemented the company first on a very well run and efficient operation. There were some minor operational procedures that could be adjusted to cut costs, but overall he recommended few changes. After evaluating everything he said there was one thing they could do to reach the profit level they wanted. Because of their huge market share and the large volume of units sold daily all they needed to do was reduce the volume of the contents of each jar by one olive. The cost savings of one olive per unit multiplied by the millions of units sold would result in increasing the overall profit margin above their target level. The company’s senior management went over the projections and exclaimed their unanimous approval. It was a simple plan, but absolutely brilliant. In fact, by following his advice they got just the results he had predicted. They promptly proclaimed him a genius and happily paid him his large fee.

The profit from the sales of the jars of olives was substantial enough that it was used to offset costs in other divisions of the company. They were able to even to subsidize the introduction of new products with the profits from the olives. As time passed they began to depend on those profits to compensate for other less profitable divisions in the company. Meanwhile their orchards were infiltrated by disease, their equipment aged, labor costs increased and shipping became more expensive. When faced with rising costs after a difficult overall sales quarter senior management got together and decided to compensate by reducing the contents of their olive jars by another olive. They were elated when it resulted in raising the profit margin once again.

Realizing nobody would notice one less olive they resorted to reducing costs and increasing profits by decreasing the content of the olive jars whenever they needed to boost their bottom line. Just one olive less multiplied by millions of jars and the profit magically went up. They didn’t even need to spend money on consultants – they could do it themselves whenever it was necessary. It was so easy it became almost automatic.

But then a funny thing happened. The profits began to decline. Sales started to fall. Suddenly they were losing market share. Since their profit model was based on volume revenues were decreasing. The sales of green olives were no longer sufficient to cover shortfalls in other areas. They called in the expert again. This time after months of study he evaluated the data and told them that the consumers noted that their competitors offered a better value by selling a comparable product containing many more olives at virtually the same price, so they were switching brands. He told them that by continually reducing the numbers of olives in their jars they had ceased to provide a good product and lost their market share. They were astonished. It was only one olive here and another olive there. Who noticed such things?

This story reminds me of the attitude of our elected representatives in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately our legislators have not only reduced the product they deliver to their constituents, they have compounded the situation by incrementally raising the price we pay for it. They have raised taxes a little here and a little there, until the burden has become almost unsustainable. Each little increase is just another olive out of the jar. Who notices? It is what our politicians have always done and it always worked before. Like the myopic olive merchants they can’t seem to see very far down the road. They are far too preoccupied with other things like obsessing on getting re-elected to worry about the quality of life of the common people.

They are first and foremost professional politicians. They are not businessmen or businesswomen. The majority of them have never had a real job. They don’t understand the concept of a ‘bottom line because they don’t have one. All of their expenses are paid for by their constituents. Their office overhead, support staff, rent, supplies, transportation, meals, gifts, telephone, mailing and travel are all paid for by the taxpayers. No wonder they can’t pass a budget that doesn’t spend more than it takes in. They have never had to. Of course their answer to every issue is to raise taxes and spend like drunken sailors. They are tax addicts with an unshakable faith in our ability to provide them with their next fix. All they know is when they need revenue they only need to take it from the people. It is easy and so simple. They look at the American worker as their personal golden goose. Squeeze it a little and out pops a golden egg. Squeeze it again and out pops another. It works every time – just another olive here and there. Talk about a ‘status quo’ – they don’t know any other way.

Unfortunately our economy is reaching the ‘tipping point’. Our nation is split almost right down the middle – between those who pay taxes and those who do not – 47 percent of Americans do not pay any taxes. Allow me to repeat that – 47 percent of Americans do not pay any income tax. That means just over half of working Americans pay 100 percent of the tax burden for their brothers an sisters. Did you get that? One half pays for the other. To further compound this disparity, a significant portion of those who pay zero taxes receive “tax rebates” on taxes they never even paid! (As John Stossell put it, “They pay less than zero”). Undaunted, our feckless political aristocracy propose to increase the burdens on the already overburdened taxpaying half. The intrepid Stossell said in his recent article, When have gives and half takes, “The view from the top shows the lopsidedness of the tax system. The top twenty percent of earners makes about 53 percent of the income in America, but pays 91 percent of the income tax. The top I percent pays 36 percent. The IRS says the bottom half of earners pays less than 3 percent”. Yet somehow in their convoluted politician’s logic the beltway gangstas have been able to foist the blame for their fiscal irresponsibility on the very heads of those paying all the bills. All to justify their shrill cries for ever more. And of course they can rely on the votes of the 47 percent exonerated from the burden of income tax. As George Bernard Shaw said, “The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul”. This is what it is really all about – their perpetual re-election and engorgement at the public trough.

Our political leaders can’t stop themselves. They seem oblivious to the ramifications. They are going to squeeze and squeeze until the goose dies in their hands. Even then I am not sure they will get it. They will more likely pass harsher laws to try to force compliance from its lifeless body. They will call press conferences and jostle for position in front of the microphones to threaten our future, our children’s future and our children’s children’s future if we don’t keep popping out those eggs. Their answer to every issue is to appropriate more of the working peoples hard earned money. Raising taxes is painless for them because their taxes are paid for with taxpayer dollars. Even if they do feel a personal financial squeeze they simply vote themselves another pay increase (as they did earlier this year while millions of working Americans continued to lose jobs and have their homes foreclosed on). It is just another olive or two out of the jar – who notices such things?

That is precisely why we need term limits – the time has come for us to break this cycle. Our current DC gang of “professional politicians” needs to be sent packing regardless of their party affiliation. We need to replace them with people who have had real jobs in the real world, who don’t look at taxpayers as a government ATM – people who will serve their terms and go home.

Too many olives have already been taken out of the jar. It doesn’t matter if you look at it as half empty or half full. It certainly is not worth what we are paying for it. Next election vote against the incumbents – from both parties. Vote the parasites out of office! Replace them with citizens who know we don’t work for the government – it works for us.

It started about six months ago. Frustrated with political representation increasingly detached from their constituency, a small group of citizens banded together to combine their voices in order to be heard. Their complaint? Runaway government veering away from the Constitution and usurping individual freedoms in favor of government administered social programs. They feared that Washington was no longer listening to them, but was pursuing its own interests.

Somebody called it a “Tea Party” after the original Boston Tea Party. They complained of “taxation without representation” and it struck a chord with other Americans. Suddenly similar groups began to organize spontanenously around the Country. Although the establishment media did its best to pan the movement within three months it had grown to something like two thousand “tea parties” (many with thousands of attendants) celebrated on the fouth of July. Not since the civil rights era has America seen a nationwide groundswell like this.

In spite of a concerted effort to dismiss it the movement continued to catch on around the Country. When the establishment media could no longer ignore it they went on the offensive. They snickered their ugly inside joke calling the participants “tea baggers” referencing a homosexual sex act. They thought themselves hilarious. They tried to pigeon hole the movement by comparing the people attending to Timothy Mcveigh and the KKK. Then they claimed it was only rich white republicans. Jeneanne Garafolo and Bill Mahr called the tea partiers racist claiming they really – as Bill Mahr put it – didn’t want ” a colored guy running things”. The usual crew of talking heads piled it on describing them as stupid, ignorant, angry and hateful – but really mostly just anti-Obama.

They did their best to dismiss the unrest as a fringe movement of idiots and racists. But the tea party movement only increased popping up across the country. Videos from the gatherings began posting on YouTube. In fact, the people speaking up said they were republicans, democrats and independents. They came from across the socio-economic spectrum. They were white, they were black, they were brown and every other color. The one common thread they shared was a love of their country and a fear that the government was out of control. Unfortunately, this message is one our lawmakers on both sides of the aisle do not want to hear.

To counter it the politicans intiated a series of Town Hall Meetings. Last week they finally fanned out from both parties to “talk to the people”. Their goal was to define the argument and confine it to healthcare reform. But the pesky people wouldn’t cooperate. They went to the town hall meetings and spoke up. We have all seen the videos – The politicans were caught totally by surprise. Essentially the democrats just wanted to convince the rabble to support Obama’s healthcare plan – the republicans wanted the opposite. For them it was business as usual. But the people wanted something else – they wanted to be heard.

The more the politicans tried to define and control the argument, the people more demanded to be heard. The politicans were shocked and angry. They wanted to do what they do best – talk. They discounted the people’s attempts to be heard. They called them names and accused them of being “hateful”. Even the President, just a couple of days ago in what was obviously a staged townhall meeting, said the problem was the disruption of the meetings by emotional people and that the people needed stop being angry and “listen”. According to Nancy Pelosi all of the emotion and dissent was “un-American”. The message was loud and clear from Washington – they know what’s best for the rest of us and we need to sit down, shut up and don’t argue.

They claimed the townhall meetings were to “debate” the healthcare plan. But again, last week during Obama’s whirlwind talking tour he was caught without his teleprompter and admitted that he had not read the healthcare bill nor did he understand everything in it. He couldn’t explain the ‘plan’. All he could do was tell us we had to pass it. So the politicians are continuing trying to pathologically ram a plan down our throats that nobody understands and that the CBO has categorically stated will cost more and deliver less. They claim we are in “crisis” and have to act now regardless of poll after poll saying the vast majority of people are happy with their coverage. Still, they insist we have to act immediately (sounding suspiciously like they did with the Stimulus and Ominibus packages…).

Abraham Maslow once said that to a man good with a hammer the whole world is a nail. That is a pretty good description of the political aristocracy running our country. The only way they know is their two party tug of war. As always they want to define the issues for us and then tell us what to think and do. That is because they have forgotten why we put them in office. We did not vote for them so they could spend the rest of their lives enriching themselves on the taxpayer’s dollar. They have forgotten that we elected them to SERVE us, the people – not the other way around. Their collective amnesia is what makes it nearly impossible for them to understand what the people are shouting out in the townhall meetings, “Stop telling us what you are going to do and LISTEN to what WE want“.

NEWSFLASH to Washington: We don’t want to “debate” your ‘plans’. We want you tear yourselves away from your incessant re-election campaigns and listen to your constituents. We are in charge – not you. Our government is ” by the people and for the people” not by the politicians and for the politicians. It is time for you to close your prevaricating mouths and start listening to what we have to say. You are seeing the largest public display in fifty years and if you don’t listen we are going to send you home for good in 2010.

And all of you “progressive” kool-aid drinkers – stop telling the rest of the people how rude and un-American our dissent is – remember what your “side” said just a few short months ago:

Hillary Clinton – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxmpTMGhU0

Nancy Pelosi – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5GuzruICwQ&NR=1&feature=fvwp

What is good for the goose is also good for the gander. Every citizen in this country has the SAME right to express themselves. So get used to it.

For the rest of us – Find a tea party or townhall meeting to attend. Whatever your political beliefs you have a right to be heard. Stand up and be counted. We can make them listen. Tell them this is way beyond party platforms. No matter how hard they try to morph this into a partisan battle – stand your ground. TAKE YOUR CAMERAS AND CONTINUE TO RECORD WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING THERE. Document the establishment media hacks attempting to “spin” and distort the people’s message. Don’t allow it. Post your videos on YouTube. Talk to your friends – We are going to win this one………..

I remember some classmates in grade school that had a very tough time dealing with chapped lips. For extended periods of time they walked around with horrible scabs surrounding their mouths. When I asked them what happened I was surprised to hear that the ugly crust formed as a result of continually licking around their lips to stop the pain and itching caused by chapping. What started out as simple chapped lips resulted over time into a much more painful and uncomfortable condition simply because they were unable to stop the licking. But the more they licked to avoid the pain the worse their condition became.

They even came to school with a disgusting goo smeared around their mouths. One classmate told me the salve was absolutely horrible tasting. It was applied specifically to deter the constant licking that was increasing the size of the scab and exacerbating healing. Unfortunately the pain caused by the dry cracking of the healing scab was so difficult to endure they just licked off the goo and continued to make their wound larger and even more difficult to heal.

A couple of these kids battled with it for as long as months at a time. Some of the scabs were huge and required non-stop licking to avoid discomfort. Even though they knew they had to stop in order to heal they were unwilling to face the pain. I had a tough time then understanding why they didn’t just tough it out and cut the whole process short. Just looking at them and the terrible cycle they were caught in cured me of ever licking my chapped lips, but they found licking the scab preferable to the cure.

I moved away from that school in fifth grade and I no longer remember their names, but I am pretty sure most of the scab-lickers ended up in Washington D.C. as Congressmen and Senators. Nowhere else have I seen such childish attempts to avoid the pain and discomfort of dealing forthrightly with our national financial wounds. Our professional politicians don’t appear to have the fortitude to tackle the fiscal wounds they have inflicted on the American people.

In fact, they are licking away at warp speed trying to keep the inevitable at bay. Our national fiscal scab is already torturously large and growing daily. Our politicians know the day is coming when our nation will have to pay the piper for their antics. There is no way to avoid the terrible pain of dealing with the debt they are piling up. In the first six months of this year the debt incurred and proposed is larger than the debt accumulated by every congress since the birth of our nation – put together. But the present plan seems to be just ‘keep on licking’ and pass the gory wounds on to the next generation.

As long as they can put off the unavoidable financial reckoning they will. Our feckless career politicians are more interested in retaining their cush, fat-cat, voter-subsidized lifestyles than healing our nation. Even in the midst of the biggest financial crisis since the great depression, while their constituents face unemployment, loss of benefits and even bankruptcy, our political representatives merrily continue to heap burden after financial burden on our heads mortgaging our future and the future of our children. Why? Because they aren’t feeling any pain.

Unfortunately they have built themselves a self perpetuating empire that is insulated from the pain and duress they continue to inflict on the American worker. Congress isn’t facing any layoffs. The Senate isn’t in any danger of losing their benefits. None of them have to worry about taking a cut in pay. They’ve made certain they are covered. They have all kinds of back-up. They have their own private very inclusive healthcare plan. They don’t even have any concerns about their retirement if Social Security tanks because they have their exclusive super generous retirement plan funded by the taxpayers. And their posh plans aren’t in any danger. They are fully protected – by their own design – from the results of their irresponsible actions.

They live like royalty compared to the rest of us. All of their overhead and expenses are paid for by the American people. They have scores of Aids to do their bidding. They get driven around in limos and dine daily in expensive restaurants. They fly for free. All of their mailing is paid for. They even voted themselves a daily per Diem to provide funds for entertaining and guess what – if they don’t use it they get to pocket it anyway. Add all of the other percs and sweetheart deals that keep them in luxurious comfort regardless of the state of the rest of the Country and it is no wonder parasites like Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Orin Hatch, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Lindsay Graham, Arlen Specter and so many others are PERMANENT fixtures in Washington.

How much have YOU benefited from the ‘bailouts’. What positive impact have the “stimulus” packages had on your life? How has the growing mountain of debt eased your financial burden? How is your 401k or your IRA doing? Ready for more of the same? Just last week another ‘stimulus’ package was proposed displaying our political leader’s unbelievable detachment from the American people. The national scab is in danger of morphing into a terminal condition and our fearless leaders can’t wait to make it worse because like children unable to deal with the pain they don’t know any other way.

Most of them have never had a real job. They have never had to deal with a ‘bottom line’. To them the American worker is the government’s ATM machine. And they know that by licking the scab and heaping on more and debt they can keep pushing the inevitable back. By continuous spending they intend to put off dealing with it as long as possible. But, they cannot risk allowing the people to face the pain without also risking being voted out of office. So no doubt the current D.C. gangstas on both sides of the aisle will continue to spend (to buy votes and influence at the expense of the American people) to retain their personal power. They will never stop of their own accord – they will have to be stopped by the people and the only way to do that is to send them home.

Our founding fathers never intended to create a privileged class of politicians permanently ensconced in Washington. They never intended for our political representatives to get rich off American workers. They set the example for us as working citizens with real jobs who served temporary offices within the government and returned home to resume their real occupations. Our current political leadership doesn’t get it. They have confused government service with personal gain. They don’t seem to grasp the concept of public service. They have developed a system to promote their own personal prosperity that acts like taxpayers work for them rather than them working for the taxpayers. And once they get in they never want to leave.

How bad does the national scab have to get before we put an end to their self indulgent madness? Sure, it’s going to hurt to stop it, but sooner or later it has to be done. We can start by voting out the incumbents responsible for this mess – regardless of their party affiliation. Boot them all out and replace them with citizens who know what it is like to work in the real world. Replace them with real patriots who will go to Washington D.C., serve their terms and go home. Send new representation that understand they are there to serve the people – not themselves. Let’s send the scab-licking pretenders who made this mess home and begin the healing process. The longer we put it off the more painful and longer our recovery will take.

Remember the Duke Lacrosse team rape scandal? How about the unbelievably pompous letter displayed as a full page ad in the Chronicle signed by 88 Duke professors and administrators condemning the alleged rape of a black stripper committed by the lacrosse team? Who can forget the “Gang of 88’s” leap to judgment “something happened to that woman” as they fanned the flames of anger toward the white players? They didn’t have any evidence, but they just knew in their little progressive hearts those rich white yuppies were guilty.

In their haste, not only were they unwilling to wait until the facts were in, they publicly thanked Duke students and campus organizations for “not waiting” to attack the lacrosse players – even confronting them on campus. They self-righteously egged on the mob to jump to conclusions and rush to judgment ostensibly because they were so concerned about the terrible racism and sexual abuse perpetrated by white males on campus. Evidently it was extremely important for them to let everybody know how outraged they were when it came to the rampant racism and sexual assaults flourishing within the Duke community.

One faculty showboater issued his own scathing public letter demanding the entire team be dismissed. English professor Houston Baker denounced the “abhorrent sexual assaults, verbal racial violence, and drunken white male privilege loosed among us” among other accusations in an apparent effort to distinguish him self as really, really caring! His letter made it very clear how upset he was.

Like Dan Rather before them, the accusation fit the attacker’s social agenda so they never bothered to weigh the evidence before rushing to condemn. As KC Johnson noted in his blog on Volokh – the propriety of the ad was unquestioned by the signers. KC said, ”..statement author Wahneema Lubiano unintentionally testified to the groupthink evident in many Duke departments: ‘In the moment when the ad came out, I did not hear from one colleague that there was something wrong with the ad”. What was to think about? It was a perfect opportunity to showcase their moral superiority.

Unfortunately the charges were proved false, all charges against the players were dropped and disgraced Prosecutor Ray Nifong was fired and disbarred. The wronged players are finally pursuing civil remedies against him. The whole disgraceful affair left the Duke faculty and administration drenched with the stench of rotten self-aggrandizement at the expense of their own students.

But, the establishment media was right in there with the Gang of 88 fueling their fire and giving the accusers a platform to attack from. Condemnation and rank speculation was rife in print and on television. Most of the big players jumped on the bandwagon adding their outrage to the avalanche piling on the Duke players. The one common thread through all of the acrimony was the tendency for the attackers to assume a high air of moral turpitude. They made it clear that this kind of heinous behavior was unacceptable and all perpetrators must be held accountable.

But did they really mean it or were they just preening for the cameras and microphones? You decide, but first consider the facts of the new Duke rape scandal. What? You haven’t heard about it? Any day now the media is going to start shining a light on it. The Gang of 88 is surely putting together another missive of outrage. The campus activists are surely organizing – right? Don’t get your hopes up.

Frank Lombard, Associate director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy and Aids researcher has been arrested for rape. More specifically for raping his own five year adopted child. Incredibly there hasn’t been a peep out the Gang of 88, the Duke administration or the establishment media. Considering the fact that the child is black and Frank Lombard is white one might assume the posers so quick to condemn racial and sexual assault would have jumped all over this. But so far this terrible act has been largely ignored by the same crowd who tried to crucify the lacrosse team.

There is plenty of evidence in this case. One of Duke administrator Lombard’s screen names was “Perv Dad for fun”. His arrest affidavit states the police have video of him performing oral sex on the child in front of his webcam. Another segment shows him sodomizing the child with his finger and tongue. Even more disgusting is the charge that he was ‘pimping’ the child online – offering sexual services to other adults!

Still, the silence around this case is deafening. Where are the champions for the victims of racism and rape? Where are the calls for his resignation? Could the fact that Frank Lombard is a homosexual have anything to do with our former activist heroes missing in action? Does the child’s male gender make a difference? Is the white on black issue relevant? Does it matter Frank and his life partner are a homosexual couple and this does not reflect well on gay couples adopting?

None of that matters to me, but it appears to matter to the Duke crowd and the establishment media. Apparently not only is bashing “rich white kids” a knee-jerk reaction, but so is doing the ‘ostrich’ when a controversial crime involves a homosexual.

C’mon Duke professors and administrators, student activists, and media weenies how about at least faking a little integrity and denouncing the same-sex rape and prostitution of a five year old black child by his adopted white “father” with the same enthusiasm you displayed against the lacrosse team. Does this kind of behavior really outrage you? Do you really want all perpetrators held accountable and prosecuted? Prove it – SAY SOMETHING NOW.

While you are at it you may want to finally apologize to the lacrosse players you demonized unjustly with such zealous vehemence.

On the other hand, following the election of President Obama, the Democrats seems to be gaining momentum. From what you see on the boobtube the whole Country is veering to the left. According to the establishment media the prognosis for the expansion of “progressive” social programs is excellent because people are flocking to the Democratic Party – right?

Wrong. A recent PEW Poll, out a few days go tells a different story. According to the new poll; from December 2008 to April 2009 the numbers show something else. Tracking the percentage of voters since President Obama has taken office the Republican Party has lost 4% of their voters – down from 26 to 22%. However, the Democrat Party has lost 7% (almost double the GOP loss) – down from 39 to 33%. But the really fascinating thing is that Independents have gained 9% – up from 30 to 39% during the same period of time.

So, both of the “Two Parties” are losing voting members at an alarming rate – the Democrats at nearly twice the rate of the Republicans. The big news is where the disenchanted members are going. Rather than defecting to either of the dominant “Two Parties”, voters are abandoning both archaic behemoths for Independent Parties. Contrary to the wisdom of the TV pundits Republicans are not forsaking the GOP to join the ranks of the Democrats – or vice versa – for the first time in recent history the real momentum is being gained by anti-mainstream parties offering real, distinct alternatives to both the GOP and DEMS.

Betcha’ had no idea.