On "Common Core"

ON “COMMON CORE”

First and foremost is the fact that, in the USA, standardization-and-centralization of any educational  function leads to: An overall lowering of standards to appease the worst performing parts of our student-AND-teacher populations [As endorsed by Mr. B. H. Obama and others (A & B)]; Probable "teaching to/for the tests AND the expected-and-demonstrated faking of test results (eg C); Probable suppression of those schools (eg D & E)  who are willing to take risks. leave standard methods AND achieve excellence; Such "standard", centralized and "politically correct" schools as MPS (F) failing to properly educate pupils/students, commonly at a cost higher than non-conforming schools; And, abuse of the "Common Core" non-system to meet the corrupt views of some teachers'/schools (eg G).

Educational programs can be formed and corrupted by:  Giving-or-withholding of Federal funds ; And, towards the policies of one Party (I) OR some "Glorious Leader" (eg H).

What most specially seems to be lacking is a scientific pre-testing ("Reliable and valid" and with a "high level of confidence") of "Common Core" by some qualified scientists who have "no ax to grind". [That lack reminds me far too much of the very recent failure of the effectively untested web-site for "Obamacare" and the ongoing unknowns as to its ability to truly deliver insurance-coverage on/after Jan. 1, 2014.]

NOTES

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B     Race Based Educational Standards?   
 
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G.  An Example Of "Common Core"
    <http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/20/common-core-forces-ebonics-pimps-and-mobstaz-on-fourth-graders/ H. 

The Church's "Big Lie" About Islam

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Vatican-II, Other Religions & Islam

DECLARATION ON
THE RELATION OF THE CHURCH TO NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONSNOSTRA AETATE
PROCLAIMED BY HIS HOLINESS
POPE PAUL VI
ON OCTOBER 28, 1965

3. The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.
Since in the course of centuries not a few quarrels and hostilities have arisen between Christians and Moslems, this sacred synod urges all to forget the past and to work sincerely for mutual understanding and to preserve as well as to promote together for the benefit of all mankind social justice and moral welfare, as well as peace and freedom.
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       The above document was quoted (Although not the section provided above) in a homily at my parish on September 29, 2012 as to toleration, The Pastor dealt more with intolerance towards Hindus who some Catholic call “stupid”. The “highest thinkers” in that religion have concluded that there is only one God and the “gods” worshiped by the People are only facets of that one God just as the facets of a great jewel are not the entire gem.

        The Jews are our spiritual ancestors and, as such are and should-be honored and not persecuted as was the sin of too many Christians (Including my Polish ancestors). They signed a covenant (Contract) with G_d. Such agreements are not had between a tyrannical master and worm-like slaves.

      Jesus the Christ makes us his co-heirs in the Kingdom and his brothers-in-love. Although asking for peace among men of good will, his last “General Orders” to his disciples (Luke 22: 35-38) was to do all that was needed to obtain the means sufficient to defend themselves. .

        The Sikhs, lately come to the World's religions, worship a universal and just God. They are great sustainers of equality between man and women and between all human beings. Their teachings advocate for peace; But, specially emphasis the right of self-defense and the duty to defend the innocent against criminal attacks. They also support practical charity and what we know as Charitas.

 

        The Allah of Islam (And NOT that of Arabic speaking Christians) demands a slave-like obedience to irrational and unpredictable commands. Islam also supports, if not commands, the use of the slavery of human beings and the sexual-slavery of girls and women. Islam also allows, permits and very often commands the use of murder, genocide, lying and stealing from “unbelievers”; aggressive war and institutionalized revenge.

 The noted document is one that “subtracts from the sum-total of human knowledge”. In the voice of the People, it is poisonous garbage.

Schools & Guns----Updated

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Guns, Teachers & Teacher's "Feelings"

I am not interested in the "feelings" of school staff and others who would be "uncomfortable" with armed staff or even police officers in the schools. I am not interested in those who throw up such "what ifs" as potential law suits if some innocent person is shot by lawfully armed persons or the more-than-ignorant proposition that such armed persons will "challenge" terrorists, "crazies" and other criminals to invade our schools and massacre our children. (Such persons, even if mentally ill, look for "easy targets".)

I am interested in acceptance of the fact that more trained and authorized persons, carrying concealed weapons and on-site, reduces the probability that such horrid crimes will be fully successful in our schools (As well as shopping centers, retail businesses, theaters and other places). Such trained persons need not be peace officers, the cost of which to protect large buildings is within the reach of only such schools as used by the elite.
Unlike too many, I understand that those educators who rely on feelings rather than facts and baseless speculation  are those who have driven so many public schools into effective failure to educate our children---Who they would now make defenseless against evil men.

The basic question to be asked of the above-cited teachers is: Which is more important: Your “feelings” about guns OR the lives of “your” children?
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Better Plan For School Defense

Dear Fellow NRA Members:

A FLAWED PLAN

I am disappointed in your recommendation for having a armed police officer in every school.
I do not consider that an effective method for the following reasons.
A. The example of Columbine High School, where the on-site police officer ran away from the terrorists there, demonstrating that there are police less motivated to protect pupils that such as the Sandy Hook school staff who threw themselves between the shooter and those babies to act as bullet absorbers----To NO good effect!
B. The many rooms, multiple floors and long, often bent, hallways in many schools make one armed person of limited uses even if in close proximity to the site-of-maximum danger.
C. The moneys to be spent on such much too limited protection would be much better applied to the plan described below.

A BETTER PLAN

1.     Require all teachers and other school staff,, as a condition of employment and licensing, to be qualified in the close combat use of medium-to-large caliber handguns and, perhaps, carbines;
2. Such training should, by NRA-certified or other qualified instructors, probably not required more than 20-hours of hands-on training (On top of 2/3 hours of safety instruction) and must involve qualification every two-years at close-combat ranges [Considering the track record of the New York PD at the "Empire State Building Shootings", it would be well to insure that all instructors are, themselves, qualified shooters);
3. "Force-on-force" training, with paint ball guns, is recommended to provide the needed and painful lessons;
4. Such qualified school staff could buy their own guns (Tax deduction) or be reimbursed for such;
5. Qualified school staff would be required to CCW them while on duty;
6. Federal law could be satisfied by having the local Sheriff swear them in as "Special Deputies", with authority limited to the assigned school and grounds;
7. Where laws allow, those persons could obtain CCW licenses/permits and take their weapons home, otherwise a gun safe could be provided; And,
8. The office staff should have access to a carbine in such a safe as can be opened by biometric means.

Considering the NRA's very long support of citizen marksmanship, it would have been better for you to support the second plan provided above. Certainly, most teachers will demonstrate a more parent like desire for the protection of THEIR children than some peace officer, no matter how motivated. Being distributed throughout schools, such armed staff would provide a "clear AND present margin of safety”

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Our Real "School Choice"

WELCOME TERRORISTS

ALL COLUMBINE HIGH/SANDY HOOK SCHOOL OR VIRGINIA TECH STYLE SHOOTERS, MOHAMMEDEN JIHADISTS, “GANG BANGERS”, RAPISTS, ARMED ROBBERS AND OTHER LIKE VICIOUS CRIMINALS SHOULD TAKE NOTE THAT LAW ABIDING CITIZENS, LICENSED TO CARRY CONCEALED WEAPONS OR LEGALLY CARRYING THEM OPENLY HAVE BEEN FORBIDDEN TO BRING THEM INTO THIS SCHOOL.

THE POLICE WILL NOT ARRIVE UNTIL SOME TIME AFTER THE SURVIVORS, IF ANY, SUMMON THEM.

OR

NOTICE TO TERRORISTS

ALL COLUMBINE HIGH/SANDY HOOK SCHOOL OR VIRGINIA TECH STYLE SHOOTERS, MOHAMMEDEN JIHADISTS, “GANG BANGERS”, RAPISTS, ARMED ROBBERS AND OTHER LIKE VICIOUS CRIMINALS SHOULD TAKE NOTE THAT THERE ARE ARMED AND WEAPONS TRAINED STAFF WITHIN THIS SCHOOL.

Dealing With "Knock Down Game" & Other Thugs AND Other Tyrants

Baring immediate and generally non-existent police protection the best solution is in following one/more of the following protocols:

1. From the FBI---"Two to the chest and one to the head"; Or,

2. From the SEALS or SAS---A double-tap to the head; Or,
3. From the "Old Sarge"---- "Four inches with the point and twist the blade"
4. For Other Sources--Repeated use any pointed or heavy object (eg Umbrella, walking stick, teacher's pointer) to attack the temple, (For males) genitals, solar plexus, base-of-skull and eyes of any criminal until there is not even the least danger of any "great bodily harm or death" from any such thug(s).

A criminal's lack of breathing or other motions is certain proof of that level of security.

Notes On Trayvon Martin

Trayvon Martin:  Was man-sized and apparently much stronger and faster than his victim George Zimmerman; A non-performing and suspended/expelled school failure; A probable thief or receiver of stolen goods; And, abuser of an illegal drug.  He was lawfully killed by one shot from a gun which was not drawn-and-fired until the last moment possible for his victim to keep his brains from being splattered on a concrete surface.  This was the verdict of a very carefully  selected jury of Florida citizens after a most careful consideration of the facts presented to them and the judge's exact instructions on the applicable and democratically-enacted laws.

Republic's Founders On Guns & Tyranny---Updated

A.     "No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms"; "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"; "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants";"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria) (President Thomas Jefferson)

B.  "The very atmosphere of firearms any where and every where restrains evil interference---they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.";  "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty teeth";  "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a a fearful master"; "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected"; And, as still true,  "The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves"; “A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government (Attributed to George Washington).

C.   "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve  it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined"; "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"; "The liberties of a people never were, nor every will be secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them" ;  And, of course, "Give me liberty or death!" (Patrick Henry)

D.     "The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.      (President James Madison)

E.   "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them."; "I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few politicians." - George Mason (father of the Bill of Rights and The Virginia Declaration of Rights)

F.   "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
- Richard Henry Lee

G.  "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms." (Richard Henry Lee)

H.  "The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." (Samuel Adams)

I.      "A Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for lunch.  A Republic is like two wolves and a well armed lamb deciding what to have for lunch."; And, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both”. – (Ben Franklin).

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C.A.I.R. As Criminal Organization

The "Council on American Islamic Relations" was an "Unindicted Co-Conspirator" in the anti-terrorism Federal court case (United States v. Holy Land Foundation, et. al.; Cr. No. 3:04-240-P; N.D.TX.). This designation was sustained in spite of appeals and challenges by CAIR.

The basic defendants were found guilty as to over 100-counts.

Recent news clearly demonstrates that CAIR continues its Jihad against our Constitution's provisions for the protection of free speech and the "free exercise of religion" by all citizens.