Apparently I have a chronic issue remembering the password for this account... lame.
So, Nobama won the election today. I'm bummed, because he's disappointed me a lot. At first, I was all about him. His speeches and thoughts were brilliant and inspiring, he spoke for change and reform, and excited all of the optimism in me.
Aaand then-
He lies. He hides. His charm turns smarmy, and his calm becomes oddly robotic. He can't decide who his (powerful & influential) friends are, and falls victim to very convenient amnesia.
I can't stand people who don't take responsibility for their words and actions.
Needless to say, I'm worried. Obama is even making me (with my socialistic leanings) uncomfortable. I believe in social responsibility and personal giving in a capitalistic society. I do not believe that the government should take my hard-earned money and give it to everyone else. I believe that I should take my hard earned money and give to those less fortunate. I believe that it is the church's job to care for the widow and the orphan, not my personal job to support the lazy.
I believe that the government should leave me alone, and have far less say in my daily life.
I'm pretty sure Obama is going to do the opposite of that. Is he what this country needs? We'll see.
I'm waiting to be impressed.
I'm a weird libertarian, but is anyone else with me here?
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Sunday, October 28, 2007
The Sanitization of Terror...
I read this in the paper a few days ago. Interesting stuff... for more of her semi-refreshing, semi-uncomfortable ideas, go to:
http://michellemalkin.com/
Stop Sanitizing Terror
Michelle Malkin
Three years ago, I wrote about a mock terrorism drill at a public school district in Muskegon County, Mich. Instead of Islamic terrorists, educators substituted Christian homeschoolers. Here was the description of the school drill plan:
"The exercise will simulate an attack by a fictitious radical group called Wackos Against Schools and Education who believe everyone should be homeschooled. Under the scenario, a bomb is placed on the bus and is detonated while the bus is traveling to Durham, causing the bus to land on its side and fill with smoke."
Flabbergasting, but true. In the wake of Sept. 11 and the jihadists' carnage against schoolchildren in Belsan, Russia, the school chose to prepare its students for an attack by Christian homeschooling "wackos," not Muslim suicide bombers.
Unfortunately, little has changed. Last month, New Jersey's Burlington Township High School held its own mock terrorism drill. "You perform as you practice," Superintendant Chris Manno told the Burlington County Times. "We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that they're as effective as possible."
But the "real as possible" conditions included no bomb-vest-donning jihadists shouting "Allahu Akbar". There were no America-hating plotters enraged by the exsistance of Israel or driven to establish a world-wide caliphate. Nope. According to the paper, two local police detectives took on the role of hostage-taking Christian gunmen.
"Investigators described them as members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the "New Crusaders," who don't believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class."
How many other jihad-white-washing mock terrorism drills have been conducted using tax dollars? How long before we mimic the British schools, where the Holocaust is being dropped from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils?
American educators have been bending to the will of the grievance-mongers ever since the Sept. 11 attacks. Remember the jihad-sympathizing admonition included in the NEA's touchy-feely, post-Sept. 11 curriculum? "Do not suggest that any group is responsible" for the terrorist attacks, parents and teachers were advised.
But feel free to conjure up homeschooling "wackos" and Christian "New Crusaders" to avoid offending the Muslim lobby.
Here is a "real as possible" scenario. Last month, you'll recall, counterterrorism officials sent cautionary bulletins to police departments nationwide warning that suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States.
Who are these "extremists"? Hint: They are not Presbyterian, Lutheran or Catholic homeschooling wackos.
In Indonesia last month, a theological school was reportedly attacked by religious terrorists in Jakarta. The school was evangelical Christian. The terrorists were Muslim. In southern Thailand, attackers hurled explosives and opened fire on an Islamic school, killing three students. According to reports, police believe that Muslim insurgents staged the attack in an attempt to convince villagers that authorities were responsible -- a ploy to win villagers over to the insurgents' cause.
In our government institutions of perpetual ignorance maintenance, "D" is for dhimmitude. They are teaching our children all too well.
CREATORS SYNDICATE.
Discuss.
http://michellemalkin.com/
Stop Sanitizing Terror
Michelle Malkin
Three years ago, I wrote about a mock terrorism drill at a public school district in Muskegon County, Mich. Instead of Islamic terrorists, educators substituted Christian homeschoolers. Here was the description of the school drill plan:
"The exercise will simulate an attack by a fictitious radical group called Wackos Against Schools and Education who believe everyone should be homeschooled. Under the scenario, a bomb is placed on the bus and is detonated while the bus is traveling to Durham, causing the bus to land on its side and fill with smoke."
Flabbergasting, but true. In the wake of Sept. 11 and the jihadists' carnage against schoolchildren in Belsan, Russia, the school chose to prepare its students for an attack by Christian homeschooling "wackos," not Muslim suicide bombers.
Unfortunately, little has changed. Last month, New Jersey's Burlington Township High School held its own mock terrorism drill. "You perform as you practice," Superintendant Chris Manno told the Burlington County Times. "We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that they're as effective as possible."
But the "real as possible" conditions included no bomb-vest-donning jihadists shouting "Allahu Akbar". There were no America-hating plotters enraged by the exsistance of Israel or driven to establish a world-wide caliphate. Nope. According to the paper, two local police detectives took on the role of hostage-taking Christian gunmen.
"Investigators described them as members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the "New Crusaders," who don't believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class."
How many other jihad-white-washing mock terrorism drills have been conducted using tax dollars? How long before we mimic the British schools, where the Holocaust is being dropped from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils?
American educators have been bending to the will of the grievance-mongers ever since the Sept. 11 attacks. Remember the jihad-sympathizing admonition included in the NEA's touchy-feely, post-Sept. 11 curriculum? "Do not suggest that any group is responsible" for the terrorist attacks, parents and teachers were advised.
But feel free to conjure up homeschooling "wackos" and Christian "New Crusaders" to avoid offending the Muslim lobby.
Here is a "real as possible" scenario. Last month, you'll recall, counterterrorism officials sent cautionary bulletins to police departments nationwide warning that suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States.
Who are these "extremists"? Hint: They are not Presbyterian, Lutheran or Catholic homeschooling wackos.
In Indonesia last month, a theological school was reportedly attacked by religious terrorists in Jakarta. The school was evangelical Christian. The terrorists were Muslim. In southern Thailand, attackers hurled explosives and opened fire on an Islamic school, killing three students. According to reports, police believe that Muslim insurgents staged the attack in an attempt to convince villagers that authorities were responsible -- a ploy to win villagers over to the insurgents' cause.
In our government institutions of perpetual ignorance maintenance, "D" is for dhimmitude. They are teaching our children all too well.
CREATORS SYNDICATE.
Discuss.
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