The headline for this AP story is “Kudos, Too, to My Blankety-Blank Teacher.”
 
“Savannah Larson, 13, gave the first performance in the spring concert attended by about 700 students, teachers, relatives and friends at Monticello Middle School. At the end of singing Rogers & Hart's "Where or When," she delivered what first appeared to be a verbal nod to the instructor, Constance S. "Connie" Noakes. “

“"I forgot to thank my wonderful choir teacher, Ms. Noakes, for all that she's taught me these past couple of years, like always knowing what to say in any situation, like..." Larson began, then let fly a stream of expletives and obscenities she said Noakes regularly used in class.”   Read the AP story.

The administrator is protecting the teacher, while the investigation goes on, and Savannah Larson; an honor student was suspended for 10 days. The girl and her mother say they personally talked with the teacher, and the administrator, in times past about the teachers use of obscenities in class.  But to no avail.  So Savannah took things into her own hands when the opportunity arose, and it did, and she did.

This girl has guts.  Kudos too, to Savannah Larson.

I’m sure you can surmise the looks on the faces of the audience when Savannah thanked her teacher for the lessons in modern day language. What a look of horror that must have come over the teacher, Constance Noakes, for that exposure in public for everyone to hear. The suspension will be worth it.

Public education? Remember now, this is public education where the parents for the most part, are thought of as inhibitors to a child’s proper education. And if you are raising your child in a Christian home and working to instill some good old-fashioned morals and traits of responsibility and accountability in your children, then you are really a hindrance. To teachers like Constance Noakes.

My best wishes to Savannah Larson.

At UCLA, you can choose how many graduation ceremonies you want to be cheered and screamed at by your family and friends.   Depending on your racial and orientationtational make up.

“Some students are presumably eligible for four or five graduations. A gay student with a Native American father and a Filipino mother could attend the Asian, Filipino, and American Indian ceremonies, plus the mainstream graduation and the Lavender Graduation for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students.” Now ain’t that special. The reason that the educators and administrators at UCLA thought this was special was because of American Imperialism. Yep, you read that right. American Imperialism. It’s the cause of it all. White American males.

“But the core reason for separatist graduations is the obvious one: on campus, assimilation is a hostile force, the domestic version of American imperialism.” Read it all.

It’s the white American males who caused the major world wars. It’s the white American males who stole the southwest from the Mexicans, although the Mexican government sold it to us.  It’s the white American males who drove the native Americans from their park like land. It’s the white American males who were responsible for leveling Hiroshima without reason, just an attack on pearl harbor. It’s the white American males who, in cahoots with the evil profit mongering oil companies, have caused all of the pollution in the world. It's the white American males who have caused the civil wars going on now in Iraq, and it's all for their oil.  It’s the white American males who have caused the aids epidemic to spread like wildfire into Africa and will not now fund the cure for it. It’s the white Christian males who enslaved the blacks and then created the KKK to keep the blacks on their plantations, even though it was the republicans that freed the slaves. It’s time for revenge. It’s time for reparations.

So goes the thinking that our kids are getting in their higher education universities across America. Could it be that bad? Tell me that UCLA is just one lone isolated school doing such crazy stuff. What the heck is wrong with just ONE graduation ceremony for the entire school?  And if white American imperialism is too much for you to take, then we do have an swinging door open border policy, and you secular progressive liberal socialist utopia dreamers can use it.

You kids have families and friends, then get together after the big event for your own ethnic party.   America has done quite well assimilating people into the land and would do just as well without these utopia socialist fools for educators.  Idiots.

Now that you graduates are going out into the real world, may I offer just a bit of advice? There are some things expected at work that are not expected while you were in that school like, try to show up every day on time and complete your assignments on time. Good luck.

Thunderstorms rolling through town today, so my golf day has been rained out. What a downer.

So, putting the game aside, on to some really important stuff that for our politicians seems to be a game of pulling the wool over the eyes of the people, and keeping the wool pulled over the eyes and ears of the themselves. Hear no evil, see no evil, get on with it.

The Senate will present again the amnesty bill with some concessions.

The radical Islamics are just one step closer to eliminating Israel off the face of the earth.

And global warming hysteria gets a cooling, from the President of The Czech Republic.

These three happenings are the biggest threats, the only major threats to be concerned about right now, in this time zone of human history. These three could end civilization, as we know it.

Radical Islam, illegal immigration, and global climate change. All three must be stopped if America is to survive as a great place to live, work and play. All three must be exposed for what they are: anti-America, anti-free enterprise capitalism, and anti-freedoms as guaranteed in our constitution. All three must be controlled by whatever means is necessary, be it outright military intervention, be it concentrated diligent enforcement of current laws, and/or a civilian blitzkreig of the medias acceptance and adoration of Al Gore’s inconvenient lies or half/truths, the government paid scientists, and the UN assault on the opposing voices of their global agenda.

And that’s As I See It Now.

I’ve got grandkids that I’d like to think they would live out their lives in a world that still has some sanity to it, that still has the basic freedoms to life, a liberty to choose for oneself the desires of one’s own heart, and to pursuit a happiness at seeing their children grow and have the ability to choose the same relative choices they’ve had, and I’ve had, and my parents had, and my grandparents who emigrated here a long time ago experienced.    That’s all.  Is that too much to ask for?

Is there still a chance that the American experience can still be a reality for our own grandkids?

As part of the Tulsa, Oklahoma centenial celebration back in 1957, a brand new Plymouth Belevedere Sport Coupe was buried in a vacumn bag inside a concrete vault sunk into the earth on the court house lawn.   There it has been for 50 years. 

Today is the day to bring it up, empty the contents of the glove compartment and award the car to the person who, back in 1957 guessed what the population of Tulsa would be  in 2007.   That person could very well be alive and well and have a brand new car to drive home, well, a not driven possibly rusted out somewhat of a classic old car.

Today it is raining.  Thunderstorms rolling across the state into Tulsa as I write.

Yesterday, the vault was opened and the car was raised as a practice run for todays official event.  And three feet of water was in the vault, seeped through cracks in the concrete over the past 5 decades.   The plastic vacumn bag was not opened, so the condition of the car is still not known.  What kind of plastic was availabe way back then in the 50's?   Were there any holes in the bag?   It's being hyped by the media.  There are tickets to sell for the bleachers to witness this historic event.

Is it or isn't it all rusted out?

Click here for pictures from 1957 and additional news of the unearthing of the Belevedere.

Click here to see pictures taken yesterday of the car being raised out of the muddied watered vault.

And here are 1957 video news

The official time of the "unbagging" of the car is for 7pm this evening.

Harry Reid and that Nancy Pelosi have expressed to President Bush that the "surge has failed".   We gave you two months and you failed, the troops failed, the generals failed, and the Iraq government has failed to make any significant progress that we can tell.  

Can you imagine that kind of reasoning about the "war on poverty", the "war on drugs", the "war against HIV" and the other failed government programs.  Johnsons program was to end "poverty forever".  It has failed miserably.   Reid and the rest have failed miserably.  Their districts have given them two months to get Washington straightened out and they have failed miserably.  Nancy Pelosi promised an end to corruption in washington back in December and she has failed miserably.  

Run them out of town.  "Bring home Reid and Pelosi (that's the short list) NOW" 

But, the war against global climate change MUST go on, even though they gave it two months and there have been no results yet,

How do these people keep getting re-elected?

Although that huge comprehensive immigration bill did not pass, I believe that eventually there will soon be another plan to legalize the illegals, and it will be much sooner than any of us hope for.  Why?
Because of this statement, which seems to summarize the feelings of our liberal public officials all over the political map.  Democrats and republicans alike.  

"I am angered by this morning's arrest by federal officers of approximately 150 Portland residents who were working at a local produce company. I certainly understand why federal officials executed criminal warrants against three individuals who stole and sold Social Security numbers. But to go after local workers who are here to support their families while filling the demands of local businesses for their labor is bad policy."   Those are the words of the mayor of Portland, Oregon, after ICE arrested 165 undocumented workers and 3 managers at three work sites of the Fresh Del Monte sites for knowlingly hiring illegal aliens (undocumented).   

This statement is a good indicator of the attitudes of our public officials from Portland to Boston.  The attitude.  These are hard working people just wanting to support their families and they will work at those hard, low pay, boring unskilled jobs that Americans do not like to do.  And when they are arrested, it disrupts their family life.

And then the officials make these aliens out to be victims.  And it would be inhumane to deport them and leave their families and children here while daddy is sent back.

It appears that president Bush feels the same way   Then anyone who opposes granting these hard working people a chance at  the good life is made into a villian, a hard hearted evil anti-immigration bully.  That's the game as it is being played. 

"...to go after local workers who are here to support their families while filling the demands of local businesses..."  That's an evil act.  That's unfair.  That's inhumane.   That's racist.  That's anti-immigration.   And throw in a few more "That's" and that will be all the liberal left knows or cares about the illegal alien migration that will destroy America as we know it.   It's now about future votes.

The really scarry part to me about all this is that it will be setting a precedent of tolerating our laws being broken for a specific group of people.   What's to stop an invasion of millions of Muslims coming into the US and using the same techniques, the same arguments, and appealing to our same senses?

I'd rather tolerate the millions of Hispanics and their culture than the culture of Islam, but if we take one, I'm afraid we will have to take the other.  

President Bush has met with the republican delegation in a last ditch effort to sway some fence sitters to get off that fence and jump on board of that "comprehensive immigration" bill.   All he needs is a few.

"Now is the time to get it done."

"status quo is unacceptable."

"Some members in there believe that we need to move a comprehensive bill, some don't," the president said. "I understand that. It's a highly emotional issue."  More.


You bet it is emotional, emotionally wrong.   So ladies and gentlement, the bottomline is that we real conservatives have stopped the first effort and we must work just as hard to thwart this second effort to legalize every illegal alien in this country allowing them to bring in extended family members. 

Keep those cards, calls and letters going.  Continue to call the talk radion hosts.  Write those letters to the editors.  This is democracy at work, and it is work.  This is not the time for the "silent majority" to stay silent.

Toni Blair is out of office, so now he can tell the media where to go, and he just about does.

Mr Blair said he was describing "something few people in public life will say, but most know is absolutely true: a vast aspect of our jobs today - outside of the really major decisions, as big as anything else - is coping with the media, its sheer scale, weight and constant hyperactivity. At points, it literally overwhelms."

The damage that can be done "saps the country's confidence and self-belief", he said. "It undermines its assessment of itself, its institutions and above all, it reduces our capacity to take the right decisions, in the right spirit for our future."

Read the media acount, it's a good.accessment of the current mainstream media.  The speech itself can be read here. 

OK, the liberal democrats have tried to express a ‘no confidence’ in Alberto Gonzales, but the republicans blocked the non-binding resolution, and President Bush has called it a meaningless gesture.    But is it?   But the democrats really meant it.

It is really a demonstration of how the liberal secular progressive democrats feel about America.
The democrats have no confidence that our military is capable of wining a segment of the war on terror, of holding off the Islamic fascists long enough so that a democratic government can get established in Iraq.

The democrats have no confidence in the American people. They have felt that certain groups of Americans have needed help fending for them selves by granting them special rights through affirmative action initiatives. They feel that certain groups of people need to be protected and have granted special rights to people of color, to women, to gays, to the disabled, to minority foreign language groups and that these groups do not have the ability to excel without these protections, and then added to the list that a crime against one of these would be a “hate crime”.

Yes, the liberal democrats do not have confidence in the American people. To do anything on their own. It’s like a cradle to grave welfare program. If you get hurt, they’ll have someone fix it for you. If you can’t get a raise, they’ll mandate it for you. If a co-worker offends you, they’ll take care of that too. If you are short of cash this month, call and they’ll send you some food stamps. On and on.

But on the flip side, the American people have ‘no confidence’ in the democrats and their hold of power in congress as the polls show Americans confidence in Congress is lower than ever. Americans have no confidence in the liberal democrats desire to really do something to stop the illegal flow of foreigners into this land of ours. Americans have no confidence in the liberal democrats desire to win the war on terror, or even to confront the terrorists in their backyard before the terrorists confront us in our backyard. Again. Americans have no confidence in the liberal democrats being upfront and honest with we the people about their plans to destroy the economy through global climate change initiatives.

It’s a two way street. They do not trust Americans and Americans do not trust politicians, especially the secular progressive liberal socialist leaning democrats. They currently hold the power, but we the people pull the voting handles.  If we can keep them from rigging the election through they’re shouts of abuse and racist profiling. 

 Because of the new kid on the block, the kids who have been in the neighborhood for a long time are having their toys taken away. It’s just that the new kid wants to have their own special kind of toys which have been determined to be dangerous.  So now, to be fair to the new kid who cannot have his special toy, none of the kids will have any toys.  

What would you call that?

“Hundreds of Christian books are disappearing off the shelves of U.S. prisons under a federal directive intended to prevent violent inmates from receiving radical Islamic texts, prompting a lawsuit.”
“Instead of focusing on Muslim books, the directive restricts literature from all religions, the Associated Press reported. The post-9/11 order, which only now is being implemented, allows the prison libraries to stock only 100 to 150 books for each religion.“   WND has the story.

Call it whatever you want, but it is crazy, It dumbfounds the rationale. It lacks common sense. Except that to play along and ban the books of Christians since the books of Muslim were banned, that action may stymie a lawsuit on the grounds of civil rights violations. Then it makes sense. Save the money and the time involved for legal defense.  But while you do that you also hurt the inmates and restrict their civil rights of having ample material to read.  Uphold the rights of one and violate the rights of many.  It grates on the concept of a democracy where the voting majority call the shots through a system of the rule of law. 

Political correctness.   It's leading the country into dangerous self-destructive territory. 

Denver has fallen for the lie, and may penalize it's citizens so that they can all feel good about "doing something." 

"The ambitious goal is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 4.4 million metric tons by 2020, the equivalent of eliminating two small coal-fired power plants or taking 500,000 cars off the road."    Park that car and "take a hike". 

Some of their ideas for the "climate change action plan".

mandating efficiency standards for new construction

setting standards for older homes that would be enforced when the home is sold.

incentives for car pooling

charge residents for the amount of trash they throw away.

using insurance premiums to penalize people who drive long distances.

higher rates for "excessive" use of electricity and natural gas.

giving hybrid vehicles priority in parking.

"Denver is joining a host of cities that are taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including Seattle, Portland and Chicago. More than 525 mayors - including Hickenlooper - have signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, pledging to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2012."
Rocky Mountain News.

Why is it that our governments can work this quickly to pass legislation about the myth of global warming, and it takes years and years to pass legislation and do something about a real illegal invasion? 

I just don't get it.



Not enforcing the immigration laws allows officials to "feel good".
Passing laws regulating a possible tragedy allows officials to "feel good".

"The test of a governmental theory or program is how well it WORKS, not how nice it sounds or how magnanimous it makes the believer feel."  The immigration bill of 1986 did not work.  The comprehensive immigration bill just defeated in the Senate had no chance of working.  The conservative base rose up and made the calls, sent the e-mails, wrote the letters and demanded that the bill was a loser.  The talk radio hosts,saw through the rhetoric and exposed the bill for what it was.  Amnesty. We appreciate the conservatives that listened to the base, to the grass roots and voted against that monstrosity.  Thank You, We do remember those things when it comes to reelection.

So to the republicans in office, you can consider the mobilization of the base as a test.  Go back to the roots of conservativism.  Stand the ground.  It's time to return to the days of yesteryear, the Reagan conservativeness.  "The Republican Party is in a crisis right now. It is not due to the Democrats taking over control of Congress. It has to do with losing the vision of conservatism."

"If anything, Republicans lost Congress because they have lost the vision of political conservatism that Ronald Reagan brought to this country. They have allowed themselves to be cowed by the sheer amount of noise that the left has generated in attacking conservative principles. This wall of noise has fooled Republican leadership into thinking that conservatism is not popular in America, that the people want liberalism."  writes John Eberhard, in an excellent article on the subject of The conservative Vision.

It's worth the read.

Only one of the republican presidential candidates is doing much ‘reaching out” to the Hispanic community through their web sites, and/or other means of attracting Hispanic voters. Will this be the cause if the republican nominee is defeated? How much reaching out must be done? The democratic contenders are quite busy inserting Spanish translations on their web sites, and there even was a special debate between the two wannabes who do speak Spanish, “New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, jumped at the opportunity this week to debate in Spanish on the Univision television network.”

For some reason, I was thinking that one had to be a US citizen to vote in our presidential elections, and that a certain command of English was necessary to earn citizenship. So what’s the big deal for these presidential hopefuls when all of the voters will be able to understand the English version of all the debates and policy issues important to the country? Citizens are the only ones who can vote, right? So reaching out to the 12 to whatever million of the illegal alien residents would be mute and fall on the ears of non voters. So what’s the big emphasis about anyway? It’s a big waste of money and effort.

Hillary has her web site translated into Spanish. Barack is providing closed captioning on his campaign videos. Mitt Romney on the GOP side is creating a Hispanic steering committee. Sam Brownback is taking Spanish lessons.

Besides, by the time the election happens, that 700 miles of fencing as voted for in the homeland security funding bill of last year will have been completed and the flow of illegals will have stopped. Right? Not quite. Only two miles of the 700 promised have been completed. Government does work slowly, and that can be good, but mostly it’s pretty poor performance. So that, by the time the election rolls around another million could have made their way into the heartland for jobs and forged documents.

The right to vote. The right to vote is not mentioned in the constitution as one of those inherent rights of citizens and/or “that men are created ……right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It is not a right, but a privilege. But over the years it has become a right to vote, and has been established by decree and court rulings, and currently you must be a citizen, a legal resident of a state, and be 18 years old on the day of the election in order to register to vote in our national elections. So why the big fuss about getting all of those campaign promises translated into Spanish? Why spend so much time and money wooing non-residents and non-citizens who cannot understand English? Can forged documents be used as identification and thus the illegal will be granted the right to vote? Hmmmmm? Is this the reason for the reaching out to Hispanics? Just asking some questions here folks and not making any accusations. Wondering.

Could there possibly be a thought of, or plans of election fraud in the making? Could there be some plan to cry “racist” if the Hispanic non-citizens are denied the privilege to vote? Would the huge Hispanic bloc throw the upcoming presidential election into their court? Hmmmmm!

In 4, 8, or 12 years down the road a bit, the campaigners will be providing translations of their campaign promises in Arabic in order to reach out to the Muslim community.

The source.
 

 Tolerance extremism has a way of becoming absurd. Take this story for example.

“Hindu appointed to run Christian studies at St. Olaf College.”   St. Olaf was founded in 1874 and has been and is affiliated with the Lutheran Church of America. The Lutheran Church proudly named their denomination after the famous act of Martin Luther, the guy who nailed his 95 theses to some door in Germany, which started the split that turned into Protestantism and thousands of offshoots. Long time ago and many changes since.   And now, the Christian college turns to a Hindu to instruct Christian students on Christian theology.   Could we ask for a Wican to instruct Muslims on Islam?   Or how about a Newt Gingrich to instruct the democratic party at their national convention?   Or we could get Paris Hilton to instruct welfare mothers on how to wisely spend the food stamp money.

Back to St. Olaf and the Hindu priest, or whatever they call their anointed ones, and what he had to say about Christianity. “Certain forms of Christian proselytization have given rise to tension and even violence between some religious communities," He is part of a group that has met in Rome with the World Council of Churches to discuss this issue and to come to an agreement on an acceptable code of conduct, “acceptable and unacceptable ways of sharing our faiths in communities”.

Question.   Were there any Muslims in this esteemed group?  

Did they discuss how the Muslim share their faith by torture, by stoning the unfaithful, by removing a limb for stealing, by taxing non believers, by blowing up innocent people of a different Muslim sect, of demanding Western air ports to install foot washing basins, and on and on goes the list of unacceptable ways the Muslims share their faith in the west.   Did this esteemed group of very concerned educators discuss any of this?

May I ask, without offending anyone, is Christianity the only religion that acts offensive in the way they seek converts?   My answer. It sure is. But we even expect it, as it was proclaimed.

“Do you remember what I told you? 'A servant is not greater than the master.' Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you! The people of the world will hate you because you belong to me, for they don't know God who sent me. John 15:20- 21.

So, why the fuss about this?   Shouldn’t we be out there looking for ways to be persecuted?  The church is out there, and that is why the Christian church is growing exponentially, and that is why the other religions of the world, and even the political class hate and despise the Christians.   When one encounters the real thing, when one encounters truth, then one is amazed that he/she did not “see” it all before, that the eyes were shut, that there was a glaze over the understanding that colored and distorted that simple truth.   We fuss about the persecution because it distorts the truth and keeps people from understanding this simple truth, and that makes the job of proselytizating more difficult.   And that is their mission.  To distort truth. 

That is the mission of secular progressives. That is the mission of liberals. That is the purpose of ‘tolerance’ training. That is the purpose of multi-cultural indoctrination.

We fuss about it because some of those in leadership positions within the many denominations of the Christian church have left the roots, have forsaken the basics, have left the truth in favor of showering tolerance and multi-culturalism upon those who eventually will not tolerate the basics of Christianity.

And that is intolerable, and absurd.

John McCain is listening to somebody, but who is it?  It's not the conservative base who by all means have been against that amnesty comprehensive immigration bill that failed.  Not the conservatives, who is left?  It must be the same liberals that he collaborated with when he co-authored the bill with Kennedy. 

John McCain, a republican?

"Opponents of the legislation, he said, are not listening to the public."  No John, you are not listening.

"People want us to resolve this issue. The majority of Americans support a comprehensive approach to it," McCain said."   No John, the majority of Americans do not want a comprehensive immigration package.  

"So for us to do nothing and celebrate the fact that we stopped this legislation, well then those who have a better idea can give it to us. We can consider it and move forward."    Just wait John, there are some republicans working on that plan right now and it will include closing the borders while the the rest of the department of Homeland Security is charged with enforcing the laws currently on the books concerning employers employing illegal immigrants.  Hopefully I'm not making this up.  Hopefully there are a few conservative republicans that can still write laws in English. 

Hey, John, have you thought about actually enforcing the laws on the books now, and see how that works.  Really enforcing the laws, not some defacto enforcement of a show and tell variety.  Just really down to earth continual sustained enforcement.

But John is right on one point.  "We've got other things to do in the Senate.,"    Yes, if the Muslim situation is not solved also, and the taliban and Islamic fascists and their threats against the west is not permanently removed from American shores, then the Hispanic migration into the US will be a small matter. 

I'd rather have Hispanics and their culture to live with, than the intolerant culture of Islam.