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TUSCON PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHES CHILDREN CAPITALISM MUST BE DESTROYED

In the video, a woman at a public school board meeting reads excerpts from a book used to teach grade school children in the Tucson Ethnic Studies program.

The book teaches kids that the United States is an institutionally racist system filled with “bloodsucking capitalists” and Anglos who “rape Hispanic culture”.

“Hard drugs and drug culture is an invention of the gringo because he has no culture.”

“We have to destroy capitalism and we have to help 5/6 of the world to destroy capitalism in order to equal all peoples’ lives.

“The Declaration of Independence states that we the people have the right to revolution…the right to overrule the government…”

“Any country based on capitalism is based on greed…”

And that’s only the beginning. The book, used to teach children ages 11 to 14 has obscene language offensive enough for the school board member (who appears to be the Chairman) to chastise the woman for reading it aloud before the board. There is no indication, at least not on the video, that the board considers it inappropriate for the children however.

Hat tip to MoonbatTracker

These are the people of La Raza, the people to whom the Democratic Party panders for their votes. La Raza has but two ways to achieve their goal of re-conquest of the Southwest, bloody revolution or gradual advance through the Democratic Party. When La Raza’s numbers become sufficient, as they will if the indoctrination continues, either Democracy or some of the southern states will have to go.

HEALTHCARE, PROFITS AND INSURANCE

 The New York Times Business page reports:
Health Insurers Making Record Profits”

Well I hope so.

Record profits lead to record jobs. Record profits means a greater positive contribution to a growing economy than ever before. Record profits support growth in dividends, the staple of retired people depending on the fruits of their personal life savings in their end years. Record profits increase the value of a company and its shares of public ownership. When those shares go up in price it increases the value of pension plans and retirement funds. The more companies there are reporting record profits, the more companies there will be paying record taxes. Record profits are a good thing.

What happens when there are no record profits? By definition, a company that’s not reporting record profits is not doing as well as it once did. The enterprise has fallen into a state of decline. Its contribution to the national GDP is less than it was. The general definition of a recession is three quarters of negative GDP. Companies reporting lower levels of profit tend to be a drag on GDP until profits start to grow again. When companies are in a slump they postpone expansion and temper hiring programs even when the decline is judged to be a temporary state. Lower profits are not a good thing.

Somehow I suspect the Times doesn’t see it that way.

Bob B

FRANKIE GIRARD AND THE NAVY SEALS

From the town of Orange in the state of Massachusetts by way of Channel 22. Be sure to read the comments as well as the article.

The family of Frankie Girard is claiming that their son’s civil rights were violated after a teacher allegedly told him that hanging his picture of the American flag would offend another student.

A student’s drawing of the American flag posted on a bulletin board in an American school might offend another student? Clark Gable had the answer for that – “Frankly Scarlet, I don’t give a damn.”

Courtesy of the White House Dossier

Carney may also have wanted to avoid a public spat with Defense Secretary Gates, who yesterday appeared to be suggesting that White House officials broke an agreement to keep quiet about how the Bin Laden raid went down.

    “Frankly, a week ago Sunday, in the Situation Room, we all agreed that we would not release any operational details from the effort to take out bin Laden. That all fell apart on Monday, the next day.”

Gates added that Navy SEALs who performed the operation now have concerns for the safety of their families.

Leave it to the Obama administration!

OBAMA BEATS BUSH AS ANTI-TERROR FIGHTER IN BLOOMBERG POLL

A clear case of ignorance.

In a Bloomberg poll of global investors, the overseas investors rated Obama as superior to former president Bush in fighting terrorism. Only 16 percent rated Bush as stronger. Back at home, 54 percent of American investors rated Bush as the stronger one.

At first blush one might think it was the killing of bin Laden that gave foreign investors the notion that Obama is the stronger horse in the battle against Islamic terrorism. After all, the killing of Osama happened on Obama’s watch and it is obvious he gave the order to kill, and not to capture. That was leadership. But the opinions rendered in the voting come from sources much deeper than that.

Ignorance, the press and prejudice played a part. In fact, I would guess they played the major role. Undoubtedly, overseas investors are an intelligent lot. But ignorance isn’t stupidity; it’s just lack of knowledge. On the subject of American politics and presidents knowledge comes from the press. The ideology of the European main stream press lies somewhere between that of MSNBC and The Nation magazine. Michael Moore is a hero in that world because he is regarded as one American who speaks the truth. Obama is admired because he’s the first president to take America down a peg or two.

The idea that the assassination of Osama was only made possible by Bush policies that Obama opposed is an argument that doesn’t even exist in the foreign press. Tidbits like his de facto denial that the Fort Hood massacre was a terrorist act go unreported in the foreign media. Neither are their readers told that interrogations regarding terrorism are no longer conducted by the CIA. Due to Obama’s policies such interrogations became the function of a domestic crime agency, the FBI.

It’s quite understandable why only 16 percent of overseas investors favor Bush’s response to terrorism. The real question is why 46 percent of American investors put more trust in Obama for his performance on security.

ONE MORTGAGE CRISIS IS NOT ENOUGH. OBAMA’S DEPT OF JUSTICE IS SOWING THE SAME SEEDS FOR ANOTHER ONE.

The Obama administration didn’t allow the first mortgage crisis to go to waste. They took control of General Motors and got the Democratic Congress to give them 800 billion dollars to spend however the executive branch wished. It cost workers hundreds of thousands of jobs. It put the party most responsible for the crisis in charge of ending it.

The Community Reinvestment Act, ACORN and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, in consort with Fannie May and Freddie Mac, gave us the housing boom which led naturally to the subsequent bust. They did it by mandating that banks make an an absurdly high level of sub-prime loans. By the time Andrew Cuomo was Secy of H.U.D. under President Clinton, forty percent of mortgage loans were to people with poor credit. It was a house of cards that had to fall unless the rate of sub-prime lending were reduced. Incredibly, Secy. Cuomo insisted that sub-prime lending be increased and put the pressure on the banks to do so.

The same forces are at work to do exactly the same thing all over again.

Bloomberg Businessweek reports:

Community activists in St. Louis became concerned a couple of years ago that local banks weren’t offering credit to the city’s poor and African American residents. So they formed a group called the St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance and began writing complaint letters to federal regulators.

That was an example of community organizers at work.

At the Justice Dept., a new 20-person unit dedicated to fair lending issues received a record number of discrimination referrals from regulators in 2010 and has dozens of open cases, according to a recent agency report. Potential penalties can reach into the millions of dollars. “We are using every tool in our arsenal to combat lending discrimination,” Thomas E. Perez, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Div., told a conference of community development advocates in Washington in April.

Make bad loans or pay fines. That’s the government at work.

Why would a politician want to repeat the very steps that led to the housing collapse and put so many people out on the street? There are only four possible reasons: stupidity, ignorance, seeking power or seeking opportunities for corruption.

THE US GOES BESERK !

These are links from Drudge, all in just one day.

Sen. Schumer Calls For Amtrak 'Do Not Ride' List...
Two tunnel 'breaches' cause scare in NYC...
SUV 'bomb' scare ...
Threats Divert Planes in Three Separate Incidents...
Passengers, flight crew subdue man banging on cockpit door...
Yemeni passenger had Calif. ID...
Scary Flight To Chicago...
Threatening Note In Bathroom Departing Detroit...
'Are we gonna blow up?'
Dallas Train Station Evacuated: Man Asked For Help Carrying Packages...
Saudi Student Charged with university bomb threat...
4 Arrested For Videotaping TSA Line At Denver...
Suspicious package found in mailbox: Cellphone sent back to company...

 
Crowd behavior certainly is peculiar. First, Audi cars accelerate by themselves, and then Toyotas do the same. Nothing gets fixed but the cars all stop acting up. Remember the Baby on Board signs? Silly things, but perhaps they worked. I always accelerated by them faster to reduce the baby’s risk exposure time. And most of those cards that said Husband in the Trunk turned out to be fraudulent.

So Schumer wants a Do Not Ride list for trains. What about the buses? The PLO did a pretty good job on them in Israel. We let anyone stand at the stop and wait for a bus with no identification whatsoever. Someone could get hurt. But Schumer only cares about the trains. Yuk! Democrats!

It will be a relief when this hysteria blows over and we can all get back to abnormal again.

WELL, WHICH IS IT ?

Osama used a woman as a human shield.
Osama didn’t use a woman as a human shield.

Osama’s wife was shot and killed.
Osama’s wife was not shot and killed.

Bin Laden was killed in a firefight.
No guns were fired by those inside the compound.

The government says it will not disclose which military unit carried out the mission.
Biden says the Navy SEALS carried out the mission.

Panetta says the Osama photos will be released.
Obama says the Osama photos will not be released.

Bin Laden is dead.
I hope so.

Psst! (I heard Bin Laden is still alive but Elvis Presley is hunting him down somewhere in Konspiristan. What have you heard?)

RANDOM THOTS BIRD DOG

The Random Thots Bird Dog points to current items of special interest. Occasionally, he flushes something out from the past that merits fresh attention as well. We recommend you use the links to read the full articles.

Fed Up with the Fed?  by Thomas Sowell
Dr. Sowell presents some examples of propagandic.

It was an act of war when we started bombing Libya. But the administration chose to call it “kinetic military action.” When the Federal Reserve System started creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air, they called it “quantitative easing” of the money supply.

When that didn’t work, they created more money and called it “quantitative easing 2” or “QE2,” instead of saying: “We are going to print more dollars– and hope it works this time.”

Sowell has this to say about the government’s strategy of digging deeper to get out of the hole.

Those who are true believers in the old-time Keynesian economic religion will always say that the only reason creating more money hasn’t worked is because there has not yet been enough money created. To them, if QE2 hasn’t worked, then we need QE3. And if that doesn’t work, then we will need QE4, etc

Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, said confidentially to fellow Democrats in 1939: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.”

Paul Krugman, are you listening?

Some headlines worth a Google

No immediate boost for Obama in the polls

Bin Laden living in the same house for 6 years

The couriers‘s fatal phone call

Waterboarding gets the credit

OBAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

We have assassinated a figure head and enshrined him forever as a martyr. By his death, we have created a Che Guevara for the Muslim world. This would not have been the case had he died of natural causes or at the hands of other Muslims.

Al Zawahiri was in operational control of Al Qaeda for years before Bin Laden’s death and remains in control after it. Some newspaper headlines have cried out “The 911 Mastermind Is Dead”, but it isn’t so. Whether he conceived the idea or not, and there is much evidence to say he did not, the genius was in the development and execution, not in the conception. The mastermind of 911 is alive and our president believes he should have a chance to obtain a verdict of innocence in a trial in a U.S. court. It was a religious leader that we assassinated.

FROM THE BIRD DOG

The bird dog flushed these out and hopes you will click the links and read the whole article – only for those you find of interest of course.

High gasoline prices are consistent with Obama’s transformational plans.
Power Line Blog reports

President Obama named Steven Chu his Secretary of Energy just three months after Chu told the Wall Street Journal in a high-profile interview that “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” Presumably Obama put Chu in charge of energy policy because he shared Chu’s goal of driving American gas prices far above their then-current level. The policies that Obama, Chu and Obama’s EPA have subsequently followed confirm that higher energy prices was their objective. Now, confronted with the political fallout from his policies and facing rejection at the polls in 2012, Obama is flailing helplessly to re-cast himself as an advocate for American consumers. But he still is not willing to do the one thing that is within his power and that will bring down energy costs: turn loose America’s vast energy resources for development.

You can’t fight a nuclear enemy with spears no matter how strong your arms may be.
From The American Thinker

Beyond their ideological animosity toward free enterprise, perhaps the real reason the left wing activists want to destroy nuclear power is because the plants produce plutonium that is an economical raw material for nuclear weapons.  Leftist utopians dream of a day when the world will live again in the glorious Dark Ages — back when armies used catapults to launch diseased cows into enemy camps.  But until that happens, the real world has nuclear weapons, and if we don’t build them, our enemies will use theirs to destroy the nuclear-free Santa Cruz and most everything else.  Good luck though, with your medieval windmills and weaponized cows.

Bernanke predicts stagflation. Slowing growth and higher inflation. The ‘good news’ is unemployment will range from 8.4 to 8.7 percent over the next 3 years.
Read the full CNBC report.

The Fed cut its growth estimate for 2011 to between 3.1 percent and 3.3 percent from a January forecast of 3.4 percent to 3.9 percent.

The Fed also raised its estimate of inflation this year to a range of 2.1 percent to 2.8 percent, taking into account a recent surge in oil prices. However, it bumped its core inflation forecasts only marginally to a 1.3 percent to 1.6 percent range.