[magprob]

October 24, 2008 by Phyllis Schlafly
Will William Ayers be Secretary of Education in a Barack Obama Administration? All parents should ponder that possibility before making their choice for President on November 4.
After all, Ayers is a friend of Obama, and Professor Ayers's expertise is training teachers and developing public school curriculum. That's been his mission since he gave up planting bombs in government buildings (including the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon) and assaulting police officers.

Ayers brashly admitted that he was "guilty as hell" in planting bombs in the 1970s, and that he has no regrets and feels that he and his Weather Underground associates "didn't do enough." After successfully avoiding trial and prison because of legal technicalities, he picked up his Ph.D. at Columbia Teachers College for a second career, landing a tenured job as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Ayers's political views are as radical now as they were in the 1970s. "Viva President Chavez!" he exclaimed in a speech in Venezuela in 2006, in which he also declared, "education is the motor-force of revolution."

From his prestigious and safe university position, Ayers has been teaching teachers and students in rebellion against American capitalism and what he calls "imperialism" and "oppression." The code words for the Ayers curriculum are "social justice," a "transformative" vision, "critical pedagogy," "liberation," "capitalist injustices," "critical race theory," "queer theory," and of course multiculturalism and feminism.

That language is typical in the readings that Ayers assigns in his university courses. He admits he is a "communist street fighter" who has been influenced by Karl Marx, as well as Che, Ho and Malcolm X.

Ayers speaks openly of his desire to use America's public school classrooms to train a generation of revolutionaries who will overturn the U.S. social and economic regime. He teaches that America is oppressive and unjust, socialism is the solution, and wealth and resources should be redistributed.

In Ayers's course called "On Urban Education," he calls for a "distribution of material and human resources." His left-wing notions would be very compatible with those of Barack Obama, who publicly told Joe the Plumber that we should "spread the wealth."

Ayers's books are among the most widely used in America's education schools. Ayers even uses science and math courses as part of his "transformative" political strategy to teach that the American economic system is unjust.

Ayers is an endorser of a book called "Queering Elementary Education" by William J. Letts IV and James T. Sears, a collection of essays to teach adults and children to "think queerly." The blurb on the cover quotes Ayers as saying this is "a book for all teachers . . . and, yes, it has an agenda."

Unfortunately, Ayers's far-out education theories are already having an effect in education schools. One after another, teachers colleges are using their courses to promote socialist notions of wealth distribution, "social justice," diversity and environmentalism, and to punish students who resist this indoctrination by giving them low grades or even denying them graduation.

The Department of Education lists 15 high schools whose mission statements declare that their curricula center on "social justice."

Propaganda about Obama is already finding favor with textbook publishers. The McDougal Littell 8th-grade advanced-English literature book (copyright 2008, Houghton Mifflin Co.) has 15 pages featuring Barack Obama and his "life of service."

Most of Ayers's socialist propaganda is financed with taxpayers' money at state universities and teachers colleges. Some of the schools that have adopted Ayers-style pedagogy have received grants from ACORN or from Bill Gates's charitable foundation.

You might assume that Ayers's political ideas would put him on the outer fringe of the left-wing education establishment. However, his peers recently elected him to serve as vice president for curriculum in the American Education Research Association, the largest organization of education school professors and researchers.

Is an appointment to the U.S. Department of Education his next career advancement? Is Ayers's transformative public school curriculum the kind of "change" Obama will bring us?

[magprob]

Is that a yarmulke on this tapeworm's head?

[startover22]

Looks like a pillow to me, in my fave color too;)

[startover22]

Mag, I been talking to my dad, he came to town for just under 24 hours and had a nice chat on what I should do. Your advise (money wise) heehee matches his and I trust my dad. You know what else he said for people that don't have much to buy silver or gold, he said take a hundred bucks go to the bank and buy coins, look through them and find the silver ones, then roll up the others and return them for a new bunch. I thought this was a great idea and a great way to spend time with the kids, they would love this... and I can explain why they aren't going to get nikes for a bit while we are at it:):):)

He thinks your spam idea is great, and not far fetched at all. I feel the same... thanks

[magprob]

JUDAISM VERSUS ZIONISM
Judaism believes in One G-d who revealed the Torah. It affirms Divine Providence and, accordingly, views Jewish exile as a punishment for sin. Redemption may be achieved solely through prayer and penance. Judaism calls upon all Jews to obey the Torah in its entirety including the commandment to be patriotic citizens.
Zionism rejects the Creator, His Revelation and reward and punishment. Among its fruits are the persecution of the Palestinian people and the spiritual and physical endangering of the Jewish people. It encourages treasonous, dual loyalty among unsuspecting Jews throughout the world. At its root Zionism sees reality as barren and desacralized. It is the antithesis of Torah Judaism.


There is a vile lie, which stalks the Jewish people across the globe. It is a lie so heinous, so far from the truth, that it can only gain popularity due to the complicity of powerful forces in the "mainstream" media and educational establishment.

It is a lie which has brought many innocent people untold suffering and if unchecked has the potential to create extraordinary tragedy in the future.
It is the lie that declares that Judaism and Zionism are identical.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Judaism is the belief in revelation at Sinai. It is the belief that exile is a punishment for Jewish sins.

Zionism has for over a century denied Sinaitic revelation. It believes that Jewish exile can be ended by military aggression.

Zionism has spent the past century strategically dispossessing the Palestinian people. It has ignored their just claims and subjected them to persecution, torture and death.

Torah Jews the world over are shocked and pained at this short-lived dogma of irreligiosity and cruelty. Thousands of Torah scholars and saints have condemned this movement from its inception. They knew that the pre-existing good relationship between Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land was bound to suffer as Zionism advanced.

The so-called "State of Israel" stands rejected on religious grounds by the Torah. Its monstrous insensitivity to the laws of basic decency and fairness appall all men be they Jewish or not.

We of Neturei Karta have been in the forefront of the battle against Zionism for over a century.

Our presence here is to refute the base lie that the evil, which is Zionism, in some way represents the Jewish people.

The reverse is true.

We are saddened day in and day at the terrible toll of death emanating from the Holy Land. Not one of them would have occurred if Zionism had not unleashed its evil energies upon the world.

As Jews we are called upon to live in peace and harmony with all men. We are exhorted to be law abiding and patriotic citizens in all lands.

We condemn the current Zionist atrocities in the Holy Land. We yearn for peace based upon mutual respect. We are convinced that this proposed mutual respect is doomed to fail as long as the Israeli state exists. We welcome its abolition in a peaceful manner.

May we be worthy of true redemption when all men will join in brotherhood in His worship.

[Chery]

Mag, my dear.. you are AWESOME!
Too bad I didn't meet (or read) you earlier in my life - it would have made such a difference. Now, there is nothing much I can do but to pass this on to my daughter as food for thought so that 'my' next generations have a better conception and will refuse to be brainwashed.

You are a true enrichment to my life.


Sincerely meant!

[startover22]

CHERY, look what I just got in my email... I know you love Maxine, so do I!

Sometimes I think Maxine should run for president. She was right on with this one!




Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country lately: illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida .



Not me. I concentrate on solutions for the problems... It's a win-win situation.

+ Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.

+ Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levies.

+ Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.

Any other problems you would like for me to solve today ? Yes!

Think about this one:

1.. Cows
2.. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments



C O W S

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.



T H E C O N S T I T U T I O N

They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq... Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.



T H E 1 0 C O M M A N D M E N T S

The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this:
You cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal,' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians.. It creates a hostile work environment.

PART OF THE PROBLEM

It is Time for America to Speak up !

[Chery]

Start my dear, it's the reason why I like Maxine so much, she says what most want to say but would fear repercussions.

Too many don't want to 'Rock the Boat' even though it's sinking - and the lazy butts don't know how to swim - they've been too busy with Nintendo and chips on that comfortable lump of a couch.

So, we go figure! It's so sad.

Thank you for sharing.

[startover22]

YUP! I know, and I say take some of their life guards away;) Getting ready to take the boys and girls on a walk, cleaning up from the stay the night party... then we are out of here! Fall is so pretty here, I think its my fave time of year;) I will take some pics while I am out;)

[rpg219]

ROTFLMAO!! Great humor with just the right amount of truth Starty!

[magprob]

Hey rpg, how you been? Chery and start, you two! Lets not get any Anarchy breaking off up in here now!

[startover22]

I got a good one this morning... OH yeah!
Hey Rp... long time stranger;)
One more coming of the road kill... it was a nice brisk walk, foggy and the hunters were out today.

[startover22]

Five of the seven kids as road kill;)

[Chery]

Wow, those are super pics, Starty. I copied the mushroom and am going to make a jigsaw puzzle out of it. That's a great close-up.

I bet those kids just love the heck out of you!

[startover22]

Ohhh good for you, and thanks Chery. It was nice to see the kids I used to babysit, they all stayed the night and we watched Where The Red Fern Grows. It was really nice... ;)
Had oven pizza and drumsticks, it was great. They are having fun in the forest shooting the guns with Dustin right now;)

[rpg219]

Hiya Mags.. I've been all right, considering the economy and all ;) Yourself? Glad to have you knowledge back!

Chery... puzzles, did you say puzzles? I am a freak for puzzles, lol. I frame them when I finish them... you're right, I may just have to get my printing skills to work and make one myself

Starty... if we laid in the road for half a second around here, we would be REAL roadkill, hehehe. Can you give me some photo lessons there miss pro?

[startover22]

Uh take 57 pics and then pick the best one!

Ro.. do you understand that I have missed you! I want to know how everything is going;)

[magprob]

Start, does that schroom have gills or pores?

[startover22]

Gills?? I think... you want me to pick you one and send it? LMAO

[startover22]

It was so big... I love mushrooms, they are amazing and well kind of gross... makes them really interesting, you know;)