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Daily Links – March 22, 2012

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  March 22nd, 2012 at 01:45 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Today is March 22nd. On this date in 1903, the American side of Niagara Falls ran out of water due to drought, says the internet. But slowly the weather turned, and then, step by step, inch by inch, the water came back. Also on this date, in 1978, Karl Wallenda, founder of the flying Wallendas, died while trying to walk a tightrope between two ten story buildings in Puerto Rico. He was 73. The fall was captured by a news crew and was seen around the world. Yet another example of why we need elderly tightrope-walking reform so desperately in this country. And finally, Marcel Marceau was born on this date in 1923. He spent his life fighting the scourge of invisible walls. Marceau once famously said ” “. Food for thought, my friends, food for thought. Consider this an Open Thread.

Va. middle-schoolers assigned opposition research on GOP candidates | Daily Caller
“A Virginia middle school teacher recently forced his students to support President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign by conducting opposition research in class against the Republican presidential candidates.”

29 WI Judges Signed Walker Recall Petitions | New York Post
“Especially outrageous is the fact that one judge never disclosed that he’d signed the petition when he issued a temporary restraining order against one of Walker’s voter-ID bills. Perfectly neutral, huh?”

Mica’s “Amateur Hour” Congressional Freshman | The Shark Tank
“What was most interesting and troublesome to the grassroot leaders- and perhaps a decisive contrast between the grassroots members of Congress and the ‘establishment’ element within the Republican Party- was the statement Congressman Mica made regarding the new members of Congress that were recently ushered in to office in 2010.”

Wasserman Schultz’s Selective Memory | MRCTV
“MRCTV’s Alicia Powe and Katie Yoder confront DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) about her claim that Republicans want to ‘literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws’ by enforcing voter id laws.”

Today’s Word of the Day comes via Merriam-Webster.
oppugn (uh-PYOON): verb 1. to fight against 2. to call in question

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    Just wondered if you’d heard about the story linked above about the middle school class project? Do you live in that area? Maybe you could give us a local viewpoint of it?

    Also, didn’t Neil say he would be moving to VA soon? Did he say what part of VA?

    Sooner or later, Conservatives are going to have to find a way to come up with an alternative to public school system.

    • Scope

      I’ve been reading and hearing on TV about the Fairfax 8th grade school project all day today. What I loved was that the assignment was given by a teacher at a school named “Liberty” middle school. LOL Fairfax is just across the river from DC, and proudly boasts that it is the most populated and liberal area in the state. That is why I frequently talk about the most blue area in VA as being NOVA.

      Too bad, Neil did say he is moving to the NOVA area in VA. I replied that he will at least be one reliable R vote up there. He has a D state Senator, and D state house members. I’m not certain exactly who his US House Rep is, but it very well may be the same D Rep that was arrested with George Cloony the other day for their protests in favor of Sudan.

      Speaking of not remembering the Reps. name, and sure old foggy age probably has something to do with it. The other thing I always remember was an old boss of mine, from many years ago, who I had so much respect for as a mentor, once telling me that if he really didn’t care for someone, he had a hard time remembering their names. It was a sure sign of who had a long shelf life at the company, and who didn’t.

      As to fighting for a new public school system, to my mind it is one of the very biggest, most important, critical issues of the times. When you have little children being taught to sing songs praising the dear leader Obama, the same as you saw the fake criers when Kim Jong Il died, we got some real serious problems. When they refer to the lost generation, we unfortunately are marching toward several lost generations, as now the liberals are getting them as young as first and second grade. Good for the Liberty school 8th grade parents who spoke out. How many classes go on like that where the parents are not paying attention, simply don’t care, or worse, approve of it.

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        I noticed that this project was assigned in a civics course. Our curriculum here in NC for civics has been remarkably progressive during the past few years. From the first grade on up. It comes out of the School of Government at UNC. (Much as I favor the Tarheels in sports, they do lean liberal in academics, no doubt about that).

        So, Neil is becoming a “Daniel in the Lion’s Den”, is he? He can handle it, I’m sure of it.

        You know, I came across the civics curriculum by accident. Saw FL as well. Maybe there are a few other states that have curriculum format identified online. Hmmmm….sounds like it could be a diary project, doesn’t it? At least it would give parents a resource.

        I remember reading one part of the NC curriculum, Scope, where they teach students that “propaganda is a good thing”. Well, if they’re planning to shove propaganda down their throats in class, I guess they want kids to be bamboozled into believing that it is a “good thing”, huh?

        I hope that Conservatives have a visionary amongst us who will become a “radical” for the sake of our kids, and our nation’s future, and turn our entire educational system inside out!!!