Keynote Speaker for Atlanta Association of Teacher Educators: Bill Ayers

Moonbattery  "Another reminder that the most radical excesses of the acid-crazed flower child era are now effectively mainstream:"

Left-wing ’60s radical and onetime domestic terrorist Bill Ayers will be a keynote speaker at the Association of Teacher Educators annual conference in Atlanta next month.

Ayers gained notoriety alongside his wife Bernardine Dohrn as a member of the Weather Underground during the Vietnam War. He was involved in Chicago’s “Days of Rage” riot in 1969 and went underground as a fugitive from justice after an accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970 killed three Weather Underground members who were preparing a bomb that prematurely detonated.
Ayers admitted in a 2001 book that he participated in bombings of the New York City Police Department headquarters, the U.S. Capitol Building and the Pentagon in the early 1970s.
He subsequently became a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a “family friend” to Barack Obama before the president became a national political figure.

"The avowed communist revolutionary Ayers is best known for grooming Barack Hussein Obama for high office, as part of the same strategy of destroying America from within its own institutions that led him to abandon bombs for a career in education. Obama’s political career was literally launched from the apartment Ayers shared with fellow terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, inventor of the Fork Salute honoring the Manson Family’s senseless murders."

And here is the Ayres philosophy of education that makes him attractive to todays' teachers unions:

“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’

Presenting Our Keynote Speaker for the Evening

More on the ATE here
"The Association of Teacher Educators has a long-standing commitment to equity and to advocacy. The actions taken by the Georgia legislators to focus on undocumented aliens in a punitive and negative manner are actions that we do not support."
Diversity
"ATE supports diversity in education.  This commitment to diversity originates with ATE’s understanding of the concept of pluralism and the importance of creating a teaching force representative of the broader pluralistic society. ATE advocates affirmative action and multicultural education as programs supportive of diversity in education.  ATE’s commitment to diversity also influences its position on a number of critical issues where diversity may not be maintained."

 

We're getting off into another stream-of-consciousness tangent here, so it's time to quit. TD

Dempsey considers lowering standards for women in combat

We knew this was coming.  Don't say we weren't warned What do you expect from a party that believes that equality of outcomes trumps intelligent decisions?
This Ain't Hell but you can see it from here
"Our least favorite Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Martin Dempsey, in his press conference on Thursday along with our least favorite Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, hinted that he just might consider lowering the standards to let women in the jobs which might take them into combat, according to the Washington Times;

When a reporter mentioned that the Pentagon’s stance appeared to keep open the possibility that some occupational specialties would be off limits to females, Gen. Dempsey responded: “[I]f we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn’t make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?”

Do you think these next articles are going off on a tangent, or do you see the correlation?

Totally different, but related area showing there are no limits to the silliness of this nation's equality laws
"So, a boy in a wheelchair comes up to the high school football coach and says, “I want to be a linebacker.”
"And the coach says …”Of course. Under federal funding guidelines from the Department of Education, we have to let you play.” "

The Left’s Obsession with Equality of Outcomes, Taken to a Logical Extreme
" I’m almost at a loss for words. What sort of sickness is required to deny something to one group of kids just because the same benefit is not universally available?"

Offensive Filmmaker Denigrates Equality of Outcome

The People's Cube  "As simple equal comrade, I hereby denounce and report thoughtcriminal who made the offending video below. It is sure to cause turmoil among those who have struggled so hard for so long to eliminate the inequality caused by those who seek to be unequal!"  

Egyptian in Tahrir Square assesses the Obama foreign policy

Atlas Shrugs  "Read the rest of the sign. Will the media cover this? Never. Are they culpable? You bet they are. They are shamelessly carrying water for jihadists and a President who is advancing the most brutal, bloody and extreme ideology on the face of the earth."

This man is obviously a right-wing racist.

Krauthammer: Obama unbound

Charles Krauthammer  "The media herd is stunned to discover that Barack Obama is a man of the left. After 699 teleprompted presidential speeches, the commentariat was apparently still oblivious. Until Monday’s inaugural address, that is.
"Where has everyone been these four years? The only surprise is that Obama chose his second inaugural, generally an occasion for “malice toward none” ecumenism, to unveil so uncompromising a left-liberal manifesto."
....
"On the contrary. Obama is the apostle of the ever-expanding state. His speech was an ode to the collectivity. But by that he means only government, not the myriad of voluntary associations — religious, cultural, charitable, artistic, advocacy, ad infinitum — that are the glory of the American system."

Are Americans Really That Stupid?

All signs point to "yes". Never speak these words again: "Trust in the wisdom of the American people".
Chris Vaca  "Obama-care was supposed to cost 980 billion dollars over ten years, the latest estimate is 2.6 trillion dollars and who knows what the true cost is going to be. Already premiums are going up when we were promised that they would not, companies have started to lay-off people or cut them to part-time work when we were told that it would create jobs. It seems to me that the Government needs to keep their hands off of the weather and healthcare, because they obviously have no clue what they are doing.
"So I asked myself, “are people in America really that stupid” and the answer came back, at least 51% of the people are, because 51% of the people voted to re-elect Obama."

FEMA: Burned Out Family Can’t Rebuild

Conservative Daily News  "Meet the Taylors, a Sacramento family whose home burned down last August. After dealing with the devastation and emotional trauma the family discovered that FEMA had changed the rules for their area and now would require their home be built 20 feet above ground in order to meet the new flood zone designation. While the fire damage was covered by their insurance the new building requirements were not.

“The city won’t let me fix my house because of FEMA regulations,” Jennifer Taylor said in an interview to Fox News in November. “This is so wrong.”
“We bought this home in 1998 because FEMA had certified the levees as 100-year flood protection,” Taylor told FoxNews.com. “Homes are just not being fixed here. … There’s at least a handful of us in this situation.”

"In 2008 FEMA revisited flood prone areas and decertified the levee.
Watch their documentary and understand their frustration with the government."

Can you believe that Gov. Brown-a California liberal- actually spoke these words?

Brace yourself when you click on this because a video starts with a commercial.

San Jose Mercury-News  ".... Brown took aim at the proliferation of laws and regulations that he said put a stranglehold on Californians -- and used 16th century French writer Michel de Montaigne to make his point.

"As legislators, it is your duty and privilege to pass laws," he said. "But what we need to do for our future will require more than producing hundreds of new laws each year."

"Brown lashed out at the "overly complex, bureaucratically driven and deeply inequitable" education funding system, which he wants to reform so that more money gets to schools with disadvantaged students. And he criticized the "tightly constrained curricula," saying "performance metrics are invoked like talismans.
""Distant authorities crack the whip, demanding quantitative measures and a stark, single number to encapsulate the precise achievement level of every child," he said. "We seem to think that education is a thing -- like a vaccine -- that can be designed from afar and simply injected into our children. But as the Irish poet William Butler Yeats said, 'Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.'"
Great words, but what Obamite would ever utter them or even think such thoughts?

Cartoons from calwatchdog

The Next Generation Data Card puts the monumental economic challenges we face into perspective.

PJ Media "The state of America's economy today will impact the prosperity of future generations tomorrow. We created this data card because we want every American to have a simple and easy way to track and discuss the key economic indicators that show the true state of our nation's economy. The items featured in this card affect every American personally, whether we know it or not."  

"As a member of Congress, I had our staff develop this simple card of several economic indicators to give constituents an objective, comparative analysis. Now, PJ Media's Next Generation initiative is updating this card to show you where America was in January 2009 and where we are currently."
Lt. Col(ret)Allen West

See Allen West's intellectually stimulating video here.

Bear in mind that former Rep. West is very much opposed to the Obama administration, which makes him a racist.

More reasoned debate here:
Obama superdonor says Allen West is in ‘Party of the Apes’ Guess who said so.

It’s time to take on the media

Ace of Spades; We Must Do Something About The Media
"The media considers its adversarial function to consist of serving as adversaries to critics of Obama and the Democrats; thus Terry Moran shaming himself by rushing out to ask what right a Senator has to question the Secretary of State on matters of foreign policy."

Legal Insurrection  "Ace of Spades blog has posted a piece documenting the void of a Fourth Estate in America today, enjoining all of us who have been following its malpractice to do something:

The media no longer hides it in their actions. They are fully fused with the Obama Administration and DNC. The only way in which they do hide it is by simply lying when confronted about it: They’ll issue a snide denial, then go about doing precisely what it is they were accused of doing.

The writer tells us to go after our local media outlets,  not just national media:

"I sometimes fear that we focus too much on the large national news outlets, when perhaps more Americans, more of the persuadable middle, tune in to their local nightly news broadcast than the politics-laden super media networks like Fox. Treat your local news anchors like your congressman. Call them, follow them on twitter, write about their biased reports, because they weave bias into their nightly news reports on fires and high school sports teams like you wouldn’t believe. Film them when they’re doing their job. Ask them why they didn’t film the people in the Socialist Worker t-shirts at the so-called teachers union protests. Hold THEM accountable, and you will do more to reach the persuadable middle than any large new network can."

"Media Trackers is a conservative non-profit, non-partisan investigative watchdog dedicated to promoting accountability in the media and government across Wisconsin through cutting edge research and communications initiatives."

 The author makes it a point to include journalism schools in this mission:

And third, I’d like to call attention to graduate journalism schools for playing their part in this farce that we can call American journalism. As I was kicked out of the “Midwest Marxism” conference held at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism a few months ago for taking notes to report on what was going on, I felt I had a more than symbolic real-life experience with the rotting out of educational journalism institutions.

 

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Where Are The Witnesses Who Survived Benghazi?

 

"An excellent question. But then again, what difference does it make?"

 

Mind Over What Does It Matter

"Hillary has coined the perfect phrase to represent the Elitist Left in this country- because nothing matters to them except getting the results they want. No question of morality, responsibility, or even logic. If they think it's the right thing to do, then what does it matter if our nation goes to hell?"

What Difference it Makes...  "You can hide behind your sovereign immunity, Hillary, but there are personal injury lawyers out there who know how to pull legal flanking movements on that defense. Whether or not they prevail in court, they will keep your name and your political aspirations in the news between now and 2016.
"And not in a good way..."

Benghazi murders: Yes Hillary, it does make a difference
"So yes, the reason why Islamists murder Americans absolutely does matter. The answer is because they are Islamists.
"Killing individual terrorists is not enough. The entire radical Islamist cancer must be eradicated. This process cannot even begin to succeed until American leaders honestly admit that this problem exists.
"Everyone can see this except the blind, also known as the State Department"

Wrong on Women Warriors; The new policy is a disastrous mistake.

Heather Mac Donald at NRO

"Any claim that our fighting forces are not reaching their maximum potential because females are not included is absurd. The number of women who are the equal to reasonably well-developed men in upper-body strength and who have the same stamina and endurance is vanishingly small. Because the number of women who will meet the military’s already debased physical-fitness standard will not satisfy the feminists’ demand for representation, the fitness standard will inevitably be lowered across the board or for women alone, as we have seen in civilian uniformed forces."
....
"I am not aware of any comparable crusade to create gender-integrated football teams. At least America knows what’s really important."
Heather Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.