Reflections From a Murky Pond

In keeping with a specific right that is enumerated in the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution, let us join together and petition the government for a redress of grievances most pernicious and vile.

Keep Obama on the golf course

In order to protect America’s national security, foreign policy interests, economy, and the basic civil liberties of the American people we, the People petition the Executive to do everything in its power to keep Obama on vacation and away from the halls of power.

Please ensure that Obama finishes his term as POTUS in a state of semi-retirement so as to minimize his negative effects upon both America’s national security and domestic tranquility

Please sign this White House Petition and share it with your fellow Americans. Let us send a message to the Obama Regime and its subjects.

 
I freely admit it; I’ve never been a particular fan of baseball and never in any way a fan of the Chicago Cubs. That being said, I’m open to the idea of rethinking that. I figure that, if Nabilla Benattia likes them this much, both baseball and the Cubbies must have something going for them. 😉

Education in America’s lamentable public school system has gone a long way over the last six decades. Sadly, it’s gone a long way away from America and basic, right-thinking morality. Most certainly it is now little more than poorly, if at all, disguised anti-American, Liberal indoctrination of our children.

Use a Venn Diagram to Compare Adolph Hitler and President Bush Jr.
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A current and most egregious case in point is that McKinley Middle School in Washington D.C.’s Northeast curriculum includes some “interesting” homework assignments, especially in what they purport to be their English department.

Directions: Now that we have read about two men of power who abused their power in various ways, we will compare and contrast them and their actions. Please refer to your texts, ‘Fighting Hitler — A Holocaust Story’ and ‘Bush: Iraq War Justified Despite No WMD’ to compare and contrast former President George W. Bush and Hitler. We will use this in class tomorrow for an activity!

Bear in mind that this was a 6th grade English class’ homework assignment. It was neither a class filled with more mature students nor was it a class on Social Studies. Yet the class’ teacher, who McKinley Middle School and the school district refuse to identify, felt that was both needful and appropriate to have the class compare and contrast President George W. Bush with Hitler, all the while tacitly and implicitly comparing the Iraq War with The Holocaust.

Yeah, education in America’s lamentable public school system has gone a long way over the last six decades. 🙁

Sometimes a small, off-the-cuff remark can be more chilling and more important than either a planned speech or a spontaneous bombast. What IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said as an assurance to the House Ways and Means subcommittee on health is one such chilling and important off-the-cuff remark

Whenever we can, we follow the law.

— IRS Commissioner John Koskinen

Frankly, I can think of no statement more important or more chilling than Koskinen’s simple “assurance” that the IRS obeys the law whenever they can. Whenever the head of a huge and well-armed federal agency such as the IRS, with the power to destroy Americans’ lives wholesale, calmly admits that, in order to accomplish whatever missions the Obama Regime assigns them they sometimes ignore the law, that is terrifying.

It means that either the IRS, and who knows how many other federal agencies given the climate that Obama has fostered, consider the laws that bind them to be mere guidelines and suggestions, or that those laws are so complex, convoluted, and contradictory that they cannot be followed in a variety of circumstances.

What Do You Call A Basement Full Of Liberals?